Published on October 27th, 2011
Written by (Katie Dowd)

Frank McCourt has no friends among the Giants nation. (Danny Moloshok/AP)
In Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s continuing bid to be named the most hated man in sports (nay, the world), the attorney representing him and the Dodgers have filed a civil complaint alleging that they are not at fault for the assault on Giants fan Bryan Stow.

The Stow family, who earlier filed a separate suit against the Dodgers, claims that the organization should take responsibility for the lax security environment which facilitated the Opening Day attack on Stow. McCourt and Co. are firing back by saying that the men arrested for the attack, Marvin Norwood and Louis Sanchez, should really be the target of the blame.

But here’s where it gets bad.

The civil complaint also insinuates that Stow owns some of the blame because, according to McCourt’s attorney Jerome Jackson, “I’ve been doing these cases for 23 years and I have never seen one yet in which it didn’t take at least two people to tango.”

If it went before a jury, the case requires the jury to assign a percentage of liability to Norwood, Sanchez, Stow and McCourt, among others.

You’d think with all the other things on McCourt’s plate right now, he wouldn’t be too worried about this, but perhaps McCourt plans on dressing up as the Grinch for Halloween and wanted more reasons to do so.

Posted by Katie Dowd