Houston Mitchell is a writer for The LA Times and covers the Dodgers. Yesterday he stated that he was trying to make sense of the Dodgers’ off-season. Houston is a wonderful writer, but he has papers to sell and he knows that many Dodger fans are not sophisticated enough to understand how a successful team is built. He and The Times understand that the average fan is underwhelmed at what the Dodgers have done this offseason and creating discord helps them peddle their papers.
He knows that fans love to create “dream teams” and then bitch when their team doesn’t sign “almost superstars” to unconscionable, boat anchor contracts.