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Focusing on the pixels instead of the big picture: The Dodgers Media Network, or what they've boldly acronymed as DMN, launched a bunch of new content this week.

I guess down Kentucky way, reading comprehension was frowned upon. Gots to do sumpin to keep them thar blue states honest.

Are the Dodgers in trouble? Or does general manager Ned Colletti have a plan? Dodgers fans found no solace amid the rumors of the ballclub's financial trouble when starting pitcher Randy Wolf, arguably the team's most consistent starter, was not offered arbitration earlier this week.

Next week, Major League Baseball holds its Winter Meetings, and the patient Dodgers are expected to be mostly bystanders.

The Dodgers' recent organizational focus of developing talent internally, rather than spending wildly for free agents like Jason Schmidt and Andruw Jones, sort of unravels if they don't develop talent internally.

While there might be consternation about the Dodgers' inability to make it past the National League playoffs and into the World Series, the still-admirable accomplishment of making it to the postseason two seasons in a row rests largely on the shoulders of a young, homegrown nucleus.

Question number one, what do the Dodgers have? Question two,A what do they need? The questionsA are very simple to answer.

8 because of complications from lupus. The 26-year-old was married and the father of two small children.

Poor Matt Holliday . He goes from Oakland to St. Louis in July and slugs .604 down the stretch to help the Cardinals make the playoffs.

When the ceremonial first salvo had been tossed in McCourt v. McCourt , the principals in the divorce case, the Dodgers ' owner Frank McCourt and his erstwhile business partner Jamie McCourt, had at least put to rest a question that had dogged them since they bought the team nearly six years ago.

The details in the divorce of Jamie and Frank McCourt have been the talk of the World Series.

Blanton gets Game 4 start Joe Blanton, seen after giving up an RBI single to James Loney of the Dodgers during the NLCS, will start Game 4 of the World Series for Philadelphia.

One thing the Dodgers have stressed under the current ownership is entertainment, and it sure looks like it will be an entertaining offseason.

The Los Angeles Times noted the Dodgers' offensive core should return almost entirely intact next season.

Jimmy Rollins #11 of the Philadelphia Phillies flips the ball to Chase Utley to force out James Loney #7 of the Los Angeles Dodgers on a fielder's choice hit by Ronnie Belliard #3 in the top of the eighth inning of Game Four of the NLCS during the 2009 MLB Playoffs at Citizens Bank Park on October 19, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Vicente Padilla reacts after giving up a three-run home run to Philadelphia Phillies' Jayson Werth during the first inning of Game 5 of the National League Championship baseball series Wednesday, Oct.

The Dodgers lost in the same place to the same team in the playoffs in 2008 and 2009, but this most recent one stung more for fans and players.

Reporting from New York - With the fight for ownership of the Dodgers expected to hit the courts this week, the commissioner's office is monitoring the proceedings but expecting little effect on the daily operations of the club.

A little more than eight months ago, when the Phillies gathered for Spring Training in Florida, they talked about creating something special in Philadelphia.

When the season started, the book on the Dodgers was that they had a lot of talent on the field, great young players and a talented bullpen - if they got enough good starting pitching, they could go a long way.