Thank goodness. Dodgers fans aren’t all passive sheep as I feared they might be. Showing up at Chavez Ravine and cheering on the boys in blue without thinking in the slightest about the bigger issues behind the scenes.
A former colleagues, Dennis Pope, has done a question-and-answer piece with a guy named Ben Covette, “creator of […]

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The Dodgers reportedly have put Manny Ramirez on waivers, and the Chicago White Sox are thought to be interested, so the end of Mannywood could be near. Very near.
If so, he goes out with a whimper more than a bang. Or actually, with a “no comment” … which is fine, because Manny stopped being […]

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A friend sent me the link late last night, Abu Dhabi time.
Vin Scully would “make an announcement” before today’s Dodgers game with the Cincinnati Reds.
And, of course, anytime Vinny makes an announcement, considering that he’s 82 … it freaks out all Vinny-o-philes.

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Almost 11 months ago I did a blog post that generated as much hate mail as anything I’ve written at this address. Vile stuff. Unprintable. I posted eight comments, but another 20-plus I did not. Not because I didn’t like the criticism (I read them all), but because I didn’t feel like redacting the vulgarities.
“Matt […]

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I have watched the Dodgers from afar. Not as the fan I was as a kid (see, “Done Bleeding Dodger Blue” from back in April), but as someone who has followed the Dodgers for half a century. After a few decades, it’s what you do, even if a team has gone badly wrong.
I have seen […]

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That has to be the “sun rises in east” headline of the week, right?
Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium … shouldn’t even be in the same discussion. It wouldn’t occur to me to compare them.
And I usually don’t write off of what other people have said, but Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times actually attempted to […]

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It’s Friday. Metrics of this blog indicate that readership on Friday tails off and stays down for the weekend, then comes back on Monday.
What? Are you cheeky monkeys reading this while on company time? How can you live with yourself? Just fine? Hmm. OK.
So, today I’m going to ramble a bit on two topics.
LeBron James. […]

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But, no, this has nothing to do with the Dodgers.
At least, according to the Dodgers … and to many Dodgers fans who believe they can separate the club from the quarreling weasels who own the team. (Or is it just Frank who owns the team?)
The latest: A judge has ordered Frank McCourt to give his […]

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If you live long enough, and pay some attention to the news and even to people around you … you realize that few of us are completely normal. Actually, 100 percent normality is so rare as to be massively abnormal.
Most of us have moments when we make decisions, say things, act out … that fall […]

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A Disturbance in the Force in the Dodger Nation. General manager Ned Colletti said some snippy things about outfielder Matt Kemp on Tuesday, as the Dodgers were on their way to being swept in New York and falling to 8-13.
Now, 8-13 isn’t very meaningful in the context of “162″, but when you’ve been to the […]

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