David Lassen of the Ventura County Star sent me a link I have to post … post haste! A link to a list of every major league baseball bobblehead night in 2009! If you had, like, a private jet and could fly around the country and see midweek games against unappealing visiting teams … you […]

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I do not know DJ Gallo. I don’t owe him money. There is no ulterior motive in linking to him. He’s not funny all the time. Sometimes he isn’t at all. But he has done an excellent job of stripping down the Manny Ramirez suspension and finding the ultimate insult/comedic value at the bottom of […]

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Leave it to satirist Roy Rivenburg to jump to the nub of the Manny Ramirez drug bust, and what it says about baseball, taken with the rest of the drug news from the past 4-5 years. Check the link here to notthelatimes.com and his inspired blurb on the national pastime. Then click on the “Fake […]

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I am sitting about 10 feet from my refrigerator. Hanging from the upper part of that fridge, fixed by a magnet to the metal of the freezer door, are four Dodgers tickets. And not just any Dodgers tickets. But to a day and a game I very carefully and specifically picked out. July 22, a […]

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I rarely comment on items that have appeared in newspapers. I figure you may already have read it and have your own ideas. But … I was struck, a few days ago, by how the same section (Friday) of the same newspaper (the Los Angeles Times) could have one column so spot-on valuable and fun […]

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Lots to look at, today. From the Kentucky Derby to Game 7 of the Celtics-Bulls series to Dodgers and Angels baseball, Hatton-Pacquiao boxing, NHL playoffs, a NASCAR race … Well, lots of stuff. I’m a sports fan. And I can watch a fairly wide range of stuff, if the mood strikes. But it’s unusual, verging […]

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Tony Jackson, Dodgers baseball writer, was laid off Thursday by the L.A. News Group. LANG getting rid of solid, veteran journalists is nothing new. It’s what Dean Singleton’s collection of imploding SoCal suburban newspapers have been doing for more than a year now. The L.A. Daily News, the San Gabriel Tribune, the Long Beach Press […]

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Everyone who has seen this movie before, raise your hand. Wow. One hundred percent of you with your arms in the air. We couldn’t get 100 percent agreement that this is Friday. I feel badly for Milton Bradley because I really don’t believe he can control himself. I am convinced he has serious issues with […]

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I was reading David Sedaris in the New Yorker (how’s that for a snooty start to an item on a sports blog?), and he was writing about train travel a quarter-century ago and the cars in which people were allowed to smoke. And it brought to mind a memory I thought I may already have […]

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I’m conflicted about Tommy Lasorda. He is arguably the most profane public person I ever have been around. (I wasn’t in the Oval Office when Richard Nixon got cranked up.) I’ve seen him bully reporters and players, and try to intimidate them. It’s not pretty. Tommy really, really likes Tommy, too. But then he goes […]

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