Roy Rivenburg does a very amusing ongoing parody of the Los Angeles Times Web site, and he has just added another sports story. This one is about Navy SEALS taking out the Pirates … as in the Pittsburgh Pirates … with sniper fire. Like the Somali pirates, see? Man, the Pirate franchise is a rough […]

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It’s nice when baseball players take the time and effort — and it’s usually not all that much time and pretty much someone else’s effort — to lend their name to a community program. And I’m sure it made sense for the Dodgers to encourage Juan Pierre to be involved in this sort of thing, […]

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Harry Kalas died today. He was found unconscious in the press box at Washington, and died at 73. The news story can be found here. Fans in Philadelphia are in some distress because Kalas had been the Phillies’ broadcaster since 1971. That’s a long time. And I’m sure they will miss their guy, perhaps better […]

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I was around the Nick Adenhart story for two days. The Angels’ young right-hander, their best pitching prospect, died early Thursday morning after being involved in a grinding auto accident in Fullerton, when a guy driving with a suspended license, apparently drunk, ran a red light and slammed into the small car Adenhart and three […]

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I went to Angel Stadium this afternoon to listen to Mike Scioscia, Mike Butcher and two players talk about Nick Adenhart, and to see how the Angels dealt with the issue in the hours leading up to their game with the Boston Red Sox. I covered this for the New York Times, as well. You […]

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I was looking at the early stories on the death of the Angels’ prize pitching prospect, Nick Adenhart, when someone in the sports department of the New York Times called and asked me if I could get on the story, and then I was off and running. Funny, but right off I was thinking it […]

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And, no. It’s not Cosmo Kramer. I’m linking to Cosmopolitan magazine, which is to sports what Sports Illustrated is to hedge funds. Cosmo usually is about how to find a man or steal one from someone else, and how women can manipulate men. Key stuff. Anyway, Cosmo strayed into baseball this week, and it’s not […]

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This is the team I grew up with and, in theory, remain a fan of. As noted before on this blog, anyone who has spent time covering a professional sports team as a working journalist … well, that person loses the ability to think of pro athletes with any regard. Let alone admiration or (gag!) […]

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We had the 28th annual Sun Baseball League draft the other night. And before I go any further, I am reminded of a comment I overheard while covering the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin — and may even have had on this blog somewhere, sometimes. I’m not exactly sure who said this, but I believe […]

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Tommy Lasorda, gotta love him. Well, actually, you don’t. Even Dodgers fans I think find him a little over the top. I can tell you for certain that any journalist who covered the Dodgers during Lasorda’s two decades as manager … well, the “bleeding Dodger blue” and “the Big Dodger in the Sky” lost its […]

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