Terrific: Blogger’s favorite team now co-owned by Bill Maher
posted at 9:19 pm on June 4, 2012 by Allahpundit
All we need now is for Olbermann to buy the Jets and I can give up sports forever.
I know what you’re thinking. If Rush Limbaugh’s too controversial to own a piece of the Rams, how come Maher’s not too controversial to own a piece of the Mets? Two words, my friends: Buyer’s market.
Political comedian Bill Maher disclosed that he bought a minority stake in the New York Mets when the majority owners were selling portions of the franchise earlier this year to cover debt…
Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz in March sold 12 minority stakes in the team for $240 million and used the sales to repay $65 million in loans from Major League Baseball and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and at least $100 million of debt.
Wilpon and Katz in March also agreed to pay $162 million to settle a $1 billion lawsuit from Irving Picard, the trustee responsible for liquidating Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm, over whether the Mets’ owners and others blinded themselves to Madoff’s Ponzi scheme because it benefited their businesses financially.
I confess, if we lived in a world where I had $20 million to play with, I’d buy a piece of a team too. Why not? It’s the ultimate fan fantasy short of becoming a player yourself. Instead we live in a world where Bill Maher has $20 million to play with. Note to HBO: If being tendentious and unfunny is what you want, I can do it for a lot less than 20 large. Take the Hot Air audience’s word for it.
The good news is that I’ve become a Pirates fan too this year, so if Maher starts turning up in the booth during games to the point where I can simply take no more, I’ll go ahead and fully transition to the black and gold. That’s the hallmark of a true beta male, my friends — migrating from a team that hasn’t won the World Series in more than 20 years to a team that hasn’t cracked .500 in 20 years. Things are looking up, though. 2020 or bust!
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Yep. Unfortunately, many Repubs are praying for a messiah (e.g. Obama), instead of lifting their eys to the truth.
TitularHead on April 18, 2013 at 9:43 PM
Wow pappy. A comment that long I just skipped thinking it was ResistMuchWeeWee.
oldroy on April 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM
A merica is a terrible thing to waste.
That joke is from my former boss who fought in the South Pacific. He went to a college to tutor as a volunteer and was surprised that the kids never heard of Iwo Jima. But he was more upset by their denial of American exceptionalism and and lack of commitment.
He had stories to tell them — and me.
Don’t give up. Work with your state or local party. If it feels useless, just try to organize something.
Too few centrist and right people make friends and get involved.
Pray and ask God to lead you.
Great men suffered and died for the fragile thing we have left.
IlikedAUH2O on April 18, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Never have missed a vote. Never will vote again. Let it burn.
oldroy on April 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM
You’ll have to cut TerryE some slack. She’s a party-first kind of gal. Destroying the country is fine with her, as long as a republican wins as a result.
xblade on April 18, 2013 at 9:54 PM
“Because we are sooooo stupid” — The Rs in DC
Schadenfreude on April 18, 2013 at 9:56 PM
To hell with the Republicans.
Sarah Palin, we need you.
Zorro on April 18, 2013 at 10:40 PM
Rubio is a joke and he’s making the Tea Party look incompetent for dragging his phony azz out. He’s thinking he’ll get the Hispanic vote with this move and he’s trying to shore that base up…Mark my words he’ll leave the Republican Party and run as a demorat as soon as he gets this through, well, if he does.
Tbone McGraw on April 18, 2013 at 10:57 PM
So why cant the pubs simply agree that amnesty does not occur u til all litigation regarding border security is resolved? As long as the ACLU and the hundreds of other civil rights groups challange the agreed to framework…no amnesty will occur? If the lotigation is finally resolved against tighter border security, then the deal is dead.
rickyricardo on April 18, 2013 at 11:02 PM
We have seen in the middle-East the negative effect of tribalism and loyalty to the tribe rather than to the country so perhaps Rubio’s support of what appears to be a Chuck Schumer orchestrated amnesty bill is just expressing his loyalty to the Hispanic tribe over loyalty to the USA.
Nomas on April 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
Illegal immigration could be enforced, we just don’t have many like sheriff Joe who will stand up and try to do what is right. You see NY can put out a bounty on American citizens who own a firearm, but you cannot question the customer or cashier in Wall-mart that doesn’t know a single word of English. If we made employers criminally liable for those they hired and made it ever Americans responsibility to report those that are clearly not American, this problem would be nipped in the bud. But in this day and age, doing what is right will brand you as being a xenophobe or a racist.
SGinNC on April 19, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Question for Rubio: will there be any quota on Chechnyan Islamist immigration?
Do we have enough of their “diversity” yet?
virgo on April 20, 2013 at 9:47 AM
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