ESPN.com - MLB - Helyar: Fans find no fun in sale of Braves
"Does anybody really think Liberty CEO John Malone will invest in this team? The man long known as the "king of cable" lives for dazzlingly complex transactions such as the "cash-rich split off" that just brought him the Braves. His fascination with numbers quite likely doesn't extend to earned run averages. As lawyer-fan Fowler puts it, "He's a fan of business, not baseball."
On the other hand, does anyone really think the lords of baseball will reject Malone as an owner? By setting the Braves' sale price at $450 million, Liberty Media serves their purposes splendidly. That robust figure helps buoy the value of every other MLB franchise.
Their team might as well be renamed the Atlanta Loopholes."