The clusterfuck that is the Dodgers and their sale.

Seeing as how I am a Padres fan living in the Dodgers home game tv area I feel compelled to stay on top of this gigantic hot mess that current owner and renown ball of shit, Frank McCourt created when he filed for bankruptcy last year.

Oh yeah, the Ball n’ Chain is a Dodger fan too, so it’s a topic of conversation here at ye olde homestead at least once a week.

The sale of one of the most storied franchises in baseball history has sadly become a soap opera. Or another angle is that of a nasty car wreck…you know, the one you don’t want to look at as you slowly drive by but you just can’t help yourself because there are so many flashing lights and wreckage strewn from here to hell and back.

So, as baseball season edges closer…thank gawd…a major sports lover such as myself looks for anything to take my attention from the wreckage that is politics and the ruination of our  country by those who are rich and selfish and could give two shits about the average Joe and Jill trying to make ends meet in these trying times.

Wait..rich and selfish…baseball club owners fit that mold too, don’t they? Aw fuck…but lets push forward anyway.

Originally there were over a dozen groups vying for the honor, yes it should be considered an honor, of owning and running this once-great team. The number is now down to eight…or is that nine…as The Donald’s sort-of- son now wants in on the action.

Yes, you read that right…Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, thinks he should be the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sweet-friggin-Jaysus, are you kidding me? WTF does that jackass, who lives in New York City btw, know about baseball and running a team that will sell for over a Billion or Two at this point?

Nothing…but then many of the rich fucks bidding on the team don’t either. Of course there actually are people/groups in the running that know and love the sport: Joe Torre, the family that originally owned the team and moved them from NYC to LA (the O’Malley’s) and at one time Orel Hersheisher and Steve Garvey were in the mix as well. For some reason, its a big-assed secret as to what groups are still in the mix. Plenty of sports writers are busting their balls, pun intended, trying to figure out who is on the short list. John Heyman, a nice guy and all-around lover and reporter of sports has a good column up about this very topic, namely who in the blue hell might end up owning the Dodgers. He thinks Magic Johnson’s group might hold the edge. Whaaa? A basketball icon? At least he is a sports guy and lives in LA. From Heyman’s piece, a little 411:

At least eight groups advanced to the second round of the big Frank McCourt Dodgers sweepstakes. Several of them look like powerhouses. But one of them looks like a winner of the Dodgers from here.

That would be the Magic Johnson-Stan Kasten group.

For one, that group has Magic Johnson. For another, that group very likely will have Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Soon-Shiong isn’t Magic in terms of jump shots, fame or even local cache. But in terms of moolah, Soon-Shiong blows everyone in L.A. away.

Soon-Shiong is reported to have $7.2 billion, and sources suggest to me he will very likely join the Magic-Kasten group. I mentioned this on twitter recently, and the Los Angeles Times, which has been all over this story, wrote soon after that Soon-Shoing is mulling over which group to join. That’s very likely the way Soon-Shiong or someone close to him wants it played. But he is a close friend of Magic’s, bought Magic’s 4.5 percent stake in the Lakers (and is believed to be pleased with that purchase) and is a basketball junkie. It’s possible he’s holding out like Bill Clinton’s buddy Ron Burkle, who appears to be waiting to see who’s leading before committing. But if the Magic-Kasten group is in it to the end, and they should be, expect Soon-Shiong to join them.

The L.A. Times identified eight of the finalists as the Joe Torre-Rick Caruso group, Connecticut hedge fund magnate Stevie Cohen, St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, ex-Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley, Stanley Gold and the family of Roy Disney, L.A. real estate mogul Alan Casden and the Leo Hindery-Marc Utay-Tom Barrach group, and I can confirm all of those but the last one. There may also be another one or two groups.

Great list, but even better for McCourt, I have heard the bidding is already in the $1.5-1.6 billion range. That’s some serious loot, and means that McCourt, unfortunately and undeservedly, stands to make at least a $1 billion profit. He has run up a lot of debts living like a rich man before he actually was one but will walk away with a couple hundred million. No justice here.

No Justice Here, is right…its criminal what McCourt did and continues to do to the Dodgers . Example: Whoever ends up owning the Dodgers won’t own the parking lot at Dodger Stadium as McCourt’s disgusting ass split that property off. That way he gets to keep screwing the fans and the future owners of the team by charging them a shit-load to park within walking distance of the stadium. This is the same man that cut back on security and, being a cheap son of a bitch, refused to hire someone to be in charge of security, which many believe ultimately caused the almost fatal injury to a fan last year on opening day.

It’s friggin pathetic that people who don’t know shit about my most beloved sport might end up owning a team I grew up listening to on the radio with my dad a life-long Dodger fan, but out-grew as an adult and resident of San Diego. That vulture capitalists and the like are “entertaining” the idea of owning this team just slays the shit out of me. Shoon Shiong is a very rich doctor and owner of a biotech firm, which tells me he wants the Dodgers as a play toy of sorts, and that is wrong on many levels to me. Sure, he is a wonderful philanthropist, but seriously…why does he want to own a baseball team? I am not picking on him exclusively, as I think most if not all of these guys think the very same way..with the exception of the true baseball guys like Joe Torre and the O’Malley’s.

I really just want this drama over. I want McCourt to take his smarmy, cheesy, low-rent, attention-whoring ass back to Boston and never be heard from again. Oh, and take your friggin ex-wife with you as she started this shit storm in the first place.

All I really, seriously just want is someone or some group to own this team that really cares about it and the sport itself. Is that too much to fucking ask?

Don’t answer that question…sadly, I know the answer. A sport played by children around the world has become nothing more than a toy for the uber-rich…or those that think they are the uber-rich and want to appear as such.