There goes Andruw Jones, off to knee surgery on Tuesday and “6-8 weeks” off, an absence I believe will be considerably longer. He now has an acceptable excuse for doing nothing to make the Dodgers better. The man is hurt, see? Just a tough break. Not at all a function of a guy whose career […]

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Someone just threw Andruw Jones a life line. An injury. The Dodgers’ mega-bust center fielder, arguably the worst free-agent position-player signing in baseball history, apparently has torn cartilage in his right knee. “Gutty ‘Druw” said he will wait until Friday to see if the knee comes around. If it doesn’t he may go in for […]

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How bad can a guy be when he makes you pine for Juan Pierre? When he’s as bad as Andruw Jones. Jones whiffed twice tonight, hit a lazy fly that fell for an error … and saw his average fall to .170. With one homer and four RBI. It’s time for the Dodgers to take […]

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A recent trend in the sports-fan blogosphere is to create a website named “FireTheSportsFigureIHate.com” Just fill in the name of the coach/general manager/player you loathe, get the domain, get busy trashing the guy. Among those out there and active are firegeorgekarl.com (referring to the Denver Nuggers coach) … and locally, we had dumpdorrell.com, which last […]

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OK, the age of player-managers is over. It’s safe to say it’s not coming back. So isn’t it time to allow baseball managers to wear civilian clothes in the dugout? Please? We really don’t need to see old men and tubby middle-agers in baseball knickers and knee-high hose. We really don’t. It’s not a flattering […]

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And that is said for ironic effect. Yes. The guy is horrible, and he’s killing my fantasy league team. Not to mention the Dodgers. Let us count the ways!

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The evidence is beginning to mount. It’s not the Arrive Late, Leave Early thing, for which Dodgers fans are (justly) infamous. That’s a violation of “real fan” behavior, at both ends … but given the freeway system in SoCal it’s almost understandable. Talking about 30-45 minutes of your life you can save, coming late or […]

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So here I am in Chavez Ravine for the first time this season. And I can’t tell you how exciting it is because the Dodgers have a chance to put up their first three-game winning streak of the season. Twenty-five games in. And on their third try. Before the game I sat in the dugout […]

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I don’t see these Dodgers contending for anything. Aside of “worst team seen by the most people,” which they are close to clinching, before May 1. Their slow start isn’t just a slow start, the sort of random sample of 9-13 you could pick out of most any ball team’s 162-game season. I believe their […]

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The Dodgers were the first sports team I paid attention to, and I can’t help but follow them … even though that World Series drought is up to 20 years now and the club is owned by Bostonians more interested in the club as a real estate venture than as a successful sports team. I […]

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