作者mengju (KEVIN)
看板Nationals
标题索罗斯想当国民队的老板
时间Wed Jul 13 19:25:44 2005
就是那个George Soros
没有最近的争议 我都不知道他有参加
他也参加了八个竞标团体的其中一个
引来了美国会保守派议员(众院政府改革委员会主席Davis)的反对
甚至暗示要取消大联盟反托拉司法这种圈圈叉叉的言语
转录华邮的报导
http://tinyurl.com/d387l
Soros's Nats Bid Irks Republicans
Tuesday, June 28, 2005; Page E02
Major League Baseball hasn't narrowed the list of the eight bidders
seeking to buy the Washington Nationals and some Republicans on Capitol Hill
already are hinting at revoking the league's antitrust exemption
if billionaire financier George Soros , an ardent critic of President Bush
and supporter of liberal causes, buys the team.
"It's not necessarily smart business sense to have anybody who is
so polarizing in the political world," Rep. John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.) said.
"That goes for anybody, but especially as it relates to Major League Baseball
because it's one of the few businesses that get incredibly special treatment
from Congress and the federal government."
Rep. Tom M. Davis III (R-Va.), who was a strong supporter of bringing
a baseball team to Virginia, told Roll Call yesterday that
"Major League Baseball understands the stakes" if Soros buys the team.
"I don't think they want to get involved in a political fight."
Democrats weren't about to let the broadsides go unanswered.
"Why should politics have anything to do with who owns the team,
" Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) asked. "So Congress is going to
get involved in every baseball ownership decision? Are they next
going to worry about a manager they don't like? I've never seen anything
as impotent as a congressman threatening the baseball exemption.
It gets threatened half a dozen times a year, and our batting average
threatening the exemption is zero."
Davis didn't return calls to his office, but spokesman Robert White said,
"The point [Davis] was making was how it would look if Major League Baseball
sells the hottest team in the market to a guy who spent more money than
the gross domestic product of Colombia to legitimize drugs."
Davis chairs the Committee on Government Reform, which recently
held high-profile hearings on steroid use in professional and amateur sports.
Soros has supported the legalization of some drugs as a way to combat
their illegal abuse. A Soros spokesman, Michael Vachon , said the financier
was out of the country and declined to comment.
Washington entrepreneur Jonathan Ledecky , who heads the bidding group
that Soros joined, said in an e-mail: "America's pastime should be protected
from the rhetoric of partisan politics. It's unfortunate that the negativism
that permeates national politics today is infecting Major League Baseball
and the Washington Nationals."
Baseball is interviewing lead members of the eight groups that have filed bids
to buy the Nationals, who are owned by the league. Most of the bids
are believed to range between $300 million and $400 million, with a couple
exceeding $400 million, according to sources familiar with the sale process.
"We're going to act and make a decision in the best interest of the franchise
and the best interests of the game," MLB spokesman Rich Levin said.
-- Thomas Heath
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※ 编辑: mengju 来自: 208.58.65.117 (07/13 19:27)
1F:推 VaROne:只要是好 "Boss",谁当都行。 203.68.107.72 07/13
2F:推 mengju:试述 好Boss的定义 XD 208.58.65.117 07/13
3F:推 VaROne:Soros 对钱不甚看重,比起一堆有钱却小气巴拉的 203.68.107.72 07/14
4F:推 VaROne:的铁公鸡,何尝不是个好选择。 203.68.107.72 07/14