I have watched the Dodgers from afar. Not as the fan I was as a kid (see, “Done Bleeding Dodger Blue” from back in April), but as someone who has followed the Dodgers for half a century. After a few decades, it’s what you do, even if a team has gone badly wrong.
I have seen […]

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A few days ago I noted on this blog how drag racing seems to have followed us over to the Gulf, and to the UAE and Qatar, in particular.
And now we have seen that Little League Baseball, is here, too.
I wrote about Little League for the Tuesday editions of The National, catching up on how […]

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When I saw this on the wire … it made me smile. As I wrote in this commentary for The National.
The idea of Bengie Molina hitting for the cycle … the man who gives new meaning to the expression “base-clogger” … who probably is the slowest man in baseball and a contender for Slowest Ever […]

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That has to be the “sun rises in east” headline of the week, right?
Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium … shouldn’t even be in the same discussion. It wouldn’t occur to me to compare them.
And I usually don’t write off of what other people have said, but Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times actually attempted to […]

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Get outside your home country for a bit, and you realize that just about no one cares about the “national day” your compatriots back home are celebrating.
Religious holidays cross borders. May Day crosses borders, especially in Europe. The Summer Solstice has some second-tier traction, here or there.
National holidays … not nearly as much.
The Fourth of […]

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This was so lame, we even heard about it in Italy. Well, thanks to espn.com … but if it hadn’t been so spectacularly lame, it wouldn’t have gotten enough exposure for me to see it and read about it. When you’re spending your days walking on the beach in Italy and napping and trying to […]

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Just sayin’.
No baseball team ever had come back from a 3-0 deficit in games to win a playoff series … until the Boston Red Sox memorably did it against the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series in 2004.
But six years later, fans in Boston may not be celebrating that precedent-setting moment … […]

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It’s Friday. Metrics of this blog indicate that readership on Friday tails off and stays down for the weekend, then comes back on Monday.
What? Are you cheeky monkeys reading this while on company time? How can you live with yourself? Just fine? Hmm. OK.
So, today I’m going to ramble a bit on two topics.
LeBron James. […]

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I’ve seen a lot of big-league baseball games in person. Maybe 500? No, that sounds low, at my age. Maybe 700. I was never a traveling ball writer, but I covered the Angels for a few years when I went to nearly all their home games, and between drop-in games during my time as a […]

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But, no, this has nothing to do with the Dodgers.
At least, according to the Dodgers … and to many Dodgers fans who believe they can separate the club from the quarreling weasels who own the team. (Or is it just Frank who owns the team?)
The latest: A judge has ordered Frank McCourt to give his […]

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