Hitting McCourt where it hurts: his nuts. Also, his wallet.

Anyone?  Anyone?

Unfortunately, we can only do one of those things.  Fortunately, it appears we are.  Yay us!  Jim Peltz of the LA Times posted an article yesterday afternoon detailing just how effective those boycotts and holdouts have been:  the combined ticket, concessions, and parking losses are going to cost the Dodgers 27 million this year.  You should definitely click through to read the article, as it goes into great detail of exactly how that number was reached, and how it's actually pretty conservative- the real figure, which we may never know, is likely much higher.  

This is great news.  As McCourt has shown, again and again, he is motivated purely by money.  He's so delusional that public outcry and protests mean nothing- hurting his bottom line (there's a joke in there somewhere) is the only thing that we Dodger faithful can do to make our voices heard.  This team used to pull in 3 million fans like clockwork, no matter how terrible the on-field product was.  To lose an average 8,000 fans per game this season is (and this is saying something) possibly THE most shocking indictment of just how badly Frank's destroyed his reputation in the city.  Good for you, Dodger fans.  Keep it up.

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And in completely unrelated and totally not hypocritical at all news, I'll be at the game tonight (don't worry, the tickets were free).  I'm bringing a camera and my wife, so expect lots of pictures of us eating a Victory Knot in tonight's post-game recap.