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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
I don't buy that.
They are also winners, and got where they are buy doing 'what needed to be done.' These guys have climbed over the corpses of people that were closer and dearer to them than boyhood sports idols.
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And now they're in a business where you can't succeed by cliimbing over corpses. You're in a working partnership with 29 other owners. You can't buy them out, you can't afford to let them go broke, and you can't gain a competitive edge by the kinds of tactics that will end up in court. The pro sports business is not kind to those who flunked 'Plays Well With Others' in kindergarten.
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I don't think that senile old owners with nothing better to do than mess with their sports teams are good comparables to Katz/Edwards.
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Frankly, I don't see much to choose between Katz and Harold Ballard at this point. In particular, Katz has been showing the same kind of bizarre loyalty to Lowe that Ballard showed to Punch Imlach — and some of the same tendency to throw everybody else under the nearest available bus.