The optics at Tuesday’s All-Star Game were powerful: Miami businessman Jorge Mas, who’s trying to buy the Marlins, sitting in the owner’s box, chatting with Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and embracing Marlins president David Samson.
Mas believes he is getting close to a deal to buy the Marlins and is optimistic, but cannot yet be completely certain, it will happen, according to someone directly involved.
That optimism is rooted partly in a belief that the other competing groups (Derek Jeter and Wayne Rothbaum/Tagg Romney) don’t have the financial wherewithal (in Jeter’s case) or the desire (in Rothbaum’s case) to meet Loria’s asking price.