What's the motive for McCourt's gondola plan?

If you're looking for a place to catch the Dodgers game, there's a pizza place not too far from Dodger Stadium called LaSorted's. If you know, you know. If you don't know, this probably is not your place.

- By BILL SHAIKIN, COLUMNIST

IVAN KASHINSKY For The Times

PEOPLE dine at LaSorted's, a Dodgers-themed pizza place not far from the stadium. Among the offerings: a pizza called Mookie.

The walls are almost entirely covered in Dodgers memorabilia: yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazine covers, advertisements, record albums, even a thermometer reading "1988 World Champions," with portraits of Vin Scully, Don Drysdale and Ross Porter.

The menu includes a pizza called Mookie, with three cheeses, garlic, mushrooms, and mushroom cream.

"The original pizza was called Spooky, just because it was Halloween colors," owner Tommy Brockert said. "And then we signed Mookie [Betts]. It just rhymed."

We'd like to welcome our World Series guests from Toronto, one of the world's great cities. In Toronto, fans get to the game the way God intended: on mass transit that drops you off right at the ballpark, because the communal experience of professional sports should include the ride there.

In Los Angeles, where we built a light rail line that stopped two miles from the airport, we have a train station two miles from Dodger Stadium. For many fans, if you want to take mass transit to the game, you have to get to the train station first.

For now, you take a shuttle bus from Union Station. That shuttle — and a sister shuttle from the South Bay — served a record 400,000 riders this season, according to Metro. That's one rider for every 10 tickets the Dodgers sold.

Frank McCourt, the former Dodgers owner, believes he can do better. In 2018, McCourt first pitched a gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium, eventually promising free rides for fans.