Lisa Guerrero: Scouting the baseball scouts’ dinner (RR)

McCourt and spark-out?

All in all, a pretty impressive group of folks were in attendance. So who wouldn’t want to get dolled up, have a nice steak dinner and listen to these legends share baseball stories?

Apparently, Frank McCourt.

At exactly 9:28 p.m. the Dodgers owner stood up and made his exit—right in the middle of Dave Winfield’s speech. Guess he didn’t want to sit through the rest of the honorees. The ones he missed were Herzog, Brett, Gossage and Tommy Lasorda (although, to be fair, McCourt can listen to Lasorda’s speeches any time he wants).

McCourt missed some great moments, including Gossage ribbing Brett about “the pine tar incident” and calling him “a cheater,” and an off-color joke by Herzog that I’d love to pass along here but Sports Editor Randy Harvey would just edit it out. Guess you had to be there, but McCourt wasn’t either. Maybe he had to rush home to catch “Saturday Night Live?”

...The combined years of Major League Baseball service of the legends that McCourt skipped out on are 152 and they have won a total of six World Series championships. McCourt’s years in the MLB: five. Number of championships: zero.