Who is the worst owner in sports?

[MarshallGoldberg]

Outgrowth of the various Pirates/Nutting threads.
I do think you can make a very good case for our cheapskates. Please do.

I would propose James Dolan is the worst owner, specifically his Knicks ownership.

• The Knicks have had the worst record in the NBA the last 17 years, despite being in the biggest city in the country and in the most storied arena in the sport.
• Hiring Isiah Thomas as team President and GM.
• Signing Larry Brown (great coach) to a five year deal -- but then firing him after one year, essentially paying him $28 million to go 23-59.
• At one point the Knicks were paying four coaches at once (Brown, Don Chaney, Lenny Wilkins, and Isiah I believe.)
• In February 2015, Dolan responded to a letter from Irving Bierman, a 73-year-old, lifelong Knicks fan, that criticized Dolan's ownership of the Knicks and questioned his leadership with a seething letter of his own, telling the fan to "root for the Nets because the Knicks don't want you" and that Bierman was "a sad person" and probably an "alcoholic maybe". Dolan later addressed the issue with the press, but did not apologize, only saying the letter was a case of "tit for tat" and declaring the incident "over".
  
• , NBA Commissioner David Stern criticized Dolan's management of the Knicks, saying "they're not a model of intelligent management."
  
• One widely criticized decision was to give shooting guard Allan Houston a 6-year, $100 million maximum contract in 2001, when no other team had offered Houston more than $75 million. Houston retired due to injury after just four seasons.

 

[Pantherman43]

As far as our buccos go, when you do nutting on the off season you more than likely do nutting during the season.

The bucs were done when they stopped playing the AL central.

I pitty another fanbase that has an organization run by someone cheaper than nutting.

 

[Mikefln]

I am going to sat Nutting because I am most familiar with him since he is the owner of one of my teams. Are there others out there, I am sure but I know that Nutting has been with the Pirates since the mid 90's and the principal owner since the mid 2000's and outside of catching lighting in a bottle for3 years, he did nothing for this organization or its fans. Even during those 3 years he did nothing to add to the team to put them over. The man refuses to put real resources into the team.

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

Nutting will still pocket $30m - $50m this year and watch his franchise increase in value.

He's the worst thing that ever happened to the Pirates. He'll never sell the team, and he'll never spend to win.

 

[Las Panteras]

in terms of ineptitude, The ownership of the Miami Dolphins seems to do everything in their power to win 7 games every year.

 

[cashisking884]

Dan Snyder of the Redskins is pretty bad.
Peter Angelos of the Orioles is probably number 1 just for how long he's been bad for without changing anything.
Jeffrey Loria of the Marlins is pretty bad.

 

[King Of All Message Boards]

Mike Brown has to be in the conversation.

 

[MarshallGoldberg]

Brown family has been awful and petty. Snyder another good NFL pick because of the fact he has spent a lot of money to be bad despite some advantages. Meddles too much, which is a theme here.

 

[Ronnyp91]

We sucked before he arrived but Jimmy Haslam has a place on any list for more than just owning a failure.

 

[pittdan77]

Mike Brown has to be in the conversation.

Mike Brown is the football equivalent of Nutting.

 

[str61166]

Dan Snyder of the Redskins is pretty bad.
Peter Angelos of the Orioles is probably number 1 just for how long he's been bad for without changing anything.
Jeffrey Loria of the Marlins is pretty bad.

My gf is an Orioles fan and any time I mention Nutting she talks about how bad Angelos is. We’re both biased of course.

 

[BFo8]

Outgrowth of the various Pirates/Nutting threads.
I do think you can make a very good case for our cheapskates. Please do.

I would propose James Dolan is the worst owner, specifically his Knicks ownership.

• The Knicks have had the worst record in the NBA the last 17 years, despite being in the biggest city in the country and in the most storied arena in the sport.
• Hiring Isiah Thomas as team President and GM.
• Signing Larry Brown (great coach) to a five year deal -- but then firing him after one year, essentially paying him $28 million to go 23-59.
• At one point the Knicks were paying four coaches at once (Brown, Don Chaney, Lenny Wilkins, and Isiah I believe.)
• In February 2015, Dolan responded to a letter from Irving Bierman, a 73-year-old, lifelong Knicks fan, that criticized Dolan's ownership of the Knicks and questioned his leadership with a seething letter of his own, telling the fan to "root for the Nets because the Knicks don't want you" and that Bierman was "a sad person" and probably an "alcoholic maybe". Dolan later addressed the issue with the press, but did not apologize, only saying the letter was a case of "tit for tat" and declaring the incident "over".
  
• , NBA Commissioner David Stern criticized Dolan's management of the Knicks, saying "they're not a model of intelligent management."
  
• One widely criticized decision was to give shooting guard Allan Houston a 6-year, $100 million maximum contract in 2001, when no other team had offered Houston more than $75 million. Houston retired due to injury after just four seasons.

And that’s without even mentioning the Charles Oakley incident.

 

[pitt2533]

My top 3 in any order are as follows:

Nutting
Brown(Bengals)
Nolan(Knicks)

I would put Brown and Nutting ahead of Nolan as the worst. Nolan at least tries but he is so clueless that they will never win anything with him there either. He is a moron and has no idea what he is doing but again he tries.

Brown and especially Nutting know what they are doing. They are maximizing every dollar possible to put in their pocket. And to me that moves them to the top of the board.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Outgrowth of the various Pirates/Nutting threads.
I do think you can make a very good case for our cheapskates. Please do.

I would propose James Dolan is the worst owner, specifically his Knicks ownership.

• The Knicks have had the worst record in the NBA the last 17 years, despite being in the biggest city in the country and in the most storied arena in the sport.
• Hiring Isiah Thomas as team President and GM.
• Signing Larry Brown (great coach) to a five year deal -- but then firing him after one year, essentially paying him $28 million to go 23-59.
• At one point the Knicks were paying four coaches at once (Brown, Don Chaney, Lenny Wilkins, and Isiah I believe.)
• In February 2015, Dolan responded to a letter from Irving Bierman, a 73-year-old, lifelong Knicks fan, that criticized Dolan's ownership of the Knicks and questioned his leadership with a seething letter of his own, telling the fan to "root for the Nets because the Knicks don't want you" and that Bierman was "a sad person" and probably an "alcoholic maybe". Dolan later addressed the issue with the press, but did not apologize, only saying the letter was a case of "tit for tat" and declaring the incident "over".
  
• , NBA Commissioner David Stern criticized Dolan's management of the Knicks, saying "they're not a model of intelligent management."
  
• One widely criticized decision was to give shooting guard Allan Houston a 6-year, $100 million maximum contract in 2001, when no other team had offered Houston more than $75 million. Houston retired due to injury after just four seasons.

But at least he tries. He is just absolutely incompetent or trusts completely the wrong people. But at least he tries.

 

[MarshallGoldberg]

But at least he tries. He is just absolutely incompetent or trusts completely the wrong people. But at least he tries.

Good point. I think Dolan might be the most incompetent owner (or Brown?) while Nutting is the most "corrupt."

 

[Panther Holla]

If you define the poll in terms of WINNING, then Nutting is the current holder of the Mike Brown trophy.