Ten Reasons Why Frank McCourt Should Accept $1.2 Billion Bid

Word is out that Frank McCourt has been offered $1.2 Billion for the Dodgers in a bid from the founder of the LA Marathon, Bill Burke. The catch? The deal apparently features a ton of off-shore capital from Chinese investors.

Let’s imagine this is McCourt waving goodbye.

In lieu of the giant bid, we’ve decided to take a page out of the Bleacher Report ideal and give you a ‘Top 10 Reasons’ type of post. But I’ve left out the slideshow and I’ve outlined the top reasons McCourt should accept the deal. Some are more serious than others, but you be the judge.

10. Boston is a great city.
Beantown has it all, Frank. The Stanley Cup Champions, the Celtics and lots of nostalgia for the McCourt Family. Why not return to the homeland and walk into the sunset? Take the deal, Franco. We don’t want you here anymore.

9. Cancellation of the Marathon
Let’s face it, the LA Marathon sucks. It’s not as prestigious as the New York or Boston marathons, and it makes our traffic even worse. If Burke shoots his wad on the Dodgers, maybe he won’t afford the marathon anymore. Then again, he doesn’t own the rights to the menace anymore. But he should have ancestral influence, right?

8. Relocation
Tired of the trek into the Ravine with traffic everywhere? How better to serve your investors than to move the team to Chinatown. You have to think Bill Burke would have that on his mind, and McCourt could then turn those parking lots into prime realty, with a couple of thousand condos primed for foreclosure in 2017. Win-win?

7. Fortune Cookies
Forget Dodger Dogs, if the Chinese investors bring Fortune Cookies to Dodger Stadium as a freebie for all 9,000 in attendance every night, I might go to games. Then again, Fortune Cookies are an American staple as is baseball, as neither have origins in China. But I’m still up for Fortune Cookies. Who’s with me?

6.The Easy Way Out
This can be the easiest thing to ever happen to Frank McCourt. His creditors would push him towards taking the deal, as would his bankruptcy attorneys and children. He would finally be able to walk away from the Dodgers and end the two-year nightmare he’s endured. The problem? He might not see that, but he should.

5. Do the Right Thing, Be a Man.
Just do what Russell Peters says, Frank. Do the Right Thing.

4. Prince Fielder & Albert Pujols
A cash deal for the Dodgers with the hopes of a finalized deal within 90 days, potentially puts the Dodgers in new hands in time for the Winter Meetings, and the race for Prince Fielder and Albert Pujols. A non-cash strapped Dodgers club would possibly be able to be a player one of the two, making James Loney expendable. But, that 90 day ideal is a stretch at best, given the fact that the Cubs were on the market for 37 years.

3. “Happily Ever After Money”
What would be better than paying off all of your debt with money left over to live happily ever after? It would be a dream for most people, so why not Frank McCourt? We’ll start taking suggestions as to where Frank could live happily ever after. Submit your answer in the comments. As for me? I’m going with Sable Island. It’s very serine this time of year. Or so I hear.

2. Matt Kemp & Clayton Kershaw
No debt, no liabilities and a bought out Frank McCourt means one thing: the ability to lock up the faces of the franchise. Earlier this week I took heat for suggesting that Matt Kemp could sign with the Red Sox or Giants before the 2013 season, so needless to say, re-signing this year’s MVP is crucial. Re-signing this year’s Cy Young before the 2014 season? Even more important.

1. Prove that this is a real offer.
There’s been plenty of speculation that this is an insider deal, created from within the McCourt camp, to artificially raise the value of legitimate offers for the Dodgers. So why not prove that those are false allegations and take the deal, Frank!

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