“Sometimes the truth hurts.” It is something that I heard many times growing up from a great man (my father). As a Dodgers-based blog site, the last thing that our readers want to hear is praise for the San Francisco Giants; but the cold, hard and painful truth is that what the Giants accomplished over the past […]
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Playing Hungry
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:10 pm 
by Ron Cervenka You’ve all seen it before if you’ve watched baseball for any period of time – it’s called “playing hungry.” If you were watching Fox Television at 5 PM PT (8 PM ET) last night, you saw playing hungry at its absolute finest. They were the guys dressed in orange and black and they played hungry […]
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Pederson Ends 0 for AFL Slump
October 21st, 2012 at 1:27 am by Ron Cervenka Dodgers top outfield prospect Joc Pederson finally collected his first hit of the 2012 Arizona Fall League on Saturday afternoon, thus ending his painful 0 for 19 slump. Pederson went 2 for 5 with two singles and drove in two for the Mesa Solar Sox. Unfortunately 2 for 24 equates to a dismal .083 batting average, but […]
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Down on the Farm – Great Lakes Loons Year in Review
October 20th, 2012 at 9:53 am by Harold Uhlman When I first started to do some research on the Loons, I came across this reminder: “The Vero Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League had been affiliates of the Los Angeles Dodgers since the club’s inception in 1980. After the 2006 season, the Dodgers ended the affiliation…” Vero Beach Dodgers Needless to say, that brought back, […]
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Stepping on Their Throats
October 19th, 2012 at 11:20 am by Ron Cervenka One of baseball’s oldest unwritten rules is that a player (or team) should never ‘show up’ the other team when leading by a large margin. In fact doing so will, in most cases, get one (or more) of your teammates plunked by an opposing pitcher. And while some may cry foul about this violation of The […]
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Another Red Patterson
October 19th, 2012 at 6:01 am by Harold Uhlman Many Dodger fans remember Arthur “Red” Patterson who joined the Dodgers in 1954. Red was a public relations innovator and became known as the father of the “tape measure home run” when he paced off Mickey Mantle’s 656-foot shot on April 17, 1953, the longest home run in baseball history. Red died in 1992 at […]
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Down on the Farm – Rancho Cucamonga Quakes Year in Review
October 18th, 2012 at 5:43 am by Harold Uhlman The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes are the Dodgers Advanced Single-A minor league team that plays in the highly competitive California League. The Quakes bridge the gap between the Dodgers Low Single-A Great Lakes Loons in Midland, MI and their Double-A Lookouts in Chattanooga, TN. The Quakes draw many of their players from the Loons but also from […]
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Rawlings puts the Ball in Baseball
October 17th, 2012 at 12:05 pm by Ron Cervenka Most die-hard baseball fans are well aware that Rawlings has been the official and exclusive supplier of baseballs for Major League Baseball for over a quarter-century. They may even know that each Rawlings Official Major League Baseball (ROMLB) is made in Costa Rica. But what most baseball enthusiasts might not know is the extreme scrutiny and the […]
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A Prospect or Not
October 16th, 2012 at 5:52 am by Harold Uhlman Is there any wonder why we love this game… this game called baseball? It is arguably the most unpredictable of all major sports. Not only is baseball the most difficult team sport to play, it is unquestionably the most difficult to be successful at. What other professional sport can you fail at 70% of the time […]
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The Home Field Disadvantage
October 15th, 2012 at 1:22 pm by Evan Bladh Do you ever remember a time when so many road teams won in the post season? Look at these results: Wild Card Playoffs Baltimore beats Texas on the road. St. Louis beats Atlanta on the road. NLDS San Francisco against Cincinnati results in all five games won by the visiting team. St. Louis against Washington results is 3 of […]
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