I’ve made clear I grew up a Dodgers fan. I’m old enough to remember a time when the Angels didn’t even exist, and anyone over the age of 40 remembers when the Angels routinely were awful. Actually, they were worse than awful. They were irrelevant. They didn’t matter. Only the Dodgers did. The Angels were […]

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I did a blog item a day ago noting that the United States-Honduras World Cup qualifying match was not on TV … anywhere. It was inexcusable. A disaster. And the U.S. Soccer Federation — anyone and everyone who is not a player or a coach — should be embarrassed … no humiliated … that they […]

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Wow. I would have loved to see this match live. As it turned out, we didn’t chase around Southern California searching out one of the handful of sites showing the game on closed-circuit TV. Eating dinner with family seemed like a much better idea. So there we were in the ridiculous position of peeking over […]

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I feel as if I have entered a time machine and been transported back to, like, 1975. Back when the rights to broadcast big sports events routinely fell into the hands of small-minded dopes with bad business models … Who would decide the best way to make money on the deal was to sell it […]

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I buried these guys yesterday. Dodgers and Angels. Not only won’t they make it to a Freeway Series, they won’t get out of the first round. So, yes, I will take credit for the Dodgers being up 2-0 with the aid of a semi-miraculous victory today … and the Angels taking a 1-0 lead on […]

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A Freeway Series! The Holy Grail of Los Angeles-market baseball fans. The Dodgers and Angels in the World Series. How grand! Just like all those Subway Series in New York! Right here in SoCal stadiums only about 30 miles apart. We’ve only been talking about this for … oh, 30 years, anyway. Or since the […]

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Bob Bradley, coach of the U.S. national soccer team, just finished a teleconference with journalists. I won’t vouch for 100 percent veracity of the following transcript, but it’s pretty close to being complete and I’m comfortable I never got “gist” wrong. The Americans have two matches left in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup — […]

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Clint Dempsey will not play for the United States in the World Cup qualifier at Honduras on Saturday, and this has triggered a lot of hand-wringing and consternation in the American soccer community. If only DaMarcus Beasley were alive! Oh, yeah. He is. He just can’t play worth a darn anymore. What the U.S. could […]

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This isn’t important. Just interesting. And I happen to know it. Which is what a blog is about, right? Passing along random observations and stats, etc. About homers and the 2009 season.

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In the second half of my session with Landon Donovan, he answers more questions about the World Cup qualifying process, his place as an elder statesman — at age 27 — with the U.S. national team and the teams he sees as favorites to win the championship at South Africa 2010. He also responds to […]

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