Judge Kevin Gross last week scheduled four days of hearings starting Oct. 31 to consider dueling motions by the Dodgers and MLB.
The team is seeking court approval of a process for selling television rights to future games, saying a media rights sale is the best path out of bankruptcy for the Dodgers. The league, which is providing bankruptcy financing to the Dodgers, wants permission to file its own reorganization plan, which calls for owner Frank McCourt to sell the Dodgers.
In scheduling the hearing, Gross said the league will not have to give the Dodgers information about its dealings with other teams, and that the court fight will be restricted to the league’s relationship with the Dodgers.
But attorneys for the Dodgers argued in a court filing Monday that such a restriction will impair their ability to prove that commissioner Bud Selig has not dealt with the Dodgers in good faith.
ROOKIES RULE
When Tampa Bay’s Jeremy Hellickson starts Game 4 today against visiting Texas, it will mark just the 10th time since 1900 that a team has used two rookie starters in the postseason.
If the right-hander wins, Tampa Bay will join the 1927 World Series champion New York Yankees as the only teams to get a pair of victories from its rookie starters.Tampa Bay rookie left-hander Matt Moore beat the Rangers in Game 1.
“Kind of an unusual thought,” Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
COOL HAND COLE
Favorites to win it all, the Philadelphia Phillies are banking on Cole Hamels’ big-game background in St. Louis today.
The 27-year-old left-hander was the 2008 World Series MVP and has six career postseason victories heading into the Game 3 matchup against the Cardinals.
