This team has “ugly” covered, coming and going. Not only are the 2008 Dodgers lousy, they’re dull. The worst of both worlds. The lousy is fairly easy to document. They’re five games under .500 despite playing in the worst division in baseball. They rank among the bottom in baseball in runs, home runs, doubles, saves, […]

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How many times can this hit home? Probably not until I stop going to live sports events. I am not a sports fan. Not of any team. Not of any individual. And never again will be. At least, not in a fashion that would be recognized as fandom by actual sports fans. Why? Because I […]

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I can understand how coming up with a decent “question of the day” can tax a person’s mind. Especially when he/she is referring to a team well under .500 and floundering like a gaffed tuna. But this one … Well, here is the Dodgers’ home page,” as of this writing, and you can’t help but […]

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Uh, don’t say that about me. I’m no Dodger. Actually, I used to know some Dodgers and the guys they have suiting up these days are no Dodgers. One of the myriad advertising campaigns the Dodgers organization has going on … is this thing on their web site entitled “We’re All Dodgers … What’s Your […]

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The Dodgers topped the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 today in what must have been a bittersweet game, for The Blue. Because that’s the last time the Dodgers get to play the Reds this season.

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The Lakers are the best thing to happen to the Dodgers this spring. The playoffs dash by Kobe & Co. has deflected attention from what is increasingly looking like a Big Blue Face Plant. So, that $118.5-million roster Ned Colletti assembled? Essentially the fifth-most expensive roster in the bigs? It has bought the Dodgers 28 […]

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This expression really bugs me. And you see it in newspapers and magazines, hear it on the airwaves … a lot. “Heart and soul.” As in, “he is the heart and soul” of this or that team. I want usage of this to decline about 90 percent. Because it’s used too often and, more important, […]

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I believe Andruw Jones will go down as one of the great disasters in Dodgers personnel history. Right there with the Pedro Martinez for Delino DeShields trade. Maybe even above it; the Dodgers didn’t give Delino $36.5 million over two years. So, I’m already thinking in terms of a list of nicknames appropriate to immortalize […]

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Two news items last week seemed only tangentially related. Mike Piazza announced his retirement. Nomar Garciaparra went on the 60-day disabled list. Actually, those stories have more than a little in common. The careers of both men, perhaps the end of the careers of both men, speak to one of the biggest issues the Los […]

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James Curran was the ultimate Sun sports department prodigy. He showed up pretty much fully formed, as a writer, at the age of 16. He could report, keep statistics and file on deadline when he walked in the door. When he was barely old enough to drive. He had spent some time at a weekly […]

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