Lunchbox sub-blog #7

Somehow, this doesn't make me feel better. The ex-owner, John Rigas, needs to spend 5 minutes in a room with Rob Ray (Sabres pummeller, for the uninitiated), or Larry Playfair (what a deliciously ironic name). At least renowned scumbag Art Modell sold his city down the river legally.

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Commissioner Calms Fears
By Geoff Nason
(January 13, 2003) BUFFALO -- While on the surface, a team's filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy sounds about as pleasant as Brussels sprouts, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman insisted that just the opposite was true. In a press conference at HSBC Arena on Monday afternoon, Bettman assured Sabres' employees and fans that the recent bankruptcy filing is a positive step.

"It's actually good news," offered the commissioner, "because what we have been able to do in conjunction with the filing is to get financing to ensure that we can have the resources available to the franchise to operate until the sale to the (Mark) Hamister/ (Todd) Berman group is closed."

Its good news that we have gone public with our inability to financially support ourselves. We are being rewarded for our honesty by being allowed to go into deeper debt, thereby lowering our franchise value. Thus, we will be even more humiliated when we are sold off to someone we don't like.

Isn't this happening to K-mart too?
Isn't this like offering Discver cards to college seniors?
And everyone wonders why I am so uptight about money!

Actually, this case is a little different in that the team has great support from the city, and a fine arena. It just happened to be bought a few years ago by a criminal from the surviving family of the nicest businessmen you've ever read about.

But I agree with the madness about credit, people are trained to have no shame about it nowadays.

Lunchbox, you don't think that a sports league official would lie, do you?

And I'll allow mention of Cleveland's anti-Christ on my blog only because a) you're upset, b( you prefaced his hated name with at least one insult.