The Dodgers should have been stronger yesterday, it believes. They should be stronger today.Soboroff, however, maintained this is not a Dodger problem, except as to what MLB inflicts on them.“They’re moving so slowly, anybody would run out of shop online 2011 cash,” he said. “We are running out of air. And so would Warren Buffett be if he was not given access to what was his.“All we want is transparency and flexibility. Is it because they’ve already made up their mind? Then tell us you’ve made up your mind.”Several hours after Soboroff detailed the possible security issue, McCourt issued a statement denying that account, along with other comments Soboroff made regarding Schieffer.“Not only did Mr. Schieffer respond immediately to our request for permission to increase security at the stadium,” McCourt said, “he volunteered to assist the organization in any way that he could. I apologize to Mr. Schieffer for the inaccurate statements that were made about him.”While baseball begins to wrestle with the details of McCourt’s management of the franchise, it hopes to answer some of the larger questions hanging over the team, his stewardship of it and the spectacle it’s become.The Dodgers are by definition a large-market, high-revenue franchise. And yet, they rank 12th in payroll, at $104 million just ahead of the Texas Rangers and just behind the St. Louis Cardinals.Also, and because of that, the current liquidity issues are puzzling to baseball. The majority of teams are flush this early in the season, when season-ticket payments are arriving.The notion, then, that a high-revenue, low-payroll team would run aground in May – despite a $30 million loan – has perplexed baseball’s analysts. Additionally, that McCourt’s solution is to pull television revenue from three years out (the Dodgers’ current deal with Fox runs 2 ½ more years), has not instilled confidence in the commissioner’s office.Trustee Tom Schieffer recently observed – light-heartedly – that there was too much information to digest, likening it to trying to take a drink from a fire hose. Soboroff replied, “You can’t drink out of a water fountain or a fire hose if your mouth’s not open.” Baseball hopes to complete the investigation by the end of the month, or about the time McCourt could be running out of cash.Soboroff also complained that in the wake of the Osama bin Laden assassination, trustee Schieffer and baseball officials were unreachable, leaving the team with a decision to add security at Dodger Stadium at a cost beyond $5,000, the maximum allowed without christian louboutin 2011 permission from the commissioner’s office.Baseball officials say they received an email mid-morning and authorized the request two minutes later.
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