Can’t be too upset about this. These Dodgers never were very good. They had a hot two weeks in September to finish a modest 84-78, only the 15th-best record in baseball, but that was enough to win an awful division. Then they ran into a Cubs team that chose that weekend to go into a […]

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I’m watching the Dodgers go down, and out … on ESPN’s international network. Which is being voiced-over by a Cantonese-speaking announcer. It led to this amusing bit, a moment ago.

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My sports viewing day has gone from one extreme to the other. An event in which I was quite interested … to one in which I find myself completely disengaged And both on the same television network. Game 1 was the Dodgers and Phillies in the National League Championship Series. The game that was on […]

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Tell me you haven’t all done this a time or 50. You’re watching a game, and you know which team you want to win … and they get off to a good start … and you decide that your actions — at home — somehow are responsible. It’s an internalization of the panoply of superstitions […]

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I was 180 degrees from this opinion, two months ago. I insisted the Dodgers shouldn’t trade for Manny Ramirez. Then, when it happened, I suggested the Manny trade would be the last desperate and foolish act on Ned Colletti’s resume. A day later, I rounded up the commentary from Boston, where angry/enraged columnists accused Manny […]

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I’m by no means the only one who has noticed that a five-game series is too short to decide something as important (at least in the baseball world) as who gets to the league championship series. Dodgers manager Joe Torre, whose team was on the lucky side of a short series against a superior team, […]

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Maybe an American expat can buy some sort of cable package, here in Hong Kong, that gets you all the sports TV you might be able to see back at home. I haven’t found it yet. But I’m not totally disconnected from the goings on, via television. I saw two L.A. teams in action today, […]

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So, here we are, a few days into the baseball playoffs, and the best team in the regular season is nine innings from elimination, and the worst team in the regular season is nine innings from advancing. Those would be the Angels and Dodgers, respectively, and their experiences so far — and likely short-term futures […]

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And it just ended. Already I’m feeling it. Even with four rounds of playoffs going on. I like baseball’s long season. As a fan. Not as a reporter or sports editor. Several upsides to it.

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The Associated Press has found a school in Maine that offers three units for a history class about baseball. About Boston Red Sox baseball, in particular, but I could stand that. Name of the Bates College class: Red Sox Nation: Baseball and American Culture.” Where was this class when I was going to school?

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