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"Jeff Passan" is the most fraudulent "baseball "writer"" ever to exist
| zarathustra | 08/25/26 |
| zarathustra | 08/25/26 |
| Richard Ames | 08/25/26 |
| zarathustra | 08/25/26 |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 2:22 PM Author: zarathustra i remember during the steroid scandal guys like lance williams and mark fainaru-wada doing real reporting and breaking serious stories on a regular basis.
now their successor jeff passan posts a youtube "recap" of the mark walter scandal about a week after every serious outlet and manscaped podcaster has thrown in its two cents. and when challenged about his constant running cover for the dodgers insane spending says "lol we can't really know how guggenheim's fraudulently-obtained billions impacted the dodgers' spending. but cash wins championships so why aren't other owners trying to access cash like the dodgers?" this shit belongs in a middle school paper
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Vaughan Dawson @Vaughan1019 2h You should at least acknowledge your own naivete in declaring that the Dodgers "cracked the system." That was the phrase that had most of baseball twitter roasting you. All you had to say was financial fraud does not equal cracking the system, but alas, your ego got in the way.
Jeff Passan @JeffPassan I have no evidence -- and no other media member has reported any -- that the Dodgers did anything that ran afoul of the CBA. Beyond that, the government is focused more on procedural questions -- the mismarking of affiliated investments and the web of companies under Guggenheim's umbrella -- than anything specifically related to the Dodgers. You are well within your rights to assume whatever you want to assume, and if you want to suggest there was some kind of fraud that specifically impacted on-field performance, you do you. I'm not going to do that because I have no idea how the money they received from selling the debt on their TV network, for example, was used. I wasn't being naive when I said the Dodgers cracked the system. They did. They recognized that cash is a grand separator in terms of securing talent and that CBT thresholds should be no impediment. You know who else did? The Mets. And they stunk. Every billionaire has access to cash. Not as much as the Dodgers, certainly, but if they want to get more capital to invest in their team, they can. They choose not to. And that is well within their rights, too, but to suggest that because Mark Walter is under investigation for one business' tactics that it automatically ties into another's -- with zero hard evidence showing that's the case -- is simply a case of you fitting what you think you know to a conclusion you already made. 12:36 PM · Aug 25, 2026 · 25K Views
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Date: August 25th, 2026 3:03 PM Author: zarathustra a family member of the cubs ownership group just liked my tweet bashing passan lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897058&forum_id=2)#50092212) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 3:06 PM Author: Richard Ames Is it actually possible that the Dodgers have done something shady / "illegal" in how they built their team under Walter? Haven't followed this stuff closely. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897058&forum_id=2)#50092217) |
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Date: August 25th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: zarathustra yes walter used the float from his life insurance companies to lend himself money for illiquid assets like the dodgers and to fund the dodgers tv network debt instead of investing it in unrelated assets that don't all collapse at once. and used dogshit credit raters to sign off on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5897058&forum_id=2)#50092319) |