I want to open this piece by saying that this season has been one to watch. The Dodgers have had long stretches of brilliance and that has awarded them the best record in baseball. That same team, though, has also seen some pretty poor stretches and they currently sit amongst one of those right now. […]
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Roberts: ‘We’re going to win the division, I can assure you of that’
September 7th, 2017 at 12:00 pm 
by Ron Cervenka The 116 games that some believed the Dodgers might actually win this season became mathematically impossible with Wednesday night’s 3-1 lost to the red hot Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium. With 92 wins in the bank and with 23 games remaining, the best they can now do is finish the 2017 regular season with 115 […]
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Pedro Baez is damaged goods
September 6th, 2017 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka It goes without saying that there isn’t a Dodger player, a Dodger beat writer (or blogger), or a Dodger fan on the planet who doesn’t absolutely love Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. Not only did the extremely polite 45-year-old Naha, Japan native lead the Dodgers to their fourth consecutive National League West title in his first season as the Dodgers […]
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Hard numbers and hurt feelings
September 5th, 2017 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka There are three basic types of people in this world: optimists, pessimists and realists. As we have been told all of our lives, the optimists see the glass as half full and the pessimists as half empty. And then there are the realists, who fully understand that regardless of whether the glass is half full […]
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The rest of the story behind Bellinger’s record-breaking home run ball(s)
September 4th, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Ron Cervenka * * * * UPDATED: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 at 7:00 pm PT * * * * To this day it is still one of baseball’s greatest unsolved mysteries. What ever happened to Kirk Gibson‘s historic home run ball from game-1 of the 1988 World Series? You know, the home run that many […]
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What’s wrong with Yu?
September 3rd, 2017 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka When the Dodgers acquired right-hander Yu Darvish in the final minutes prior to the non-waiver trade deadline on July 31, by every indication they made their already MLB-best starting rotation even better. They already owned a 14-game lead over the second place Arizona Diamondbacks and a 14.5-game lead over the third place Colorado Rockies in the […]
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Baseball is an incredible game
September 2nd, 2017 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Baseball is an incredible game. Just when you think you’ve seen or heard everything that you can possibly see or hear, something new happens. It happened again on Friday night in front of 36,767 fans at San Diego’s Petco Park and undoubtedly millions of other Dodger and baseball fans around the world. Ironically, many, perhaps […]
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Right-hander Wilmer Font gets the call
September 1st, 2017 at 8:00 am by Harold Uhlman Word circulated on Thursday that right-hander Wilmer Font of the Oklahoma City Dodgers had received a September call up to the parent Dodgers. It is almost impossible to imagine what went through his mind and the feelings he is experiencing since he got the long awaited and somewhat overdue news. The nature of his season […]
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Raptors Romer Cuadrado leading play-off charge
September 1st, 2017 at 6:00 am by Harold Uhlman The Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League are currently in the race for a playoff berth to help manager Mark Kertenian celebrate his first year at the helm of the rookie level squad with an opportunity to win the league championship. The Raptors are three games up on the Grand Junction Rockies in the second […]
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Help Pantone 294 Help Those in Need!
August 31st, 2017 at 7:50 pm by Ron Cervenka Pantone 294 Family and Friends, When Hurricane Harvey hit down in Texas, it became one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in US history. Not only have people lost their lives, but hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and so many men, women, children and pets are still awaiting rescue, including members of our our very […]
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