Bill Shaikin: Dodgers are about to become baseball’s new money

And so it was that, when all the shouting was over Friday night, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross held aloft the document he had to sign to approve the sale of the Dodgers.
“I was looking in the order for language that says they can’t sign Cole Hamels,” Gross said. “I couldn’t find it, but I may still insert it.”

Turns out that, without his robe and gavel, Gross is just another fan nervous at the prospect that the Dodgers are about to become baseball’s latest economic superpower.

Magic Johnson and Co. bought the Dodgers for $2 billion, with the team on the verge of a television deal worth $4 billion — or more. In that financial stratosphere, the Dodgers could lavish $20 million a year on Hamels next winter and call it petty cash.