The Trade Plot Thickens - Sox for Sale?

Thanks GS - I saw this in an airport so had no link.

Mark Cuban anyone. A guy who sells his soul for his Dallas Mavericks and does anything and everything to win. He has always said for the right market he would buy. He looked into the Dodgers and was all over the Cubs.

FFS, the Sox aren't for sale.

And, they'd be worth at least $3B - $6B considering the franchise will be around for at least another 100 years. Real world value, calculating for inflation, is somewhere around $15B or so over the next century, if not higher. The City has committed to the Fenway area, developers have, hospitals have, and universities have. NESN is a global product.

Really, the Red Sox are not going to be for sale. There might be a restructuring with Lucky and Werner out, though. And eventually, those they bring in may buy out Henry a decade or so down the line.

Not sure what you are basing this on. Forbes does an annual market valuation. Sox came in at just over $1.0B. That includes NESN.

www.forbes.com/teams/boston-red-sox/

Seems like they are looking for a 39% up charge for some of the things you mentioned. That and perhaps to finance some new players for Liverpool and another shopping trip to London for Mrs. Henry.

ADDED: I'd love Cuban but he terrifies Selig and more than half the owners because he does things like spend money and say it's incumbent on the owners (and not the host city) to do so.

Sounds like Henry is already out front denying this rumor:


hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/13/report-the-red-sox-are-up-for-sale/related/

This year sucks. Maybe I just don't notice it as much when the Sox are in the playoff hunt, but I feel like with the media and the rumor reporting, that things have really gotten out of control this year. Every possible fabrication of a story has come out in the media this year. I feel like Boston writers may just frequent various forums and then write stories based on ideas or comments made by fans.

I think it's an indication of how volatile the media market is these days, jt. Anything to hook the eyeballs, no matter the truth quotient. It's tough out there in newspaper-land what with all the digital competition.

not sure how many of ya'll were around for the yawkey/yawkey trust/john harrington
ownership period... will take the henry/lucchino/werner group over that any
day... be thankful we didn't get the mccourt group.

Matt Taibbi has an amazing ability to undermine very strong arguments by going completely overboard on them. I couldn't get past the part where he actually criticizes the Red Sox for giving up Brandon freaking Moss. Really? Yeah, those dumb Red Sox, they should have kept him around knowing that he'd finally have one good MLB season half a decade after they traded him. That kind of argument just screams "I know next to nothing about baseball and I certainly have no clue what the rule five draft even is, but boy have I got an axe to grind!".

I'll give Taibbi credit for his writing on Wall Street. Since it's humanly impossible to criticize those people too much, his style works perfectly there.

We'll see. The Punto trade seems like an incredibly strong start.

And lets be clear; give Cherington credit for fleecing good prospects off Ned Coletti. But he did not instigate this trade. Decisions involving that much money are made at the ownership level. So John Henry at the very least A) understands that there is a problem and B) is willing to do something about it.