OT: So… Ted Leonsis wants to buy the Nationals

[Kanyewest]

DC Sports doomed for all eternity.

I dunno. He lucked into championships with the Caps, Mystics, and his silly eSports team. Plus the indoor football thingamabob. Shoot, I'd take Leonsis running the local NFL franchise over the current douch3bag. I bet he would have overpaid to keep Bryce Harper, and probably would have ante'd up on Soto. Ted's deal is overpaying for loyalty and his homegrown guys. Even if that gets in the way of other considerations.

Pretty sure we wouldn’t have won a WS had we overpaid for Harper. We wouldn’t have had room under the cap to sign Corbin, who now stinks but was the final piece to the puzzle in 2019.

And trading Soto was ridiculously hard to do but necessary. Over the years, we’d done deadline deal after deadline deal to get a legit WS contender. We needed to replenish the farm to have any chance of scaling the mountain again.

I’m quite close to 100% certain that Ted Leonsis would be an abject failure as owner of the Nats.

The Commodes on the other hand. Yes, can he purchase them tomorrow pretty please.

Corbin was one of the finalist for the CY Young- and maybe the Nationals don't make the playoffs. Although aside for a couple of bullpen appearances, Corbin was kind of garbage in the postseason.

Shouldn't the farm system have been replenished with Scherzer/Turner from last season plus others anyway?

[penbeast0]

Think positively. Maybe he needs to raise money to buy the Nats so he sells the Wiz.

[FAH1223]

Think positively. Maybe he needs to raise money to buy the Nats so he sells the Wiz.

The rumors online is that Laurene Powell-Jobs would be much more involved with the Wizards and Mystics...

She's the 2nd largest partner of MSE...I think she has a 20% stake and theoretically if she ever wanted to, she could just buy Ted out.

[lastemp3ror]

Going from the Lerner's to Leonsis would be a step in the wrong direction. This would pretty much seal the fate of all the professional franchises in Washington of never being a championship-caliber team between Snyder and Leonsis owning them all.

In regards to Leonsis winning a championship with the Capitals, he lucked into it. The way I see it is, how does he not have more than one championship with a player who is arguably one of the best to ever do it?

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Wizardspride]

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[gambitx777]

Going from the Lerner's to Leonsis would be a step in the wrong direction. This would pretty much seal the fate of all the professional franchises in Washington of never being a championship-caliber team between Snyder and Leonsis owning them all.

In regards to Leonsis winning a championship with the Capitals, he lucked into it. The way I see it is, how does he not have more than one championship with a player who is arguably one of the best to ever do it?

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

That's just hater talk. The caps have been good for ages. Overall a great hockey team. Lucked into a cup my ass that year was legit and they could have won it several of these last few years.



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[Endless Loop]

More about the Lerners than Ted-

The Lerners deserve a LOT of criticism for how they've handled the Nats last couple of years.

Their payroll this year is just over $100 million, and of that $59 million is owed to Corbin and Strasburg. They basically have gutted the franchise. They've traded off some of the best players in the game. No significant free agent signings.

Take away Corbin and Strasburg (who they couldn't dump) and the Nationals are WORSE- by quite a bit- even than the A's in what they spend on the product they put on the field. The A's payroll this year is $52 million. The Nats, minus the big two, are $43 million. Pretty amazing.

I understand that commercial real estate sucks right now, but if the Lerners can't afford to own a team, they need to sell. And it's not OK to take two years of half-hearted effort at the sale. If the offers aren't good enough, then they need to invest in putting a decent product on the field.

We cut them slack because of the WS win. But based on the last couple of years, the Lerners deserve more criticism than Snyder or Leonsis.

[Rafael122]

I still don't get the hate for Leonsis, I mean the Nats/Wizards etc could do a lot worse than him.

[gambitx777]

In sports where teams matter more than generational talents it's hard to build a dynasty. The nats were good. Won A tittle, been competitive. But, it's hard to make money and have a really high caliber team for a long time. Monumental and Ted have the deep pockets to **** it let Ted do it.

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[Godymas]

It's annoying that the Caps were able to win not too long ago because basically it inflated Ted's own ego in terms of being an owner and let him double down on his own strategy.

[Tyrone Messby]

I still don't get the hate for Leonsis, I mean the Nats/Wizards etc could do a lot worse than him.

This is sarcasm right? The Wizards have been the WORST NBA franchise since he took over outside of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. 0 conference title appearances and that clown didn’t do more to help our prime Ovechkin with better coaching and defense over the years. The Caps should’ve had 2-3 titles with a once in a generation type talent like the great 8. The Nats would be terrible under Leonsis.

[Rafael122]

I still don't get the hate for Leonsis, I mean the Nats/Wizards etc could do a lot worse than him.

This is sarcasm right? The Wizards have been the WORST NBA franchise since he took over outside of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. 0 conference title appearances and that clown didn’t do more to help our prime Ovechkin with better coaching and defense over the years. The Caps should’ve had 2-3 titles with a once in a generation type talent like the great 8. The Nats would be terrible under Leonsis.

I'm talking more of the person. He's not worse than Snyder, not even by a longshot. I agree his management and lack of awareness is terrible but folks here making it seem like Ted's the worse of the worse.

[gambitx777]

I still don't get the hate for Leonsis, I mean the Nats/Wizards etc could do a lot worse than him.

This is sarcasm right? The Wizards have been the WORST NBA franchise since he took over outside of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. 0 conference title appearances and that clown didn’t do more to help our prime Ovechkin with better coaching and defense over the years. The Caps should’ve had 2-3 titles with a once in a generation type talent like the great 8. The Nats would be terrible under Leonsis.

That is just blatantly untrue.

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[payitforward]

I still don't get the hate for Leonsis, I mean the Nats/Wizards etc could do a lot worse than him.

This is sarcasm right? The Wizards have been the WORST NBA franchise since he took over outside of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. 0 conference title appearances and that clown didn’t do more to help our prime Ovechkin with better coaching and defense over the years. The Caps should’ve had 2-3 titles with a once in a generation type talent like the great 8. The Nats would be terrible under Leonsis.

That is just blatantly untrue.

How far from the bottom would you put the Wizards?

Over the last 15 years, the Washington Wizards have averaged just under 34 wins a year (on an 82-game season).

How many NBA teams have been worse in that stretch?

[Wizardspride]

I believe this is what Ted was waiting on.

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[ozthegap]

This is sarcasm right? The Wizards have been the WORST NBA franchise since he took over outside of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. 0 conference title appearances and that clown didn’t do more to help our prime Ovechkin with better coaching and defense over the years. The Caps should’ve had 2-3 titles with a once in a generation type talent like the great 8. The Nats would be terrible under Leonsis.

That is just blatantly untrue.

How far from the bottom would you put the Wizards?

Over the last 15 years, the Washington Wizards have averaged just under 34 wins a year (on an 82-game season).

How many NBA teams have been worse in that stretch?

Detroit and Orlando maybe