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Maybe he's satisfied with the current annual return on his original investment and feels that bumping up the payroll to perhaps become more competitive poses financial risks. It's his business to do with what he pleases. If someone doesn't like it, make him an offer he can't refuse.
Liberty Media purchased the Braves from Time Warner in 2007 for $1.5 Billion, which is a 20X multiple of their recent OIBDA (e.g. pre-tax cash flow)
Here's an interesting article addressing Nutting's approach to ownership...
The Pirates will never win if they never spend
Bob Nutting’s efforts to keep payroll low have helped no one but him and the rest of ownership.
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Their cheap *** owner who refuses to spend any money on quality players. They are the laughing stock of the MLB. Everybody knows they are a farm system for the large market teams because Nutting is too cheap to keep anybody who’s about to require a more lucrative contract. High profile free agents aren’t even a consideration for the Pirates, but Nutting still makes money on MLB revenue sharing, so he doesn’t care. I hope people boycott the games this year and boycott his other businesses also. Again, it’s too bad because the stadium is beautiful and the city desperately wants a competitive team.
I'm just looking to see a competitive game when my Braves head to Pittsburgh and I'd travel and stay a night or two if they did. They have a great stadium in a great location and field a AAA team every year. BTW, who's paying for the stadium that he puts an insulting team in?Maybe he's satisfied with the current annual return on his original investment and feels that bumping up the payroll to perhaps become more competitive poses financial risks. It's his business to do with what he pleases. If someone doesn't like it, make him an offer he can't refuse.
Liberty Media purchased the Braves from Time Warner in 2007 for $1.5 Billion, which is a 20X multiple of their recent OIBDA (e.g. pre-tax cash flow)
Here's an interesting article addressing Nutting's approach to ownership...
The Pirates will never win if they never spend
Bob Nutting’s efforts to keep payroll low have helped no one but him and the rest of ownership.
The Braves are still on my list after the 1992 NLCS. Sid friggin Bream with 2 knee braces.
Oh, I remember. It's sad that just a few years ago they pretended to put a competitive team on the field. Now, it's like it's not worth their time.
Bonds was a cancer in the locker room and Leyland wasn’t putting up with his prima donna ********. On that particular play, Van Slyke apparently told Bonds to move in to make the play at the plate (Bonds didn’t have a particularly strong arm) and Bonds responded by flipping him off. So, he proceeded to fail to make the throw home for an out against a guy with two bad knees and knee braces running from second base.
The Pirates had no chance at keeping Bonds with his impending free agency.
This is one of the most ludicrous descriptions of the play I’ve ever read.
Where do you come up with your ideas? $3 million?
Before Bonds final year in Pittsburgh Bonds allegedly turned down a multi year deal of 25 million to stay in Pittsburgh. I do not see how many years that contract would have been for. When Bonds left for San Fran the Pirates offered Bonds more money to stay.....but not as much as San Fran offered. The contract San Fran offered led Dave Dombrowski GM of Florida at the time to say....."Wow, Unbelievable, but I guess it's not".
I'll never get over that haunting site of Bream coming around third, have to turn the tv every time that play is shown. Oh yea, f u Francisco Cabrera as well.
Yes and people are also forgetting that the Pirates we’re dealing with several high profile free agents. The previous season Bonilla left for a blockbuster deal with the Mets. Bonds saw that and wanted more. The Pirates were trying to retain Drabek, Van Slyke, and a few others,as well as, arbitration with the likes of LaValliere, Lind, Bell, and a few others all around the same time frame. It was a mass exodus when the Pirates couldn’t pay the money these guys got in the free agent market.
Such a great team to never get over the hump and get one..
