I concede it was a little lonely out there, at the start.
On April 5, 2010, Opening Day, I wrote on this blog that I was Done Bleeding Dodger Blue and would no longer support the Dodgers — until the team was no longer controlled by the McCourts. Any of them.
In subsequent weeks, I advocated a […]

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For a week, the issue of safety in Dodger Stadium, and lack of same, was mostly a local or state topic, albeit an intense one.
Some baseball fans outside Southern California and the Bay Area may have tumbled to the fact that a Giants fan remains in intensive care with brain injuries suffered during an assault […]

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I get some scary comments on the blog.
Not talking about insulting comments. Get those all the time. That comes with the territory.
It’s the ones in which somebody writes, and I discover  how completely, frighteningly wrong they are about a really basic issue … those are the ones that alarm me.
Like this putative Dodgers supporter who […]

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Less than a week after shrugging off the Opening Day attack on a Giants fan that left a paramedic from Santa Cruz in a medically induced coma and with possible brain damage, Frank McCourt apparently had one of his handlers explain to him the dire safety issues inside and outside his stadium.
This is the man […]

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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 goons […]

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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 him so […]

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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 it. […]

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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 address […]

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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 the […]

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