Like most folks, I frequently receive emails from friends and colleagues containing funny photographs, jokes and stories. And also like most folks, I often times immediately delete them – sometimes without even reading them. Let’s face it, they’re usually dumb or I simply do not have time to waste reading things that usually carry no socially […]
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Add one more name to the Dodgers DL
April 4th, 2016 at 6:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers will open the 2016 season with ten guys on the disabled list. In my many years as a fan I don’t remember ever seeing anything even remotely close to this. Granted, a couple names on the list will only be there for a short time – guys like Howie Kendrick and Yasmani Grandal […]
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Contest: Who will hit the first Dodgers home run?
April 3rd, 2016 at 4:02 pm by Ron Cervenka Who do you think will hit the first Dodgers home run of the 2016 season? If you pick the correct Dodgers player (and can actually attend a game) you will win two front row seats in the Left Field Pavilion (including free general parking) to a future Dodgers game. Here is the Dodgers Opening Day […]
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The Dodgers weakest link
April 3rd, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka We’ve heard it for years, decades even: “Spring training games are meaningless games.” Yet on Friday we were told that 26-year-old rookie right-hander Ross Stripling had won the Dodgers fifth starter job based on his four spring training performances in which he allowed five earned runs (all in one outing) on seven hits (including three home runs in […]
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Minor league assignments beginning to filter in
April 2nd, 2016 at 2:44 pm by Ron Cervenka Although there have been no official announcements yet regarding the Dodgers minor league assignments, tweets are beginning to come in from players regarding their respective assignments. Here’s what we’ve got so far (and there are undoubtedly many more out there in the Twittersphere): ThinkBlueLA has also learned that Quakes playoff heroes Cody Bellinger and Jacob Scavuzzo […]
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Maeda sharp in Dodger Stadium debut
April 2nd, 2016 at 1:30 pm by Ron Cervenka For those who have not had an opportunity to watch Dodgers right-hander Kenta Maeda pitch in person or on television, he can pretty much be summed up in two words – very good. His fastball hovers right around the 90 to 92-MPH mark with excellent command; his curveball is a near mirror image of Clayton Kershaw’s “Public […]
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Grandal’s Opening Day window is closing fast
April 2nd, 2016 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka Although Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wouldn’t come right out and say it, he gave every indication on Friday night that catcher Yasmani Grandal was more likely to begin the season on the disabled than not. “I talked to Yasmani and he felt okay coming out of [a minor league game in Arizona] today; not great […]
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Louis Coleman – The easiest decision the Dodgers will make
April 1st, 2016 at 10:30 am by Ron Cervenka Okay I admit it, I am very biased towards Dodgers right-handed reliever Louis Coleman. In fact, he was one of the very first guys I spoke with in the Dodgers Camelback Ranch clubhouse when pitchers and catchers reported back on February 19 and I immediately liked the guy. He wasn’t pretentious, he wasn’t egotistical or […]
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Dodgers have a Dennis Powell look-alike in their ranks
April 1st, 2016 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman Dodgers fans, well, veteran Dodger fans that is, will remember that left-hander Dennis Powell played with the Dodgers in the mid-eighties. He first pitched for the Dodgers as a 21-year old in 1985 and after one more season in Dodger Blue he was traded to the Seattle Mariners in a trade for pitcher Matt Young. […]
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