Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Sept 4, 2015 16:27:55 GMT -5
He's not a terrible owner by most measures, but damn if Jim Irsay isn't embarrassing. You're a grown-ass billionaire, man! Act like it!
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Sept 4, 2015 16:43:52 GMT -5
I'm amazed at how well the Kansas City Royals have done recently despite David Glass. They've only had 4 winning seasons with him, and his cheap-ass ways lead the Royals to be laughing stocks in the American League. I mean, this guy was the CEO of Wal-Mart. He could easily afford to put together a good team during the 2000s. He just didn't. He couldn't have, he didn't have the money that those big meanies like the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, and Cubs did. He was just a struggling guy who knew his best players would bolt, because he couldn't compete. Zod, I always hated that argument in baseball. It's not that teams couldn't compete, it's that owners didn't want to. They took the money they got from the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and other big teams, and pocketed it. They played the small market team that can barely survive, while keeping the cash. Baseball needs a salary floor more than a cap.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 16:50:16 GMT -5
Baseball: Jeffrey Loria Hockey: Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Basketball: James Dolan Football: Dan Snyder
That's my opinion on the Big 4 American sports.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 4, 2015 17:03:14 GMT -5
I give you: Nathan Tinkler .. a young (former I imagine now) billionaire former owner of the Newcastle Jets A-League side (Australian Soccer League) I don't know the full details so here is a cut a paste from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Tinkler#Sporting_interestsOn 22 September 2010, Football Federation Australia announced that Tinkler had purchased the A-League club Newcastle Jets from Con Constantine, on the advice from fellow mining magnate Justin Newlan, holding the licence temporarily. On 2 October 2010, he extended his ownership until 2020, further advised by Justin Newlan. [13]
The Newcastle Jets hosted a community day at which 10,000 fans were admitted free for the clash against Melbourne Heart on 31 October 2010.[14][15] Membership of the club increased to over 10,000 and the club obtained the Hunter Medical Research Institute as a new sponsor.
On 31 March 2011 Tinkler assumed ownership of the Newcastle Knights rugby league club by a landslide vote of the eligible club members.[16][17] The Knights signed Wayne Bennett to a four-year coaching contract with the club, starting in 2012.
In April 2012 Tinkler handed back the Newcastle Jets A-league licence to the FFA.[18] The Federation said that Tinkler's Hunter Sports Group could not just hand back its licence, and was breaching a binding contract by walking away from the Jets.[19] Federation chief executive Ben Buckley refused to rule out the possibility of launching a huge damages claim against Tinkler that could go as high as $80 million.[20]
In May 2015, after Newcastle Jets players and staff had not been paid for a month, Tinkler placed the Newcastle Jets into voluntary administration, listing debts of $2.7 million. That resulted in the Football Federation of Australia terminating Tinkler's A-League licence, held by Hunter Sports Group. It was the culmination of a football season in which the Jets recorded their worst-ever results on the way to collecting the competition's wooden spoon.[21]
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Sept 4, 2015 18:17:43 GMT -5
A lot of Dan Snyder mentions in this thread, which reminded me of a story from last year in which CBS announced that the announcers for their slate of NFL teams wouldn't be required to refer to Washington as the "Redskins". Which got me thinking, are they obligated to refer to teams by their mascots? Obviously it makes sense to mention a team by their name in addition to their home town so you're not being repetitive by saying "City X, City X, City X" (plus it helps clear things up in Jets-Giants games). But is it required by CBS for commentators to mention teams by both city an team name? If so what would be the thinking behind it? A dictate by the NFL to CBS to help their franchisees with their respective teams' brand awareness?
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 5, 2015 12:34:32 GMT -5
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Led Fiorentina to near oblivion.
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Urethra Franklin
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Sept 6, 2015 1:00:23 GMT -5
Dan Snyder Mike Ashley Jerry Jones (the meddling more than anything else) Jeffrey Loria Jimmy Dolan Peter Angelos
I think Snyder and Ashley are in the conversation with the likes of Al Davis and Harold Ballard for worst owners ever.
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Post by Matt on Sept 6, 2015 1:23:30 GMT -5
John Rigas almost killed the Buffalo Sabres. He's now in jail for tax evasion and a couple different kinds of fraud.
Ralph Wilson of the Buffalo Bills. Once the salary cap era started the Bills were never competitive and he was as bad as anyone in sports of playing the "Buffalo is a small market" card in order to put money in his own pocket.
He also threatened to move the team whenever the State or the county didn't give him what he wanted.
He sold a game a year to Toronto when he got mad about something and cost the Bills a home game a year for a few years. That was killed when it was found to be a miserable failure for anyone involved.
He left no plan for when he passed away. If Terry Pegula wasn't crazy rich the Bills would probably have been on their way to LA or Toronto by now.
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Post by thetower52 on Sept 6, 2015 2:15:35 GMT -5
Dan Snyder Mike Ashley Jerry Jones (the meddling more than anything else) Jeffrey Loria Jimmy Dolan Peter Angelos I think Snyder and Ashley are in the conversation with the likes of Al Davis and Harold Ballard for worst owners ever. Calling Al Davis one of the worst owners ever is insane. In his later years he wasn't a good owner but he still brought 3 Super Bowls to the raiders, he's in the hall of fame for running the raiders "Davis' generosity was legendary when it came to helping former players in need, although he routinely did so without fanfare. His philosophy: Once a Raider, always a Raider" Davis breached several civil rights and diversity barriers during his career with the Raiders. In 1963, the Raiders were scheduled to play a preseason game in Mobile, Alabama. In protest of Alabama's segregation laws, Davis refused to allow the game to be played there and demanded the game be moved to Oakland. He also refused to allow the players to travel to other cities to play games where the black and white players would have to stay in separate hotels.[53] Davis was the first NFL owner to hire an African American head coach, Art Shell, and a female chief executive, Amy Trask.[1] He also hired Tom Flores, the second Latino head coach in the league.[54]
And that doesn't even cover the great players he drafted and signed
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Sept 6, 2015 17:19:07 GMT -5
A lot of Dan Snyder mentions in this thread, which reminded me of a story from last year in which CBS announced that the announcers for their slate of NFL teams wouldn't be required to refer to Washington as the "Redskins". Which got me thinking, are they obligated to refer to teams by their mascots? Obviously it makes sense to mention a team by their name in addition to their home town so you're not being repetitive by saying "City X, City X, City X" (plus it helps clear things up in Jets-Giants games). But is it required by CBS for commentators to mention teams by both city an team name? If so what would be the thinking behind it? A dictate by the NFL to CBS to help their franchisees with their respective teams' brand awareness? Baltimore acts like abusive exes when they play the Colts by refusing to call them the Colts. Bob Irsay bought the team specifically to keep the team from leaving Baltimore only to discover why the previous owner was so keep to do so. Long story short, the city government was abusive, restrictive, and actually did things that both made turning a profit in Baltimore literally impossible and also made fielding a competitive team difficult as well. The city has changed since those days, but to act like the Colts were the ones who betrayed Baltimore is like the husband who beats his wife daily claiming his wife betrayed him after she finally leaves him.
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Post by Phil Parent on Sept 6, 2015 20:22:29 GMT -5
Jeffrey Loria. f***. That. Guy. And his son-in-law, David Samson.
Major League Baseball as owners of the Expos were extremely cheap. That one year the team was actually in the run for the playoffs at the end of the year and they needed some fresh legs from the minors in september, MLB refused to foot the bill. For SEPTEMBER CALL-UPS!! The MLB employees working the Expos offices were disgusted.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 7, 2015 13:54:37 GMT -5
Jeffrey Loria, Dan Snyder, Jimmy Haslam. Woody Johnson, and James Dolan.
If you want to include former owners, the orignial owners of the Tampa Bay Rays and Lightning were awful. The owners of the latter might have been a front for the Yakuza.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Sept 7, 2015 14:50:42 GMT -5
I'm amazed at how well the Kansas City Royals have done recently despite David Glass. They've only had 4 winning seasons with him, and his cheap-ass ways lead the Royals to be laughing stocks in the American League. I mean, this guy was the CEO of Wal-Mart. He could easily afford to put together a good team during the 2000s. He just didn't. I honestly think it was not until they had the 2012 All Star Game their that he realized that he could make money off the team, because that's when the team really started to turn around.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Sept 7, 2015 20:31:15 GMT -5
MLB: Peter Angelos - I have been an Orioles fan since 1998 (though I boycotted the 2012 season in protest of this asshole). Its amazing that the Orioles have made it to the ALCS 3 times. Here's the bad part, we've only made the playoffs 4 times since he's owned the team in 1993. Before that, the Orioles had 8 appearances from 1966 to 1993, and while things had been bad since the 1983 World Series, they were still a pretty big deal in baseball. He did revive the team in the mid-90's, but killed it. The Orioles did not make the playoffs for 15 years and suffered embarrassments on an epic scale (Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, Miguel Tejada, Dave Trembley, 30-3). This season is proof that Angelos will never win a Championship for the O's. He pissed away Nelson Cruz and Andrew Miller and now we will not make playoffs. Garbage owner.
NHL: I honestly don't know.
NBA: Dan Gilbert - Total mark for himself, only succeeded because of LeBron. Had his pathetic anti-LeBron movement in 2010 but was ready to ride his dick when he came back last year. He doesn't deserve a championship and neither does the Cavs fans.
NFL: Dan Snyder - Took one of the best franchises in NFL history and made them a joke. The Redskins will never win with him. He pissed on Jack Kent Cooke's legacy. Was NFL's version of the Yankees of the 2000s. Tries to put himself up there with Cooke, but looks like more of an embarrassment than the follies and blunders of George Preston Marshall. I love every minute of it too.
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Post by rocket on Sept 11, 2015 18:35:07 GMT -5
As a fan of Jeff Wilpon, Woody Johnson and James Dolan-owned teams, yeah that's a bad trio. I'm afraid on how Wilpon's going to screw up with Cespedes. It's a good thing Dolan doesn't care about hockey (and left Sather to GM for all these years), otherwise they'd be as screwed up as the Knicks. All-time, though, Harold Ballard's tenure as Maple Leafs owner was atrocious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ballard#Leafs_under_Ballard.27s_sole_ownership
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Post by thetower52 on Sept 11, 2015 23:12:23 GMT -5
What about the islanders former owner who some how scamed his way in to owning the team? I can't remember his name but ESPN made a 30 for 30 on him
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 19:56:48 GMT -5
This begins and ends with James Dolan. I'm not even a Knicks fan, but I just feel bad for all the bullshit they have to go through on a yearly basis because of him. It's like Glen Sather has naked pictures of him or something. He never fired Sather at times where it may have been warranted, (even though he has since earned his keep before retiring this year) but he more or less leaves the Rangers alone. Why can't he do the same with the Knicks? To be fair Glen Sather is horrible if he is given a purse to spend on Free Agents. If they give Sather on a limit on how much he can spend then he's excellent in drafting and making trades. Anyways for the NHL I have to say Darryl Katz is currently the worst for how he can't let go out of the old boys club like he still has Kevin Lowe on his payroll to do nothing. Charles Wang was a terrible hands on owner who once flew all the way to Japan to meet up with a Sumo Wrestler and offered him a chance of being there starting goaltender when said Sumo Wrestler never even put on skates before. At least he's been f***ing off the last few years and he's the owner for one more year. Bill Wirtz was a terrible owner who nearly bankrupted his team who refused to broadcast home games locally and him dying and his son taking over was the best thing ever to happen to the Blackhawks organization. Then there was the time when The Yakuza might of been the original owners of the Tampa Bay Lightning as a money laundering scheme ran by a CEO who may not have existed in the first place. If Tampa wasn't a surprisingly good hockey market from the start they would of folded from the start.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 20:39:37 GMT -5
Not sure if he's the worst, but as a Redskins fan I also have to nominate Dan Snyder. Goddamn is he a shit owner.
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Post by ibdude on Sept 13, 2015 11:28:57 GMT -5
Stan Kroenke can kiss my ass. f*** him for thinking about moving out of St. Louis.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 12:18:50 GMT -5
Robert Sarver.
Each time the Suns make some progress, he decides to trade away perfectly good players and kill the team again.
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