I still believe Paul DePodesta was the best hire the Dodgers have made since the McCourts took over the team. As general manager, before the 2005 season. But they gave him only two years and ran him out of town when the 2005 Dodgers imploded. Several prominent local sports columnists helped grease the skids for […]

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One of the more miserable experiences a sports fan in Southern California can endure is day baseball when the sun is out. And cooking. Such as, oh, today or yesterday at Anaheim. Where the temps were pushing 100, the games were likely to last upwards of three hours and tens of thousands of people were […]

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It was a spasm of good fortune. For the newspaper, the section and for Mike Terry. It was the spring/summer of 1987. Bob Ritter was editor of The Sun. He called me into his office one afternoon and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Would I like to add Mike Terry to the sports […]

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Is this how it works in all fantasy baseball leagues? Or does the venerable Sun Baseball League just happen to have a rare combination of two “glass-ain’t-just-half-empty … it’s-busted-and-shards-are-in-my-hand” owners who are deeply into the game … and like to share their pain? I’m guessing the latter. Though there may be more whiners and complainers […]

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A recent trend in the sports-fan blogosphere is to create a website named “FireTheSportsFigureIHate.com” Just fill in the name of the coach/general manager/player you loathe, get the domain, get busy trashing the guy. Among those out there and active are firegeorgekarl.com (referring to the Denver Nuggers coach) … and locally, we had dumpdorrell.com, which last […]

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OK, the age of player-managers is over. It’s safe to say it’s not coming back. So isn’t it time to allow baseball managers to wear civilian clothes in the dugout? Please? We really don’t need to see old men and tubby middle-agers in baseball knickers and knee-high hose. We really don’t. It’s not a flattering […]

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And that is said for ironic effect. Yes. The guy is horrible, and he’s killing my fantasy league team. Not to mention the Dodgers. Let us count the ways!

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The evidence is beginning to mount. It’s not the Arrive Late, Leave Early thing, for which Dodgers fans are (justly) infamous. That’s a violation of “real fan” behavior, at both ends … but given the freeway system in SoCal it’s almost understandable. Talking about 30-45 minutes of your life you can save, coming late or […]

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So here I am in Chavez Ravine for the first time this season. And I can’t tell you how exciting it is because the Dodgers have a chance to put up their first three-game winning streak of the season. Twenty-five games in. And on their third try. Before the game I sat in the dugout […]

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I don’t see these Dodgers contending for anything. Aside of “worst team seen by the most people,” which they are close to clinching, before May 1. Their slow start isn’t just a slow start, the sort of random sample of 9-13 you could pick out of most any ball team’s 162-game season. I believe their […]

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