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However, sources familiar with the situation said that both (departed Dodger executives Bob Graziano and Kris Rone) questioned the viability of a business plan based on a best-case scenario. If that best case doesn't totally evolve — and seldom do all of the pieces fall in place in baseball — Graziano and Rone were concerned, the sources said, about (Frank) McCourt's long-term operating potential given the level of the debt servicing in his highly leveraged purchase of the club.
- Ross Newhan in the Times
Newhan also expresses concern in his article that the Dodgers still haven't added a hitter, but a poor offense is still more easily solved than chaos.
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