Bring out the Gimp

To the whole Frank McCourt-Bud Selig ownership situation, all you can really say is "bring out the gimp". You may have no idea wh I'm talking about, so I will explain.

Quentin Tarantino has a way of turning the violent and terrifying into the surreal. When Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames are tied up by two psychopath redneck homosexuals, it is a potentially terrifying situation that turns surreal when one of the bad guys says "bring out the gimp" and some sad-sack guy in a leather outfit is let out of the box to observe the redneck baddies doing their evil business on Rhames, Ned Beatty-style.

Bud Selig taking over the Dodgers is the same. he must've really smelled a dead animal in Dodger Stadium for him to do this. Frank McCourt not making payroll must've sprung it on. Frank has not had a good year. His and his wjfe's financial mis-adventures were exposed while the undermanned Dodgers were laying a turd in the second half of last season, His wife them dumps him somewhat less than amicably, openly contesting his ownership and tying up what little money he had. Season ticket sales, according to Yahoo's Tim Brown, were down 40% this year, a Giants fan gets beaten comatose in the parking lot on Opening Day, and now this.

I don't think Bruce Willis is coming to his rescue this time. Selig, the rednecks and the gimp will have their way, and Frank will end up without a team. Not that Selig isn't complicit in all this, and anyone saying the O'Malleys should come back are wrong also. They originally created this mess by selling of to FOX, who had no idea how to run a baseball team.

Selig okayed the sell by the bored and dis-interested FOX to the over leveraged McCourts. Hopefully Selig doing the right thing here is a sort of mea culpa. Hopefully he'll at least run a background check on the next owner. He obviously skipped that park with Frank. Getting the O'Malley's to run things temporarily may make everyone feel good inside, but is no solution. Let Stan Kasten run the team until Selig can figure out what to do. Where are you Mark Cuban? Why Selig would sell to a guy like Frank and cur you out is beyond intellegent thinking, so it is what it is.

A bad situation is now surreal. The once-proud flagship organization is now being treated like the Montreal Expos when Selig and Jeffery Loria conspired to sell them out. It is sad right now, and based on Selig's past ownership decisions, one can only be skeptical.