I Can’t Keep Quiet Any Longer on the Dodger Stadium Incident
Honestly, I’ve been trying to stay away from this situation that has evolved from the incident on opening day at Dodger Stadium. Anybody who knows me knows I have a life-long hatred of the Dodgers. But it has become so clear that Frank McCourt has done something I never thought possible; he’s made the Dodger organization eminently more hateable.
First and foremost, stop calling what happened a “tragedy.” Calling it a tragedy infers there is more than one victim. There is only one victim; his name is Bryan Stow and he is in a coma because a few individuals committed a criminal act by assaulting and pummeling him nearly to death.
If you want to talk about multiple parties, then you have to talk about who is responsible for this act of senseless brutality. Obviously, there are the people who committed the crime; these are people who need to be found and punished. But then there’s Dodger owner Frank McCourt. The importance of the fact this happened at McCourt’s ballpark cannot be understated, because he created the environment which made this assault possible.
What happened to Bryan Stow is the culmination of a series of events, all of which were set in motion by McCourt. Ask anybody who has been to Dodger Stadium in the last five years and they will tell you it has become a dangerous place. There is a distinct lack of security; there’s a distinct lack of uniformed police. There used to be a distinct presence of stadium personnel in the parking lots after the games; McCourt got rid of them while instituting a emphasis on beer sales. It is all a recipe for this kind of incident.
What worse is the day after Stow was beaten into a coma, McCourt denied that Dodger Stadium had a security problem, and it took nearly a week of the Dodgers being flamed in the media before McCourt finally admitted there was a problem and hired former LAPD chief William Bratton.
How the hell can one man be so blind? There’s a guy who was beaten into a coma on his property, which by definition means there’s a problem. The thing that really bothers me is that McCourt doesn’t react to the beating that occurred at his ballpark, rather he reacts to the flaming he received in the media. In other words, this hire smacks of a public relations move rather than a decision made in the interest of public safety.
New at the Dodger Deli: Bleached Ass Kiss on Douchebag.
This really ought to be the last straw; this should be the point where Major League Baseball steps in and assumes control of this franchise. Since the McCourts are in the middle of a nasty divorce, and since Frank McCourt is already circling the financial drain, it is pretty clear he stopped caring about the well-being of the franchise a while ago. But looking for leadership from Bud Selig is like looking for a ham sandwich in Mecca. Instead, we are all going to get to watch the death of one of the historic franchises of Major League Baseball, which means Bryan Stow near-death will ultimately be for nothing.
That’s the real tragedy.
By the way, the San Francisco Police Credit Union has established a fund for Stow. To make a contribution, go to their website, http://www.SPFCU.org.
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Did I see a photo of Bud Selig which was not accompanied by a call for his public beheading? Who are you, and when did you hijack JW’s blog?
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And I use to think that the soccer violence in Europe between the fans was bad ! Man this is now taking it to a whole new level ! It’s bad enough when you have some fans urinating on the opposing fans but this was utter sheer contempt and complete disdain. I’m no admirer of Selig but if he and the Dodgers’ front office do nothing concerning this incident then I hope that the victim’s family comes out and sues the ass off MLB as well as the Dodgers !
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Nonsense! How is this McCourts fault! This is another case of people trying to find someone to put the blame on. Lol this is rediculous, and how do you even no this Bryan guy didnt fire back with any comments to his attackers before the incident. There is two sides to every story, and yea sucks he cant tell his side, and what happened to him is inconceivable, but all this cannot be blamed on a so called chain of events caused by McCourt. Thats just ignorant.
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I’m not sure I’d blame McCourt for 100% of this, but he didn’t really help the situation by reducing his staff. I’ve hoped for awhile they’d sell the team, but that isn’t happening anytime soon. The state of the Dodgers is sad compared to the proud franchise they used to be!
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Yeah, I never said he owned all the blame for this – there’s a couple of people who belong in a cell for that. But McCourt created the environment in which it happened, it was on his property, he’s got a serious liability issue in this.
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McCourt’s apathy should surprise no one.
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