This is a column about last straws.Today, Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig indicated he had been handed his last straw with regards to Frank McCourt's stewardship of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Selig responded by giving his office control of the Dodgers' operations.Speculation is that the last straw for Selig was a reported $30 million personal loan that McCourt received from Fox that was believed to be necessary to meet the Dodgers' payroll obligations -- the latest indication of how fragile McCourt's financial underpinnings are. But if it wasn't this loan, it could or would have been something else.As I walked through all the different stories about today's news, as if I were a shopper in a McCourt Mall of Horrors, I found myself thinking about the perso
The irredeemable Frank McCourt
Published April 20, 2011 at 10:35 PM
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