Should the Dodgers be outbid for each of their free agents (other than Clayton Kershaw), fail to sign a substantive MLB free agent from the 2025 class, and stand pat in the trade market, they will still be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as World Series Champions. But the team will not stand pat and […]
(Read More)Dodgers Roster Tweaking
Should the Dodgers be outbid for each of their free agents (other than Clayton Kershaw), fail to sign a substantive MLB free agent from the 2025 class, and stand pat in the trade market, they will still be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as World Series Champions. But the team will not stand pat and […]
Kershaw ‘Sort Of’ Back
On Monday evening, is was being widely reported on social media that 36-year-old now free-agent future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw would be returning to the Dodgers for the 2025 season … sort of. Although there has been no official word from the Dallas,TX native and first-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2006 […]
Here’s Your Sign
It is a sign that made every Dodgers fan smile and every English teacher cringe, and it was prominently displayed during the Dodgers World Series Championship parade in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. But did its author mean: They Aren’t Like Us or They Don’t Like Us? My guess is both, since both very much […]
How Do You Even Explain This To People?
It was incredible and “unbelievable,” as a number of Dodgers players themselves described It. ‘It’ was the estimated quarter of a million people who attended the downtown parade and subsequent Dodger Stadium rally for the 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. “I’ll remember this day for the rest of my life,” a […]
With A Little Help From His Friends
It is a well publicized fact that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani did not re-sign with the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim because he wanted to play for a team that actually had a chance to make it to the World Series. Although the extremely popular Oshu, Japan native slashed a Hall-of-Fame-worthy .274/.366/.556/.922 with 171 home runs […]
Kershaw ‘Sort Of’ Back
On Monday evening, is was being widely reported on social media that 36-year-old now free-agent future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw would be returning to the Dodgers for the 2025 season … sort of. Although there has been no official word from the Dallas,TX native and first-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2006 […]
(Read More)Here’s Your Sign
It is a sign that made every Dodgers fan smile and every English teacher cringe, and it was prominently displayed during the Dodgers World Series Championship parade in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. But did its author mean: They Aren’t Like Us or They Don’t Like Us? My guess is both, since both very much […]
(Read More)How Do You Even Explain This To People?
It was incredible and “unbelievable,” as a number of Dodgers players themselves described It. ‘It’ was the estimated quarter of a million people who attended the downtown parade and subsequent Dodger Stadium rally for the 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. “I’ll remember this day for the rest of my life,” a […]
(Read More)With A Little Help From His Friends
It is a well publicized fact that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani did not re-sign with the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim because he wanted to play for a team that actually had a chance to make it to the World Series. Although the extremely popular Oshu, Japan native slashed a Hall-of-Fame-worthy .274/.366/.556/.922 with 171 home runs […]
(Read More)Mission Accomplished
The Los Angeles Dodgers are the Champions of Baseball. “This is what we said we were going to do and we did it,” Betts said postgame. “Earlier in the day I said if it gets squirrely let me know and I’ll head down there (to the bullpen),” the 30-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft […]
(Read More)Walks Kill You
It is a long proven fact that walks kill you. Not the ones you take around the block or in the park, but the base-on-ball type in baseball … unless you are the recipient of those walks, that is. In Monday’s 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers win over the New York Yankees in Game-3 of the […]
(Read More)Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
As Dodgers fans well know, Oklahoma City has had a longstanding relationship with Minor League Baseball (MiLB), having joined the Pacific Coast League in 1998 and becoming a Dodgers MiLB affiliate in 2015. On Sunday the team announced that they have changed their team name to the Oklahoma City Comets. It is the fifth team […]
(Read More)A Costly Win For Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game-2 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, but it came at an enormous and potentially series-changing cost. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, international superstar Shohei […]
(Read More)Freeman ‘Breaks’ Dodger Stadium
It was déjà vu all over again. Anyone who saw Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman‘s historic walk-off grand slam home run against the New York Yankees in Game-1 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, and let’s be honest here, what true baseball fan did not, had an immediate flashback to […]
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