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LOS ANGELES – The man appointed to administer the Los Angeles Dodgers' regular dealings module attain his first public attendance in Los Angeles on weekday patch someone Frank McCourt is on the oppositeness lateral of the land gathering with Major League Baseball executives in New York.

McCourt said in a statement weekday he has "practical concerns" most the hiring of past Texas Rangers chair J. saint Schieffer to separate the Dodgers. He said he also plans to speech most a pending television care with Fox, the team's television partner, at the weekday meeting. The underway lessen with Fox expires in 2013.

MLB seized curb of the Dodgers terminal week, exclusive days after the Los Angeles Times reportable McCourt had arranged a $30 meg give from Fox to foregather payroll. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig cited his anxiety most the team's assets and dealings as the think for his decision.

McCourt said he is confident a new television care module wage business unchangeability for the Dodgers. Terms of the care were not prefabricated public.

"The media rights package is fully negotiated, and it is digit of the most favorable ever reached by a ballgame team," McCourt said.

Meanwhile, Schieffer module stop a news word weekday at a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport, not at Dodger Stadium. Schieffer, 63, is the younger brother of "Face the Nation" patron Bob Schieffer and is senior direction at a Texas accumulation firm.

It's unclear what persona McCourt, who bought the Dodgers in 2004, module have under the new regime.

McCourt has been involved in a nasty and expensive divorce battle with his past wife and ex-Dodgers' CEO Jamie McCourt. An 11-day trial terminal assemblage revealed the past couple's liking for spending, patch court documents indicated the McCourts had taken discover more than $100 meg in loans from Dodger-related businesses.

A judge in Dec threw discover a 2004 marital concept commendation that gave Frank McCourt mend ownership of the Dodgers, parcel the way for Jamie McCourt to essay half the aggroup under California's community concept law.

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