Well, here we are. A city, a metropolitan center that had to be content (in terms of the Big Four professional sports leagues) with a couple of Stanley Cup championships over the previous decade. Now, L.A. finds out if its favorite two clubs can win titles in the same month. Los Angeles is overrun by […]
Entries Tagged as 'Baseball'
Championships at Stake This Month for L.A.’s Two Favorite Teams
October 1st, 2020 · No Comments · Baseball, Chargers, Clippers, Dodgers, Kobe, Lakers, NBA, NFL, Rams
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Dodgers Fans: Don’t Assume
September 8th, 2020 · 1 Comment · Baseball, Dodgers
Potentially making an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” In March of 2012, the Guggenheim Group announced it was buying the Los Angeles Dodgers from the unpopular Frank McCourt for more than $2 billion — making it, at the time, the most expensive change of ownership in professional sports history. Any time, anywhere. If you […]
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Back in the Day: Angels in Heaven
August 26th, 2020 · No Comments · Angels, Back in the Day, Baseball, monkey
What a great time to be an Angels fan. A well-rounded team, a first World Series, one of the great comebacks in baseball history, leading to a championship. The key game was Game 6, at Anaheim Stadium, I filed a comment piece. Here it is, under the headline: “Angels create an instant classic; Commentary: Game […]
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Thank Goodness for Mookie Betts
August 20th, 2020 · No Comments · Baseball, Dodgers
Generally, when I hear about an athlete getting a contract with lots of years and enormous numbers, I heave a sigh. “He can’t possibly be worth all that money.” And generally the athlete is not. Teams get excited and offer big deals based on last season, or the last few seasons, and give insufficient attention […]
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Deaden the Ball and Give Baseball New Life
August 11th, 2020 · 2 Comments · Baseball
We have far more serious things to worry about than the future of Major League Baseball. A pandemic, for example. The growing threat of climate catastrophe. Etc. But we can make a little room on the side for ball, which still likes to be known as the national pastime, even if it has been eclipsed […]
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Big League Sports to Return? Ask the Virus
June 25th, 2020 · No Comments · Baseball, Basketball, coronavirus, Football, NBA, NFL, Sports Journalism
Baseball is on the way back, we were told this week. “Spring” training camps will open on July 1, a 60-game mini-regular-season will begin play on or about July 24, and the World Series will finish no later than October 28. The NBA’s plan for a return-to-play “bubble” in Orlando was made public on June […]
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Rewriting Prep Baseball History
May 11th, 2020 · No Comments · Baseball, Lutherans
Let us take a moment and indulge in some alternative prep sports history. I have been thinking about a particular high school baseball game since May 11 of 1971, when it was played. It was the final game of the season, and of my organized baseball career. Had we won, on our home field at […]
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Our Priorities Were Misplaced
March 17th, 2020 · 1 Comment · Baseball, Basketball, English Premier League, Football, Olympics, soccer
Sports may not be the be-all and end-all we came to count on. Many of us have only recently grasped that, as sports content disappeared from our TV diets, shoved aside by a microscopic but deadly bug known as Covid-19, or the Coronavirus.
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Cheating Bastards
February 17th, 2020 · No Comments · Baseball, Dodgers
I have been off the air most of this month, and have not weighed in on how the Houston Astros stole the 2017 World Series* from the Los Angeles Dodgers. Though the headline and first paragraph can be considered a spoiler alert on where this is going. That, and the asterisk (forever) after any reference […]
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Ah, OCD and Another Rock Kicker!
November 11th, 2019 · No Comments · Baseball, France, Sports
And there I was, thinking maybe I was the only person in France who made it a habit to kick rocks off roads. A week or two ago, as we approached one of the entrances to the local “big” city, I looked to my left, and a woman, wearing pants, maybe 45, kicked a rock […]
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