Frank And Jamie McCourt Headed For Divorce?

Ken Rosenthal has the most details.

Baseball's leading power couple is headed for a divorce.

Frank McCourt, the Los Angeles Dodgers' owner, and his wife, Jamie, the team's CEO, are in the middle of divorce proceedings, according to multiple major-league sources.

"Frank McCourt and Jamie McCourt confirm that they are separated," the McCourts said in a statement when asked for comment by FOXSports.com.

"This is a personal matter and they request that their privacy be respected. They will be making no public statements."

The divorce will not be amicable, one source said.

"They've already 'lawyered' up," the source said. "They're trashing each other terribly. It's going to be World War III."

At stake: The future of the Dodgers, a team valued at $722 million by Forbes magazine. Forbes calculates the value of a team based on its current stadium deal without deduction for debt.

The McCourts, married since 1979, are living in separate houses, sources say. They attended the Dodgers' recent postseason games, but did not sit together.

That sounds terrible as is, but the part that hits home hardest for me is what followed next.

Earlier this year, a divorce between San Diego Padres owner John Moores and his wife, Becky, helped prompt the sale of that club.

Together, the Moores had owned 90 percent of the Padres.

I actually followed the Padres situation pretty closely, and it seemed like an absolute nightmare for the franchise and the fans. They were almost completely hamstrung financially, which resulted in trading expensive players, and most of the staff were esentially lame ducks.

I hope the Dodgers situation turns out better than that one did, but I can't help but fear for the worst.

Update: More details on this mess are in the Los Angeles Times, but most of that information is being provided by the lawyer for Frank McCourt, so who really knows what's going down.

The bottom line is that if there was no prenuptial in place, I don't see how a guy who was already struggling to run the Dodgers financially is going to continue to do so without half his assets. Ugh.