Several times a year on ThinkBlueLA, we get into a bit of a debate over “heart.” That is, if our boys are playing with heart, playing half- heartedly, or without heart. I expect that we may vary in our definitions of “heart”, as it is an intangible quality on a baseball team, but probably we […]
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Dodgers Place Jerry Hairston Jr. on DL – Recall Elian Herrera
August 13th, 2012 at 2:23 pm 
by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have placed IF/OF Jerry Hairston Jr. on the 15-day disabled list with left hip inflammation (retroactive to August 12) and recalled IF/OF Elian Herrera from Triple-A Albuquerque. Hairston was hitting .273 (65-for-238) with four home runs and 26 RBI and has made starts at second base (26), third base (23) and left field […]
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Jinxed
August 13th, 2012 at 8:09 am by Ron Cervenka As it always does, Sunday’s almost no-hitter by Dodger left-hander Chris Capuano once again brought up the spirited (but tongue-in-cheek) debate among the regulars on the ThinkBlueLA.com forum about uttering the words “no-hitter” when one is in progress, thereby jinxing it. (The no-hitter non-talk begins on page-3 of the game chat). I say spirited because […]
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The Dodgers Magic Number is .600
August 12th, 2012 at 7:09 am by Ron Cervenka After Saturday night’s painful 7-3 loss to the Miami Marlins, I happened to catch the final segment of the DodgerTalk post-game show with Keven Kennedy and David Vassegh. During the segment, Vassegh asked Kennedy the $64,000 Question – Can the Dodgers still win the NL West? Without hesitation, Kennedy answered “Absolutely, but they will have to […]
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A Fine Line
August 11th, 2012 at 1:46 pm by Ron Cervenka In every professional sport there is often a fine line between winning and losing. Oh sure, there is the occasional blowout, which is great when it’s your team doing the blowing out, but not so great when it’s the other way around; and of course baseball is no exception. The line between winning and losing […]
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Finally! The Truth about Scoreboard Watching!
August 10th, 2012 at 11:53 am by Ron Cervenka For years I have always gotten a huge laugh out of managers, players and coaches who adamantly deny that they scoreboard watch during the stretch run. So ridiculous are their denials that I almost expect their noses to grow when they say this. I mean really, there isn’t a fan anywhere who actually buys their […]
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The Cat with 9 Lives Survives Again
August 9th, 2012 at 11:12 am by Ron Cervenka There is only one person on the entire planet who hasn’t come to grips with the fact that the Juan Uribe experiment has failed – and miserably. Fortunately for Uribe (but unfortunately for Jerry Sands, Tony Gwynn Jr., Elian Herrera, Justin Sellers, Josh Fields and millions of Dodger fans), it is the only person that matters – […]
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They’re Making it Tough on Us – again
August 8th, 2012 at 10:47 am by Ron Cervenka It seems like every time the Dodgers get us all feeling good and plant positive thoughts of actually making it to the post season in our minds, they invariably shoot themselves in the foot – and us in the heart. To say that losing the current series to the Colorado Rockies, the indisputable worst team in baseball (well, […]
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Jerry Sands Interview – Back to Basics
August 7th, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Ron Cervenka As you probably know by now, Dodgers outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. was designated for assignment on Monday morning and was replaced on the active roster by outfielder/first baseman Jerry Sands, who was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque. It was the fourth such call-up in the past two seasons for the 24-year-old Clayton, North Carolina native and the […]
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Deflection
August 7th, 2012 at 8:17 am by Ron Cervenka Rather than dwell on the Dodgers painful (and pathetic) 2-0 loss at the hands of the lowly Colorado Rockies on Monday night, I thought I would throw a deflection out there and share this brief but humorous moment that occurred in the Dodger dugout just prior to Don Mattingly’s pre-game media interview. Dodger legend Don […]
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