Apparently, it's ok to be an MLB owner if you have a right-wing pedigree (or a pronounced sympathy for Hitler, oh, I forgot, those 2 aren't mutually exclusive), but not if you are a donor to the Democratic party. A good read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801511.html<<<snip...Some Republican lawmakers don't think George Soros should be permitted to purchase a Major League Baseball team because he's too liberal and he has some wacky notions. I must have been napping, and that's why I missed the part where we became a country in which Democrats are no longer allowed to buy things.
If lawmakers start banning people from owning ballclubs just because of their politics or because they have a few woo-woo ideas, there are going to be a lot of shuttered ballparks. Anybody who tries to say that MLB owners should meet a certain standard of political correctness will get knocked back on their butts every time by two simple words: Marge Schott.
It was all right for Schott, the racist collector of Nazi memorabilia, to own a baseball team for years, but it's not for Soros, the billion-dollar philanthropist and Nobel Prize nominee?>>>
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