"Conor Sen of Minyanville.com likens the Dodgers situation—along with that of the cash-strapped Mets and NBA’s New Orleans Hornets—to that of the failing Greek and Irish economies. “Money has dried up, the teams are going through liquidity crises, and in response they’re scrambling for short-term loans and looking to cut payroll in order to maintain solvency,” Sen writes. “This may look like a simple case of billionaire owners getting in over their heads, but it’s actually representative of problems facing wide swaths of society right now."