A couple of days ago while making my daily run-through of the Dodger blog sites, I came across a post on the Vin Scully is my Home Boy site about former Dodger great Steve Garvey deciding to auction off his remarkable collection of trophies, awards, rings and other items from his outstanding career. Although it isn’t […]
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Classic Lasorda
February 8th, 2013 at 7:26 am 
by Ron Cervenka As much as I always wanted to attend Dodgers spring training while they were still at Vero Beach, I was never able to make it there. It was simply too far and too expensive for me, not to mention the time away from my family and my work. However, since moving their spring training facilities […]
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Is There More than a Bobble Head in Don Sutton’s Future?
February 7th, 2013 at 11:07 am by Ron Cervenka After receiving yesterday’s press release from Garrett Thomas of the Dodgers PR department announcing that the Dodgers have decided on Don Sutton as their final bobble head giveaway for the upcoming 2013 season, several of our ThinkBlueLA regulars got into a discussion about Sutton over on the ThinkBlueLA forum. The discussion wasn’t based on Sutton’s […]
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Sex Sells
February 6th, 2013 at 8:32 am by Ron Cervenka Okay I admit it. I love the banner ads on FoxSports.com. You know the ones I’m talking about, guys – the ones with those extremely attractive, well endowed young ladies trying to convince you that if you use their product, a flock of beautiful and sexy young ladies will come crashing through your door. (I […]
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Báez Gets a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
February 6th, 2013 at 6:01 am by Ron Cervenka It isn’t all that uncommon for minor league players who are unsuccessful at the position for which they were signed to get a shot at trying their luck at an entirely different position before being released by the team. It is uncommon, however, for those players to actually be successful at those different positions, at least to […]
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“Nice Guys Finish Last.”
February 5th, 2013 at 7:00 am by Ron Cervenka “Nice guys finish last.” It is a phase that everyone has heard and probably even said at least once in their life, perhaps even many times. But only those with graying hair or (in my case) very little hair know of its origin. Ironically, the phrase was actually coined by a baseball man; a man […]
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One Big Dodger Family
February 4th, 2013 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Although I haven’t been much of a football fan since the Rams left Los Angeles more than 30 years ago (well, except for USC football, that is), I actually watched the Super Bowl yesterday – and it was a great game. And though I didn’t have a dog in the race and pretty much didn’t care […]
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Anticipation
February 3rd, 2013 at 7:12 am by Ron Cervenka Having been a die-hard Dodger fan for more than a half century I have gone through many off-seasons and every year is it pretty much the same thing – the instant the final out is recorded in the final game of the World Series, I simply cannot wait for the new season to begin. Around […]
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Will Billingsley Make it Through the Season? (opinion poll)
February 2nd, 2013 at 6:16 am by Ron Cervenka On August 24, 2012, Dodgers right-hander Chad Billingsley left the game against the Miami Marlins in the fourth inning with pain in his pitching elbow, pain that was later diagnosed as a partial tear in the ulnar collateral ligament. Rather than undergoing Tommy John surgery at that time, which undoubtedly would have cost him the entire 2013 […]
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The Other Side of the Coin
February 1st, 2013 at 6:16 am by Harold Uhlman I have heard it and so have you. Money is ruining the game we love – baseball. Players are not following the dream but following the buck. They have no team loyalty, seeking huge long term contracts which pay them millions well after their most productive years are over. It is totally infuriating to always […]
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