Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves

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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#41 » by DirtyDez » Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:04 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Lalouie wrote:can't go to his left?

i always said he was nothing without jeter


He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...


I think you mean all if his prime and career lol.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#42 » by dc » Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:21 pm

jokeboy86 wrote:This is why if you're Lebron do you really want to put your money into owning a majority(which is probably what he'll want) in a major sports franchise? Of course he has more money than A-Rod but to put in at minimum 200 million liquid is a lot of dough plus these team valuations are probably only going to increase over time


Lebron is basically going to go the Jeter route (well, before Jeter just quit this year anyways): He's going to be a minority owner who's going to use his name/cachet to be the frontman of the ownership group and basically convince the "majority" owners of the group that he should be the head guy/shot caller of the franchise.

Jeter's ownership stake of the Marlins was only around 4%, but he was basically oversaw day to day operations before he quit earlier this year.

But yeah, in any case, if Lebron wants a piece of ownership, he should probably retire sooner to get in on a piece of that action rather than wait another 4-5 years for both his sons to be old enough to play in the league.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#43 » by Lalouie » Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:19 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Lalouie wrote:can't go to his left?

i always said he was nothing without jeter


He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...


ha was a LOSER for the majority of his prime too
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#44 » by Jersey Generals » Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:58 pm

Lalouie wrote:ha was a LOSER for the majority of his prime too


It's baseball, Susan. So is Mike Trout, so was Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, Ted Williams, and Ernie Banks.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#45 » by Lalouie » Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:01 pm

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Lalouie wrote:ha was a LOSER for the majority of his prime too


It's baseball, Susan. So is Mike Trout, so was Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, Ted Williams, and Ernie Banks.


i mean he got out of seattle to move to tex and they sucked MAJOR

he was kd before kd is what i meant

in the gsw hierarchy it was curry = jeter, kd = arod
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Post#46 » by dhsilv2 » Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:09 pm

Lalouie wrote:
Jersey Generals wrote:
Lalouie wrote:ha was a LOSER for the majority of his prime too


It's baseball, Susan. So is Mike Trout, so was Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr, Ted Williams, and Ernie Banks.


i mean he got out of seattle to move to tex and they sucked MAJOR

he was kd before kd is what i meant

in the gsw hierarchy it was curry = jeter, kd = arod


Jeter is like Iggy. Not Curry lol.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#47 » by Woodsanity » Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:11 pm

Colbinii wrote:
Lalouie wrote:can't go to his left?

i always said he was nothing without jeter


He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...

No proof Jeter used roids like A ROD. He was at a huge disadvantage.
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Post#48 » by The Laker Kid » Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:15 pm

He can only afford 1 Timberwolf and 2 Timberpups.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#49 » by Shock Defeat » Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:30 pm

Woodsanity wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
Lalouie wrote:can't go to his left?

i always said he was nothing without jeter


He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...

No proof Jeter used roids like A ROD. He was at a huge disadvantage.

True, A-Rod did roids in HS lol. While likely he would have been a MLB player, he's not like Bonds where you could say he was already a superstar before steroids. We have no record of A-Rod before steroids to be able to say how good he was clean.
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Post#50 » by jokeboy86 » Wed Aug 31, 2022 9:32 pm

I forgot how much people dislike A-Rod lol
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Post#51 » by Ballerhogger » Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:13 pm

DirtyDez wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
Lalouie wrote:can't go to his left?

i always said he was nothing without jeter


He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...


I think you mean all if his prime and career lol.

He was terrible in the playoffs though
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#52 » by azcatz11 » Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:47 pm

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Shock Defeat wrote:Not surprising. A-Rod and JLo were a power couple. A-rod by himself is no nearly as powerful.


It’s true. J Lo is worth more than Arod and Ben Affleck combined. She also brings status more than arod can imagine


Wow...I'll never understand music and how these people make so much money. Or why so many people know them...


Who J Lo? She’s an international celebrity. You’ve never seen Selena?
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#53 » by dc » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:02 pm

dhsilv2 wrote:Jeter is like Iggy. Not Curry lol.


Jeter has 3465 career hits. That's 6th all-time to go with a .310 average. He's much closer to Curry than Iggy from an analogy standpoint.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#54 » by andyhop » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:09 am

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jokeboy86 wrote:This is why if you're Lebron do you really want to put your money into owning a majority(which is probably what he'll want) in a major sports franchise? Of course he has more money than A-Rod but to put in at minimum 200 million liquid is a lot of dough plus these team valuations are probably only going to increase over time


I doubt he is going to try and buy a majority stake in a team , he will be a minority partner with FSG


I think for an NBA team he would want to be a majority stake holder. Maybe not now or shortly after his career is over but I could see him wanting this when he's older. Jordan and Lemieux are the standard that probably most ex-athletes with ownership goals may want to aspire(if they have the cash) to and I can't see Lebron being a partial NBA owner like some of the other recent guys especially since his net worth dwarfs most other ex-athletes/businessmen including Magic.


We will see but I expect him to invest further into FSG when the time comes rather than directly into an NBA team and have that be the platform for him to influence how a team is run
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#55 » by vital_signs » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:28 am

LakersLegacy wrote:Do the Packers thing and sell stock in the team

aka, help us nab a new scoreboard and atrium and we'l send you a piece of paper that won't increase in value in conjunction with the franchises value.

Packers stock has always grinded my gears, hearing drunk broke dudes at bars telling people they're part owners.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#56 » by DirtyDez » Thu Sep 1, 2022 12:46 am

Ballerhogger wrote:
DirtyDez wrote:
Colbinii wrote:
He was a better baseball player than Jeter for a majority of his prime...


I think you mean all if his prime and career lol.

He was terrible in the playoffs though


He also had some great playoff years but there was a really bad stretch for the Yankees that everyone remembers.
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Post#57 » by dhsilv2 » Thu Sep 1, 2022 1:37 am

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dhsilv2 wrote:
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It’s true. J Lo is worth more than Arod and Ben Affleck combined. She also brings status more than arod can imagine


Wow...I'll never understand music and how these people make so much money. Or why so many people know them...


Who J Lo? She’s an international celebrity. You’ve never seen Selena?


I have not seen or heard of Selena at least I don't think I have? Sounds like a chick flick. I think I know her because she's just a famous person more than I know why or what she did to become famous.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#58 » by dhsilv2 » Thu Sep 1, 2022 1:38 am

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dhsilv2 wrote:Jeter is like Iggy. Not Curry lol.


Jeter has 3465 career hits. That's 6th all-time to go with a .310 average. He's much closer to Curry than Iggy from an analogy standpoint.


He's better than Iggy, but he's much closer to a guy who had a long career of being a good allstar but never an all out superstar level player (clearly he was a superstar in terms of fame and had all kinds of success with the team). Meanwhile Arod was someone more like Moses Malone. Perhaps not in that upper upper level, but still a dominate player at another tier.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#59 » by dc » Thu Sep 1, 2022 1:52 am

dhsilv2 wrote:
dc wrote:
dhsilv2 wrote:Jeter is like Iggy. Not Curry lol.


Jeter has 3465 career hits. That's 6th all-time to go with a .310 average. He's much closer to Curry than Iggy from an analogy standpoint.


He's better than Iggy, but he's much closer to a guy who had a long career of being a good allstar but never an all out superstar level player (clearly he was a superstar in terms of fame and had all kinds of success with the team). Meanwhile Arod was someone more like Moses Malone. Perhaps not in that upper upper level, but still a dominate player at another tier.


He's clearly "closer" to Iggy, though than Curry. A better comparison to Iggy would be someone like a 2-3x all-star guy with 2000 career hits, good defensively, etc...Something like a Griffey Sr. or Ron Gant level player.

Jeter made all-star a few too many times and had too high of a career BA to be "compared" to a guy like Iggy.
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Re: Alex Rodriguez having issues buying the Timberwolves 

Post#60 » by The Rebel » Thu Sep 1, 2022 3:30 am

dhsilv2 wrote:
azcatz11 wrote:
dhsilv2 wrote:
Wow...I'll never understand music and how these people make so much money. Or why so many people know them...


Who J Lo? She’s an international celebrity. You’ve never seen Selena?


I have not seen or heard of Selena at least I don't think I have? Sounds like a chick flick. I think I know her because she's just a famous person more than I know why or what she did to become famous.

Selena was arguably the 1st female Mexican American international superstar with hits both in English and Spanish and a huge following especially among Mexican women when she was murdered by her friend/fan club manager. J Lo played her in the movie Selena which was about her life, and helped make J Lo an international superstar.

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