Magic Johnson (and Friends) Bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2 Billion
Magic Johnson is now a co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Johnson and partners Peter Guber, Stan Kasten, Bobby Patton and Todd Boehly won the auction for the Dodgers with a bid of $2 billion. Now the Dodgers can sell some TV rights and start making lots of money.
Frank McCourt bought the Dodgers for $430 million in 2004. Young entrepreneurs across the nation should be taking notes. Frank McCourt knew what he was doing all along.
Previously: Frank McCourt Agrees To Sell The Dodgers
Previously: Would You Pay $1 Billion For the Los Angeles Dodgers?
Previously: Dodgers, McCourt Strike Out Again…. In Court
Previously: Dodgers, McCourt Strike Out, File For Bankruptcy Protection
Previously: MLB To Take Over Dodgers
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March 27th, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Magic. Fucking. Johnson.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:30 PM
That’s a lot of hooch!
March 27th, 2012 at 11:30 PM
I believe Magic is his middle name…
March 27th, 2012 at 11:31 PM
That’s over twice the cost of the last NFL team to be bought…but yes, baseball is on its last legs
March 27th, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Fuck Connecticut’s Mega Million Lottery! This trumps that just a bit.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:35 PM
That’s a lot of mocha frappucinos
March 27th, 2012 at 11:41 PM
You get the biggest stadium in the league and a shitload of prime real-estate to go along with owning the Dodgers.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:49 PM
Biggest stadium with shitty fanbase
March 27th, 2012 at 11:51 PM
That’s over twice the cost of the last NFL team to be bought…but yes, baseball is on its last legs
Wait til tomorrow’s ratings post on the A’s/Mariners game in Japan at 6am.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:55 PM
Biggest stadium with shitty fanbase
I’d like to see a definition here because, by historical attendance numbers, the Dodgers have the best fanbase in the major leagues.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:55 PM
So if I read the story correct, not only will Frank McCourt sell the team for 2 billion but also be able to purchase the area surrounding Dodger stadium for 150 mill. Not sure this makes any sence.
March 27th, 2012 at 11:57 PM
Dodgers Sports Network has to be in the works to justify this bid
March 27th, 2012 at 11:57 PM
Gonzo sighting! What is going on?
Frank McCourt knew what he was doing all along.
Does he actually get much of this money? Isn’t it all tied up in lawsuits and a whore wife? Sorry, I didn’t click the link.
Justified was awesome.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Well, that’s an idiotic comment. Judging from your comment/gravatar, the Sabres have the stupidest fanbase. You can take pride in that!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:00 AM
I need a flow chart to keep track of who’s going after who and who they’re currently paired up with
March 28th, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Eh, his wife may not have done much since they bought the Dodgers but she’s the reason they were close enough to money to leverage into the team in the first place. She can have 60% of the money and it’s probably fair. And they’re getting most of this money. The money tied up in courts is in the hundreds of millions. There’s a $billion+ to split between the two however the divorce shakes out
March 28th, 2012 at 12:01 AM
Sup, brah! I usually get to the posts 12 hours after. I’m gonna go back in my little hole. Seeya in 3 weeks!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Peter Guber. I didn’t know he was in the group. He produced Batman
March 28th, 2012 at 12:05 AM
Probably true, if he’s talking about all the beatings and such at Chavez Stabine.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:06 AM
I need a flow chart to keep track of who’s going after who and who they’re currently paired up with Butters
Yeah, that is the one off thing about this show. Too many characters. I don’t think any prior pairing of folks is much relevant going here forward. I do think Limehouse will be the big bad guy next season. Quarles is done. Wynn should be (as far as any storyline. He can’t go along for another season being a parasite.) I hope Dickey is still around for awesome haircuts and comedic relief. Raylan, as awesome as he is, is kind of an afterthought. Which has made this a good season. He has/had no clue what is going on. Just a tad fewer characters. I’m old and I can’t keep up with the names. And the bartender chick is totally going to sell Raylan up the river. “A shot of liquor in your coffee” right before the Detroit gunman walk in after she walks into the back? Harlot, she is.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:07 AM
Sup, brah! I usually get to the posts 12 hours after. I’m gonna go back in my little hole. Seeya in 3 weeks! Gonzo
What the hell happens in three weeks? Are you my wife’s OB/GYN?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:08 AM
You live in a city that birthed gangs as we’ve come to know ‘em, you’re gonna get some violence at your sporting events. Glass half-full view? They must really love the team to beat opponents’ fans senseless for ‘em. Viva la Doyers!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Ok, so find out how many billions of people have gone to Dodger games, and then look at all the stabbing/beating stats.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Dude, the two guys who beat the shit out of Stowe were from Rialto. Which is the asshole of California. A total shit-hole. And it’s about 60 miles away from LA. People don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:12 AM
All jokes aside, McCourt let security and basic stadium maintenance slide pretty horribly for the last few years. Magic Johnson, whatever his actual ownership percentage, is definitely going to work on cleaning that kind of shit up. Fuck it if McCourt still gets the parking lots, though. I’m making a point to ride the stupid Metro shuttle to every game I go to for the rest of time, even if it does take like 30 minutes to get from downtown to the stadium
March 28th, 2012 at 12:15 AM
People don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
Your seriouscommentometer appears to be malfunctioning. You just tried to respond seriously to Clown.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:16 AM
The stadium parking lot was purchased by a ‘separate Guggenheim related entity’. But, you could still get your beer/blunt on in the parking lot. You just gotta be smart about it.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:21 AM
I like Clown, but when someone calls him out he’s joking. When they don’t, he isn’t and he’s so smart and funny. Must be nice.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:23 AM
I have to sell my Dodgers/Angels tickets, unless I want to fucking forget seeing everything in Portland/Seattle/PCH. Instead I’m going to have to watch Dodgers…White Sox. Blech. What a drop off.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:23 AM
Wait, when is Clown not joking about anything other than the Longhorns? Then he’s funny for other reasons
March 28th, 2012 at 12:24 AM
What are you on about, Shatner? Are you in Southern California now?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:24 AM
I will be from 6/14-6/17(18)
March 28th, 2012 at 12:25 AM
My tickets are for 6/13, and I have GREAT seats too. But I dont want to fuck over the rest of my trip (get into Seattle on the 9th)
March 28th, 2012 at 12:25 AM
So, no meet up??? That’s cool. I moved from Downey back to my hometown in Riverside County. Though, if you still can, I’ll give it a try.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:25 AM
How much is funded by China?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:26 AM
Where’s Riverside?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:28 AM
Wonder how much McCourt will actually pocket, once the dust settles.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:29 AM
I can’t promise I’ll have any interest in your tickets but if you’ve still got ‘em closer to that date remind. I am, alas, not really a Dodgers fan. We should try to make a SoCal meetup happen if possible, though, even it is just for brews and the like.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:30 AM
I don’t live in the city of Riverside proper, just the county. About 70 miles east of L.A.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:31 AM
Where’s Riverside?
I’s where Craig went in Next Friday
March 28th, 2012 at 12:31 AM
Make it brew and chicken Parmesan and I’ll make the drive!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:31 AM
Jesus! 70 miles? A SoCal meetup would be cool though. I’m not driving into the desert so Ballz can shank me for giving him the name “Farmville”
March 28th, 2012 at 12:33 AM
Sure, just show me cool places to eat. I’ll eat practically anything. No touristy shit though; That drives me insane.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:33 AM
That was Rancho Cucamonga. I’m farther east. Google San Jacinto. That’s where I live.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Does this mean the Dodgers now have aides?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:34 AM
Ah, I get it now. McCourt is just buying that weird triangle of wasteland between Dodgers Stadium, Sunset Blvd and the 5. I still can’t handle spending $30 for parking, though
March 28th, 2012 at 12:35 AM
LOLZ. I’ve never shanked anyone (as far as you know……), but I wouldn’t ask you to make that drive. I have a car, for chrissakes.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:36 AM
Sure, just show me cool places to eat. I’ll eat practically anything. No touristy shit though; That drives me insane.
You’re gonna be in the actual city of L.A., right?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:37 AM
If San Jacinto is not a penitentiary I am disappointed in the prison planners of America
March 28th, 2012 at 12:37 AM
$30? What do you drive, and 18 wheeler? Last time I went I paid $15.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:37 AM
I believe so. I can drop my girl off with her friends for a night and get shit faced for one night.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:39 AM
/does image search
//laughs at Ballz
March 28th, 2012 at 12:39 AM
Last time I went I paid $15.
You sure? I remember it being more than that. $15 is just regular parking around downtown, that doesn’t even sound like a lot to me anymore
March 28th, 2012 at 12:39 AM
Starky may be better than me at this, though there is a great, old place that is know for it’s chicken parm and brown liquor.
You’re just racist against half Mexicans.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:40 AM
I hate to be touristy here, but I’ve been going back and forth with my girl over whether studio tours are worth it. To me, it seems dumb. ‘Oh, here’s where they filmed ER, huh?”. She wants to do it, but it seems expensive.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Agreed Ballz. I love Mexican women
March 28th, 2012 at 12:41 AM
Hey, at least we have mountains!!! Did you make sure to google San Jacinto, California?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:42 AM
I loved your family in “A Better Life”, Ballz.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:43 AM
To me, it seems dumb. ‘Oh, here’s where they filmed ER, huh?”. She wants to do it, but it seems expensive.
I can’t actually tell you if they’re worth it because I’ve never taken one. But if she thinks she’ll enjoy it she’s probably right. I’ve never heard of anyone being disappointed in them, at least. Just go to Universal Studios Tour, though, since it’s just an amusement park attached to the studio (and stupidly busy at all times shopping mall thing that has an actual IMAX screen so I have to go there to watch Batman movies)
March 28th, 2012 at 12:43 AM
All I know about LA – outside of it’s delicious yet pretentious upper class food scene – is Phillipe’s and Pink’s.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:44 AM
I can tell you Universal Studios cost about $90 and is a total rip-off. The tour was the best part, though. The Simpsons 3D was bullshit. But if you can swing a Conan/Leno/Maher show taping in that time frame, that’s free.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:45 AM
If it wasn’t for my comment just then, you guys would have totally different answers to my question back to back. Haha
March 28th, 2012 at 12:45 AM
So stop deporting them, you racist bastard!!!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:45 AM
We’re trying to see Conan. I would throw a shoe at Maher if I saw him, and Leno isn’t worth the wait to me.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:46 AM
I thought the Phillipe’s sandwich was damn good, real good…nearly got in trouble with airport security since I forgot about the hot mustard I bought there and had it in my carry-on, the guy actually performed a vapor test to make sure it wasn’t a chemical weapon
March 28th, 2012 at 12:46 AM
Phillippe’s is awesome. I like Pink’s but if you’ve done it before and aren’t ragingly drunk in Hollywood it’s best to skip it. Just too much work for severe gut bomb. Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles is L.A. to the core, a little touristy, but genuinely good. I’m all about the snooty stuff, myself, but I know my way around L.A.’s food scene with anybody but the most annoying food bloggers in the city
March 28th, 2012 at 12:47 AM
Again, $90 for shitty rides/shows for a tour that woulda been a lot cooler 10 years ago. Desperate Houswives, Jaws, Back to the Future and King Kong?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:48 AM
We’re trying to see Conan.
Do it! My girlfriend and dog went to it on the 8th. You can borrow our dog, if you want. It will increase your chances of being on TV exponentially
March 28th, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate fancy food, but I can get the same quality back home at a third of the price. I want full LA experience.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:49 AM
The best thing is, you can find better Mexican food than you’ve ever had at any strip mall you can find here. But yea, Phillipe’s is great stuff. And now I’m hungry…….In N Out? In N Out.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:50 AM
I want full LA experience.
Live seafood in Koreatown and $900 sushi in the Valley? You got it! Just tell me when
March 28th, 2012 at 12:50 AM
You bet your ass I’m getting In N Out burgers while I’m out there.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:51 AM
How much is the live seafood?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:51 AM
go camp on one of the santa barbara islands, shatner. they are national parks and let you camp for a night (and get shanked)
March 28th, 2012 at 12:51 AM
I can think of some damn fine soul-food places if fried catfish and smothered pork-chops tickle your fancy. But now we’re talking Inglewood.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:52 AM
Really, though? L.A. experience is some Mexican, some Thai, some fast food that didn’t make it/hasn’t tried to make it to the rest of the country (In N’Out, obviously) and some really nice, slightly pricier than normal comfort food (burgers, particularly)
March 28th, 2012 at 12:52 AM
I want full LA experience.
earthquake, heroin jones and VD, then?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:53 AM
The Catalina Island trip is pretty great, too. Gorgeous little city, Avalon is….
……god I’m hungry…
March 28th, 2012 at 12:53 AM
How much is the live seafood?
It’s not very expensive. It’s also not in English, in my experience. Koreatown has been described, rather aptly, as the closest thing real life L.A. has to the Blade Runner version of L.A.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Don’t forget the Korean places. Those Korean bars are nuts. They bring the girls to you!!!
March 28th, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Yea I’d like to NOT get shot or wind up in something like “Crash”.
God did that movie suck.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:55 AM
Heh, I could show him some soul food places in Compton and South Central (sorry “South L.A.”) if you want to go that route, too
March 28th, 2012 at 12:55 AM
i had a great little LA experience in 92….tattoo at venice beach, earthquake with a decent aftershock and saw all the cali teams in three games…a’s/angels, sd/giants and dodgers/stros the day of the quake. also, bad daytime strip joint
March 28th, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Im not a big fan of Mexican food, but it kind of sucks out here and in NY.
March 28th, 2012 at 12:56 AM
Heh, I could show him some soul food places in Compton and South Central (sorry “South L.A.”) if you want to go that route, too
stark, are you the white regulator?
March 28th, 2012 at 12:57 AM
also, bad daytime strip joint
They’re all bad in the daytime. Unless you’ve been up for 70 straight hours
March 28th, 2012 at 12:57 AM
In N out is awesome but it loses its luster like all things. What’s that? You’re driving? Well ill have a double double and a chocolate shake
March 28th, 2012 at 12:58 AM
I’ve worked in an office in Rancho Dominguez (between Compton and Carson) for most of the last 9 years, Vez. And I have a fondness for public transportation. I’m not a regulator, at all, just know my way around the western parts of the city/county pretty well
March 28th, 2012 at 1:01 AM
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Well then, I know a certain Lexingtontonian who is in for a treat!
March 28th, 2012 at 1:01 AM
I’m not a regulator, at all, just know my way around the western parts of the city/county pretty well
you’ve lost that loving feeling starkington. i’m out
/respect the apostrophe use
March 28th, 2012 at 1:02 AM
Mexican food is great and it most definitely doesn’t suck out here
March 28th, 2012 at 1:03 AM
If Mexican food and in N out are the big LA selling points nowadays its no wonder Phoenix is over ran by Los Angelinos
March 28th, 2012 at 1:03 AM
I wouldn’t say it loses it’s luster. It’s just that you get used to having the best fast food burger in the world when your so used to it.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:04 AM
Hey, Ballz I remember you saying that you weren’t sure if the Taco Bell near you in Downey was the original or not but I just saw some thing about Taco Bell’s 50th birthday and it turns out the original is in Downey. I won’t lie. I’ve considered making the trek over there just to go to the original
March 28th, 2012 at 1:04 AM
Careful, you jealousy is starting to show. Phoenix is a sandy, shitty, hot as fuck shithole.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:05 AM
If Mexican food and in N out are the big LA selling points nowadays its no wonder Phoenix is over ran by Los Angelinos
No, sex, drugs, money, and fame are still the selling points. Those people you’ve got in AZ are just quitters. Or sane. Same difference, really
March 28th, 2012 at 1:06 AM
That’s true Ballz. Definitely the only burger I like from fast food. That east coast five burgers can Fuck itself.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:06 AM
I never said Taco Bell. I said the oldest McDonalds is in Downey. And it is. On Florence and Lakewood Blvd.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:06 AM
Oh. Well, then. The oldest Taco Bell is there, too. I thought the first McDonald’s was in Riverside?
March 28th, 2012 at 1:08 AM
Nope, turns out we’re both wrong. I think the one in Downey is the oldest franchise. The original McDonald’s was in San Bernardino
March 28th, 2012 at 1:09 AM
Or, I guess you’re saying the one in Downey is the oldest extant McDonald’s. Forget it all. I like talking about food way too much
March 28th, 2012 at 1:10 AM
And apparently that chain calls itself “five guys”. I may be drunk
March 28th, 2012 at 1:10 AM
The oldest operating McDonalds is in Downey. The first one was in San Bernardino. I don’t know what the hell ‘extant’ means……
March 28th, 2012 at 1:12 AM
Hey, Five Guys is from my hometown, YYSA! I never really liked them, though. Extant means still in existence
March 28th, 2012 at 1:12 AM
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5 guys made it’s way out here. I think there’s one in Santa Monica (per Starkweather) and I know there’s one in Whittier.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:13 AM
It’s pretty late. I think we’re all drunk, YYSA. It’s all good.
March 28th, 2012 at 1:15 AM
Somehow after years of horrible play and a pitiful existence the Dodgers fans are still extant
March 28th, 2012 at 1:17 AM
And now I’m too drunk to drive to In ‘N Out! I HATE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!
/Mr. Burns voice
March 28th, 2012 at 1:19 AM
Ummmm, it wasn’t that long ago we were in consecutive NLCS’s. Jackass.
March 28th, 2012 at 7:11 AM
Does this mean no more Magic and his big pearly whites on the NBA pregame show?
/crosses fingers
March 28th, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Ballz should totally be in those ‘Come to California!’ commercials
March 28th, 2012 at 8:26 AM
cross fingers