O'Malley

Please.

Pretty Please.

Look, if you are anyone in the Los Angeles community, and you: a) want to be part of an investment group that owns the Dodgers (Eli Broad, Ron Burkle, Bob Daly, and a number of other folks); and b) want to restore the Dodgers to prominence in the community and on the field as quickly as possible, then joining forces with O'Malley is absolutely the right thing to do. O'Malley probably does not have enough to finance the team himself, but certainly has enough to be a significant owner, as well as the smarts and saavy to run the team. And he will bring with him such credibility that the Dodgers place in the community will be restored the instant the auction gavel falls. (And a good chance that credibility ont he field will follow in the 2012 World Series.)

This does exclude a few bidders--Mark Cuban would want to be in control, and I get the sense that Steve Garvey is trying to put together a group that puts him in charge too. But couldn't hershiser team with O'Malley. And the group that Fred Claire is forming as well (Peter O'Malley made him GM, and would surely give him a say again--for all of Fred Claire's faults, he was the guy who assembled the 1988 Dodgers).

As someone who posts about being cautious about what you might get, I suppose I should counsel the same caution with O'Malley. Brooklynites would tell you. And, just as I warn against the "grass is always greener" problem, you have to remember that "you can never go home again," and the second O'Malley ownership will not necessarily be like the first. It will be an investor-group, not just family-owned, and the game has changed in the dozen years since he sold the team. And, heck, I should still be mad at him for selling the team--and to Fox of all people--in the first place.

But I don't care.

Give me O'Malley.

Please.