Let’s be honest here, during his six seasons with the Dodgers, LA fans either really really liked oft-controversial outfielder Yasiel Puig, or they really really did not. But be that as it may, there is no disputing that he epitomized the age-old saying: “A man playing a kids’ game,” about our national pastime. No one […]

Merriam-Webster defines a ‘Dirtbag‘ as: “slang: a dirty, unkempt, or contemptible person.“ …but if you know, you know. Dodger Stadium organist Dieter Ruehle is a Dirtbag. Again, if you know, you know. A ‘Dirtbag‘ is also the name given to an athlete, student, or alumnus of California State University Long Beach – aka Cal State […]

  *  *  *  In professional sports, any player that a team will not consider trading is labeled ‘Untouchable’.   *  *  *  *  Thanks to an exceptionally robust player development program and the acquisition acumen of Andrew Friedman (President Baseball Operations), Los Angeles Dodgers fans are accustomed to untouchable players on the roster or […]

At a time when we can all use some, former Dodgers utility infielder/outfielder and current SportsNet LA analyst Jerry Hairston Jr. gave Dodgers fans a little good news about the Major League Baseball’s current lockout and negotiations between team owners and the MLB Players Association towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement during Wednesday night’s […]

For the tenth consecutive year, baseball’s all-time home run leader Barry Bonds was snubbed from achieving baseball immortality when the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) once again did not vote him into baseball’s Hall of Fame, for which the (now) 57-year-old Riverside, CA native and first-round draft pick in 1985 by the Pittsburgh Pirates out […]

For the first time since Major League Baseball initiated its lockout of players on December 2, 2021, and after meeting face-to-face (or mask-to-mask) for the first time on Monday, MLB and the MLB Players Association will meet on back-to-back days on Tuesday in an effort to establish a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, thereby bringing an […]

During last week’s Zoom press conference to introduce former Dodgers Vice-President and Assistant General Manager Brandon Gomes as the team’s new General Manager, our good friend Eric Stephen over at True Blue LA asked Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman if there would be any changes to the Dodgers coaching staff for the 2022 […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is bad. Horrifically bad. So bad, in fact, that since it’s on-set exactly two years ago this past week and as of Saturday, January 22, 2022, there have been 2,467,797 confirmed cases and 28,417 confirmed deaths just in Los Angeles County. But there is another health problem for LA County residents – […]

If you honestly thought that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association would come to a quick resolution towards establishing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, I’ve got some Ocean Front Property in Arizona I’ll sell you cheap. The simple truth is that even under the best-case scenario, it would take at least two meetings […]

At a time when face-to-face interviews and press conferences are but a distant memory, Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman formally introduced 37-year-old Brandon Gomes as their new General Manager on Thursday morning … via Zoom. “The way [Brandon] poured himself into our pitching department and the incredible strides that we’ve made on that […]