06-27-2011, 10:38 PM
(vikm) wrote:
See, I don't see this as disparaging to the Dodgers as an organization. Does it hinder them and their ability to win currently? Sure. Does it tarnish the organization for any length of time past a couple of years once it's settled? No chance. Once the owner is dumped (which is just a matter of time as he continues to make poor legal decisions), it'll be short order until they go back to the business of competing. If anything, they will be stronger for all of this as MLB will never risk the same thing happening. Lesson learned.
The franchise is too solid historically for them to be down for too long with a new owner in place. Their decades upon decades of history and firsts are far more than any one selfish owner could destroy. The best thing Selig did was to appoint an MLB guy to oversee so that Frank couldn't do further damage.
Five years from now, this will be a distant memory. These are not the Montreal Expos.
It's been a LONG time since the Dodgers were "the" Dodgers - since 1988, to be precise. We're talking about a franchise that produced FIVE CONSECUTIVE National League Rookies of the Year in the early '90s yet couldn't manage to make it past the first round of the playoffs in any of those years.
Between the organization's long-term failure to bring a championship back to L.A., the circus that is the McCourt divorce and the recent attack at Dodger Stadium that put a baseball fan into a long-term coma, a lot of Angelinos are seriously down on the Dodgers.