New player in town

The Times' Jason Reid called it right when he reported a couple of days ago that Frank H. McCourt was the new top bidder for the Dodgers. Now McCourt is the buyer. Today's L.A. Times background sidebar calls McCourt, 49, a tenacious "my way or the highway" kind of guy who has wanted to own a team for a long time. The mainbar says that McCourt has been advised by a couple of men with former close ties to the hated San Francisco Giants, Corey Busch and Duffy Jennings, and speculates they would be part of his management team. Dodger boss Bob Daly, former chief at Warner Bros., says he'll be leaving when the deal closes, and other heads are expected to roll at the stadium. The Boston Globe, McCourt's hometown paper, throws together a story but it doesn't add much.