I have watched the Dodgers from afar. Not as the fan I was as a kid (see, “Done Bleeding Dodger Blue” from back in April), but as someone who has followed the Dodgers for half a century. After a few decades, it’s what you do, even if a team has gone badly wrong. I have […]

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That has to be the “sun rises in east” headline of the week, right? Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium … shouldn’t even be in the same discussion. It wouldn’t occur to me to compare them. And I usually don’t write off of what other people have said, but Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times actually […]

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It’s Friday. Metrics of this blog indicate that readership on Friday tails off and stays down for the weekend, then comes back on Monday. What? Are you cheeky monkeys reading this while on company time? How can you live with yourself? Just fine? Hmm. OK. So, today I’m going to ramble a bit on two […]

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But, no, this has nothing to do with the Dodgers. At least, according to the Dodgers … and to many Dodgers fans who believe they can separate the club from the quarreling weasels who own the team. (Or is it just Frank who owns the team?) The latest: A judge has ordered Frank McCourt to […]

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If you live long enough, and pay some attention to the news and even to people around you … you realize that few of us are completely normal. Actually, 100 percent normality is so rare as to be massively abnormal. Most of us have moments when we make decisions, say things, act out … that […]

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A Disturbance in the Force in the Dodger Nation. General manager Ned Colletti said some snippy things about outfielder Matt Kemp on Tuesday, as the Dodgers were on their way to being swept in New York and falling to 8-13. Now, 8-13 isn’t very meaningful in the context of “162”, but when you’ve been to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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