Re: the stuff on 37 of the PDF (asset transfer).

You don’t think her legal background nukes her “i was fooled by the paperwork” argument?

Josh

Wow, did Pylon slip over from NBC?

The ownership story is of interest, particularly as the expenses involved relate to ticket prices and attendance.

Here in Northern CA the previous A’s ownership had a private plane on which they allowed their daughter to fly back and forth to college in Arizona. Nice, and nobody much cared when they were winning.

Now that the A’s are losing with regularity and trumpeting their generosity at not raising ticket prices for 2010 (after 10 straight years of raises exceeding 100% in ticket cost), the cost of such “emoluments” directly affects the decline in attendance at Oakland due to outrageous prices versus the product on the field. It’s called perceived value.

So back to LA, seeing how the upper income stratum lives has always been sport for the middle and lower classes. To the extent that the financial details provide a window into how they view money and treat their agreements, it can and should impact decisions about attendance at an entertainment event.

Pylon: Not sure how reading and discussing a legal filing that is freely available for any person on the planet to read by simply walking into a public courthouse invades anyone’s privacy, but if you have some theories on that, by all means, share.

Josh: I find some of her language to that effect troublesome, but if what she says is true and Frank and the family lawyer were all in agreement that, wait, this didn’t effect our actual intent, let’s change it, and then held out, it may alleviate some of that. And while I’ll admit that this is an advocacy document designed to put her in the best light, there doesn’t seem to be anything suggesting that she received any consideration for signing away all of her property rights 25 years in to a marriage.

Obviously Frank gets his say, but I don’t find it plausible that she truly signed away everything in 2004 for no reason.

I think that’s just become the big joke, TC. I’m not even sure why I wrote it last night, because I don’t really believe it.  I’ve been married for over fourteen years and, on the whole, think marriage is pretty nifty.

I think the real lesson is “don’t ever ever ever end a marriage by behaving like children incapable of being decent to one another.”

wing ding font.  (laughs loudly)

Actually, I was just going for the joke with that. I see both italics and underlines here in Ohio, and I’m guessing the same is true of Wisconsin. It’s more a firm-by-firm kind of thing in my experience.

Italics is way way better though, because italics are FANCY.

Here’s what I told my Finance (after I found out what a ring costs, I made the decision to use ‘finance’ instead of ‘fiance.’) one day:  “Our love must be real, because it’s pretty obvious that neither of us are in this for the money.”

The late comedian Richard Jeni said it best:

“You reach your forties and you’re single; you have two choices, you can be lonely or you can be irritated.”

Crap, screwed up my italics joke with a formatting error.  FAIL!

That was awesome in its humor and its reminder that the world of law may be a lot of people wasting time but the world of RICH PEOPLE DIVORCING is even worse. 

I laughed at least 18 times.  But I’m tired.  It may be worthless, I’m just not fully aware of it yet.