For some reason I had it in my head that Bud Selig would choose someone with a past connection to the Dodgers or Los Angeles, but it turns out that former Texas Rangers president J. Thomas Schieffer is Major League Baseball's new hired son-of-a-gun to run the Dodgers' operations. From The Associated Press:... Schieffer was an investor in the ownership group headed by George W. Bush and Rusty Rose that purchased the Rangers in 1989. He was the club president from 1991-99 and the franchise's general partner from November 1994 until June 1998.In seizing control of the franchise, MLB told the Dodgers that any expenditure of $5,000 or more would have to be approved."Tom is a distinguished public servant who has represented the nation with excellence and has demonstrated extraordinar