The Final One Hundred Days of Frank McCourt
January 21, 2012 at 11:55 am | Posted in Frank McCourt | 14 Comments
Across the country, most baseball fans are counting down the days until Opening Day (73 for the Dodgers, until April 5 in San Diego) or until pitchers & catchers report (30 for the Dodgers, until February 21). But as Dodger fans, we’re forced to approach things from a different perspective, and that means that as of tomorrow, our primary number is 100 days – the time left before April 30, the deadline for Frank McCourt to complete the sale of the team. It’s very possible that the sale is completed somewhat earlier than that, so we could even be under 100 days at this point, but then again, who among us really trusts this guy to do anything but drag the process out as long as he possibly can?
It’s currently been 2,914 days since McCourt officially took over on January 29, 2004, just shy of precisely eight years. By the time he’s gone, he’ll have been in charge for something very close to 3,000 days. I can’t pretend they’ve all been bad – plenty of good times in 2008 and ’09, you know – but let’s also not act like everything was totally peachy right up until the day we learned of his separation from Jamie.
2,914 days down, 100 or fewer to go. I say this every year at this time, as winter freezes over, the sports calendar empties out, and baseball news generally slows until camp starts, but never has it meant as much as it does now: the next three months simply cannot go quickly enough.
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Comment by johnny felix— January 21, 2012 #
^^^THIS^^^
Comment by Rob McMillin— January 21, 2012 #
We should try and get the Dodger Blues guy to reset the Gibson clock when the sale is complete.
Comment by Paul— January 21, 2012 #
Mike,
Once McCourt is officially gone, can you please bring back the Ronald Bellisario image of whether he will show up to camp or not. It might be a YES this year. Thanks,
your pals,
everyone on the interwebs.
Comment by Format— January 21, 2012 #
Ha, I forgot about that. Never did get to break out the “yes” one.
Comment by Mike— January 21, 2012 #
Break it out! ive always liked this pic
Comment by Format— January 21, 2012 #
One hundred bottles of beer on the wall
Go Blue!
Comment by dodgerccp— January 21, 2012 #
Cannot celebrate until he is actually gone….
Comment by john m— January 21, 2012 #
I can’t celebrate until McCourt and Colletti are totally gone- they left a lot of flaming bags of poop to clean up for the next GM/owner in the form of two-year obligations to questionable FA signings this off-season.
I sincerely hope the next owner(s) have less baggage when they come to town and a willingness to make the team more competitive without ridiculous expectations like spending a load to buy our way into the playoffs in the first year and then losing interest when it doesn’t happen. We need an good owner who’s in it for the long run.
Comment by Eric Alegado— January 21, 2012 #
I’m cautiously optimistic. I don’t trust that warthog at all, and I fully expect him to do something sneaky at the last possible second. But I’m glad that his time is (potentially) drawing to a close.
Comment by Jeff— January 21, 2012 #
ditto…With so many lawyers involved and so many issues involved with the sale, I believe there is a high likelihood of entanglements. Most houses are not sold in 30 days much less businesses. Some MLB franchise sales recently have taken more than a year to work out. McCourt could be holding a monkey wrench and who would have the power to keep a sale on track?
Comment by Kirk Davenport— January 21, 2012 #
[...] that it really isn’t feasible. You can forget about the fact that new ownership is coming in, because as I mentioned yesterday, that’s at least three months away. Camp starts in thirty days or less for most teams, and [...]
Pingback by Someone Please Sign Prince Fielder Already « Mike Scioscia's tragic illness— January 22, 2012 #
Whenever I see that picture of McCourt with the mirrored glasses, it reminds me of the prison guard from Cool Hand Luke. I feel like Dodger Fans are Cool Hand Luke under the oppression of a evil master.
Comment by Rusty Heyman— January 22, 2012 #
We’re all Paul Newman? Yeah, I could get behind that.
Comment by Jeff— January 23, 2012 #