Yes. Let’s buy the Dodgers. You, me … and a few million other fans.
What, you don’t have a credit line of several hundred million dollars?
Don’t worry. Just hear me out. This absolutely is not the stupidest idea I’ve ever had. Promise.

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I was a Dodgers fan for nearly half a century. One of my earliest memories is lying on the floor in the living room of the family home in Long Beach and listening to Vin Scully call a game, through those enormous speakers my father rigged up. I was, maybe, 7.
I have been a Dodgers […]

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One of the vanities of expatriates in the Electronic Age … is that we’re sure we know what’s going on back home. At least in the subjects we care about.
Hey, we have wifi in the apartment! We know what’s going on!
Sometimes, that isn’t quite true.
Take, for example, Major League Baseball.

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A reality of blogging: It’s bloody difficult to do one item a day, every day, for two blogs. And hold a full-time job. Try it sometime, and a year later let me know how it’s going.
The second blog is my quixotic World Cup Countdown blog. And part of that deal is a promise to write […]

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Willie Davis was found dead in his home in Burbank today. “Three Dog,” as he was known by teammates and fans because he hit so many triples and because he wore No. 3.
He was 69.
Thinking back about him … he is one of those guys who gives you pause.
Starting center fielder for the Dodgers for […]

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Ah, the power of the internet.
Way back on Feb. 3 … yes, all of seven days ago … I wrote an item on this blog asking the Los Angeles Times to fix the problem that kept me from being able to read any of their blogs. The “hook” to the story being that Steve Dilbeck, […]

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My friend and former colleague Steve Dilbeck now blogs about the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times.
I would like to read Steve’s blog. I would also like to read a blog about the Dodgers.
The trouble?
None of the latimes.com blogs will load. Zero. Sports, politics, news. None can be called up.
The people who run the website […]

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It was a more eventful decade than my initial thoughts indicated. “Wow. I have to come up with 10 good sports events from the 0-somethings? I’m not sure I can do that.”
Turns out, a few minutes of cross-referencing years and sports, and it’s no problem finding 10. The trick is limiting it to that many.
And […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them.
Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, in […]

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I want the McCourts to just go away. Get their divorce, sell the team, split the proceeds, go back to Boston. Just. Leave.
Meantime, the club will suffer as this stuff goes on and on and on.
Here is the Los Angeles Times story on Jamie McCourt giving her side of things.
And here is the Boston Globe story […]

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