In 2009, as a couple who owned the Riders announced their separation, the lawyer for Frank McCourt said he had not foreseen a legal battle on the team. The lawyer said that the documents would prove that the dodgers belonged only to McCourt, and not jointly by the couple, and declared that there was “no chance” that the team would be on sale.
“Speculations on a potential team sale are waste”, lawyer Marshall Grossman then said. “Frank McCourt is the only owner. He has absolutely no intention to sell this team now or never. »»
The documents did not resist the court. McCourt sold the team – but not for three more years, a duration in which the dodgers did not make the playoffs, were exceeded by the angels for the first and the only time, and exceeded a season by the Twins from Minnesota.
Saturday, when the dodgers showed their Superstar list At the Dodger Stadium, the Padres organized a festival of fans. The new year here started in a disturbing way: Sheel Seidler, the widow of the beloved owner Peter Seidler, has ignited a legal battle To find out if she or one of the brothers of Peter Seidler should properly direct the paadres.
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The paadres set a franchise record for attendance last year and have already sold subscriptions this year. They boasted of what we thought was the second best team of major leagues last season, and on Saturday, the fans proudly wore the hearts of the heart of what remains a very good team: Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado; Jackson Merrill and Luis Arraez and Jake Cronenworth; Yu Darvish and Michael King and Dylan stop.
And then there was the guy who was walking in the outside field in a Mookie Betts Jersey. Gavyn Wolf lives here, so he came with his friends, dodging the mockery.
“I refuse to wear everything related to the padres,” he said.
So who will win the West National League this season?
“Who else takes it?” He said.
His friend, Jack Endicott, shrugged. He couldn’t disagree.
“The paadres have made no movement,” he said.
The Dodgers brought back Teoscar Hernández And Blake Treinen and brought Sasaki Roki And Blake Snell And Tanner Scott And Kirby Yates And Hyeseong Kim And Michael Comforto.
The paadres brought back their rescue receiver.
“Are we disappointed not to have made movements?” Machado said SATURDAY. “Yeah.”
Managing Director of Padres AJ PRELLER Last winter exchanged Juan Soto for King, who brilliantly replaced Snell in the starting rotation after working as Swingman for New York Yankees. Merrill jumped double a in the outside of the Padres and should have won the honors of the recruit of the year of the NL.
Preller said on Saturday that he wanted to add a “or two” bat and a launcher leaving “or two”. And, at that time last year, the Padres had not added Arraez, Cent or Jorickson Profar, which was a voltiseur of the stars.
PROFAR, who led the Padres with a .839 OPS last season, signed as a free agent with the Braves of Atlanta. He said he was interested in returning to San Diego.
“Obviously, the paadres have a problem with the property and all that”, Tell to journalists.
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This explained on Saturday in the air of Petco Park. Good team, big fans, best stadium in South California -But will a property dispute paralyze the franchise?
There are two springs, I sat on the passenger seat of a golf cart at the Padres training complex in Peoria, Ariz. Peter Seidler sat on the driver’s seat.
He wanted to emphasize that he spent sumptuous to build a foundation to challenge the dodgers year after year, so as not to inflate the payroll and attendance, then sell the team.
“Me and my family, We will have this franchise for the following 50, 75 years“He said to me,” I hope more. »»
When Frank and Jamie McCourt separated, they both insisted that the dodgers would remain in the family, whatever happens elsewhere. Then, the two were burnt down in court rather than negotiating a regulation in private, and now the family no longer has a part of the team.
In San Diego, the torchage began.
In his first judicial file, Sheel Seidler accused the brothers seidler of “greed and betrayal” by getting richer with money that should have been hers, to alternately paint Peter like “a cowboy who was irresponsible With pawn pay ”and tolerate it only of it only as long as Peter was alive.
“After Peter’s death, they removed their masks and showed their real faces,” read his file.
In his initial file, Matt Seidler – one of the brothers – blamed Sheel of having “reversed” reversed the padres of Sasaki by suggesting that the brothers could move the team of San Diego and ridicule his desire to Managing the Padres because his commercial experience is limited to “a brief legal career and his operation of a single yoga studio”.
According to Matt Seidler’s file, “the node of this case is the pursuit of Sheel of two things that Peter intentionally chose not to give him: unlimited control and money.”
The longer it goes for a long time and it becomes ugly, the less the chances that the paadres remain in the SEIDLER family, it doesn’t matter who could control the team.
As a solid team with a formidable stadium on a market without other major leagues teams, the paadres would attract tenderers. It would come later, maybe years later. Until there is a resolution to the judicial case, potential bidders do not know who could be the legal seller.
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The seidler brothers say it is not a problem. They “do not intend to sell the paadres to anyone”, according to a person familiar with his thought who refused to be identified. They believe that their documents will stand in court.
In the case of dodgers, Jamie McCourt hired an investment banker to assemble a potential ownership group, in order to bring Frank to sell the team to him. In the end, Frank McCourt agreed to settle the divorce by paying $ 131 million to Jamie, and she gave up any complaint with the Dodgers.
Frank McCourt then sold the team for $ 2 billion.
In her judicial file, Sheel Seidler said she had gathered “an impressive list of people with an important baseball and business experience to serve as advisers and executives” with the Padres and said that she feared that Brothers sell the team.
So, did she bring together a list of donors to try to buy the seidler Brothers? Dane Voutswinkas, his lawyer, refused to say.
“Ideally, we would like to solve this problem with the brothers,” said Voeswinksas. “However, for this to happen, they would need a certain level of cooperation. So far, we have not seen any sign of this.
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“The current way to resolution, unfortunately, goes through disputes, which we may know how to flow for years and would not be in any interests.”
When the McCourts divorced, Frank McCourt’s lawyer wanted to indicate a perfectly clear point. The contemporary divorce of the owner of Padres, John Moores, had left the team in disorder – he had to sell the team to resolve the divorce – and the dodgers would not be a mess.
“It will not be another debacle similar to San Diego,” said Grossman.
Hoping that there will not be another debacle similar to San Diego in San Diego. THE Better baseball rivalry deserves better. People who direct the paadres every day and the people who root them every day, deserve better.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
