lilfishi22 wrote:I hate defending Sarver as much as the next guy and I will probably need to shower a few more times today to wash off this guilt but Sarver seems to have been relatively hands off since McD's tenure. I feel like he took responsibility for the mistake he made with the impulse signings (Turkeyglue, Warrick, Childress) after Amare left. And as for the general dislike of Sarver from the NBPA because of his stand during the last CBA negotiation, I honestly feel like most NBA player really don't care about ownership. There's really two groups of ownership, the ones who are really well-liked/respected like Cuban, Lacob-Guber, Peter Holt and then you have pretty much everyone else. In the end, if a player is offered $12m to play for Sarver or $10m to play for Cuban, how much they "like" either of them is probably much lower on their consideration list than salary, role and plan for the team.
Someone on this board said this once regarding pushing Sarver out - better the devil you know, than the devil you don't
Yeah, Sarver was bad for a long time in part because he was a combination of acting like a kid in a candy store, yet stubborn and cheap all at the same time. Then he has no patience. I'm not really a fan but a new owner can be scary. I don't follow baseball closely so I was just reading about the Marlins and that sounds like a nightmare scenario for fans.
Right here? There is no light at the end of the tunnel. This pain is going to extend for years. This is a bunch of billionaires investing in a leveraged buyout. They don’t care if the Marlins are bad for the next 10 years. They really don’t. Franchise values keep going up and up. All they have to do is park it and wait. They own the ballpark, after all. So liquidate the assets to keep costs down. Are there baseball games involved? Doesn’t matter. Liquidate and sit on the nest egg. That’s all that needs to happen.
This is how a new ownership group comes in, looks at a 28-year-old MVP coming off a 59-homer season and thinks, ugh, there’s nothing we can work with here. This is how they can break up the best outfield in baseball without getting a single blue-chip prospect in return.
https://www.sbnation.com/2017/12/14/16774396/marlins-stanton-ozuna-trades-rebuild-jeterI think the billboards are dumb.