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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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If you live long enough, and pay some attention to the news and even to people around you … you realize that few of us are completely normal. Actually, 100 percent normality is so rare as to be massively abnormal. Most of us have moments when we make decisions, say things, act out … that […]

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A Disturbance in the Force in the Dodger Nation. General manager Ned Colletti said some snippy things about outfielder Matt Kemp on Tuesday, as the Dodgers were on their way to being swept in New York and falling to 8-13. Now, 8-13 isn’t very meaningful in the context of “162”, but when you’ve been to […]

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Yes. Let’s buy the Dodgers. You, me … and a few million other fans. What, you don’t have a credit line of several hundred million dollars? Don’t worry. Just hear me out. This absolutely is not the stupidest idea I’ve ever had. Promise.

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