According to two participants in the two-hour Dec. 4 session, chaired by National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and attended by more than a dozen officials, the conversation was not so much about whether to go forward as about just how damaging it would be to discuss the loss of the crown jewels in court.

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It has been a week since the joint press release from Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers announcing the court supervised sale of the iconic franchise that is still considered to be one of the crown jewels in all of sports.

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