Is Larry Ellison crazy?
The billionaire software mogul and alleged yachtsman has filed a lawsuit challenging the staging of the next America’s Cup. According to news reports, Ellison is not happy with the fact that Spain’s Nautico Espanol de Vela yacht club has been chosen as the “challenger of record” and gets to set the rules for the next America’s Cup regatta, originally slated for 2009 but now postponed to 2010 or 2011. OK, Larry, why don’t you try to win back the Cup instead of challenging the winner’s choice of a “challenger of record”? Perhaps if you put a team and a boat together that were worth a damn you would have not lost to Team New Zealand and Alinghi. Just maybe the Golden Gate Yacht Club would hold the Cup and you would be choosing a “challenger of record” and not the Swiss and the America’s Cup would be held in San Francisco Bay instead of Valencia, Spain. Larry, just get your proverbial feces together and win the Cup. Just a thought.
