Manny Ramirez hit a home run. So did a suddenly spry Nomar Garciaparra. Clayton Kershaw was competent. And the Dodgers clinched a share of the NL West regular-season title by battering the Padres, 12-4, tonight — up four with four games to play. Which could make for a rather odd “celebration” Thursday.

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This link is to an espn.com story about the Yankees’ failure to make the playoffs for the first time since 1995. The gist of the story is that the Yankees have had a horrible minor-league system for years, and it finally caught up with them. At the end of the story is a very interesting […]

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While sitting in press row at Dodger Stadium … –Who pays for the cleanup of a clubhouse when a team clinches on the road? If they don’t collapse here, the Dodgers likely will clinch the National League West this weekend in San Francisco. Where Giants officials have to be less-than-enthused about the champagne/beer dousing their […]

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The Dodgers are in the final days of a pennant race here, and they probably are going to win the National League West. And that leaves me, as a lifelong Dodgers fan … supremely disinterested. I’ve been out of the sports journalism business (technically) for six months, so in theory I ought to be reinventing […]

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