The things you learn on Twitter. Well, from links posted on Twitter. With 140 characters, you can’t divulge much information on the site. In this case, it was a link to a site ranking sports teams globally by the number of their Facebook followers. And guess who was No. 4. (Did the headline tip that, […]

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Having done this blog for 3.5 years, most of it while holding a full-time job, while moving or stationary, updated from a half-dozen countries … I can assure you it takes a lot of effort. Just to post. Let alone be good. Let alone be ultra labor-intensive and really good. Thus, recognizing the effort that […]

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Huge day for sports in greater Los Angeles. The Angels signed Albert Pujols to the second-biggest contract in baseball history and the Lakers traded for Chris Paul — only to see the NBA commissioner kill the deal. But being “big news” doesn’t mean also mean it is “good news.” One of these stories is bad […]

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Has any city been the backdrop (or even the star) of more movies than has Paris? New York, perhaps. London probably is a distant third. Whether it is because Paris so often ends up on the big screen (Hey, that’s the street in the 7th where my friend used to live!), or because people here […]

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Just when it looked safe — but premature — to get behind the Los Angeles Dodgers again … the club announced a promotional schedule for 2012 … with 10 bobblehead nights, led by a Sandy Koufax doll. And yes, I would do something as lame as pay $50 for a bad seat to an unappealing […]

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It is being reported tonight that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thank goodness. Of course, he will try to claim the team is worth more than $1 billion (he paid $421 million eight years ago), which could complicate matters. The Dodgers probably have appreciated in value, no thanks to the […]

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Yaaaawn. That’s the reaction to the World Series from over here. Well, that or just generic befuddlement. A significant number of people in this part of the world, Arabs and subcontinenters both, know basically nothing about baseball. I mean, they may not even know the game exists, let alone that Americans and some other random […]

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I knew CC Sabathia was no small fry. He was rockin’ the XXXXL girth long before we left the States in the autumn of 2009. But I had no idea he had become this enormous, this huge, this gordo. The vision of CC’s bulk — has a fatter man ever played in a major league […]

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I never liked the Boston Red Sox, but it has been only the past decade that I have come to loathe them. For most of my life, they were just the American League version of the Chicago Cubs. Not as loveable, but a similar history of failure, and a turning-point moment. For the Cubs, it’s […]

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*-Update:  Arte Moreno apparently noticed the season Mike Napoli had. On September 30, the Angels dismissed general manager Tony Reagins. While in Baltimore and Tampa and Atlanta and Houston some astonishingly riveting last-day-of-the-season stuff was going down, involving the Red Sox and Rays, Braves and Cardinals … the 2011 Angels went quietly, meekly into history. […]

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