I’m a bobblehead maniac. And I know it’s not just me. I will see some random team play, for a bobblehead. I will endure sellout crowds, for a bobblehead. I love bobbleheads. They kill me. I can watch them wiggle for hours … even if the Chinese craftsmen didn’t quite do justice to whomever is […]

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It will take a while for the surviving media pundits in downtown Los Angeles to notice … but the last serious player in Inland Empire sports journalism — and one of the final 3-4 in the entire Greater L.A. market — has given up its claim of “major league” status in the past 24 hours. […]

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Same day the Dodgers re-introduce Manny Ramirez … individual tickets go on sale. Here is the release from the Dodgers.

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It seemed like a good idea, at the time. That is, more than two weeks ago. Dodgers vs. White Sox, “right next door” in Glendale, Ariz. Road trip! Here was the plan: Zoom over to the Dodgers’ new spring-training site in Arizona, see a game, zip right home. Over and back,  same day. Talk about […]

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Could this have turned out any other way? Well, no. So why did it take so long? The Dodgers were a team that needed a marquee name and figured Manny Ramirez should be that guy. Manny Ramirez was a free-agent slugger who nobody really wanted, aside from the Dodgers. They managed to avoid acknowledging the […]

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It’s time. The Dodgers need another hitter. Manny Ramirez needs another contract. Time for Scott Boras to get out of the way and let the man-child he represents, Manny, sign with the Dodgers and get on with what he does best: Crush baseballs. Let’s get busy. The Dodgers apparently have sweetened their offer to Ramirez […]

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Interesting day, Monday, on the Los Angeles pro sports scene. —Kobe Bryant sets a Madison Square Garden record by scoring 61 in the Lakers’ victory over the Knicks. —Manny Ramirez turns down the Dodgers and GM Ned Colletti and their offer of $25 million for one season. Turning point days, for the area’s most popular […]

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This is a good day. The Dodgers just got better by invoking the hoary “addition by subtraction” principle … By releasing Andruw Jones. Who is only … the biggest bust in Dodgers history. And this is a club, remember, that has made some whopper mistakes.

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I’ve been working on the sports pages, at the International Herald Tribune the past few days, and that means I’ve seen a lot of stories about the New York Yankees. And even the Mets. You know, teams actually doing something, trying to get better. Signing C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Francisco Rodriguez, for instance. The […]

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Go ahead and sing that to the famous tune from “The Wizard of Oz.” Good times. The Boston Red Sox aren’t winning anything. Specifically, Boston’s insufferable fans aren’t going to win anything, not this fall, and that’s wonderful. The Red Sox Nation can go back to whining and suffering and all that self-absorbed crap that […]

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