My favorite quote of the day, in the wake of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt filing for bankruptcy, appeared in a collection of bon mots that appeared on the L.A. Times website. It comes from Bob Daly, who was running the Dodgers until Fox sold them to the McCourts in 2004, a particularly dark day in […]

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Just when it seemed possible that Major League Baseball would take over the Dodgers, ending their long National (League) nightmare … the official bogeyman of Los Angeles, Frank McCourt, declared bankruptcy today. The Dodgers now may be saddled with this vile little creature for the foreseeable future. Here is the early Los Angeles Times version […]

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I love bobbleheads. Have I mentioned that? I have a bobblehead of David Eckstein on my desk here at The National in Abu Dhabi. Whenever I bump the desk, Li’l Eck gives me a little nod. It may be the only baseball bobblehead in a city of more than 1 million people. Thanks again, Michelle, […]

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The 2011 Dodgers season has been about one topic, really: Frank McCourt, and hoping that the team can be pried from his clutches. Which is too bad, because Andre Ethier has just done something that has a place in history.

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I will soon get back to serious topics like the Dodgers and Frank McCourt, who is scrambling pathetically to rehabilitate his image (don’t bother) even as he says Bud Selig already has decided to force him to sell (I certainly hope so) … as well as some virulent anti-American yammering from Brit journos, which is […]

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Steve Soboroff has done good things for greater Los Angeles. He has taken on some tough jobs over the past 20 years and helped make life better, most prominently as a key aide to Richard Riordan when the latter helped get Los Angeles back on its feet after the chaos of the early 1990s. But […]

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I concede it was a little lonely out there, at the start. On April 5, 2010, Opening Day, I wrote on this blog that I was Done Bleeding Dodger Blue and would no longer support the Dodgers — until the team was no longer controlled by the McCourts. Any of them. In subsequent weeks, I […]

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For a week, the issue of safety in Dodger Stadium, and lack of same, was mostly a local or state topic, albeit an intense one. Some baseball fans outside Southern California and the Bay Area may have tumbled to the fact that a Giants fan remains in intensive care with brain injuries suffered during an […]

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I get some scary comments on the blog. Not talking about insulting comments. Get those all the time. That comes with the territory. It’s the ones in which somebody writes, and I discover  how completely, frighteningly wrong they are about a really basic issue … those are the ones that alarm me. Like this putative […]

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Less than a week after shrugging off the Opening Day attack on a Giants fan that left a paramedic from Santa Cruz in a medically induced coma and with possible brain damage, Frank McCourt apparently had one of his handlers explain to him the dire safety issues inside and outside his stadium. This is the […]

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