Here's good advice (please don't take it)

Bryan Stow’s family is suing the Dodgers over his parking lot beating.

The suit says Stow was “inappropriately exposed to the aggressive acts of third parties" because the Dodgers "failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the attack on Stow.”

"It's fairly simple," said attorney Thomas Girardi. “The Dodgers have shown a total disregard for public safety. They've gotten rid of security people, they've had all these incidents at their games, more than other teams, there's also a known gang presence. What did they think was going to happen?”

Considering the suit is filed in L.A., where Dodger owner Frank McCourt is about as popular as rabies …

Considering information from his recent ugly divorce from Jamie McCourt indicated the then-couple let stadium security slide while they siphoned off money to support a lavish lifestyle …

Considering that since Stow’s beating, the team has greatly increased security — even engaging the former chief of the LAPD — thus essentially proving part of the Stow family’s case, I offer a word of advice to McCourt:

Settle.

As of today, the Dodgers were planning on fighting the suit in court. Just like the Frank fought Jamie in court. One more word of advice, Frank:

SETTLE.

Still, it won’t bother me if you don’t. Like your divorce case, these court proceedings promise to be most interesting.

'This could happen to you'

Frank and Jamie McCourt may have taken a proud franchise — the Dodgers — and run it into the ground, but that’s not to say they haven’t done some good.

In Los Angeles divorce court they serve as examples.

A Los Angeles Times story by Bill Shaikin quoted Lisa Helfend Meyer, a family law specialist who has kept up with the nasty McCourt divorce case, who noted that the McCourts “were so focused on destroying each other that they destroyed themselves," Meyer said.

Writes Shaikin:

“Meyer said she was in court last week, working on a case in which the judge felt compelled to remind a divorcing couple to focus on dividing a substantial marital estate rather than attacking one another. The judge held up a newspaper and pointed to a story about the McCourts.

" 'See what happened to the McCourts?’ the judge said. ‘This could happen to you.’ ”

The rich ARE different

The following quote is the divorce proceedings between Frank McCourt and Jamie McCourt, one of whom — and possibly both — own the Los Angeles Dodgers. The soon-to-be-officially-ex-couple own several multi-million dollar abodes, most of which were put in Jamie’s name, allowing Frank’s defense to claim he really wasn’t involved in his wife’s domecile-buying spree.

Jamie’s lawyers would have none of that.

"It's a road they walked down hand in hand," Mike Kump said of the house collecting. "The idea that Frank was just going along with this to appease his wife is not credible. He was involved in picking out the houses … They were just like any other husband and wife — except with a few more houses."

Oh.