Perhaps you read the stories, or the news reports based on the stories. Yasiel Puig has other things on his mind than playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Which might explain his repeated episodes of poor decision-making in the outfield and on the base paths and off the field. Or not. But Puig, according to […]

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Even baseball fans who have been following the game for more than a decade may wonder about the fuss surrounding the Los Angeles Dodgers. Three million tickets sold nearly every season, a huge local TV contract, continued popularity in the City of the Angels. Perhaps the only concepts Angelenos can agree on are their preferences […]

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Not a fan of tattoos. Seems like a form of self-mutilation, generally. And then there is this thing. Which is a bunch of Dodgers history inked into a guy’s back.

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The Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw agreed on a seven-year, $215 million contract this week. And I have been thinking about it, doing a bit of pro-and-conning. And where I have finally landed?

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Check out this news release on the Los Angeles Dodgers website. They are very proud of their prominence in social media. Look at all the numbers! –They had 193,493 new Twitter followers. –Exactly 30,849,622 “likes” on Instagram, 373,072 comments and 309,314 new followers of the @Dodgers account. –An MLB-leading 1,588,291 Twitter retweets from January to […]

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Bizarre story of the day: One of Australia’s top cricket batsmen, flush with success in the ongoing Ashes Test series, is considering taking up baseball. David Warner has pummeled the English in the five-Test series, which Australia already has clinched by winning the first three Tests. It must have been one of those “new worlds […]

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A weird thing about being in Thailand — which is physically closer to the U.S. than is the UAE, and by several thousand miles — is an even bigger sense of disconnect from American sports. It’s the time zones. By 10 a.m. UAE time, just about every sports event “last night” in the U.S. is […]

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I cannot recall if I always loathed all things Boston. Perhaps I did. Being a Lakers fan in the 1960s would have been enough to sour a right-thinking person on Boston. The Celtics: Good, but also really lucky. If I were ambivalent about the Boston Red Sox, the Boston (now New England) Patriots and the […]

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I suppose this entry is a day late. I actually gave up on the Dodgers when they lost that 13-inning game to St. Louis in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. I had just written an email to a friend — it was the 12th inning — saying that whoever won Game 1 […]

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So, the Dodgers clinched the National League West, which is fairly impressive, considering they were in last place on June 1. This season. They wrapped up things in Phoenix, beating the Diamondbacks 7-6, and the party was on. It started on the field, just after the game, and went to the clubhouse, So far, so […]

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