The best part of having two baseball teams in the Los Angeles market? Usually one of them will be pretty good. Didn’t work out that way for greater L.A. this year. And that doesn’t happen very often.

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Well, it’s happened again. My old hometown has lost the Dodgers. Or their minor-league affiliate, anyway. Last time, it stung, but not like this. A decade ago, 2001, the Dodgers were ordered by Major League Baseball to reduce their number of “high Class A” teams to one, from two, and the Dodgers decided to stay […]

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This is bad news and worse news. But isn’t all Dodgers news bad these days? The bad news: Joe Torre is quitting as manager of the Dodgers at the end of this season. The worse news: Don Mattingly, who has no experience running a team full-time and who has inspired little confidence in those briefs […]

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Finally, The Quiet Man speaks out. Peter O’Malley, whose family owned the Dodgers for 47 years, tells the Los Angeles Times in today’s editions that Frank and/or Jamie McCourt need to sell the team for the good of the city and the franchise. Amen to that. The money quote:

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We are proud to say, here at oberjuerge.com, that we have been sounding the alarm on the owner(s) of the Dodgers for most of a year now. From the moment the divorce of Frank and Jamie McCourt picked up speed, it was clear to everyone, even those naifs who view life through Dodger Blue glasses, […]

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The club just got swept by the Padres, who hadn’t won a game since August till the Boys in Blue showed up at Petco. The McCourts divorce case is grinding on, right? With the two cretins in a fight to the death over the franchise and the money they have bled out of it. The […]

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Thank goodness. Dodgers fans aren’t all passive sheep as I feared they might be. Showing up at Chavez Ravine and cheering on the boys in blue without thinking in the slightest about the bigger issues behind the scenes. A former colleagues, Dennis Pope, has done a question-and-answer piece with a guy named Ben Covette, “creator […]

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The Dodgers reportedly have put Manny Ramirez on waivers, and the Chicago White Sox are thought to be interested, so the end of Mannywood could be near. Very near. If so, he goes out with a whimper more than a bang. Or actually, with a “no comment” … which is fine, because Manny stopped being […]

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A friend sent me the link late last night, Abu Dhabi time. Vin Scully would “make an announcement” before today’s Dodgers game with the Cincinnati Reds. And, of course, anytime Vinny makes an announcement, considering that he’s 82 … it freaks out all Vinny-o-philes.

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Almost 11 months ago I did a blog post that generated as much hate mail as anything I’ve written at this address. Vile stuff. Unprintable. I posted eight comments, but another 20-plus I did not. Not because I didn’t like the criticism (I read them all), but because I didn’t feel like redacting the vulgarities. […]

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