I buried these guys yesterday. Dodgers and Angels. Not only won’t they make it to a Freeway Series, they won’t get out of the first round. So, yes, I will take credit for the Dodgers being up 2-0 with the aid of a semi-miraculous victory today … and the Angels taking a 1-0 lead on […]

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A Freeway Series! The Holy Grail of Los Angeles-market baseball fans. The Dodgers and Angels in the World Series. How grand! Just like all those Subway Series in New York! Right here in SoCal stadiums only about 30 miles apart. We’ve only been talking about this for … oh, 30 years, anyway. Or since the […]

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This isn’t important. Just interesting. And I happen to know it. Which is what a blog is about, right? Passing along random observations and stats, etc. About homers and the 2009 season.

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A real “man bites dog” story. News, that is. David T. Bristow, former San Bernardino Sun sports staffer, was sworn in Friday as a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. Central District Court. Yes. Our David Bristow, former Sun agate clerk and the guy who covered, home and road, the historic first season of the […]

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Been following this Dodgers road trip? For the sake of your sanity and the structural integrity of your TV screen, I hope not. The club began a seven-game trip last Tuesday, three games in Washington and four in Pittsburgh. Teams that were 51-98 and 56-95 when the Dodgers left LAX. That is, the Dodgers were […]

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I prefer to do top 10s, but the Dodgers have been around only 120 seasons and haven’t gotten around to winning 10 World Series yet. So we will to settle for a top 5. With one (1959) to spare! From fifth to first:

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I feel badly for Milton Bradley. Really, I do. I have written that before. If not on this blog, certainly in a print publication The guy is a little too honest, a little too direct, too easily frustrated and intellectually incapable of toeing the party line. And that has caused him no end of problems. […]

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It seemed pretty straightforward. Dodgers at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates, a 12:10 p.m. Wednesday day game. Just zip on up to Chavez Ravine, pick up the Manny Ramirez bobblehead — which was a representation of Manny tipping his hat after hitting a pinch grand slam in the first Manny Ramirez bobblehead game — and […]

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A friend of ours who is visiting in Southern California recently attended a Dodgers home game and an Angels home game … for the first time. Both of them. This person is a lifelong baseball fan, a dedicated Cardinals fan who knows the game well and generally knows and prefers the National League — but […]

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* Or, the anatomy of a collapse. I’ve been following sports since I was, like, 7 years old, which goes back to the Eisenhower Administration. I’ve watched the entire American suite of sports, and some of the international, too. And my contention that the most painful experience for an American sports fan … Is watching […]

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