File this all under speculation but over at the L.A. Times’ Dodger Blog, Steve Dilbeck talks about how moving Frank McCourt out of the way may ease the way for the NFL to return to Los Angeles. Why? Because there have been a lot of scenarios thrown around over the years which envision the Dodgers’ ample parking lot as a new home for a football stadium, and making such a vision into reality would be way easier if the owner of said parking lot were not a highly-leveraged dude like McCourt.
Fine and dandy. I don’t really care if they build a football stadium in the parking lot because I don’t ever park there. But this little bit of speculation regarding a currently-eyeballed downtown site for a football stadium seems like a horror show:
As in: get rid of Dodger Stadium and move the boys in blue downtown. Dilbeck talks to a guy from Yahoo! who says that’s not mere crazy speculation by bloggers, as he’s been hearing such chatter from developer and investor types. Which I guess still makes it speculation, just not as crazy because people like that can actually put plans in motion if they wanted to.
Can I go on record as saying that Dodger Stadium, despite its recent problems, is an absolute gorgeous ballpark in which baseball should always be played? And that if keeping the NFL from interfering with that means keeping Frank McCourt in charge of the Dodgers, I’d be on board?
Great. We’re in agreement.
