During Saturday night’s AM 570 podcast on Twitter, show host David Vassegh had former Dodgers general manager and current SportsNet LA analyst Ned Colletti on as his guest. Needless to say, it didn’t take Vassegh long to get the man who helped construct a Dodgers dynasty and farm system that won seven consecutive National League […]
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Nomar and Ned Put Chances of Baseball in 2020 at 50-50
May 23rd, 2020 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka During Thursday evening’s broadcast of Access Sportsnet Dodgers on SportsNet LA, show host John Hartung asked his Zoom guests Nomar Garciaparra, Orel Hershiser, and Ned Colletti where they would put the chances of there being a 2020 MLB season. Ever the optimist, 1988 NL Cy Young award-winner Hershiser put the chances at 60-40 that MLB […]
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Military Flyovers Another Victim of COVID-19 … Sort Of
May 22nd, 2020 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka Chances are exceptionally good that if you have attended a professional sporting event over the past 80 years – especially on an Opening Day or on a National Holiday – you have witnessed a military flyover. Now I don’t know about you, but for me, these are very emotional moments that make me proud to […]
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Dodgers 2020 Taxi Squad
May 21st, 2020 at 8:00 am by 0799291000348 When the 2020 Major League Baseball season finally arrives, games will be played as they never have before, and hopefully never will again, under the dark cloud of a worldwide pandemic. Huge stadiums built to hold tens of thousands of people will be devoid of fans as the sounds of the game echo amongst the […]
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Dodgers to Host First Zoom Party en Español on Thursday Evening
May 20th, 2020 at 1:00 pm by Ron Cervenka The Dodgers will host their inaugural Zoom Party en Español on Thursday evening, May 21, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. PT. The Zoom Party will feature current players Kiké Hernández, Julio Urías, Brusdar Graterol and Edwin Ríos, former Dodgers Adrián González and Fernando Valenzuela, as well as broadcasters Jaime Jarrín, Alanna Rizzo, Pepe Yñiguez and Jorge Jarrín. Fans can register for Thursday’s Dodgers Zoom Party en […]
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Cal League Cancels 2020 All-Star Game
May 20th, 2020 at 9:32 am by Ron Cervenka In what was undoubtedly among his toughest calls as president of the Advanced Single-A California League, Charlie Blaney announced via social media on Wednesday morning that the 2020 Cal League All-Star game and related activities scheduled for June 22-23, 2020 at Banner Island Ballpark – home of the Stockton Ports (Athletics) – have been canceled […]
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Is MLB About to Make a Deadly Mistake?
May 20th, 2020 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It goes without saying that when Major League Baseball announced on Saturday that they had submitted a 67-page proposal to the MLB Players Association about possibly resuming baseball as early as July 1, there wasn’t a baseball fan on the planet who wasn’t ecstatic about the news. The proposal, which was extremely detailed on the […]
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Baseball in June?
May 19th, 2020 at 1:00 pm by Jayann Kellogg Dodger fans have been waiting for this very moment – an announcement of hope that we will get to see our Dodger team in uniform and ready to play ball. On Monday afternoon, we received that announcement of hope. Governors from New York, California, and Texas announced on Monday that professional sports could resume in […]
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Potential Return of Baseball in July Gaining Momentum
May 19th, 2020 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in February, the governors of New York, California, Texas, and Pennsylvania were among the most outspoken to support – and invoke – a complete shutdown of their respective states. Their reasoning was both obvious and completely understandable: their states were among the hardest hit by the deadly […]
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An ‘Immaculate’ Memory
May 18th, 2020 at 9:00 am by Jayann Kellogg It was a warm yet pleasant August afternoon in Seattle, WA. It was not my first trip to Safeco Field (now called T-Mobile Park). I had once been years ago for an eighth-grade field trip and had no interest in being there. All I remember from that trip was hunting down the Dippin’ Dots vendors […]
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