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It turns out that the Frank and Jamie McCourt Dodgers, which own the stadium and parking lots and pay their property taxes under various company names, charge themselves $14 million in annual rent. That's more, much more, than teams that actually have landlords. "There's nothing anywhere that's anything like that in professional sports," Zimbalist said. "I don't know of any team that pays anything like that to use its facility." It seems to have something to do with Frank's over-extended finances, but it's hard to tell. More revelations from the McCourt divorce pre-game show by Bill Shaikin in the L.A. Times.
Meanwhile: T.J. Simers implies Manny Ramirez is dogging it more than injured, suggests it began when Manny learned Frank McCourt "had to borrow money to make good on his monthly payment to Jamie," and says "the Manny era [is] coming to a flat finish in L.A."