Thank goodness. Dodgers fans aren’t all passive sheep as I feared they might be. Showing up at Chavez Ravine and cheering on the boys in blue without thinking in the slightest about the bigger issues behind the scenes.

A former colleagues, Dennis Pope, has done a question-and-answer piece with a guy named Ben Covette, “creator of the Facebook page and Twitter stream ‘Blue Lasorda Rising'” who was planning to lead a demonstration today, publicly expressing the group’s unhappiness with the McCourt regime, outside the courthouse in Los Angeles where Frank’s and Jamie’s appalling divorce case is being contested.

At stake is nothing less than the future of the Dodgers franchise, which fans ought to have picked up on long ago.

Seems as if they finally are. At least some of them.

I have been calling for a boycott of the Dodgers until the McCourts are gone, but fans reacted negatively to that, back in April.

The basics of my case have always been:

–That these are greedy people who are interested only in using the Dodgers as an ATM for their extravagant lifestyles and astonishing ambitions.

–That Dodgers fans enable them and tacitly support them whenever they buy tickets or go to the concession stands, and they need to show their disapproval for the McCourt Regime by Not Showing Up till someone else — almost anyone else — is running the team.

I suggested that fans buy the team and hire Peter O’Malley to run it. No, it will never happen, but can’t we at least start brainstorming for ways to get out of this.

The McCourts starved the 2010 Dodgers for talent, particularly on the pitching side. Everyone knew they didn’t have enough pitching — in March — and they never have since. The back end of their rotation has been a joke the entire year, which is why they are buried despite having a fairly nice lineup.

I am heartened to learn, from Ben Covette, via Dennis Pope, that some fans are taking this to the next level of  protest, going public.

Look for Ben and his comrades on the evening news. I hope they showed up in numbers, and I hope they get some TV time.

It’s time to take this team away from the McCourts, egomaniac spendthrifts who will drive this franchise into the ground if they are allowed to keep it. One or the other or both, however this divorce case turns out. It’s time to show that fans are paying attention.