If this most recent bit of news is, indeed, accurate …
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Time running out on MLSE’s Peddie
The winds of change are blowing at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., and Richard Peddie soon may be swept out the door.
The change involving Peddie may not necessarily have anything to do with the impending hiring of Brian Burke as president and general manager of the Leafs — maybe as soon as late this week — but it’s likely. And Peddie likely is on his way out at the end of the season.
Peddie has been under fire for failed sporting decisions — primarily the hiring of Rob Babcock and John Ferguson as inexpensive and inexperienced general managers for the Raptors and the Maple Leafs — and has been put on notice with a changing and more aggressive board of directors. And while he has clung to the job on the basis of the financial strength of the company, there are those who look at failed television networks and other problems within MLSEL and figure the time is right for change.
This won’t happen quickly. Peddie has been a marvellous survivor, but time is running out.
THIS AND THAT
Name to know: Erol Uzermeri, the newest board member of MLSEL, and unlike his fellow Teachers’ Pension Plan flag wavers, isn’t happy just to get a parking pass and dinner at the directors’ lounge. He, not chairman Larry Tanenbaum or Peddie, is considered the power broker on the board and not interested in the status quo …
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then it’s a godsend for the dedicated and beleaguered fanbase of the Maple Leafs and the Raptors.
An unequivical Halleluiah! … should be the Word of the Day, in Raptorville & Leafs’ Nation, if this specific action ever comes to pass, and a coronation ceremony planned for Erol Uzermeri, should he truly be able to clean house at the very top of MLSE.
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Oh, when will THEY … ever learn?
Posted in Basketball, Hockey, Inspirational stories, NBA, NHL, Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors Tagged: Brian Burke, Bryan Colangelo, Erol Uzermeri, John Ferguson Jr., Larry Tanenbaum, MLSE, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul and Mary, Richard Peddie, Rob Babcock, Steve Simmons
