Happiness Win or lose, baseball makes me happy. From watching my favorite players make great plays or hit home runs, to seeing a pitcher’s duel unfold before my very eyes. There’s just something about the dirt, the grass, and the crack of the bat that puts me in a great mood. Anytime Visit a baseball […]
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What is Your Favorite Spring Training 2020 Memory?
March 14th, 2020 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka With Major League Baseball facing its single-most difficult challenge in its glorious 151-year history, and with the 2020 regular season in (very) serious danger of being canceled, Dodgers – and baseball – fans have only memories to fall back on (and sportswriters to write about) to keep their sense of sanity; most recently, their memories […]
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Cactus League WeekThree
March 14th, 2020 at 8:00 am by 0799291000348 Worldwide pandemic puts sports into their proper perspective, whether it be college basketball’s annual “March Madness” tournament, or professional sports like the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, and of course Major League Baseball. No political commentary here, just as my boss told me five decades ago, “It is what it is; time to move […]
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Dodgers to Remain in Camp Even Though Not Required To
March 13th, 2020 at 8:03 am by Ron Cervenka Shortly after Thursday’s announcement by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred that Spring Training in both the Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues was being canceled and that Opening Day 2020 was being delayed (at least) two weeks, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts met with reporters and shared his reaction and opinion to the news. “I think it’s responsible in […]
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Spring Training Suspended, Opening Day Delayed
March 12th, 2020 at 1:30 pm by Ron Cervenka The inevitable has happened. Early Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball officially suspended all remaining 2020 Spring Training games and delayed the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Following a conference call with all 30 MLB teams, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred made the anticipated moves official. […]
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The Night Baseball Died
March 12th, 2020 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka I’m neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist. And once it was confirmed that the extremely contagious coronavirus, more specifically COVID-19, had made its way to North America, I knew, realistically and beyond a reasonable doubt (as we used to say on the job), that our national pastime – at least to […]
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Don’t Count Austin Barnes Out Just Yet
March 12th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Make no mistake about it, 24-year-old Dodgers catcher Will Smith is the real deal. I mean, we’re talking about the Dodgers first-round draft pick (32nd overall) in 2016 out of the University of Louisville here. But there’s something else that you should make no mistake about – 30-year-old Fullerton, CA native and the ninth-round draft […]
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Observations from a Dodgers Fan
March 11th, 2020 at 8:00 am by 0799291000348 The Dodgers have so much talent and depth that there will be difficult roster decisions before Opening Day of the 2020 regular season. One of the most difficult to date was optioning 24-year-old infielder/outfielder Zach McKinstry to Triple-A Oklahoma City. He not only out-performed utility players Edwin Rios and Matt Beaty this Spring, but also […]
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Baseball – The New Contact Sport
March 10th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Jayann Kellogg Players getting hit by pitches might be a more common thing talked about in baseball this season than ever before. Why, you ask? After doing what I felt was way too much research on the subject, I found that the first official record of players getting hit by pitches dates back to 1887 when a […]
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Birthday in the Ballpark
March 9th, 2020 at 10:00 am by Lauren Jennings * * * * Having a birthday in early March, being able to go to a baseball game on your actual birthday can be pretty hard to come by. In 2015, I spent my 20th birthday with the Dodgers and the Indians, that is until we ended up in the emergency room after my […]
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