Baseball has not done well on the international scene. Not like basketball. Certainly not like soccer. A little better than American football, but that isn’t saying much. Baseball made the Olympics for a while, there. American football really isn’t played anywhere that isn’t the 50 states. However, I am now convinced baseball has an enormous […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them. Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, […]

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I always was a fan of Edgar Martinez, Seattle Mariners DH. He looked like a really regular guy, and generally acted like one, too, but he tended to hit what appeared to be an almost effortless .320, .330 with 40 doubles and 80-plus RBI, in years he wasn’t hurt. Now, Edgar is up for Hall […]

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I want the McCourts to just go away. Get their divorce, sell the team, split the proceeds, go back to Boston. Just. Leave. Meantime, the club will suffer as this stuff goes on and on and on. Here is the Los Angeles Times story on Jamie McCourt giving her side of things. And here is the […]

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What was that about? The Angels played badly in Game 1, committing three errors and allowing a pop fly to drop for a hit, and all of that, in concert, led to three runs in a 4-1 defeat … and those of us who have watched this sure and steady franchise over the past decade […]

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Well, we now know what the biggest offseason Dodgers story will be: The pending divorce between Frank and Jamie McCourt. Which officially moved into the “ugly” phase when it was revealed today that Frank McCourt has fired Jamie from her job as the club’s “chief executive.” (Frank is listed as the club’s “owner and chairman”.) […]

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My goodness, that was ugly. The team with the best record in the National League pretty much stunk up the NL Championship Series, and that is why the Philadelphia Phillies, rather than the odiferous Dodgers, are going to the World Series. And, by the way, that’s 21 seasons and counting that the Dodgers haven’t made […]

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It was hard to follow American sports, in Hong Kong. In Abu Dhabi, it is nearly impossible. Via television, anyway. And that apparently isn’t a bad thing, when it comes to the baseball playoffs.

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Why are the most important games in baseball also the most tedious? Isn’t the idea to attract new fans to the playoffs? And what do fans like? My belief is that fans like crisp games, modest running times, contests that end before 11 p.m. … and minimum images of players spitting or fans mugging for […]

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I’ve made clear I grew up a Dodgers fan. I’m old enough to remember a time when the Angels didn’t even exist, and anyone over the age of 40 remembers when the Angels routinely were awful. Actually, they were worse than awful. They were irrelevant. They didn’t matter. Only the Dodgers did. The Angels were […]

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