Just What the Dodgers Needed to Hear This Week
Baseball, Courts, Legal October 15th. 2009, 5:15pm
The San Diego Padres are a mess. San Diego only won 75 games this year after 63 in 2008. One could argue that the Padres demise is directly attributed to the divorce of the team’s previous owner, John Moores. Earlier this year, that divorce resulted in a change of ownership. Are the Dodgers next? On the day the NLCS begins, the big story out west is that California’s other National League team may have to worry about its future because the owner of the Dodgers and his wife – the team’s chief executive – are “separating.” The divorce word has not yet been used. The lawyer for LA owner Frank McCourt said “This is not going to be another San Diego-like debacle.” People this could impact: GM Ned Colletti, who was expected to sign an extension this offseason; coach Joe Torre, who is only signed through 2010; Manny Ramirez, also signed through 2010; and perhaps players such as Randy Wolf and Russell Martin. [LA Times, Fox Sports]
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October 15th, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Does he have a prenup? If so, then this will probably be a moot point.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Is there a guy asscoiated with the Redskins named Cerano? Because on Around The Horn, I think Jay Mariotti just called him a “guinea”.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Frank McCourt could have easily been a bad guy in Lethal Weapon.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
http://twitter.com/boyintheballoon
Um, wow.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Fuck you Giants, you don’t exist.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Vinnie Cerrano sounds pretty Italian.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
This Frank McCourt is/was awesome. This Dodgers fella? Eh.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:29 PM
How the fuck did this little shit get in this balloon in the first place. Was it just sitting in the back yard and little johnny walks into the fuckin thing and it goes off without his parents even knowing. If the kid didn’t jump outta the thing, he surely would’ve died of hypothermia.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I thought his name was Falcon.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:31 PM
@PL StabbinKabin, I refer you to the Calvin Pace thread for hilarious minute by minute commentary when this was all happening earlier.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Missing children really bring out the best in people.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:33 PM
i’ve been on delay all day. Long ass day. first i’ve heard of this.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Thats actually what exactly happened. Apparently his parents look for aliens or chase tornados or some such and had a huge balloon in the backyard.
Weirdos.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:33 PM
cnn: police saw something fall from the balloon. cnn showed a photo of something about 20 feet below the balloon. tough to tell if it is a basket or a kid or a bird or what.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
are we sure hes not in a radio flyer wagon?
October 15th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
CNN guy also said that it could be a smudge on the camera
/seriously
October 15th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I believe the flying dog from Neverending Story attacked the balloon.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Sadly, this isn’t going to end well.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
No we are not, and ET is being brought in for questioning
October 15th, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I think the whole thing is just a government plot to distract us from the fact they blew up the moon this afternoon. Wait until it gets dark and stays dark.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Falkor has been on the Terror Watch List since April 2004.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Falkor … Falcon… this whole thing is getting eerie.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
this sentence scares the shit out of me.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Go on TV and SING SING SING! ALL THE WAY DOWN!
October 15th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
With a stuffed tiger?
October 15th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Sending Our Love Down the Well plunges all the way to down to nuuuuuuuuumber 97.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I found him!
October 15th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I saw that twi++3r thing earlier and there were something like 220 followers. now there’s 800+. is that a rapid follower increase?
October 15th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Mole has been bringing the heat for this story today. +1 sir.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
That’s what happens when you sleep until one thirty every weekday; your mind is crisp.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Why I love and hate the Internet at the same time.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:55 PM
the UP photoshops are starting
October 15th, 2009 at 5:55 PM
So have they found the kid yet?
October 15th, 2009 at 5:57 PM
pat – that’s fucking messed up and funny as hell.
October 15th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
It took me five looks to realize what that picture was. Wow.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Ray J Johnson is an expert of balloons apparently.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:04 PM
They were filming this fucking thing flying for ninety minutes and can’t figure out its flight path …. help me out here, how does that make sense?
October 15th, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Torre said that next year would be his last, so he won’t be that screwed
There is. PFT kills him all the time. If Mariotti gets called on it, guaranteed he goes with how it’s OK because he’s Italian as well. The whole it OK for black guys to call other black guys the N.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:10 PM
movie on!
October 15th, 2009 at 6:20 PM
that little shit was in the attic the whole time!
October 15th, 2009 at 6:21 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html
October 15th, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Last I heard there is a team in San Francisco. TBL – you really need an editor.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Wow, you really need to find something relevant to comment about.