L.A. Times: McCourt’s divorce will put Dodgers in an inevitable retreat

Reporting from New York -  The Dodgers are the talk of the World Series, and not because of Matt Kemp. The buzz is about all those titillating details in the his-and-hers McCourt divorce filings, about how Frank fired his wife and branded her with a scarlet letter, about how the annual expenses Jamie claims she needs to maintain the lifestyle of a baseball owner are greater than the combined salaries of Kemp, James Loney, Clayton Kershaw, Jonathan Broxton and Chad Billingsley.

This is too bad, first and foremost for the McCourts. We wish divorce upon no one.

This is also too bad for Dodgers fans, for the team that finished three victories from the World Series appears headed for a sadly inevitable retreat, for reasons that involve no salacious details.

Baseball season ends tonight, or Thursday. The initial court hearing takes place Thursday, with Jamie McCourt asking for immediate reinstatement as the Dodgers’ chief executive.

Commissioner Bud Selig is watching, warily. He has intervened in ownership disputes involving the Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Mets, but he does not plan to involve himself in the Dodgers’ divorce drama, at least not yet.