frank mccourt, i've known frank and jamie for a long time. i know larry silverstein, lawyer.ank is a little litigious personality. whatever happen s at the major league baseball, he could tie that up. to answer your question, before spring training, major league baseball is going to act on this because, as you indicated, there are four premier national franchises in major league baseball, dodgers, franchises i baseball. what has happened in los angeles over the past few years, not just with the divorce case, has been a horrific embarrassment to major league baseball. lawyers meet today with a mediator to decide if jamie mccourt gets $100 million or $400 million or frank gets the club personally. what happens at the end of the day, this is a bankrupt dodger organization. it can't continue this way. >> it just feels like it's bad for baseball, no matter who gets control of the dodgers in the end. >> it is bad for baseball and they need desperately someone with deep pockets from, hopefully, the los angeles area to restore this team to its prominence and to take the taint of what

>> is it possible the judge will decide this goes to jamie mccourt?d she get sole ownership of the game? >> if it's community property it's 50/50. it's not going to be awarded to one over the other. unless there's something completely egregious here like foul or fraud. we're not really talking about that in this case. >> this a part where it's he said/she said, i had a bigger role in the team and no, i had a bigger role and why it should go to me or you? >> not really. if it's community property and 50/50 split you're more likely describing an equitable distribution state where then it would be, you know, who contributed more to the acquisition or the maintenance of the asset. we're really not talking about that in california. it's either look under the post nup, we meant to say it's frank's, not jamie's or the post dnup is out, community property, it's a 5050 split. how do we split the dodgers? >> what are the legal and financial ramifications with regards to the dodgers or major league baseball if this thing plays itself out? >> pretty ugly i think

dodgers, frank and jamie mccourt. von fremd reports, they're both taking some pretty nasty swings at each other. >> reporter: with the los angeles dodgers' playoffs hopes fading fast, the real spectacle is in los angeles divorce court. team owner frank mccourt and his wife jamie have opened the curtain on a lifestyle so lavish, they even spent six figures to hire an astrologer as a consultant. >> this dodger organization is a cash cow. there's plenty of money to go around. >> reporter: frank mccourt's lawyers say his wife jamie gave up all rights to the team's fortune in exchange for the security of sole ownership of the couple's six magnificent homes. >> that was her nest egg. didn't want to take a risk on his foolish, dodgy investment in the dodgers. well, she turned out to be wrong. the dodgers have blossomed and the real estate market's gone down. >> reporter: according to "forbes" magazine the team has nearly doubled in value since mccourt became chairman in 2004. wife jamie, who has a law degree, now says she wa