Whether you sympathize with Bill Plaschke or not, I think most Dodger fans would agree with him on this article. If a McCourt is still serving as owner come next spring and doesn't pull the trigger for a legitimate ace, I for one will cancel season tickets.

www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-column30-2009oct30,0,6689381.column

Plaschke's a blowhard. He mixes some decent points with a bunch of nonsense in all of his articles.

Anyway, what ace would you prefer he go after? Lackey would be the one I'd want, but there's no chance we'll pony up the $$ with this carpetbagger of an owner.

Have fun watching the games on your couch, 94! It's a lot cheaper-- beers are pennies and there aint p iss all over your toilet seat!

I can't stand Plaschke but he's right. The McCourts are carpetbaggers. They skyrocket the prices for beers, and hot dogs, they have a severe lack of security, and he's a huuge penny pincher when it comes to getting ballplayers. Ned can only do so much in acquiring players by making the other team pay for the guy's contract for the rest of the year. This whole divorce fiasco is really getting annoying also.

And if he does remain the owner (if she signed her rights over like they're reporting), we're stuck with this shmuckk. People hated him when he bought the team, they went through PR firms like I go through toilet paper after bad mexican food, and now this b ullshhhit. They take us fans for a bunch of chumps-- raise the ticket prices 100% over your tenure, and play the morality card excuse to guilt us into building 30 little league parks. what a bunch of east coast punks.

Anyway, rant over haha

Perro and awol, you both logically add to Plaschke's point. Thus, I believe we as fans should exercise our right to protest and thus validate our concerns by not attending games. I know some will spin this out of control and state that by paying my cable bill, I'm contributing. Yes, but not to the same degree. Just like the McCourts have the right of displaying a half-hearted attempt of building a winner, we have the right to demand more.

My ideal situation would be for these clowns to sell the team and I don't care if they have to purge payroll for the time being, if we get a legitimate owner with deep pockets reflective of the big market that LA is, I'm totally for it.

For someone like Bob Daly (former Dodgers minority owner with FOX) expressing his displeasure about his season tickets being drastically raised from $120,000 to $200,000 for next year is reflective of McCourt's money hungry ways. The McCourts have been jacking up prices without proportionately investing in payroll.

the concept is to give the perception that they are spending the money to build a winner then it becomes easier to justify the huge increase in tickets, parking, hot dogs, etc...to the fans

The fans have bought it for years now.

Owning the Dodgers is a license to print money.

No wonder both Frank and the soon to be ex-wife want control.
How are they going to make a living?

The real Frank McCourt surfaced this season by not buying or trading for Cliff Lee. Frank could care less about Dodger tradition as much as Frank seems to care; Frank is in for the cash at all cost.

So were the O'Malleys by selling this team to Fox, a horrible decision, and this team has yet to win a pennant let alone a WS.

We need owner(s) who know the Dodger way true blue Bums committed to winning the WS.

I give the Steinbrenners all the credit in the world by using free agency to buy the best players even if it means buying a pennant and WS. At least the Yanks have the tradition of going all out to win.

Frank and others just want to get by thinking the team we now have can win it all; this team cannot; this team needs a Damon, a Jeter, a A-Rod, not AJ Burnett, a bust, perhaps a CC and a Rivera. Players who know how to win.

A team does not win 103 games losing 59 on luck; they win because the Yanks have the people that can win, not a scared player as we have on this Dodger team. I will not mention the scared player, and I hope this scared player is watching how to win. This player and Lidge deserve each other.

The Dodgers were fortunate to have as good a team as they did in 2009. It was mostly built from within and on the cheap, but things could really start falling apart shortly.

If Vin Scully leaves, he takes a lot of goodwill and revenue with him. The loss of Tom Lasorda would add to those consequences.

If Joe Torre leaves, he takes established and experienced leadership with him.

Their core is approaching free agency. That is going to either significantly drive up salaries or weaken the team.

The ownership of the team will be uncertain, and if current ownership stays, they will have to charge more and spend less. The uncertainty and instability will hurt their chances to attract new talent, and to retain the talent they have. And there are not too many promising prospects ready to step in.

On top of the divorce itself, the other factors mentioned here may cause the current owners to shop the team, further compounding this star-crossed situation. Of course, they would be shopping the team in the midst of a bad economy. It's all adding up to Catch-22.