NEW YORK -- If Jeffrey Loria is feeling melancholy about selling the team he’s owned for 15 years, he wasn’t expressing it Saturday after standing behind the batting cage at Citi Field and watching the Marlins take batting practice.
“I have no sad feelings whatsoever,” Loria said. “I love this game.”
Loria’s tenure is down to just over a month. He has an agreement in place to sell the team to a group led by Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter for $1.2 million -- a deal that could close in early October.
He didn’t have much to say to reporters Saturday, providing only a few sound bites as he walked back to the safety and seclusion of the clubhouse after he watched the Marlins take batting practice for one of the last times.