by Tracy Ringolsby, FOXSports.com Updated: August 20, 2008, 2:35 PM EST Comment When Frank McCourt was approved as owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the rest of the NL West welcomed his addition. McCourt is wealthy, but he was maxed out after coming up with the money to purchase one of the game's most noted teams. Fellow owners were relieved that a West Coast version of the free-spending Red Sox and Yankees would be limited in exploiting its financial base because McCourt could not simply infuse his personal wealth into the payroll. So what's been going in in recent weeks? How have the Dodgers been able to add the salaries of Casey Blake, Manny Ramirez and Greg Maddux to a payroll that already ranked second in the NL — seventh overall — when the season opened? Simple — they haven't. Instead, the competition has underwritten...
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