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Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:57 am EDT

Major League Baseball wants Dodgers owners McCourts to sell

By Mark J. Miller

“FrankMLB wants McCourts out of Dodgers ownership?
Los Angeles Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt are in the middle of a very public, very nasty divorce that features a supposed affair with a bodyguard/driver by Jamie, Frank firing his wife from her job as team CEO, a slew of houses, and a battle over ownership of the team.

Rumor has it that Major League Baseball execs would like the McCourts to get out of the ownership business (or at least stop leaking salacious details about each other until after a stellar World Series finishes up). Of course a sale of this team isn't coming anytime soon.

There is suspicion that the league didn't like the way the owners handled the Manny Ramirez(notes) performance-enhancing suspension, either, as the McCourts never required Ramirez to acknowledge his mistake and continued to provide Ramirez with personal bating practice and drivers, etc. It looked like Ramirez was on vacation instead of serving a 50-game suspension.

Source: Los Angeles TimesNew Window

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  1. Evil Empire
    1. Posted by Evil Empire Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:15 am EDT

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    Good. Sell it.
  2. Matt
    2. Posted by Matt Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:34 am EDT

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    Not saying it was the moral thing to do....but when you're paying a guy $25M, you SHOULD keep up with the special treatment.
    Now if baseball would allow teams to void a contract of a player that's caught using PEDs, then you could have a beef, but the Dodgers were still on the hook for a TON of money with Manny. You have to make sure he's happy (especially when it's Manny and you never know what he'll do) and make sure he's in hitting shape upon his return.
  3. PhilipH
    3. Posted by PhilipH Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:46 am EDT

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    Can they make Jeffrey Loria sell? Peter Angelos? It seems a bunch of owners are kind of bad for baseball - more so than the McCourts, whose team actually made it to the NLCS.
  4. daverinhull
    4. Posted by daverinhull Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:59 am EDT

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    don't forget glass in kc and nutting in pittsburgh. guys who take the money "donated" by teams like the sox, yankees, mets, etc and line their pockets with it rather than using it to make their teams better
  5. James
    5. Posted by James Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:04 am EDT

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    This is the greatest soap opera in years. Love triangle, everything you would ever want.
  6. str A's hooter
    6. Posted by str A's hooter Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:45 am EDT

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    Glad the Dodgers were knocked out of the playoffs by the Phils. It would have been distracting to the Dodger players if this was going on during the world Series.
  7. Artist formerly known as Evil Empire!
    7. Posted by Artist formerly known as Evil Empire! Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:50 am EDT

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    I wonder if the driver made enough to buy it
  8. The Real Deal
    8. Posted by The Real Deal Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:23 am EDT

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    Jamie would make a great halloween mask. It is past time to get this story off of Yahoo rumors.
  9. ~PANCHO~
    9. Posted by ~PANCHO~ Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:27 am EDT

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    no kidding str8 A's.....they would have wilted under the lights of this. damn, i just hope Frank gets this bimbo out the picture quick so he can move on with his baseball winter. he needs to buy this b iatch out or something.
  10. The Real Deal
    10. Posted by The Real Deal Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:40 am EDT

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    Good morning Artist. Breathing a little easier now? Baseball is so hard to predict. I might have seen this series going to Philadelphia tied 1 game apiece, but I would have figured the Yanks to take game 1 and the Phillies game 2.
  11. The Real Deal
    11. Posted by The Real Deal Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:41 am EDT

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    Good morning Artist. Breathing a little easier now? Baseball is so hard to predict. I might have seen this series going to Philadelphia tied 1 game apiece, but I would have figured the Yanks to take game 1 and the Phillies game 2.
  12. The Bad Guy
    12. Posted by The Bad Guy Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:05 am EDT

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    Sell the team to Mark Cuban! He'll spend money to keep them winning and hang out with the rowdy fans in the bleachers.
  13. dgrblu2
    13. Posted by dgrblu2 Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:28 am EDT

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    Dump Manny....
    Should he exercise his option do The Dodgers have to accept?
  14. Artist formerly known as Evil Empire!
    14. Posted by Artist formerly known as Evil Empire! Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:06 pm EDT

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    Real - A little. I thought the same thing. If Lee stays this dominate maybe it would be better to have CC pitch on days Lee isnt :)
  15. misterv
    15. Posted by misterv Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:15 pm EDT

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    The League wants....
    What a joke.
    The 'League' closed their eyes to performance enhancing drugs.
    The 'League' has squeezed extra money out of the season by extending the season into November.
    The 'League' is in no position to judge.
    By the way I am a Giant fan....not a Dodger fan.
  16. bowlerjock
    16. Posted by bowlerjock Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:17 pm EDT

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    I agree with the bad guy. sale the dodgers to mark cuban. he wont be afraid to pull the trigger on trades and signing the players necessary to win.
  17. JamesH
    17. Posted by JamesH Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:42 pm EDT

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    dgrblu 2:
    Unfortunately, yes, the Dodgers do have to accept if Manny exercises his option because Scott Bor@ss inked the contract to where this second year is a player option only. I'm a Dodgers fan...a BIG Dodgers fan...and I may be in the minority here, but I want Manny to get the f* out of LA. Not that I'm happy - or even content - with Pierre manning left field on a daily basis, but he at least gives a sh*t about his team and what he can do to help out in every way possible. Manny, simply put, is a distraction, a lazy (and that's putting it nicely) defensive player, and belongs with a power house like the Yankees or Red Sox as a DH ONLY! He does NOT belong in left field ... I can't even count the number of times that fool jogged toward a (catchable) flyball heading foul or out of fair territory.
    But realistically speaking, unless Borass is convinced he can work his voodoo magic and convince some ignorant GM to ink Manny to a 2 year - $30MM deal after turning down $20MM for this final contract year, Manny's not going anywhere.
  18. David Allspaw
    18. Posted by David Allspaw Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:56 pm EDT

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    I would take anything the L.A. Times reports about the Dodgers with a grain of salt. They have had it in for the team ever since Mike Piazza and Bret Butler punked Times writer Bill Plaschke back in 1997 (you can Google it and I'm sure Wikipedia has something on that particular incident).
  19. RJ the yankee fan
    19. Posted by RJ the yankee fan Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:10 pm EDT

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    In the middle of the world series, this is the biggest news to talk about?
  20. Hombre
    20. Posted by Hombre Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:32 pm EDT

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    Dodgers are a mess!!!! MLB take it over and let Tommy run the show until a new "less Hollywood" ownership group can be found. What the hell why dont the Yankees just buy them too.
  21. nolij
    21. Posted by nolij Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:36 pm EDT

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    Wait. How is this a rumor at all? Bill Plaschke surmised all of these things that "MLB doesn't like." Besides Plaschke being a jackass, the Yahoo folks needs to realize these aren't rumors just a hack columnist putting his unnecessary log on the fire.
  22. Steve
    22. Posted by Steve Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:48 pm EDT

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    Folks. Come on now! What do you all expect? This is Hollywood at its best! A soap opera that never ends. This is what L.A. is known for. I feel sorry for Vin Scully and the Dodgers. And as for Manny, I've got to believe that he's going to be a Dodger next year. 20 million bucks is a ton of money. Does anyone out there really think that another team is going to pay more? Not going to happen.
  23. wkl
    23. Posted by wkl Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:06 pm EDT

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    12. Posted by The Bad Guy Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:05 am EDT Report Abuse
    Sell the team to Mark Cuban! He'll spend money to keep them winning and hang out with the rowdy fans in the bleachers.
    I LOVE this idea!
  24. RaymondGuy
    24. Posted by RaymondGuy Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:22 pm EDT

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    If MLB owners start tossing out owners that condone PED cheats, we will see an all new MLB ... One without the Commissioner Of Cheats- Bud Selig
    * MLB + Bud Selig = ML BS
  25. Dodger12
    25. Posted by Dodger12 Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:19 pm EDT

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    Come on gang these are the pest owners we have had in years.They want to be the number one ream in baseball every year and that is very possibe if they work together.I take it that that is very important to both of them............So, will watch your back..............Get it settled and then both run the team.........for LA

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