It’s there is you look hard enough – the Good amongst the Bad and the Ugly in Friday night’s painful 6-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. It was a Dodgers ‘go from ahead’ loss to give the Brewers a ‘come from behind’ win. The Dodgers nursed a precarious 2-0 lead into the top of the […]

It’s a phenomena that happens quite frequently – a struggling pitcher gets cut from a team, gets picked up by a new team and flourishes. The Dodgers saw it with the likes of Vicente Padilla, Brett Tomko, Aaron Harang, Chris Capuano, Ricky Nolasco and Edinson Volquez, among others. There’s no rhyme or reason to it, […]

Everybody loves Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis – the Dodgers front office loves him, general manager Ned Colletti loves him, field manager Don Mattingly loves him, his teammates love him, the fans love him and even the oft critical media loves him. He is, after all, Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw’s best friend. But no amount of […]

It’s probably safe to say that when Sir Paul McCartney performed before a sell out crowd at Dodger Stadium last Saturday night, he had no idea that the stage on which he stood was damaging the very center field grass that Sir Yasiel Puig will be patrolling on Friday night when the Dodgers return home […]

No one likes to see any player land on the disabled list, but it’s hard to argue that sometimes it is the best thing for both the player and for the team. Not only does it remove the temptation for a manager to run a guy out there who isn’t 100%, but it allows the […]

It happens every year about this time – many baseball experts, analysts, radio and television talk show hosts, writers and bloggers begin their annual rant that MLB pitchers are not deserving of Most Valuable Player awards because (and for no other reason than) pitchers already have their own awards – the Cy Young awards. Poppycock. As […]

For those who, by virtue of where they live, are fortunate enough to watch every Dodger game on Sports Net LA (SNLA), the on-going dispute between multi-billion dollar Time Warner Cable and multi-billion dollar DirecTV is little more than a passing thought or an annoying daily distraction on Twitter or other social media networks. After all, they simply turn on […]

There are events that happen in our childhood which we remember forever. It could be the birth of a brother or sister, a special family vacation, that first brand new family car – just to name a few. For me one such special memory occurred on July 23, 1966 when, as a 12-year-old, my father […]

During his pre-game media briefing before Monday’s Freeway Series opener against the Angels, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly had a very simple yet very direct message: “If you don’t come ready to play with Mike [Scioscia’s] club, you really end up getting embarrassed by the way they play.” On Monday the Dodgers did not come ready to […]