Ted Green: The ball is now REALLY in Jamie's McCourt

Well, after an extensive nationwide executive search that I'm sure scoured all four corners of our great country, leaving no truly qualified candidate unexamined, today Dodger owner Frank McCourt announced that his wife, Jamie, has been named the Dodgers' new CEO.

I think this may be what they mean by the term self-promotion.

You mean, people can get better jobs by sleeping with the boss? What is this, TV news?

Geez, what's next, Archie and Edith Bunker side by side at the piano singing "Those Were the Days?"

Guys like Rick Honeycutt had better be careful. One of the McCourt kids might want to be a pitching coach. Actually, there's nothing wrong with keeping it All in the Family, as long as Frank and Jamie's GM, the Meathead, doesn't blow 47 more mil on the next Jason Schmidt. Trust me, if there's one out there, the Dodgers will find him.

Certainly, though, the family business worked for Tony Sorprano and Don and Michael Corleone, although if Ned Colletti locks up one more Juan Pierre at 45 mil, you can expect him to get the Fredo treatment. Ned, we'll see you at the boathouse.

Meantime, I'm almost positive the Yankees, Mets and Red Sox, to name a few, were bitterly disappointed to learn they will not be able to steal away a brilliant and experienced baseball executive such as Jamie McCourt.

Jamie's such a baseball whiz, she thinks ERA is the Equal Rights Amendment. OBP? Isn't he a rapper?  Bonds?  Isn't that what the McCourts borrowed to buy the Dodgers?

Hank Steinbrenner, Omar Minaya and Theo Epstein can all breathe easier today. Their jobs are still safe.

And while Frank and Ned may not exactly trip over themselves running to the new CEO's office for her take on the latest, greatest baseball talent or which trades the Dodgers should or shouldn't make, take this to the bank, if they all haven't shut down yet:

With Jamie at the helm, no team in baseball will be better equipped to find the best deal on Malibu beach houses.

-- Ted Green

Ted Green formerly covered sports for the L.A. Times. He is currently senior sports producer for KTLA Prime News.

Photo: Frank and Jamie McCourt. Credit: Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times