This was my favorite sports team, as a kid. I have a vivid memory of lying on the floor in front of a speaker in my parents living room, elbows down, my face in my hands, listening to Vin Scully do a Dodgers game. Was it an important Dodgers game? Maybe. Maybe not. Thing is, […]

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By me, of course. Not Andruw Jones. Nothing he did this season would bring to mind the word “blast” — at least not used in its slugging context. My, oh, my, what a dog. What a barking hound. What a self-inflicted wound the Dodgers dealt themselves, when they signed this grinning, useless, delusional and scandalously […]

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The Dodgers have it all goin’ on. Not only are they underachievers. Not only are they dead from the neck up. Not only can’t they get it together in the worst division in baseball. They also are thoroughly unlikeable — as people and players. A friend of mine (I’d use his name, but I didn’t […]

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Most of us are prepared to love the new guy. Whatever the sport. We focus on his positive accomplishments. We think of what he can add to the team. (Some Clippers fans may even believe barking dog Ricky Davis will help their team.) And a few years or even a few months later … we’re […]

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Maybe Red Sox fans are going to miss Manny Ramirez, now the Dodgers’ left fielder, but the main players in the Boston print journalism community are deeply satisfied that he is gone. Boiling down their commentary, it comes out as something like this: Manny was a cancer that the Red Sox couldn’t possibly live with, […]

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I vowed (two items under this one) to march on Chavez Ravine and set myself on fire if the Dodgers traded for Manny … or at least light a candle in protest … And now they have traded for Manny … But I’m giving myself an out here because my self-immolation also required the Dodgers […]

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I am reminded of some silly dialogue from the Mel Brooks movie “Blazing Saddles.” The Cleavon Little character (Black Bart, was it not?) announces to the townsfolk, “Can’t you see it’s the last act of a desperate man?” And one of the townspeople replies, “We don’t care if it’s the first act of ‘Henry the […]

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This is the rumor floating around out there. That the Boston Red Sox are ready to foist Manny “Dead Man Jogging” Ramirez on someone, and that the Dodgers are thought to be candidates for the dreadlocked, brain-dead left fielder. This would be a horrible, horrible (add as many more “horribles” as you deem fit) idea. […]

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I watched most of this game and it seemed a little weird from the start. Finally, around the eighth inning, maybe when Dave Roberts pinch-hit for the Giants, it struck me: These two teams are absolutely awful. Particularly in terms of the people they ran out there Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Starting for the […]

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This could have been a turning point day for the Dodgers.Good news: Joe Torre benches Andruw Jones and broadly hints the $36 Million Mistake won’t be back in the lineup any time soon. Bad news: Nomar Garciaparra suffers a tweaked knee and leave in the middle of a 2-0 victory. He said it didn’t hurt […]

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