We know what we would like, here in Southern California. A Freeway Series. Finally. We won’t get it. But it could be fun, anyway. Here’s how I see things unfolding, the next four weeks: (And this is the updated/corrected version; you’d think I was hurrying to get to an airport, or something.)

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Manny Ramirez prompted me to think of this anew. Ballplayers, even many of the greatest  ballplayers on the planet … look like regular people. Sure, “why should they not?”, you’re saying. Well, because if you spend much time hanging around football or basketball teams, it can be jarring to realize that an elite athlete, someone […]

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This is sort of the Holy Grail of Southland big-league baseball. The Dodgers vs. the Angels in the World Series. SoCal print journalists have been writing about this concept almost from the minute the Angels were created, in 1961. And it’s never come close to happening. I can remember a dozen times when we did […]

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David Lassen of the Ventura County Star sent this along to me. About a guy impersonating a Dodger. And it came with this notation: “No, it’s not Andruw Jones. I checked.” Ooh. Good line.

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Manny Ramirez hit a home run. So did a suddenly spry Nomar Garciaparra. Clayton Kershaw was competent. And the Dodgers clinched a share of the NL West regular-season title by battering the Padres, 12-4, tonight — up four with four games to play. Which could make for a rather odd “celebration” Thursday.

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This link is to an espn.com story about the Yankees’ failure to make the playoffs for the first time since 1995. The gist of the story is that the Yankees have had a horrible minor-league system for years, and it finally caught up with them. At the end of the story is a very interesting […]

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While sitting in press row at Dodger Stadium … –Who pays for the cleanup of a clubhouse when a team clinches on the road? If they don’t collapse here, the Dodgers likely will clinch the National League West this weekend in San Francisco. Where Giants officials have to be less-than-enthused about the champagne/beer dousing their […]

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The Dodgers are in the final days of a pennant race here, and they probably are going to win the National League West. And that leaves me, as a lifelong Dodgers fan … supremely disinterested. I’ve been out of the sports journalism business (technically) for six months, so in theory I ought to be reinventing […]

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No matter how many “personal all-time top-10 Dodgers” lists I compile, as I decline into senility, I can guarantee this: Andruw Jones will never make the list. Neither will Kevin Brown, Bill Buckner, Juan Pierre … nor Jeff Kent.

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Former colleague Dennis Pope points out I already had done a “favorite Dodgers” list before I did the one just below. So, yes, I’m officially losing it. I had a flicker of a “did I do this before? Nahhh!” thought before going on ahead. The amusing thing is how the lists differ. Orel Hershiser is […]

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