Like many others, I’ve made no bones about it and I am on record as saying it: the Juan Uribe experiment has failed… and miserably. He has been a disaster since the day that he arrived in Los Angeles. There is simply no kind or gentle way to say it – Juan Uribe sucks. Heading […]

During my 30-year career with the Burbank Police Department, I spent 23 years as a detective, including 16 years as the department’s lead robbery investigator. And though my partners and I didn’t catch ’em all, we certainly put our fair share of bad guys behind bars, some of them for a very long time. Even […]

We used to have an old saying in police work: “Never get arrested on a slow news day.” This saying, of course, had more to do with the person being arrested and with the news media than with the cops, but its meaning is clear – when there isn’t a lot going on and something small […]

What Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria did to the Marlins franchise and to their fans last week is criminal and I honestly feel this was Miami’s plan all along. They signed all these players to these big contracts last year but how much did they actually have to pay out? Hanley was gone by mid […]

Today is the day all major league teams must set their 40 man rosters. The Rule 5 draft is scheduled for December 6th during the annual Winter Meetings. Players not on the 40 man roster today are eligible for this draft. The other qualification for the Rule 5 draft is that players must have signed […]

Like many folks, when the Guggenheim Baseball Management group (GBM) purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers in March of 2012 for an unprecedented $2.15 billion, the most money ever spent for any professional sports team, I had no idea who these people were (well, except for Earvin “Magic” Johnson, of course). Sure, I read about them in newspapers […]

This is nuts! This is stupid! This is crazy! This is insane! This is ridiculous! We’ve heard them all. Heck, we’ve even said them all (with and without adjectives). These are, of course, the first reactions whenever the Dodgers, or any team for that matter, sign a player or players for exorbitant amounts of money – whether of […]

If it wasn’t obvious enough to you in my Rawlings puts the Ball in Baseball article last month, I am an absolute baseball nut; not just about the game of baseball, but about the actual baseballs themselves. I love their appearance, I love their feel, I love their smell… oh I love their smell. I love everything […]