I am holding four tickets to the Dodgers’ game with the Reds on Wednesday night. Also known as … Manny Ramirez Bobblehead Night. You show up, you get a Manny Ramirez bobblehead, which just about has to be the greatest bobblehead ever, even if you think the guy is a sleaze ball. As I do. […]

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* – Using “boner” in its original sense, which means an error or blunder. Such as the infamous “Merkle’s Boner” of 1908. Ned Colletti has made more than his share of colossally bad moves, but this is the worst. Jason Schmidt, right-handed pitcher — three years, $47 million. And now, more than halfway through the […]

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Here is a chance for the Dodgers to show that they stand for doing what’s right. Instead, they are going to stand for doing what makes money. What a disappointment. I thought this franchise was supposed to be better than this. Apparently not. The Dodgers can hardly wait to have Druggie Ramirez out in left […]

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I can’t be the first person to notice this. Dodgers broadcasters Eric Collins and Steve Lyons sound like the same guy. Collins is the new when-Vinny-is-off TV play-by-play guy for the Dodgers, and Lyons is a holdover commentator. And they would be fine. Acceptable, anyway. (What was wrong with Charley Steiner, exactly?) Except for this: […]

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This release from the Dodgers almost sounds like a joke, when you see the subject field on the e-mail. Orlando Hudson to Receive Albert Einstein Leadership Award Huh? O-Dog and Einstein share … anything? It becomes a bit clearer when you read the rest of the release.

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I do not know DJ Gallo. I don’t owe him money. There is no ulterior motive in linking to him. He’s not funny all the time. Sometimes he isn’t at all. But he has done an excellent job of stripping down the Manny Ramirez suspension and finding the ultimate insult/comedic value at the bottom of […]

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Leave it to satirist Roy Rivenburg to jump to the nub of the Manny Ramirez drug bust, and what it says about baseball, taken with the rest of the drug news from the past 4-5 years. Check the link here to notthelatimes.com and his inspired blurb on the national pastime. Then click on the “Fake […]

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I am sitting about 10 feet from my refrigerator. Hanging from the upper part of that fridge, fixed by a magnet to the metal of the freezer door, are four Dodgers tickets. And not just any Dodgers tickets. But to a day and a game I very carefully and specifically picked out. July 22, a […]

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I rarely comment on items that have appeared in newspapers. I figure you may already have read it and have your own ideas. But … I was struck, a few days ago, by how the same section (Friday) of the same newspaper (the Los Angeles Times) could have one column so spot-on valuable and fun […]

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Lots to look at, today. From the Kentucky Derby to Game 7 of the Celtics-Bulls series to Dodgers and Angels baseball, Hatton-Pacquiao boxing, NHL playoffs, a NASCAR race … Well, lots of stuff. I’m a sports fan. And I can watch a fairly wide range of stuff, if the mood strikes. But it’s unusual, verging […]

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