Ng Going Down the Road No One Wants to Travel
There is no question Kim Ng has something that sets her apart from everyone else in baseball who might become general manager of the Dodgers.
She might be the only one willing to take the job.
Lucky for the McCourts, I guess, that they didn't notice her earlier, or she might've disappeared during one of their firing binges.
Foxsports.com reported Wednesday that "Ng could get the Dodgers' GM job," and she might be "busting baseball's old boys' network any day now."
Page 2 is all for that. We've already had the first Screaming Meanie become president of the Dodgers, the first Tipper Gore spokeswoman to become the team's flack, and the first female reporter to supposedly run off with a starting Dodger pitcher.
The Dodgers have all the makings for their own version of "The View."
Several media outlets have recently quoted baseball executives praising Ng's qualifications, as if any baseball executive is going to publicly knock someone who could become the first female GM in baseball.
Her promotion is picking up steam because folks are saying nice things, which has to play well with the McCourts because when was the last time anyone said anything nice about anyone working for the Dodgers?
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WHEN THE McCourts dismissed Paul DePodesta, they had no plan to fill the void. They sought permission to speak to Pat Gillick, and that was all the incentive he needed to take a job with the Phillies.
John Hart, a loser in Texas, is still a candidate, although he reportedly said he'd like to keep working as a Ranger advisor. Maybe he just doesn't want to burn any bridges given the McCourts' record for hiring and then firing.
New York Times' columnist Murray Chass, writing this week under the headline: "Dysfunctional Dodgers Are Far From Camelot," suggested it'd be a "smart move," and "what a change that would be" if the Dodgers hired Washington GM Jim Bowden. Only one problem: Bowden said he doesn't want to talk to the Dodgers.
Chass also reported that Camille Johnston, Gore's former press aide, "urged" him not to write about the Dodgers until he had spoken to McCourt. McCourt, however, didn't return his calls.
Maybe he shouldn't have told the Dodgers he was calling from "the Times."
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ONE OF Ng's strong points, we're being told, is she tutored under Dodger GM Dan Evans -- as if that's a good thing. How quickly we forget. Evans played himself out of a job because he lacked the common sense to see what went wrong with his predecessor, Kevin Malone, and made the same PR blunders.
