Sports movies are nearly all horrible. They are. Horrible. Not just bad. Awful. I was reminded of this while watching the ridiculous sports movie named Wimbledon, starring Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst and apparently made by a bunch of people who have zero idea how a tennis tournament … or a tennis match … or […]

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The guy who laid me off 3.5 years ago had his own moment with the sharp end of the “consolidation” side of print journalism last week. That is to say, he’s out of newspapers and apparently is unemployed. Here is the typically code-riddled e-mail to the people who worked for him:

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This is the test of the “how much do you loathe Frank McCourt?” state of mind, which is where I live. And my answer?

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Excellent news today: Vin Scully said on the air that he intends to be back for his 63rd season of announcing Dodgers baseball. As he always has, in the times I’ve spoken with him in the past decade, Vinny, who will be 84 (!) in November, made sure we all understand he assumes nothing. As […]

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I can’t remember the last time I saw a televised baseball game from start to finish. Sometime in 2009, I guess it would be. I’ve seen stretches of playoff games, while in Abu Dhabi, but the time differences are so weird that I inevitably miss the start of a game or its finish. So I […]

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Jim Thome hit two home runs in Detroit tonight to reach 600 in his career. He is only the eighth guy to reach six bills in homers. And this pleases me on a couple of levels.

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I had been planning for months to go to the August 9 Dodgers game. Ever since we finalized plans to be in Southern California the second week of August. Duke Snider Bobblehead Doll night. A classy former Dodgers great and Hall of Famer. The Phillies, who have three former MVPs (Rollins, Utley, Howard) in the […]

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I wish I could be an Angels fan. It’s not like the club won’t allow it. But you can’t really have an emotional connection with a team three decades into a lifetime of following baseball. I remember when the idea that the Angels might be the best team in the Los Angeles market, or all […]

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I have no control over the ads that pop up on my blog. I don’t even get paid for them; some problem with me not having updated my account. And even if I were linked correctly I’d get, like, $100 for every thousand hits on the ads. I don’t do this for the money, clearly. […]

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A day after the awful story of a 39-year-old father falling to his death while trying to catch a ball thrown to him by Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers … baseball reminded us of one of the big reasons why we follow the game. Or sports in general. Because it takes our minds off […]

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