I no longer recall what made me mull this topic. Maybe I was thinking of the new facilities in the Big Three sports in the U.S., and how many of them I have not seen. Which in a roundabout way led me to consider how many stadiums and arena I have been in that 1) […]

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I have made this argument before. Perhaps on this blog. I hope it’s new to some of you … those of you who are not baseball fans, and don’t already know this. The greatest suffering a sports fan can endure? The collapse of a baseball team. This is not the sudden shock of a shootout […]

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Well, it’s happened again. My old hometown has lost the Dodgers. Or their minor-league affiliate, anyway. Last time, it stung, but not like this. A decade ago, 2001, the Dodgers were ordered by Major League Baseball to reduce their number of “high Class A” teams to one, from two, and the Dodgers decided to stay […]

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A former journalism colleague of mine, Michelle, certainly is not a lifelong Padres fan. She was born in Michigan but grew up in Florida, went to school there and worked at Florida newspapers for most of her life. She went to the University of Florida, as did one David Eckstein. When Michelle first got to […]

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This is bad news and worse news. But isn’t all Dodgers news bad these days? The bad news: Joe Torre is quitting as manager of the Dodgers at the end of this season. The worse news: Don Mattingly, who has no experience running a team full-time and who has inspired little confidence in those briefs […]

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Finally, The Quiet Man speaks out. Peter O’Malley, whose family owned the Dodgers for 47 years, tells the Los Angeles Times in today’s editions that Frank and/or Jamie McCourt need to sell the team for the good of the city and the franchise. Amen to that. The money quote:

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We are proud to say, here at oberjuerge.com, that we have been sounding the alarm on the owner(s) of the Dodgers for most of a year now. From the moment the divorce of Frank and Jamie McCourt picked up speed, it was clear to everyone, even those naifs who view life through Dodger Blue glasses, […]

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The club just got swept by the Padres, who hadn’t won a game since August till the Boys in Blue showed up at Petco. The McCourts divorce case is grinding on, right? With the two cretins in a fight to the death over the franchise and the money they have bled out of it. The […]

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Today we link you to what I found to be two supremely interesting recordings of Sports People talking. I was thinking how the concept of the podcast and the videocast (is that the word?) are still fairly recent, in the larger scheme. Podcasts really gained traction only about a decade ago, and video of people […]

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Thank goodness. Dodgers fans aren’t all passive sheep as I feared they might be. Showing up at Chavez Ravine and cheering on the boys in blue without thinking in the slightest about the bigger issues behind the scenes. A former colleagues, Dennis Pope, has done a question-and-answer piece with a guy named Ben Covette, “creator […]

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