Let’s face it, winning a World Series championship is extremely difficult, cheating notwithstanding. There is no greater example of this than having witnessed the Dodgers win seven consecutive National League West Division titles only to fall short in the NL Championship Series or even the World Series itself … again, cheating notwithstanding. Although the horrific […]

As the City of Angels slowly begins to recover from the devastating loss of one of its most iconic and beloved sports legends, it’s time to pull ourselves up, get back on our feet, brush ourselves off, give each other a much-needed hug and begin moving forward again, especially with Dodgers pitchers and catchers due […]

Let’s be brutally honest here. When it was announced in December that Nike had replaced Majestic as the new official uniform sponsor of Major League Baseball, it wasn’t warmly received by many (most) baseball fans; especially old-school baseball purists and even more so for the millions of baseball fans with closets full of (expensive) Majestic […]

The entire staff at ThinkBlue LA sends our sincerest condolences, thoughts, and prayers to the family, friends, and colleagues of Kobe and Gianna Bryant; John, Keri, and Allyssa Altobelli; Christina Mauser; Sarah and Payton Chester; and pilot Ara Zobayan, who were killed in Sunday’s horrific helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. There simply are no words. […]

Love him or hate him, LA Times writer Bill Plaschke is very good at what he does. Referred to by many as an antagonist, the 61-year-old / 33-year veteran LA Times journalist has a remarkable knack for getting to the very heart of all things sports – and otherwise – related. As such, when he […]

On November 14, 2019, the normally quiet community of Saugus, CA, located within the City of Santa Clarita, was rocked with gunfire. A 16-year-old student at Saugus High School pulled a .45 caliber handgun from his backpack and opened fire, killing two fellow students and wounding two others before turning the gun on himself and […]

Although probably more of a calculated ploy than by accident (and one of the oldest marketing tricks in the books), a photograph of the Dodgers 2020 Spring Training hat somehow made its way onto social media on Wednesday. As expected, the ‘sneak peek’ was immediately met with mixed reviews. But like most things in life, […]

When it was learned that newly-elected Hall of Famer Derek Jeter fell one vote shy of being the first position player to be unanimously voted into the sacred Halls of Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA), social media blew up. I mean, how on earth could the single greatest position player of […]