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Winning doesn’t come cheap, as Tony Massarotti of the BOSTON HERALD points out. After crunching the numbers, the Red Sox’s 2007 World Series championship cost the club around $300 million.
The breakdown:
• 2007 payroll: $165 million
• The rights to Daisuke Matsuzaka: $51 million
• Contribution to MLB’s revenue sharing: $80 million
• Luxury tax: $6 million
But there’s one sum John Henry & Red Sox Nation value most of all:
DODGERS RETURN TO L.A. COLISEUM FOR ONE MORE GAME: The Los Angeles Dodgers are going back to where it all began. Sorry, Brooklyn fans, not that far back.
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MLB.COM reports that the Dodgers will play at the Los Angeles Coliseum in an exhibition game next season. The contest is set for March 29 against the Boston Red Sox.The Coliseum is where the Blue Crew spent their first four seasons in La-La-Land before Dodger Stadium was finished in 1962. The Sox game locale is in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers’ move from NYC to SoCal.
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The stadium stop will be just another season-starting detour for the Red Sox, who will be coming back from a two-game trip to Japan.Although it’s a game for charity, there may be bad feelings between the owner’s boxes - wherever they get set up in the makeshift stands.
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Sox owner John Henry has been trying desperately to level the Boston-area mansion he bought from Dodgers owners Frank & Jamie McCourt.After the game, Henry might stick around the Coliseum to help dismantle the temporary outfield walls, just so he can tear down something.
HENRY HAS HOUSE HEADACHES WITH McCOURT MANSION: Now that the McCourts have finally found a place to to settle down in, what’s to become of their former abode? If John Henry has his way, tear it down. If the Massachusetts town of Brookline has its way, keep it up:
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The BOSTON HERALD builds up the tension between the Red Sox owner and the Beantown-area burg, in regards the $16 million estate Henry recently purchased.Henry acquired the 1930s-style Georgian home and estate from the Dodgers owners, with the intent to demolish the house - much like his team demolished Cleveland in Game 1 of the ALCS.
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From the rubble, Henry would then erect a modern-day mansion, complete with 72-inch plasma TVs, automatic dishwashers, and other such necessities beneficial to a billionaire.
However, Brookline’s preservation officials want to save the building from the bulldozers, saying the site may have historical significance. If the town orders to delay the destruction, Henry may just toss a lawsuit in their laps.
May John can bunk with Frank & Jamie until this whole thing blows over.
