I was in Tommy Lasorda’s office at Dodger Stadium for the infamous “Kingman’s performance?!?” rant of May 14, 1978. It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was not the Dodgers beat writer, and I can imagine I was covering the game only because we were giving a day off to our regular guy. Anyway, Dave […]

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Just when it looked safe — but premature — to get behind the Los Angeles Dodgers again … the club announced a promotional schedule for 2012 … with 10 bobblehead nights, led by a Sandy Koufax doll. And yes, I would do something as lame as pay $50 for a bad seat to an unappealing […]

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It is being reported tonight that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. Thank goodness. Of course, he will try to claim the team is worth more than $1 billion (he paid $421 million eight years ago), which could complicate matters. The Dodgers probably have appreciated in value, no thanks to the […]

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*-Update:  Arte Moreno apparently noticed the season Mike Napoli had. On September 30, the Angels dismissed general manager Tony Reagins. While in Baltimore and Tampa and Atlanta and Houston some astonishingly riveting last-day-of-the-season stuff was going down, involving the Red Sox and Rays, Braves and Cardinals … the 2011 Angels went quietly, meekly into history. […]

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This is the test of the “how much do you loathe Frank McCourt?” state of mind, which is where I live. And my answer?

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Excellent news today: Vin Scully said on the air that he intends to be back for his 63rd season of announcing Dodgers baseball. As he always has, in the times I’ve spoken with him in the past decade, Vinny, who will be 84 (!) in November, made sure we all understand he assumes nothing. As […]

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Jim Thome hit two home runs in Detroit tonight to reach 600 in his career. He is only the eighth guy to reach six bills in homers. And this pleases me on a couple of levels.

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I had been planning for months to go to the August 9 Dodgers game. Ever since we finalized plans to be in Southern California the second week of August. Duke Snider Bobblehead Doll night. A classy former Dodgers great and Hall of Famer. The Phillies, who have three former MVPs (Rollins, Utley, Howard) in the […]

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I wish I could be an Angels fan. It’s not like the club won’t allow it. But you can’t really have an emotional connection with a team three decades into a lifetime of following baseball. I remember when the idea that the Angels might be the best team in the Los Angeles market, or all […]

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The Dodgers are in trouble. We’ve known it for a couple of years. If we suspected trouble before the McCourt divorce, we knew it once the tawdry facts around those two spendthrifts became public. And now the club is in a spiral. Frank McCourt has a death grip on the franchise, and while he hangs […]

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