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There's plenty more to go around after the Jewish American Princess takes her cut.

You know that for a certainty?

MLB's responsibility includes keeping the Dodgers competitive. That's to the benefit of both the league and the fans.

If Frank McCourt is allowed to piss away the franchise's future, both the league and the fans will be short-changed. I work in baseball and am quite familiar with what it takes to run a successful franchise. If something approaching half of the TV proceeds end up in Jamie's account, the franchise is in deep trouble.

The Commissioner's first mistake was approving McCourt as an owner. He's trying to avoid another one. If he can't, both MLB and the fans lose.

I'd prefer they not...

Selig's record as longtime owner of the Brewers is below .500, one AL championship in 20+ years, no world championships. I'd call that bad. Then, when as commissar, he took over the Expos, they were awful and had terrible attendance. He finally found a new owner for them after about five years of an utter disgrace. Is that running a successful franchise? The Dodgers need Selig's management like a proverbial hole in the head.

McCourt is running a successful franchise as is. It could be better if he wasn't distracted by the divorce issues, but it's in a down cycle right now. He does have some star quality players there who need to be resigned or be lost to free agency. (Would a Selig takeover do anything but hurt the prospects of that?) In seven years, McCourt's teams have been in the playoffs four times. That's much better than the previous FOX ownership. There are many teams in Selig's domain who would kill to draw about 3 million people per year, which McCourt has done. According to business publications I've seen, the value of the franchise has gone from about $400 million when McCourt bought it in 2004 to about $800 million currently. That easily beats the rate of inflation.

Really, Selig doesn't give a darn about the Dodgers being competitive, just like he didn't even care that much about his own Brewers, and certainly let the Expos rot. So his history stinks. He's not interested in many other aspects nor traditions of the game either, just raking in every extra nickel he can find. I can give you numerous examples of things he's done that are just plain stupid. He is to "change" in baseball as Obama is to "change" in the country at large. Small wonder he's a big time Obama supporter and used his MLB web site to webcast Zero's inauguration ceremonies live.

Please see my post #37.