Awful Pro Sports Team Owners

Let's have a thread about owners both past and present that have fucked over their teams.

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How's that? The last time the Reds won a postseason series was under her ownership, and a World Series.

This cunt is the reason Major League Sawker is an elaborate tax evasion scheme

He also has his fat little fingers in all of LA sports and he does nothing but suck money out of them when they could be reinvesting that to be actually good

Faggot of the century

Ken Richardson at Doncaster Rovers, tried to set his team's own stadium on fire to claim an insurance policy, the police found an answerphone message on his phone from one of his hired goons saying "job done"
Here's his tenure in full in this twitter thread
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though it looks like he might have finally axed the yesmen and turned the operations over to people who actually know what they're fucking doing.

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>buys ottawa
>wont spend money on the team
>they break even by spending very little money
>doesn't have the money to subsidize the team
>wont sell the team to other billionaires who will properly fund the team

>privately owned teams

Together we can prevent this comrades

Fpbp. They were also an almost 100 win team her last year and immediately fell into irrelevancy the year after, op is just a bootlicker

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Thaksin was proof that the FA/prem/football league don't really give a fuck who owns a club so long as the money comes.

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You knew something up when the first news story after John Lynch got hired was that he wasn’t going to take the job if the fact that he was interviewing leaked

dont forget
>dying fan gives him his liver so he can continue to run the team into the ground

Ted Stepien

Always remember the road to hell is paved with good intentions

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Dan fucking Snyder

a literal saint

This. The cowboys would have won at least 2 more owls in the 90s if that inbred moron Jones wasn't so obsessed with being front and center and didn't think he was the most important person on the team. I've yet to meet a cowboys fan who likes jerry Jones.

>anyone that owns the marlins

a fuckin moron

Spanos

>Wilpon was one of the investors who invested a significant amount of money with Bernard Madoff which was lost when the Ponzi scheme collapsed in December 2008.[8] It was reported that Wilpon had "lost" about $700 million because of Madoff, which has led to speculation that he may be forced to sell the team.
>Reports later surfaced that Wilpon and his family actually made about $300 million with Madoff and had not lost money as previously reported.[11] As a result, in December 2010, Wilpon was named in a lawsuit filed by Irving Picard on behalf of the victims of Madoff's investment scandal and on January 28, 2011 Wilpon issued a statement seeking “one or more strategic partners” interested in buying 20 to 25% interest in the Mets to offset pending losses due to litigation.
>Wilpon and his partner and brother-in-law Saul Katz were involved in another Ponzi scheme which was orchestrated by Samuel Israel III and they were forced to pay $13 million to investors when Israel's hedge fund collapsed.[13] It was revealed that Wilpon utilized Madoff in running the Mets' finances.
>The lawsuit also contends that Madoff funds were used to cover team expenses such as payroll and its minor league club in Brooklyn,[15] as well as financing the creation of the cable network SportsNet New York and Citi Field
>After it was reported that Major League Baseball loaned the Mets $25 million in November 2010 to shore up their finances, Wilpon is now willing to sell up to a 49% ownership stake of the team[18] at a cost of $200 million.[19]
>After the Mets received a $40 million loan from Bank of America in November 2011, Major League Baseball is monitoring the situation closely and is prepared to take control of the team from Wilpon if he defaults on the loan. The trustee to the Madoff trust, Irving H. Picard, had declared that the Wilpons had enriched themselves over many years of profitable investing with Mr. Madoff while ignoring repeated warnings that he might have been a fraud

How has the former clippers owner not been posted yet? You can completely ignore the racism stuff and he’s still one of the worst owners in nba history

Jim Pohlad, Twins

Doesn't give a fuck about winning.

Greedy trust fund baby.

Marge is one of the few people who legitimately may have done something wrong

reminder that the senior Wilpon hasn't spoken to the media on the record since 2011, Jose Reyes' contract year, when he trashed Reyes to a reporter

>start sleazy company spamming the post office
>use accounting tricks to make it appear amazing
>massively inflate the value
>sell out to clueless foreign investors
>take on additional debt to buy redskins
>immediately turn respected team into a dumpster fire

he got away with his own little enron and he's protected by one of the most powerful men in the country.
give the team back to the cooke family now.

His father wasn't much better; tried to sell to a guy that would move the team to North Carolina, then volunteered for contraction years later

At least Dad won a championship, that's more than any other owner in Minnesota has done

Stole our fucking team

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The Nasty Boy Reds were fucking GOAT and imploded once she was gone tho

>the police found an answerphone message on his phone from one of his hired goons saying "job done"
LMAO

not necessarily

Reminder that the Mest are STILL paying Bobby Bonilla.
>In November 1998, the New York Mets reacquired Bonilla from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Mel Rojas. Again, his level of play did not measure up to expectations and he had numerous clashes with manager Bobby Valentine over lack of playing time. His tenure in New York culminated in an infamous incident during Game Six of the 1999 NLCS where the Mets were eliminated by the Braves in an eleven inning game while Bonilla reportedly sat in the clubhouse playing cards with teammate Rickey Henderson. After his subpar 1999 season, the Mets released Bonilla, but still owed him $5.9 million. Bonilla and his agent offered the Mets a deal: Bonilla would defer payment for a decade, and the Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of $1.19 million starting in 2011 and ending in 2035, adding up to a total payout of $29.8 million. Mets owner Fred Wilpon accepted the deal mostly because he was heavily invested with Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff, and the 10 percent returns he thought he was getting on his investments with Madoff outweighed the eight percent interest the Mets would be paying on Bonilla's initial $5.9 million.

>marries Walmart heiress
>net worth 8 billion
>does fuck all for Arsenal

he'd have done it too, if Don Beaver hadn't insisted on a public vote in the 3rd biggest city (read: rural nigger suburbia) and failed

Sweet deal.

Sooner or later some middle east city state is going to realise that Arsenal are basically London FC, and force this fucking fraud out with sheer force of cash.
t. not Arsenal fan.

i thought you were hockey people. no hockey championships? that's weird.

How does someone that retarded have so much money?

She was too redpilled

One thing I'm starting to learn is that mega millionaires (not 1 or 2 million but 100-200) are just born into it

>"Some of the biggest problems in this city come from women wanting to leave the home and work."
>"Sneaky goddamn Jews are all alike."
>"Never hire another nigger. I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger."
>"Only fruits wear earrings."
>"Everybody knows [Hitler] was good at the beginning, but he just went too far."

BASED

>Hates women in workplace
>Is woman in workplace

What did she mean by this?

Prime examples here.

Jerruh is not only responsible for the shitshow known as the Cowbois but also for the general decline of the NFL

>you’ll never be Bobby Bonilla

you need to go back

How the fuck is he worse than Randy Lerner? Randy didn't even watch the team play.

This but unironically

AAAAAAAAAAART

I know his nephews personally. Their family is so crazy loaded, it makes normal upper class families look like peasants.

>fires manager in the middle of the season because he lived with his fiance without marrying her
>it was the last year the reds got close to sniffing the world series
her power level was far too strong for america to handle

Bring up this absolute madman, big part as to why they nose dived down the divisions as well.

>In February, 2018, he was sentenced to five years in a United Arab Emirates jail for stealing £5m from his wife to fund the purchase of Portsmouth FC.

It's a large minority but it's still a minority at least in terms of billionaires. Mega wealth rarely gets to the third generation before it's frittered away.

Randy Lerner. Pick a team.

>greatest player. Worst owner

Fred Wilpon and Dan Snyder would be #1 seeds in the Awful Ownerb Owl

I agree Melnyk is a shithead

BUT

>Build team decent enough to get within 1 goal of stanley cup final
>Thousands and thousands of empty seats during the PLAYOFFS
>Sens fans complain that he won't spend more money and just blame it on the arena being far away.


Both parties are pretty bad here.

Why is Arsenal basically London FC when, if I'm not mistaken, there a lot of teams in London?

Genuinely curious, does Arsenal just have the most fans or something?

that was amazing, thanks

remember me, espee?

Damn whose that semen demon next to him? She looks like she's taken dozen of BBCs. I wouldn't want her near a basketball team if I cared for her well being.

STAN KROENKE

didn't you run for President of the United States, and win?

Loyal to an absurd degree to people who, by no means, he should be loyal to
Hires only people he knows or from of George Young
Afraid of any kind of change.

oh fuck no, do you have any idea how the Boston teams I root for would be if their decisions were determined by fan democracy?

Randy didn't care about the Browns, so he just hired people to take care of the team
Haslam cares about to Browns too much and, because he played Football, thinks he knows how to be a GM and a coach so he keeps his fingers too deep into the team even though he's just a retard

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She wasn't a woman in the workplace. She owned the workplace.