tomwvr Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 7 hours ago, Riggo#44 said: It will be interesting to see if the fans and how many come back with the new owner. But look at the Nats and Caps--they had sustained success with some very good fan support. The nats are seriously driving their fans away. Fielding a minor league team is going to cause serious fan base decay. That will be even worse if the O’s do well. Baseball fans will fall back to rooting for the O’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskins Reparations Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 19 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen said: I just had a paranoid thought...what is Snyder moves the 'Manders to London instead of selling? The NFL could then claim that he's immune to prosecution since he's in a different country. That way they get the London team they've always wanted and get Snyder out of the limelight. Yeah, I get paranoid for no reason sometimes...🤔 Can you imagine the fan reaction to Snyder returning to play the newest NFL expansion team owned by Jeff Bezos in Washington D.C.? Snyder would need a SWAT team escort in and out of the country. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo#44 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 17 hours ago, Commander PK said: You also have people who couldn’t find their team’s town on a map, but are lifelong “die hard” fans of that team. I’ve never been able to understand that one. You also get weird allegiances, I saw a car with Nats, Caps, and Bills stickers. Like how does that happen, other than Dan Snyder? 13 hours ago, tomwvr said: The nats are seriously driving their fans away. Fielding a minor league team is going to cause serious fan base decay. That will be even worse if the O’s do well. Baseball fans will fall back to rooting for the O’s. Nats lost 107 games and still averaged about 24,000 last year. I think they have a solid base, unless they go on a decade-long losing spree like the Phillies. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 (edited) The more I digest about Josh Harris the more I like. I watched an NBC segrment on YouTube where a Philly reporter was really high on him. He said he spends what it takes and doesn’t interfere. And Joe Banner who used to run the Eagles talked about Harris on Galdi’s podcast. He knows Harris some but knows someone who worked for Harris especially well. And he also said Harris is a really good owner and he doesn’t interfere. He thought it would be great for Washington if Harris was the owner Edited January 21, 2023 by Skinsinparadise 4 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actorguy1 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 With Harris, as one analyst said, if a higher bid comes in, he has to be willing to exceed it, which he hasn't done before. He makes his decision on what bid will be a good value and he sticks with that bid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Just now, actorguy1 said: With Harris, as one analyst said, if a higher bid comes in, he has to be willing to exceed it, which he hasn't done before. He makes his decision on what bid will be a good value and he sticks with that bid. Yeah I put that on here from a podcast, if I recall Keim's? Hopefully he wants this one bad enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Harris would be a fine owner and I think under his leadership we'd be a contender by like 2025 at the absolute latest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhd24 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Just hope the owner isn't anywhere near like Ted Leonsis (worst owner in the NBA). Perfectly content to never try and win an NBA title. He's Snyder like in being a complete recluse when giving interviews. Keeps employing Vinny-Cerrato types as his GMs. Only wants potential round 1 playoff revenues. Never is willing to pay the luxury tax. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 2 hours ago, mhd24 said: Just hope the owner isn't anywhere near like Ted Leonsis (worst owner in the NBA). Perfectly content to never try and win an NBA title. He's Snyder like in being a complete recluse when giving interviews. Keeps employing Vinny-Cerrato types as his GMs. Only wants potential round 1 playoff revenues. Never is willing to pay the luxury tax. Its a shame because Leonsis is a good NHL owner. But then again, he lucked into the GOAT goal scorer and top 10 all time player for his hockey team. When he got the #1 pick in the NBA he got a PG who couldn't shoot and ended up destroying his knee(still love Wall though but its the truth). I don't think he's as bad as people make him out to be in all honesty but I do hate his approach to team building in the NBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CjSuAvE22 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Can someone please explain to me what I did wrong to deserve this, that I was barely too young to remember any of our glory days and I’m now alive and well to witness the eagles time of greatness?! I’m sick I want to throw up and the thought of a cowboys eagles nfc east championship is daunting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVAskins Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 55 minutes ago, CjSuAvE22 said: Can someone please explain to me what I did wrong to deserve this, that I was barely too young to remember any of our glory days and I’m now alive and well to witness the eagles time of greatness?! I’m sick I want to throw up and the thought of a cowboys eagles nfc east championship is daunting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoAli Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 7:19 PM, Skinsinparadise said: Listening to different people who are covering the story including Perez, its hard apparently to get info on it because Dan as usual isn't talking. Bank of American is totally close lipped. and the prospective owners are close lipped. Keim for example is typically great at getting info relating to the team but on this issue he's hardly had any info. Ditto Standig. I get the impression that Keim and Standig's sources are within the FO. And if so those same sources don't seem to be in the loop on this. Backed up after by Finlay and Keim They used Perez as their reference. That not backing him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, ClaytoAli said: They used Perez as their reference. That not backing him up. I listend to Keim a bunch of times talk about this including doing a full podcast just recently on the topic. I don't recall him once saying another reporter is his source for that. Among other things that would be unprofessional. Finlay's report was his own report. Perez actually referenced ironically Finlay's report in one of his radio segment and talked about them having different sources. Edited January 22, 2023 by Skinsinparadise 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhd24 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 10 hours ago, Warhead36 said: Its a shame because Leonsis is a good NHL owner. But then again, he lucked into the GOAT goal scorer and top 10 all time player for his hockey team. When he got the #1 pick in the NBA he got a PG who couldn't shoot and ended up destroying his knee(still love Wall though but its the truth). I don't think he's as bad as people make him out to be in all honesty but I do hate his approach to team building in the NBA. Actually, I don't think he's a good NHL owner. What owner is so cheap to not pay the coach who won him a cup? 2 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 1 hour ago, mhd24 said: Actually, I don't think he's a good NHL owner. What owner is so cheap to not pay the coach who won him a cup? Yeah that was an eff up, but NHL is weird in that coaches don't tend to stay very long at most places and there was talk Trotz might retire. But yeah we definitely should have kept him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 14 hours ago, Warhead36 said: Its a shame because Leonsis is a good NHL owner. But then again, he lucked into the GOAT goal scorer and top 10 all time player for his hockey team. When he got the #1 pick in the NBA he got a PG who couldn't shoot and ended up destroying his knee(still love Wall though but its the truth). I don't think he's as bad as people make him out to be in all honesty but I do hate his approach to team building in the NBA. That was a pretty poor draft class in 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavar1156 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 On 1/20/2023 at 9:56 PM, tomwvr said: 5 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) My guy Jeff!! LET'S GOOOOOOO DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS WOOOOOOOOOOO Edit: sorry, I'm a tad bit excited right now. Edited January 23, 2023 by spjunkies 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskinss Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Why would he have to sell the paper to buy the team? This article reads like mostly speculation to me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actorguy1 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) Article seems to say Bezos would sell the Post as a goodwill gesture to Snyder. It's also mostly, "He could do this or that" rather than "He is doing this or that" Edited January 23, 2023 by actorguy1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesMadisonSkins Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Was only a matter of time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 (edited) The article seems very speculative. Finlay is saying on the radio that Dan as a negotiator feels like he has to win every deal, not a win win deal but that's he's the winner so Bezos having to sell the WP might feel like he won. https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/jeff-bezos-will-sell-washington-post-to-buy-commanders-investors/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow Does Jeff Bezos love football more than he loves newspapers? That’s a question getting tossed around the nation’s capital as its NFL franchise hits the block. Chatter is growing that Amazon’s billionaire founder is looking to clear the way for a purchase of the Washington Commanders by selling the Washington Post — with speculation boosted last month by leaked video of publisher Fred Ryan disclosing layoff plans at an unruly town hall meeting. The problem for Bezos reportedly is that the Commanders’ embattled owner, Dan Snyder, is still sore over the storied newspaper’s series of exposes alleging a toxic management culture at the team, where bosses including Snyder allegedly enabled sex harassment. Some even believe that Snyder suspects Bezos, who bought the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, encouraged the tough coverage in 2020 in a bid to force him to sell him the team. Last week, Bezos stoked fears about looming layoffs at the Washington Post during an awkward visit to the newsroom. A source close to the situation said Bezos told the paper’s senior staff in private meetings that he had no plans to sell the paper. Edited January 23, 2023 by Skinsinparadise 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoVaSkins21 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 If this is all true, I wonder when the announcement comes out. Before or after the SB? Here's hoping the sooner the better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Est.1974 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 3 minutes ago, Skinsinparadise said: The article seems speculative. Finlay is saying on the radio that Dan as a negotiator feels like he has to win every deal, not a win win deal but that's he's the winner so Bezos having to sell the WP might feel like he won. Certainly seems the way with Snyder, although this time around you would think his priority is to vanish off the radar without any of this serious dirt landing home. The amount of scandal on his doorstep might just encourage a more reasoned exit than would normally be the case. Here’s hoping anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearfeather Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 At this point, why would Snyder care if Bezos sold the Post or not ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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