Mark Cuban and Jim Crane, please call your office . . .
McLane has toyed with selling the Astros in the past, but you don’t hire an investment bank if you’re toying. He really wants to sell this time. Maury has more details over at the Biz of Baseball. The upshot, though: McLane wants around $800 million. Any purchase of the team would include a stake in the newly created regional sports network CSN Houston. Bonus: no one is bankrupt this time, so any sale would likely take less than nine months and multiple rounds of litigation.
Astros owner Drayton McLane has retained the services of the investment bank Allen & Company to assist in the sale of the team, according to two people with knowledge of the arrangement.
McLane, who could not be reached for comment Thursday night, has owned the Astros since 1992. Having entertained on and off for at least a couple of years the idea of selling, he has ramped up efforts recently.
McLane has toyed with selling the Astros in the past, but you don’t hire an investment bank if you’re toying. He really wants to sell this time. Maury has more details over at the Biz of Baseball. The upshot, though: McLane wants around $800 million. Any purchase of the team would include a stake in the newly created regional sports network CSN Houston. Bonus: no one is bankrupt this time, so any sale would likely take less than nine months and multiple rounds of litigation.
Which means this won’t be much fun at all, sadly.