T.J. Simers: A team run (into ground?) like nobody’s business

You can imagine Page 2’s reaction to the news the Los Angeles Business Journal recently selected the McCourts the city’s “Power Couple of the Year.”

Time for Jerry Bussto lock onto one of those 18-year-olds for keeps to become eligible for Power Couple of the Year.
Now it’d be easy to scoff at such acclaim, but the McCourts have always placed a premium on hiring the very best image makers in the business, so finally their money’s well spent.

Or, as the Business Journal put it, “the McCourts have re-energized the Dodgers.”

And here I thought Manny Ramirez, who cost the McCourts nothing, had done that.

But I also discovered that in so many ways I’ve been wrong for some time now in almost everything written here, while both the McCourts and Plaschke have it right.

More on that chilling revelation in a few paragraphs.

As for this award, the Business Journal explained the McCourts won it because “attendance has increased along with the team’s winning ways. Last spring, the McCourts unveiled a $500 million plan to transform Dodger Stadium into a year-round retail and entertainment destination.”

That’s interesting. I know the McCourts improved Dodger Stadium for the rich folks on the first level, which remains off-limits to the unwashed once the game has started.

But as for that $500-million plan, they’ve put it on hold and are doing nothing this off-season to improve the stadium. Probably wanted to keep their calendar free to accept awards.

“Beyond that,” the Business Journal reported, “the McCourts have gotten involved in the community taking seats on some of the most prominent boards in the area.”