Angelenos celebrated the announcement Wednesday morning that Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's going to sell the team. Some fans even planned an informal event to celebrate together at 6 pm, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Angelenos have been fervently Twitter how happy they are going to see McCourt. As to who owns the following must be, opinions vary. KTLA survey results have Mark Cuban in the lead with 32%, Steve Garvey group of players in a close second with 29%, followed by another with 16%, the O'Malley family, with 14% and investors 8% foreign. Although Cuba has in the survey and, apparently, on Twitter, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, "at a fair price, that interests me," but "not if the price is over $ 1 billion."
Tweeters several have shared the desire to acquire public property together, split the cost between the Lakers voluntary. Own the Dodgers, a campaign of public ownership of the team, plans to raise $ 800 million, said to be the "market value of the equipment generally accepted." Despite the ban in the majors against public property, owns the Dodgers, the point to the partial state ownership of the Cleveland Indians, which began in 1998 as a model of success.