Question of the Day: Does Bud Selig owe Frank McCourt a meeting? | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

Writers from around Tribune Co. discuss whether Major League Baseball CommissionerBud Seligshould meet with Dodgers ownerFrank McCourt. Check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to weigh in with a comment of your own.

Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune

Bud Selig isn’t ducking Frank McCourt. He’s tried to help him more than any other owner since McCourt joined baseball’s ownership fraternity, speaking with him as recently as two weeks ago.

But by embarrassing Selig and his fellow owners, and failing to comply with MLB’s rules on a ratio of debts to equity, McCourt has put himself on the other side of the table.

He’s now in a position of negotiating with MLB, not working alongside MLB, and when you negotiate with MLB you do your legwork in meetings with Selig’s top staffers before sitting down with the commissioner. That’s just how it’s done.

He will get his meeting with Selig. But not before a lot more due diligence has been done on the situation, and the further MLB officials dig, the worse the situation stinks.

It’s time to go quietly, trying to save an ounce or two of dignity on the way out.

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