This isn't a column about 20-20 hindsight. It's about foresight -- and how Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and 29 owners wore eye patches the day of Jan. 29, 2004.

That's the day the owners, with Selig's blessings, unanimously approved the sale of the once-proud Los Angeles Dodgers to the overleveraged and underwhelming Frank and Jamie McCourt. The McCourts had as much business buying an MLB ballclub as Charlie Sheen has buying the Christian Broadcasting Network.

This wasn't just any big league franchise. This was the Dodgers. This was baseball royalty.

It was Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. It was Tom Lasorda, Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson. It was Vin Scully, Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine.

In just seven years, the McCourts have sandblasted that legacy into fine, worthless dust. They used the franchise's equity as if it were their very own ATM machine, pressing the Fast Cash button to fund their diva lifestyles. They were the kind of people who would have hired a limo to pick up the morning newspaper at the end of the driveway.

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