People who suck: Ted Leonsis

hutch wrote:
Haven't the Capitals been in the playoffs most seasons since Ted bought them?

Seven seasons in the playoffs, five out of them.  For buying a team that had just gone to its first Stanley Cup finals that's not a great follow-up.  Mind you, that finals team was McPhee's first year so it was essentially David Poile's team.

Ted used to come off well publicly, his blog really hurts him though.  He has very, very thin skin and really can't take any criticism.  He rarely takes into consideration anyone's opinion other than his own.  I have had the occasion to interact with him numerous times over the years, mainly Caps related, and I can just say that his public persona is very different from who he actually is.  But that's probably part and parcel with being able to parlay business interests into a pile of cash.  He'd just be so much better off without the blog.

The season ticket increase the team just instituted is going to put a severe dent into their plan sales, but as long as the team can play to 90% of capacity he won't care.  The team is losing a chunk of season ticket sales from long time, die hard fans, but the team's actions say they don't care and won't until the casual fan stops coming and they realize how much they damaged relations with the long suffering fans of the team.  Oh well.

Ted and Danny Boy are almost polar opposites publically, but one thing they have in common is they both have a ridiculous deep-seated hatred of the Post.

?My friend Seth Hurwitz gave me a Caps poncho that he bought in Mexico ? it is so ugly it is beautiful,? Leonsis later wrote on his blog. ?He insisted I wear it to rally the team! I did ? and boom ? we get the two points! Thank you Seth! Rally Poncho!?

I like Ted. I think people are freaking out a little too much…

Dan Snyder has really ruined the ownership in DC. He's been out and about and even the casual fan knows who he is. Casual fans don't know who the shit Ted Leonsis is. I think people freak out because they think "Oh god, another owner butting his nose into team business" or something along those lines. I know McPhee is in the hot seat now, so I can see why people would talk more about him. I've never been bothered by Ted, I do think he comes off as whiney and very thin skinned, but hey, I love the Caps and defend them as well when someone talks badly about them.

Ted seems like a solid guy, and he's a big supporter of Georgetown basketball.  I like him.  All this bizarre anger on here is weird.

I think they need to get rid of guaranteed contracts in professional sports, so that teams can cut players without paying them when they are underperforming. Like in the real world.

Players didn't negotiate guaranteed contracts in a vacuum, idiot. Someone had to make that concession.

god i love hate.  hey james . . . wait til you see the beer haul i scored!

Bruce Bodreau is responsible for the sell-outs the Caps have had the last few years.  And the winning seasons.  Before Bruce came the team couldn't give tickets away. He brought exciting hockey and winning to the team and the fans followed.  Last season the GM told Bruce to play boring hockey.  The team started to suffer.  I really can't watch them anymore.  I used to go to a lot of games but stopped going when prices got ridiculous for single games.  And the food is the worst at Verizon center.

I expect next season that the Caps will start seeing half-empty arenas again.  Ted lucked into getting Bruce as a coach.  He appears to be little more than an imbecile.  He has attacked fans.  He has an awful temper.  And currently runs two awful teams.

Went to the game tonight. Never heard the Caps booed so loud before. Obviously I've only been here four years now. It was bad. BAD.

I e-mailed Ted last night saying I wanted a refund for the game.  His response: Me too!!!

'08-'09 is when the Caps should have won it all.  Tomorrow's game should be interesting.  These bums aren't worthy of the money they make anymore…  What happened?

It's pretty simple. Ted and George McPhee invested in the wrong people (Ovie, Semin, Backstrom, Green). None of the four are leaders, Semin doesn't even want to be here, Ovie cares more about being a celebrity and Green is injured way too often. The defense is bad and the goaltending is extremely inconsistent to put it nicely.

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
Ted seems like a solid guy, and he's a big supporter of Georgetown basketball.  I like him.  All this bizarre anger on here is weird.

Exactly, he passes off his Georgetown support as some type of DC badge of honor – which to me, casts you in the exact opposite light.  He's a New Yorker that fell into some good draft picks and thought he was a good owner.

Driveway wrote:
I e-mailed Ted last night saying I wanted a refund for the game.  His response: Me too!!!

'08-'09 is when the Caps should have won it all.  Tomorrow's game should be interesting.  These bums aren't worthy of the money they make anymore…  What happened?

Seriously?
He emailed you back?

bekessler wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
Ted seems like a solid guy, and he's a big supporter of Georgetown basketball.  I like him.  All this bizarre anger on here is weird.

Exactly, he passes off his Georgetown support as some type of DC badge of honor – which to me, casts you in the exact opposite light.  He's a New Yorker that fell into some good draft picks and thought he was a good owner.

Huh? You guys are working too hard to find negative stuff! I mean, seriously? You think its bad he supports the Hoyas?

Thousand wrote:
It's pretty simple. Ted and George McPhee invested in the wrong people (Ovie, Semin, Backstrom, Green). None of the four are leaders, Semin doesn't even want to be here, Ovie cares more about being a celebrity and Green is injured way too often. The defense is bad and the goaltending is extremely inconsistent to put it nicely.

Ovi, Brooks and Brouwer are the only ones out there pushing the team. Brooks is too quiet, Ovi isn't a leader and Brouwer's in his first year with the team. I like that he's speaking out. And can you really call Mike Green injury prone because he got hit in the head twice by a fucking puck? I'll give you his groin injury this year, but he's been out because of the 2 pucks to the head for the most part.

Huh? You guys are working too hard to find negative stuff! I mean, seriously? You think its bad he supports the Hoyas?

When you are trying to pass off this fact as evidence that you're somehow from here, absolutely.  There's no sports team in the area that would speak to this less.

And Ted will almost always reply to e-mails – if they are decently civil.

bekessler wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
Ted seems like a solid guy, and he's a big supporter of Georgetown basketball.  I like him.  All this bizarre anger on here is weird.

Exactly, he passes off his Georgetown support as some type of DC badge of honor – which to me, casts you in the exact opposite light.  He's a New Yorker that fell into some good draft picks and thought he was a good owner.

uh, Ted is a Georgetown grad ('77)

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

Thousand wrote:
It's pretty simple. Ted and George McPhee invested in the wrong people (Ovie, Semin, Backstrom, Green). None of the four are leaders, Semin doesn't even want to be here, Ovie cares more about being a celebrity and Green is injured way too often. The defense is bad and the goaltending is extremely inconsistent to put it nicely.

Ovi, Brooks and Brouwer are the only ones out there pushing the team. Brooks is too quiet, Ovi isn't a leader and Brouwer's in his first year with the team. I like that he's speaking out. And can you really call Mike Green injury prone because he got hit in the head twice by a fucking puck? I'll give you his groin injury this year, but he's been out because of the 2 pucks to the head for the most part.

Real problem is the team has no centers.  They haven't had a second line center since Flash was traded and he really wasnt a center.  YOu can work as had as you want an the current team is not going to be a winner as currenlty constucted