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Alex
@a1extimmons.bsky.social
Baseball coach. Retired army interrogator/military intelligence. Failed race car driver. No war but class war. Billionaires are the real enemy to society.

SoCal based
Hahaha exactly hurry up we don’t know how long we’ve got so take it all and as much as you can.
January 23, 2026 at 6:23 AM
David Stearns with the Mets is trying to do what the Dodgers & Andrew Friedman have done bc even though they have all the money in the world & signed Juan Soto to the largest deal ever that alone won’t guarantee winning so they have invest in the farm system, the players, the front office etc
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 AM
They unlike most ownership groups didn’t focus on turning a profit solely bc if you build a winning team that consistently competes you’ll make money but most of the other owners didn’t want to play the long game. Even the Astros who followed the dodgers got cheap & greedy after their championship.
January 23, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Having money doesn’t mean you’re going to build a successful franchise bc other teams have money the dodgers built a system that would allow them to make players better it became the envy of the league & others began to follow suit. They invested in the infrastructure & the players first & foremost
January 23, 2026 at 6:17 AM
This also didn’t happen overnight so just bc the ownership group was willing to spend didn’t mean Andrew Friedman was gonna go out there spending like Mets did stupidly. They built the infrastructure first so they could draft better & make players better then after a few years started spending money
January 23, 2026 at 6:14 AM
The decades long work of prior dodgers FO in Japan was what set them up for Ohtani etc & the Japanese market rewards the team bc they embraced Japan when teams didn’t think it was viable

The dodgers have all the brains of small market FO’s but bc of that they also use their money better than others
January 23, 2026 at 6:11 AM
No they aren’t actually the richest team in baseball. The Mets owner is worth at least double the worth of the dodgers group & the Toronto Blue Jays group is also worth more bc of Rogers communications. The dodgers are spending more but they just do it smarter than most & profits are up bc of it
January 23, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Parking Lot boy Frank McCourt. Dude didn’t put up a single dollar and MLB let him buy the team. It was shocking at the time and as years went on under him it was infuriating. Bud Selig is such an asshole.

Basically McCourt took every single dollar the team made and put it into his pocket.
January 23, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Patel is out here advertising that he wants to be wine and dined. He wants to be given tickets to a soccer match or some other special event. His girlfriend is literally a honeypot lol. Our government & military goes out of its way numerous times to warn people about these types of things.
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 AM
working for our government because he’s probably going to leak intelligence because he’s a fucking moron or sell it bc he’s as corrupt and pathetic as it gets.

I mean we had people lose their job because they owed too much money to their bank for a bad car purchase & became a liability.
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 AM
you to either verify the information that you’ve told them or find out that you were lying to them specifically because they don’t want to give security clearances & access to people who are a threat & liability. Kash Patel is quite literally the furthest thing from the type of person we would want
January 23, 2026 at 5:38 AM
reports & push unverified & unvetted information simply because his ego won’t allow the agency to do it instead of him. I’m not kidding when I say the amount of hoops we have to go through to get our security clearances. The government goes back through your life to talk to people who have known
January 23, 2026 at 5:36 AM