The worst part of the public, salacious nature of the McCourt divorce (yes, there is a dodgerdivorce.com) is that there are four children involved, and there remain friends and neighbors from their previous home in Brookline, Mass., that have strong feelings for those boys.

Everyone realized that what held up the Manny Ramirez trade was that the Dodgers didn't want to take on money, and to get Casey Blake they had to give the Indians Carlos Santana so that Cleveland would pay the remainder of Blake's contact. Now, Jon Weisman's Dodger Thoughts points out that the $8.5M spent in signing bonuses the past two years is the smallest amount of any major league team, and that their international investments are virtually nil.

Bill Plaschke of The Los Angeles Times ran a shocking story on the Dodgers' squeezing legendary scout George Genovese, informing him his salary would be clipped from $18,000 to $8,000 and his expenses from $5,000 to $2,000, in contrast to last weekend's story about the need for nearly a half-million dollars a month in alimony. The McCourt house in Cotuit, Mass., is on the market for $50M, the club had to get rid of its best prospect (Santana) because it couldn't afford Casey Blake, and the kids have to endure the public humiliation that has their real friends 3,000 miles away sickened.