You will be pleased to know that the Dodgers stand foursquare against fans nearly being beaten to death at Dodger Stadium. It’s a bold and brave move, but Frank McCourt’s team is the one to take it. Yes, that was sarcasm. Can’t help it when the subject is the owner of the Dodgers and the […]

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This was an issue before I fled the country. Actually, it has been an issue for about 10 years now. Going to a game at Dodger Stadium can be just … plain … dangerous. It appears that two men dressed in Dodgers apparel attacked a Giants fan after the game on Opening Day and beat […]

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It’s liberating, really. After four-plus decades of fandom only partially damaged by journalistic interaction with snotty and dopey players (and Tommy Lasorda), I swore off the Dodgers a year ago. To me, they’re just another team. It’s Frank McCourt. As long as he or his ex-wife are running the franchise, I want no part of […]

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This feels like a depressing movie we’ve seen before. We know how it’s going to turn out, and it won’t a happy ending. Milton Bradley is in trouble with the authorities again.

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Maybe I’m missing something, over here in Abu Dhabi. The Dodgers actually had a good season? They did things right? They were an organization to admire, to emulate? I thought the team finished fourth in a five-team division, with a losing record, and was hamstrung by the bitter divorce of the team’s co-owners and didn’t […]

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What I don’t know about American jurisprudence is extensive. I took one pre-law class in college, something like “Introduction to Business Law” and was lucky to get a C. Oh, and I talk journalism law, later on. Hated that, too, but I’ve never been sued for libel … But if I’m understanding the story on […]

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A year ago, the Dodgers seemed paralyzed by the Frank/Jamie McCourt divorce. The club did almost nothing of note through the winter and went to spring training with four-fifths of a starting rotation, and one of the four was the personally and professional erratic Vicente Padilla. While Frank v Jamie continues to grind through the […]

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I am excited about the idea of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series. And they are one game away now, with three shots at securing their first championship since 1954 — or four years before they moved to San Francisco. Growing up in Los Angeles, as a Dodgers fan … I spent decades […]

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A franchise that has been spinning its wheels for a year made a good move today. The Dodgers signed Theodore Roosevelt “Ted” Lilly, the left-hander they picked up from the Cubs on July 31, for three years. It is a good move pending, of course, disclosure (or guestimates) of how much the veteran will be […]

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I have noticed that I don’t loathe the San Francisco Giants as I once did. It could be a direct correlation of not being around their fans in any numbers for several years now. (Giants fans, en masse, are crude and declasse, not at all what we would expect from the presumably cultured crowds culled […]

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