During Wednesday’s 2024 regular season opener between the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres at Gocheok Sky Dome in South Korea, former Dodgers outfielder and current Dodgers AM 570 radio broadcaster Rick Monday told listener that whoever hits the first home run of the new season would win a brand new Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric car, […]
(Read More)Archive for March, 2024
Two Games Does Not A Season Make, But…
It would be ludicrous to judge a Major League Baseball team after only two regular season games. But it would also be negligent to ignore some potential early warning signs; not for the purpose of reassignment or DFA-ing, but hopefully to work on and correct those early warning sign issues – say, like, committing two […]
(Read More)Finally…
“It’s Tiiiiime For Dodgers Baseball!” Play Ball! * * * * * *
(Read More)Takin’ It To The Max
Fact: Baseball was never intended to be watched at 3 a.m., unless, of course, it is to continue watching an extra inning game that began during normal baseball-watching hours. Fact: South Korea’s Kiwoom Heroes were no match for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who bested them by a score of 5-2 at the beautiful Gocheok Sky […]
(Read More)Freddie’s Ready
Even though Saturday’s game between the Dodgers and South Korea’s Kiwoom Heroes at the Gocheok Sky Dome was only a Spring Training Game, in no way was it your typical “Meaningless Spring Training Game,” as they are often called – not by any stretch of the imagination. It was the first of two exhibition games […]
(Read More)Final Spring Training Observations and Musings
Let’s get right to it. No concern for full names of Dodgers stars and veterans, grammar, paragraph structure, punctuation, etc. Here are some random observations and musings about the Dodgers 2024 Cactus League performance: Expect a trade (or more), with catcher Hunter Feduccia, outfielder Miguel Vargas, and pitchers Matt Gage, Michael Grove, and Ricky Vanasco […]
(Read More)이제 다저스 야구를 할 시간이다
According to Google, that’s “Its Time for Dodger Baseball” in Korean. (I’ll just have to take their word for it). Regardless, the Dodgers landed safely at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea very early (PDT) on Friday morning, ahead of Wednesday’s and Thursday’s 2024 regular season opener against the San Diego Padres at Gocheok […]
(Read More)Yamamoto Struggles in Final Spring Start
It was one of those ‘speed bump’ kind of outings for Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto in his final start of Spring Training 2024 against the Seattle Mariners at Camelback Ranch on Wednesday afternoon. After striking out the side in the top of the first inning on nine pitches and retiring nine of the first 11 […]
(Read More)Might There Be a Cy Young Award in Tyler Glasnow’s Near Future?
Dodgers fans who watched their team’s exciting 6-4 Spring Training win over the San Francisco Giants at Camelback Ranch on Tuesday afternoon may have very well witnessed the 2024 National League Cy Young Award winner during his final appearance before his regular season debut against the San Diego Padres on March 21 in Seoul, South […]
(Read More)Lifelong Dodger Fan Trevor Jackson Joins TBLA
ThinkBlueLA.com is honored and pleased to announce that lifelong Dodger fan Trevor Jackson (@trevorjackson11) has joined our staff of passionate and talented writers. Trevor is a 29-year-old Dodger die-hard currently living in Austin, Texas. As a fanatic of all sports, baseball has always been a passion of Trevor’s, and he watches as much of MLB […]
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