{"id":23783,"date":"2012-05-07T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23783"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:09:55","slug":"the-peterson-principle-5712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=23783","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle 5\/7\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tim Peterson <\/p><\/div>\n

Magic Johnson, in my humble opinion, is the best basketball player ever. As a 6\u20199\u201d point guard he literally changed the game. He\u2019s only the only player I\u2019ve ever seen that could score only two points and still dominate a game. He had the ability to make everybody around him great. He won five championships in his career and if not for injuries and an early retirement he might have won seven or eight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thrilled that he is now the front man on the group that owns the Dodgers. He is beloved in Los Angeles and will do everything possible to get the Dodgers back on top.<\/p>\n

That being said I didn\u2019t understand his reaction to the questions being directed at new ownership at the Dodger Stadium press conference last Wednesday. The Frank McCourt era was a disaster that Dodger fans are still trying to forget. But ever since the Guggenheim Group has taken over McCourt\u2019s name is still prominently mentioned. Magic was sitting with him in San Diego on opening day.<\/p>\n

Once he sold the team he would be completely out of the picture. He would completely disappear\u2026or so everybody thought.<\/p>\n

So it was natural that reporters would ask Magic and the rest of the ownership group about what role McCourt would still play on the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

First controlling partner Mark Walter said that \u201cevery aspect of Chavez Ravine is controlled and managed by us.\u201d He also reiterated that McCourt would only realize certain profits that would only come from eventual development.<\/p>\n

The new ownership also said that McCourt will not make a penny off of parking and can only benefit from future development of some of the land surrounding the Stadium.<\/p>\n

After Walter spoke Magic jumped in. \u201cWe own it 100 percent, he doesn\u2019t get a dime from the parking\u2026How many times do we want to say it?\u201d an annoyed Johnson said. \u201cI had
\nMark go up to the mike\u2026If you need me to come up I\u2019m 6\u20199\u201d…” Later he added, \u201cLet\u2019s move forward. Frank is not here. He is not part of the Dodgers anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh sorry Magic but actually he is a part of the Dodgers and he does get a dime from the parking. In fact he\u2019ll get quite a few of them. In a report just two days later it was confirmed that the Dodgers owners will pay $14 million per year to rent the parking lots from an entity that is half owned by McCourt. After the report surfaced Walter admitted McCourt would get a portion of the $14 million after accounting for expenses, etc.<\/p>\n

Yes Magic he\u2019s still here. In fact he really hasn\u2019t gone anywhere. He will still receive profits from every fan that drives into the parking lot and forks out the fee. He will receive profits from shops, restaurants or any other type of redevelopment that is done at the ravine.<\/p>\n

One reporter asked the question of why McCourt had any part of the organization. Why were they still talking about him? Walter responded that they were talking about him because you \u2013 the reporters \u2013 brought him up.<\/p>\n

Yes Mr. Walter they brought it up because he is part of the mix. Yes Magic you\u2019re 6\u20199\u201d but that doesn\u2019t block the fact that McCourt is still making a profit from Dodger fans.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get upset with reporters for asking questions Magic. Get upset because the odor of McCourt is still hanging around. Start off the new regime with unbridled honesty. Come clean with fans and the press about McCourt\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

And once you do that get rid of him. Buy him out- whatever it takes. Just get him out. That would be your biggest assist ever to LA.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my principle.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magic Johnson, in my humble opinion, is the best basketball player ever. As a 6\u20199\u201d point guard he literally changed the game. He\u2019s only the only player I\u2019ve ever seen that could score only two points and still dominate a game. He had the ability to make everybody around him great. He won five championships […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12817],"tags":[5031,373,28,1728,7521,3097,7522],"class_list":["post-23783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","category-petersonprince","tag-chavez-ravine","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-dodgers","tag-frank-mccourt","tag-guggenheim-group","tag-magic-johnson","tag-mark-walter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23784,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23783\/revisions\/23784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}