We're nearly halfway through the 2011 Major League Baseball season, which means within the next month or two we may be seeing Commissioner Bud Selig make his annual trip to Tropicana Field, where he will bemoan the situation with the Rays attendance and make the case that the community needs to step up and find a way to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new space for Stuart Sternberg's team.
In the interim, Selig has other things on his mind, such as the fact that his attempt to oust Frank McCourt from removing himself as owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers is now out of his control, with McCourt placing his franchise into bankruptcy protection on Monday.
McCourt's decision to go into bankrutpcy is an "in your face" volley at Selig, who as MLB commish essentially has unlimited powers in deciding what is best for the game. In the case of the embarrassing situation with McCourt, who is in the midst of a divorce from his wife and is definitely suffering financial problems, Selig has been trying to oust him, having MLB take over day-to-day operations in April and nixing a big television contract that would have solved some of McCourt's financial hardships.
