My friend and former colleague Steve Dilbeck now blogs about the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times.
I would like to read Steve’s blog. I would also like to read a blog about the Dodgers.
The trouble?
None of the latimes.com blogs will load. Zero. Sports, politics, news. None can be called up.
The people who run the website […]

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It was a more eventful decade than my initial thoughts indicated. “Wow. I have to come up with 10 good sports events from the 0-somethings? I’m not sure I can do that.”
Turns out, a few minutes of cross-referencing years and sports, and it’s no problem finding 10. The trick is limiting it to that many.
And […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them.
Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, in […]

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What was that about?
The Angels played badly in Game 1, committing three errors and allowing a pop fly to drop for a hit, and all of that, in concert, led to three runs in a 4-1 defeat … and those of us who have watched this sure and steady franchise over the past decade were […]

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It was hard to follow American sports, in Hong Kong.
In Abu Dhabi, it is nearly impossible. Via television, anyway.
And that apparently isn’t a bad thing, when it comes to the baseball playoffs.

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Why are the most important games in baseball also the most tedious?
Isn’t the idea to attract new fans to the playoffs?
And what do fans like?
My belief is that fans like crisp games, modest running times, contests that end before 11 p.m. … and minimum images of players spitting or fans mugging for the cameras.
If so, […]

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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 the […]

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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 the Red […]

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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 Angels went […]

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I’ve been in Paris for almost five weeks now. And not for a single day was I without an Internet hookup. Actually, I spent several hours most of the past 30-some days looking at this computer. Yes, while in Paris. I know that’s ill but it’s the truth. OK, here’s my excuse: I do two […]

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