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 […]
(Read More)Dodgers Designate Tony Gwynn Jr. for Assignment – Recall Jerry Sands from Triple-A
August 6th, 2012 at 9:36 am by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers have designated outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. for assignment and recalled outfielder/first baseman Jerry Sands from Triple-A Albuquerque. Gwynn was batting .232 with a team-leading four triples and 17 RBI in 103 games with Los Angeles. Sands, 24, has hit safely in his last 10 games with Triple-A Albuquerque, batting .476 (20-for-42) with six […]
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Actions Speak Louder than Words
August 6th, 2012 at 9:21 am by Ron Cervenka When I arrived at the Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter last Thursday afternoon after making the hour and a half drive to watch Justin Sellers rehab with the Quakes, I was quite disappointed to learn that Sellers would not be playing that night. Sellers had made his first rehab start the night before as the Quakes Designated Hitter and Dodgers management (more […]
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“Bluetopia” to Screen at L.A. Craft and Folk Art Museum Exhibition
August 5th, 2012 at 8:24 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum has announced a special screening of “Bluetopia: The LA Dodgers Movie” on Thursday August 16th at 7:00 PM as part of its summer-long Baseball: The All American Game exhibition. “While the events of Bluetopia occurred over 4 years ago, the fans’ passions on display and “inside baseball” access are timeless,” says Timothy Marx, Bluetopia’s producer and director. […]
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Upon Further Review……….. Not!
August 4th, 2012 at 11:59 am by Ron Cervenka Well, it happened again last night, just as it seems to happen every night in every MLB ballpark across the country – a blown call by an umpire. Or was it a blown call? Maybe it wasn’t. Don Mattingly thought it was a blown call – enough to come out and argue about it for […]
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