Even before the very first pitch of the 2013 season was thrown, I was confident that a line-up of Carl Crawford, Matt Kemp, Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier would not only be among the most feared line-ups in the National League but in all of baseball. Even after Ramirez went down with his […]
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They Listened
April 9th, 2013 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It was difficult, nearly impossible, in fact. It was nearly impossible to refrain from posting a scathing article about being lied to and mislead by Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten and Sr. Vice President of Planning and Development Janet Marie Smith – lied to face to face, no less. I was told in person about […]
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Thirty-nine years ago
April 8th, 2013 at 4:55 pm by Ron Cervenka You probably don’t remember what you were doing on Monday, April 8, 1974 (if you were even around then), but if I told you that was the day (or night, rather) that Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium to break Babe Ruth’s long standing record […]
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High socks
April 8th, 2013 at 6:30 am by Ron Cervenka We all know that baseball players are a superstitious lot, whether it’s not stepping on the line when entering or exiting the field, or wearing the same hat or T-shirt after a successful game, or not talking to pitchers when they are having a great outing, or whatever. As such, you can imagine the chuckle I […]
(Read More)Sunday’s Minor League Wrap
April 8th, 2013 at 12:48 am by Harold Uhlman Pitching was the order of the day with five strong starts. The home run bats also started to heat up a bit. Great Lakes Loons The Loons won 8-3 picking up their first win of the season after three consecutive losses to the Fort Wayne TinCaps. Carlos Frias got the win with five strong innings. […]
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Twenty-five years – It’s Enough Time
April 7th, 2013 at 10:54 am by Evan Bladh So I came into work after the Giants had just beat the Dodgers on Wednesday to complete the 3 game series win and a co-worker friend of mine excitedly approached because he had a good one to share. It was a joke he’d heard and he’d probably been sitting on it for 12 hours or […]
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¡Hola Paco! ¿Qué tal, Como estas?
April 7th, 2013 at 6:59 am by Ron Cervenka If you remember that line from your junior high school Spanish class, you are old. But if you remember it from Dodger Stadium, you probably heard it in jest regarding arguably the best Dodger pitcher to come along since Clayton Kershaw. I am, of course, speaking of Dodger left-handed reliever Steven “Paco” Rodriguez, the first […]
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First major roster move looming for Dodgers
April 6th, 2013 at 7:05 am by Ron Cervenka With right-hander Chad Billingsley likely to come off the DL and make his 2013 debut in San Diego against the Padres on Wednesday evening, the pitching logjam that has besieged the Dodgers all winter long will finally come to a head. In other words, somebody has to go. It’s a pretty safe assumption that Kershaw, Greinke, Ryu, […]
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Hanley Ramirez can’t get back soon enough
April 5th, 2013 at 6:07 am by Ron Cervenka With the Dodgers struggling in their season opening series against the hated Giants, it became very apparent very quickly just how much the Dodgers miss having Hanley Ramirez in their line-up. Even though Hanley’s role was never really defined by the Dodgers during the first two weeks of spring training, Dodger manager Don Mattingly hinted […]
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LOB = Loss
April 4th, 2013 at 6:41 am by Ron Cervenka I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me nor do I particularly want to look them up, but I would be willing to bet that the Dodgers are among the all-time leaders in leaving men on base; at least it sure seems that way to me. Year after year they always seem to […]
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