My daughter Drew sent me this link to a site that makes bobblehead dolls … and will do one of … you. Go check it out. I’ll wait. I’m a huge bobblehead enthusiast, as many of you know. I love bobbleheads. But this seems a shade creepy, no? Must be a Twilight Zone episode in […]

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Not that the Dodgers went about this all wrong, or anything. First, they lowballed the Cleveland Indians to the point that the Indians sent ace left-hander Cliff Lee to the Philadelphia Phillies for not, apparently, not much of anything. I like keeping top prospects around, but it turns out Lee was available for something less […]

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Talking a collective concept here, not an individual one. And it isn’t really that much of a contest. Not in the modern game. “Rodriguez” is the greatest name in baseball. More good players … more players overall … have that surname than any in baseball. Right now. Let’s look at our all-Rodriguez lineup.

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OK, yes, we concede it: The rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees is the keenest in baseball, and has been for at least a decade. Nothing comes close. Whatever pretensions the Dodgers and Giants or Cardinals and Cubs or anyone else might have had to being Beisbol Rivalry Numero Uno […]

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I like Russell Martin, Los Angeles Dodgers catcher. So do most Dodgers fans, who applaud him warmly and rarely criticize him and never (to my memory) have booed him. He’s an intelligent young man, even something of a team spokesman, at age 26. He is durable, and he wants to play every day. Admirable qualities, […]

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This is what we in journalism call a “sidebar,” and it goes with the main story that is the blog item just below this one. On Walter O’Malley and the Dodgers. This sidebar is about one Vincent X. Flaherty, sports writer, sports columnist and, it turns out, mover and shaker in the Dodgers getting from […]

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Walter O’Malley always has been a divisive figure, and the two main camps were these: Those who didn’t like him very much. Those who loathed him. Now we have a 324-page apology, largely, for the man who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and built Dodger Stadium. Entitled “Forever Blue” and subtitled, “The […]

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I am so impressed by this franchise. I am not an Angels fan. Wasn’t as a kid, wasn’t as a young adult. Didn’t really like the franchise when I covered it as a reporter, back in the late 1970s. But for a decade now, coinciding with the managerial career of Mike Scioscia, the Angels have […]

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Was it Branch Rickey who said this? Or who just got credit for it (as he did for so many other things)? Neither the Dodgers nor Angels made a big splash, here at the end of the non-waiver trading deadline. The Dodges got left-handed reliever George Sherrill from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for a […]

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I’ve thought this before. Many times. But not a few minutes before I was ready to do some blogging. If I had a nickel for every time Vin Scully has said, “the deuces are wild!” … Heck, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard it in real time, with my own ears […]

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