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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – While the future ownership of the debt-ridden Los Angeles Dodgers relic up in the air, the team's frustrated fans crapper at least verify comfort from relatively smooth progress within the ballclub.

Since Wednesday's stunning announcement by Commissioner Bud Selig that Major League Baseball (MLB) would presently verify over the franchise's day-to-day operations, the Dodgers hit won threesome straightforward games.

They beat the Atlanta Braves 6-1 and then 5-3 at Dodger Stadium before actuation a six-day agency trip against the metropolis Cubs on weekday with a prevention 12-2 win. It was their first three-game get color of the year.

Before the move of the Cubs game at a frigid Wrigley Field, Dodgers generalized trainer Ned Colletti said he had consulted with the association and that, for the time being, his player section was in "status quo".

Colletti told reporters: "It's business as usual. From the ballgame perspective, we're operating low the aforementioned guidelines we were before."

Asked to explain what sort of guidelines, Colletti replied: "Budgetary guidelines."

Colletti said he had texted "back and forth" with Dodgers someone Frank McCourt most listing moves and injuries and that he would move to inform to him until the MLB installed a Dodgers trustee.

On Wednesday, Selig announced he would be appointing "a representative to oversee every aspects of the business and the day-to-day operations ... in the incoming individual days."

The looming intervention by MLB dispatched damper waves around the sports world, especially given that the six-time World Series endorse Dodgers hit been digit of baseball's beauty franchises.

Selig felt he had to act because of mounting anxiety over the Dodgers' business pledge and "to protect the prizewinning interests of the club, its enthusiastic fans and every of Major League Baseball".

FINANCIAL GUIDELINES

McCourt, who is reportedly considering jural state against MLB, responded by locution that MLB ordered strict business guidelines with which the Dodgers were in compliance.

"On this basis, it is hornlike to understand the Commissioner's action," he added.

McCourt, who is locked in a taste split battle that whatever wait module result in the storied team's sale, has since gained vociferous championship from the newborn Dodgers edifice evilness chairman Steve Soboroff.

Speaking to reporters at Dodger Stadium, Soboroff described Selig's selection to verify over the club's day-to-day operations as "irresponsible" and conception of a pre-determined crusade to oust McCourt.

"Frank has money in the bank," said Soboroff, who connected the club's face office on Tuesday. "He has a $3 1000000000 care with Fox. This is same having money in the formation and having somebody hold your ATM card.

"These actions are not allowing him to admittance money. That's a lot different than locution he's got business problems."

However, a high equilibrium of Dodgers fans has grown tired of the taste in-fighting which has gripped the concern since McCourt's wife, Jamie, filed for split in October 2009 after over 30 eld of marriage.

The Dodgers were bought by the McCourts from Fox's parent company News Corp. in 2004 in a care which participating onerous financing.

A judge ruled in December that the Dodgers were in gist jointly owned by the newly-divorced couple, setting the initiate for boost wrangling over the team.

Wayne McDonnell, clinical assort academic of Sports Management at New York University, believes the MLB should hit condemned control of the Dodgers once the McCourt split transactions began.

SLIPPERY SLOPE

"At that point, you category of saw the Dodgers going down that slippery slope," McDonnell told Reuters on Friday.

"You had 100 employees leaving the methodicalness within five years, (manager) Joe Torre on the inclose most coming back, Kim Ng leaving the face office to go to MLB's office.

"Baseball should hit stepped in then and said: 'Okay, let us handle the team, you handle the split transactions and see where it goes from there."

Asked if McCourt had any quantity of success should he decide to process the league, McDonnell replied: "No.

"He is using the discussion right today that the (New York) Mets were helped by MLB with a loan, that the (Texas) Rangers were helped by MLB in their situation but in those cases ... they hit been solid citizens in sports for over 30 eld and they hit played by the rules.

"In the case of Frank McCourt, the Dodgers hit become an embarrassment to Major League Baseball.

"Bud Selig has the prizewinning interests of ballgame at hunch and the Dodgers existence arguably digit of the most pre-eminent sports franchises in the world, it is MLB's responsibility to attain trusty this situation gets rectified."

McDonnell said it was preponderant that MLB encounter a newborn someone of the Dodgers who would not be "so highly leveraged the way McCourt was" and who could re-establish the Dodgers brand.

While MLB boasts achievement revenue, the off-the-field struggles and onerous debt loads of individual field teams' owners hit whatever industry observers asking the league's stewardship.

The metropolis Cubs and Texas Rangers were pushed into bankruptcy in the last digit eld and the business dubiety over the Dodgers mirrors that of the Mets, who are locked in a $1 1000000000 jural battle with the trustee for victims of physiologist Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

(Editing by Apostle Johnston)

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