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Robert 07/10/2011 11:20:00 PM
Hey Steve
Why don't you suck lebrons dick after you get off of mccourts lap.
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Baseballlifer9 04/29/2011 1:33:00 AM
Dr Forman,
I might suggest you pull your head out of your arse. That is some of the biggest BS that I have read in a long long time and you would have to be an enormous fool to believe any of your context.
Contrary to what you've stated, the fan experience has suffered dramatically. Ticket prices, parking and concessions have gone up and the team has flat lined. Furthermore it's become dangerous to sit in certain sections to the point where an opposing fan was recently critically injured just for wearing the wrong colors. McWart also treats his employees like second class citizens. This has been well documented like when X-VP Derrick Hall after years of trying to convince Fernando to join the Spanish Broadcast team noticed that on the flight to spring training (on Fernando first year back) that Fernando was seated in coach while Vinny and the other announcers sat in first class. Hall had to jump through hoops to upgrade but was so disgusted with McWarts management style that he quit and is now president of the DBacks.
I could go on and on but I won't. In short, you should be ashamed by trying to mislead these readers with your propanda as you obviously have an agenda. I on the other hand am just a fan (with an arsenal of inside info).
PS - Really? The visited sick patients card? How desperate?
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mike 08/21/2010 4:43:00 AM
What a couple of sle@zebags. They need to be thrown in prison (preferably the same cell) and the key thrown away.
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Stephen J. Forman, M.D. 08/19/2010 9:43:00 PM
I read your article in last week’s L.A. Weekly with some concern as it contrasted so strongly with the Frank McCourt I know and with whom I have worked since he moved to Los Angeles after becoming the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Under Mr. McCourt’s leadership there has been complete reorganization of the Dodgers charitable activities, including the development of ThinkCure which supports cancer research at the City of Hope and Children’s Hospital. It was his personal vision and leadership that the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise could be an instrument for good in all of the L.A. community and these efforts are being realized through ThinkCure and the Dodgers Dream Foundation’s efforts to address educational, nutritional, environmental and cancer-related issues. I have personally witnessed how his leadership in visiting patients at the hospital set a wonderful example for both the players and the executives on the team. Having helped develop ThinkCure with Mr. McCourt, I also have gained insight into his management style within the Dodgers organization and the respectful way he treats the employees from the executive management down to those who show Dodgers fans to their seats. For those of us who have been attending the Dodgers games for many years, we have already seen the difference that his leadership has on attention to the fan experience. Although I cannot comment on what occurred in Boston before, I am very aware of what has happened here in Los Angeles and the important ways he and his staff have worked with community and charity leaders. For this, we should all be grateful.
Stephen J. Forman, M.D.
Chair, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
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zoy 08/11/2010 5:17:00 PM
If the rich paid their fair share in taxes we wouldn't be closing hospitals, increasing classroom sizes, eliminating arts and sports from public schools, talking about reducing social security benefits, and scapegoating immigrants. I'm with 'Nummy', how can it be justified that these two parasites paid no income taxes legally? These two clowns wanted to buy the Red Sox first, we dodged a bullet, sorry LA didn't.
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Hollywood Dodger Mark 08/11/2010 4:07:00 PM
Nice balanced article. Did lawyer David Boies actually dictate it or did you rework it a little? First article I've read placing the blame squarely on Frank McCourt. I am no fan of either of these weasels, but to write such an unbalanced article is kinda gutless. She is just as big a weasel as he is. Nice coverage of the Jamie McCourt/Jeff Fuller extramarital sex affair by the way. I guess blaming a middle-aged white millionaire is easier to digest as a smear for the Weekly readers than this harsh Queen of Mean nutty broad who painted the stadium seats yellow, took the names off the player's backs, then changed her mind, had her eye healed by Russian psychic Vladimir Shpunt then sent injured Dodger player Jason Werth to this Rasputin to heal his broken wrist, forced her husband to convert to Jewish faith, fucked her body guard, insisted her star player teach Yoga to her Malibu friends on the hallowed field of Dodger stadium on his day off, organized a secret campaign to run for president, put a useless woman trainer in the Dodger dugout to break the glass ceiling in the dugout, and fired people left and right. By the way, she signed the deal for the houses at the height of the housing bubble. Nah, who would be interested in any of that? Nice hachett job. I hope they have to sell the team and both get cancer, but that's another issue.
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Albert 08/10/2010 3:36:00 AM
I think I'm going to start making and giving away "Please buy the Dodgers" t-shirts this week. In Dodger Blue of course.
I too am pissed at what these two greedy nut jobs have done to my beloved Dodgers. $150,000 a year on haircuts, $14.5 on an olympic sized pool, etc. Makes you want to puke.
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Pat 08/09/2010 2:40:00 AM
Jamie McCourt might not have the business smarts that her great white shark of a husband has, but she's certainly shares enough of his greed to demand $250,000,000 for her peace of mind, whatever that may be.
And if the parking price goes up to $40 and the average ticket price to $53.50 in 2018, the Dodgers will then playing their home games in an empty Dodger Stadium because nobody -- save the McCourts and their rich cronies -- will be able to afford those prices. For it wasn't the Dodgers who were speaking in the CITIC proposal. It was Frank and Jamie McCourt.
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Dave Smith 08/08/2010 9:16:00 AM
I have 3 games left this year on my 14 game package. I'll go, but I'll park down the street for free and bring my own food. After that, the only Dodger games I'll be attending will be in front of the TV or at a sports bar untill the Dodgers are out of the hands of Frank & Jamie. I also hope that Vin Scully and Tommy Lasorda decide to hang it up as it tears at my heart that they are lending their good names to these greed and unscrupulous bastards.
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Nummy 08/07/2010 8:55:00 AM
Let me get this straight. You can be worth nearly a BILLION dollars and pay ZERO in INCOME TAXES because you own a sports franchise? Who wrote that into the IRC?
No wonder the Mayor of Los Angeles believes he can attend as many $10,000 per ticket sports events as he wants without accountability, the very rich don't play by any rules why should the politically powerful?
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Kay 08/07/2010 4:57:00 AM
Thank you "Sheila in Syracuse" for such a capital idea: writing to multi-millionaires to beg one of them to buy the Dodgers. I've written letters to editors for years on a variety of topics, but it never occurred to me to do something on this grand of a scale.
I'm thoroughly disgusted with what Frank McCourt has done to my once-precious franchise. I blame Frank exclusively because after reading this article, I'm absolutely convinced that this is all his doing. Besides, Jamie doesn't appear smart -- or ruthless -- enough to pull this kind of bullshit on so many people over so many years.
I, too, have been forced to cut back severely on my attendance at Dodger Stadium. I simply can't afford it anymore. Oh, and I'm one of those people who when I do go, now parks outside the stadium and walks in. I've been holding my breath that the residents' complaints don't force the city to post "no stadium parking" signs on Solano Canyon. That's where I've been parking since Old Frankie raised parking to $15. Of course, if that happens, it may be moot anyway, because the way things are going, I may be forced to stop going entirely.
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jcmacman 08/06/2010 10:38:00 PM
We used to attend around a dozen Dodger games per season, but no more. There are countless reasons to loathe the McCourts, but the continious lies told by them are too much to bear. I hope the team is sold to someone like Mark Cuban, an owner who cares about the product (tream) he fields.
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sheila syracuse 08/06/2010 10:30:00 PM
Thank you for this article.... please keep the updates coming. As a baseball fan, the McCourts are a disgrace to the game and as a Dodger fan they have turned our treasured franchise into a mess and embarrassed our city . From the moment the McCourts purchased the Dodgers and removed the silhouettes of Koufax, Drysdale, Wills, Valenzuela and others from the wall behind the warning track and replaced the with advertisements, I knew our club was in trouble. I have written Bud Selig, Scott Gordon and voiced my concerns, I am now writing potential buyers and asking them to "Please buy the Dodgers." Jerry Buss, will you buy the Dodgers? Ron Howard, will you buy the Dodgers? Dennis Gilbert, please don't give up your efforts to purchase the Dodgers.
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brian 08/06/2010 7:55:00 PM
Loved the article
Keep it up--SF Giants fan
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Barbara Mac 08/06/2010 4:28:00 PM
Dogs like McCourt hang around because there are too many please-sir-can-I-have-another types around, more than willing to lick up his shit. Scarily speaking, a lot of them populate the city of Los Angeles, and are Dodger fans..or, shall I say Dodger Stadium fans, or shall I say, Frank McCourt fans..or shall I say, minions who bow down at the feet of their god, Frank McCourt. If you don't want him around anymore, then take a cue from Manny. Be disinterested in attending the loser games. The Dodgers are a losing team, anyway. But the minions Love putting money in Mr. McCourt's pockets. They're all his bitches. They prefer to be.
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RobE 08/06/2010 6:36:00 AM
So let me see if I get this straight:
Jamie was afraid that the whole leveraged house of cards could finally come crashing down even though she had been living high on the hog off of that leverage for years and years and now she wants to bail so that she can have a nest egg and leave Frank holding the bag full of debt obligations before doomsday finally comes.
No stand by your man, huh Jamie?
Not that Frank is any bargain, but she's little more than a matrimonial opportunist (which is a politically correct way of saying "gold digger") and therefore has no more moral standing than he does.
They both make me want to puke, but her especially since she is basically asking the courts to give her lots of money by mere dint of having a vagina even though their jet set lifestyle was based on a river of red ink, none of that debt she believes should be part of their community property, too.
God, marriage is such a scam. Any man who gets married is a moron.
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steve 08/05/2010 11:48:00 PM
Can we put McCourt on waivers....although (like Sherrill) no one would claim him...Can we trade him for Mendoza; or is he retired...Its pathetic and riches a new high of level of major league EGO selfishness...
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les 08/05/2010 11:06:00 PM
just find that piece of land, son!
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Dana Gabbard 08/05/2010 10:38:00 PM
I wonder if anyone will start digging into how McCourt suddenly ended up running the L.A. Marathon, when AFAIK he and his organization have zero experience operating such events. Was there even a single hearing before the deal was struck? You'd think the city would have learned a lesson from the disaster of the sweetheart deal for running the Marathon it had with Yvonne Burke's husband. He eventually sold his concession for running the event to an outfit in Chicago. Someone didn't do their due diligence (did the city have no say in who Mr. Burke decided to essentially sell a marquee community event?) as the Chicago folks went bankrupt and the event had unpaid bills and a lot of ill will created. So what does the city do. From all appearances, hand the event to another insider bigshot w/no credentials to actually run such an event. Fabulous!
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Nando8 08/05/2010 9:29:00 PM
I love the Dodgers as much as the next guy/girl, but we're just continuing to feed the beast every time we catch a game at the Stadium. I'm all for going out with the family or friends and hanging out to have some fun but I would advise to be cautious in our fervor to follow them as long as this guy is at the reins because he doesn't seem to have a problem in price-gouging the average Angeleno, and still skip on having to pay income taxes.
