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    Soros Wasn’t Cut From MLB/Nats Bidding
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    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. Full Article at Sweetness & Light
    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.
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
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Soros Wasn’t Cut From MLB/Nats Bidding
  1. It’s not necessarily smart business sense to have anybody who is so polarizing in the political world
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  2. I don’t think they want to get involved in a political fight.
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  3. Major League Baseball understands the stakes
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  4. We’re going to act and make a decision in the best interest of the franchise and the best interests of the game
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  5. 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.
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  6. 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.
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  7. Why should politics have anything to do with who owns the team
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago
  8. 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 threate...
    SOURCE: Sweetness & Light 1 month ago

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