It’s true – I am an autographed baseball junkie. In most cases, it’s the thrill of the hunt and then the adrenaline rush when the player whose autograph I am seeking finally signs that ball and hands it back to me (or tosses it back to me at my home away from home in the […]
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The Dodgers will enter this weekend’s three-game series against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium exactly 1.0 games ahead of … the San Francisco Giants. Although the Dodgers will have 90 regular-season games remaining following Sunday’s series finale against The Hated Ones, the significance of this series cannot be understated or ignored. In other […]
Haters Gonna Hate
Following the Dodgers ugly 11-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday, @MLB Now posted this on social media (X.com): No seriously, they really did. Although @MLBNow is a reputable social media site, there may be some – perhaps even many – who see this as yet another anti-Dodgers post. The cold hard truth […]
Ouch
Not much to say about this one except ouch. With the loss, the Dodgers now have a precarious half-game lead over the (now) second-place San Francisco Giants, who have won six straight. Ouch. Play ball! * * * * * *
Kershaw to the Rescue – Again
Under the category of: Thanks, we needed that, Dodgers ace and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw gave his team what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said was “…clearly his best outing yet,” in the Dodgers 7-3 win over the NL Central second-place St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Sunday. “The command was much […]
Strap In and Hang On
Here’s the deal. Between Friday, June 6 and Thursday, June 19, the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers will play 16 games, with a scheduled off day on Thursday, June 12. Of those 16 games, seven will be against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres – the first three at Petco Park June 9-11, […]
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Happy 77th Birthday Sandy
December 30th, 2012 at 4:17 am 
by Ron Cervenka Wishing you many more!
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Is Brian Wilson a Good Fit for the Dodgers?
December 29th, 2012 at 12:08 am by Ron Cervenka Okay I admit it; I absolutely hated to see former Giants closer Brian Wilson enter any game against the Dodgers, because when he did, it usually meant two things: one – that the Dodgers were trailing because Wilson was usually only brought in for save situations; and two – he usually got the save. I […]
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Hip Talk has Dodger Fans Feeling a Little Uncomfortable
December 28th, 2012 at 7:43 am by Ron Cervenka I will be the very first to admit that when I first heard about Clayton Kershaw’s hip issues late last season, I was one uncomfortable Dodger fan, and I know I wasn’t the only one. I immediately had visions of Bo Jackson and notorious hot-headed slugger Albert Bell, whose baseball careers ended at ages 32 and 34 […]
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2013 Hall of Fame – The People’s Choice (LAST CHANCE)
December 28th, 2012 at 7:30 am by Ron Cervenka If you have not yet voted in the first annual ThinkBlueLA.com Hall of Fame – People’s Choice balloting, the deadline is Monday night, December 31 at 11:59 PM. Remember, vote for only three from the below list of 37 eligible candidates. The top two vote getters in our voting will be deemed the 2013 ThinkBlueLA.com Hall of Fame […]
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So Where Does Stephen Fife Fit In?
December 27th, 2012 at 6:56 am by Ron Cervenka You would think that a starting pitcher with an ERA of 2.70 would have been the buzz of the winter meetings and that Ned Colletti would have been on his cell phone non-stop about the guy, but I’d almost be willing to bet that the name Stephen Fife never even came up once in Nashville. […]
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A Dodgers Power-Hitting Third Baseman?
December 26th, 2012 at 12:17 am by Ron Cervenka During the 2012 minor league season, a power-hitting third baseman emerged on the scene for the Dodgers – Christopher Jess Retherford, better known as “C.J.” Born in Homestead, Florida, C.J. grew up in Chandler, Arizona and attended Hamilton High School. He later went on to Arizona State University where he helped the Sun Devils to […]
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Happy Holidays from ThinkBlueLA
December 24th, 2012 at 4:44 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s been quite a year for us here at ThinkBlueLA, most notably expanding our three-year-old interactive forum to include our new ThinkBlueLA blog site. We sincerely appreciate all of your support throughout this past year as we progressed from our infancy stages to what we consider (and hope that you do as well) one of […]
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Hooked on a Feeling
December 24th, 2012 at 5:33 am by Ron Cervenka Those of you who follow the ThinkBlueLA forum and blog site regularly know that I have been saying for the past two seasons that 2013 is going to be the year of the Dodgers. And while nothing has changed in that regard (except that the outlook is even brighter now), I am going the extra […]
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Diamondbacks “Tough Decision, Hard Decision” was the Wrong Decision
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:36 am by Ron Cervenka The names of several former Dodger players popped up in the news this past week pretty much out of the blue (no pun intended) and in, of all places, Phoenix, Arizona. The entire chain of events actually began on October 17, 2012 when former Dodger left fielder/second baseman Eric Young was unceremoniously fired by the […]
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