Comments on: Today is a day we should all root for Frank McCourt

By: Jeff M.

Jeff M. — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:04:44 +0000

I’m with ya, Gator. McCourt going down for this would correct some karmic imbalances.

By: Jeff M.

Jeff M. — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:58:01 +0000

“We should all root for Frank McCourt.”

Oooooh. And *that’s* where you lost me. That’s really not gonna happen.

By: IdahoMariner

IdahoMariner — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:22:36 +0000

I’m with you on the umbrage over the lawyer’s screw-up — but that comes from McCourt having a knack for choosing to associate with people just as lazy and sloppy and always-looking-for-the-easy-cash as himself.

So, as a lawyer, I say embarrass those guys, take their cash and give it to the family of Brian Stow (if there were some legal way to do it), but Frank … nope, can’t root for him. Against his lawyers, but not for him.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:32:20 +0000

Can’t do it, Craig. Frank McCourt brings out the pragmatist in me. If he loses this round, he’s broker than ever, he probably has to declare personal bankruptcy due to the Fox loan, Fox (i.e. Rupert Murdoch) gets screwed, and the day the Dodgers have to be sold draws closer by an exponential increment. That’s a lot of moral victories for millions of Dodger fans and victims of TPN’s blowhard pundits and misinformation shovelling, stacked up against one measley moral victory against a bungling law firm.

And remember the words of the immortal (though dead) George Bernard Shaw: “All professions are conspiracies against the laity.” A “moral victory” over one law firm is as meaningful as a piss in the ocean.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:02:13 +0000

I think the only way I root for Frank McCourt is if he’s a secret member of Seal Team 6.

By: jimbo1949

jimbo1949 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:58:38 +0000

He said we should, he didn’t say we must.

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:40:16 +0000

“Today is a day we should all root for Frank McCourt”

Do we really have to?

By: dlevalley

dlevalley — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:35:17 +0000

I’m just as bent out of shape about the malpractice thing as you Craig, but…

This guy doesn’t get any breaks. When you screw people over for a career and produce nothing of value with your entire life, you get no sympathy from the masses when you get wronged. With how much time Frank has spent litigating his way to false riches, something like this is bound to happen.

Yes, the law firm should be punished. No, it’s not fair that Frank has to fight Jamie for ownership of the Dodgers. Does Frank deserve every bad break from here on out? Yes. Yes he does.

By: FC

FC — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:25:41 +0000

I dunno… McCourt is a scumbag, but anytime we can screw lawyers for being paid ridiculously large sums of money and STILL managing to screw up because they can’t get a piece of paper in the right place? Not even McCourt deserves that kind of fate… he just deserves being fed … to a pair of Rottweilers… that have gone hungry… for a week…

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:19:38 +0000

Yeah, right. Go Frank…go get cleaned out by your old firm, that’s what. Can’t do it Craig. Just can’t root for this guy. This is like cosmic justice for his douchebaggery. Finally, it seems someone screwed over Frank and not the other way around. Is this wrong of me, to support injustice? Yeah, probably, but umpires routinely issue ‘make-up’ calls. This is justice’s make-up call. I applaud justice’s make-up call and would like to ask for more of the same for McBroke & Co.