I arrived at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon for the formal introduction of the newest Dodger with three different ways to pronounce his name… and I left with five. So to keep things as less confusing as possible for everyone here on ThinkBlueLA.com, I’m going to stick with the way that it was pronounced in […]
(Read More)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, […]
What’s Missing?
The Dodgers are tenuously holding on to first place in the National League’s Western Division, they are loaded with talent – four players are legit candidates for the Hall of Fame. But, there are too many games where fans watch uninspired Dodgers baseball. Foolish errors of omission and commission, hitters flailing away at pitches as […]
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Greinke Officially a Dodger
December 10th, 2012 at 5:25 pm 
by Ron Cervenka Having successfully passed his physical on Monday afternoon, the Dodgers announced the signing of right-handed pitcher Zack Greinke to a six-year contract. The announcement was made by Dodger General Manager Ned Colletti. “As we set out this off-season to add a front line pitcher who is capable and proven, Zack was the one we zeroed in on,” said Colletti. […]
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Greinke Brings Cerebral Thinking to the Mound
December 10th, 2012 at 12:12 am by Ron Cervenka Prior to Saturday evening’s announcement that the Dodgers had signed free agent right-hander Zack Greinke to a record-setting 6-year/$147 million deal, I happened to be listening to MLB on XM and caught a replay of a brief interview with Angels manager Mike Scioscia from the Winter Meetings in Nashville. And while I always enjoy listening […]
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Got Heem!
December 9th, 2012 at 2:11 pm by Ron Cervenka No, not Brian Wilson… Ryu Hyun-jin – the newest member of the Dodgers. UPDATE: The deal is reportedly a six-year/$36 million deal and includes innings-based incentives worth $1 million per year, which could bring the total value of the contract to $42 million. Additionally, Ryu can opt out of the contract after the fifth year of […]
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Who Cares?
December 9th, 2012 at 5:07 am by Ron Cervenka As a life-long Dodger fan which, of course, makes me a life-long Giants hater, I find the excessive media hype about the Giants re-signing Angel Pagan, Marcos Scutaro and Jeremy Affeldt quite humorous. The bottom line is, who cares? I understand and (unfortunately) painfully accept that when you win the World Series, you are the […]
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Zack Greinke is a Dodger
December 8th, 2012 at 10:00 pm by Ron Cervenka It’s on every Dodger blog site and sports media outlet in the universe, so I’m not going to belabor the issue here; but just in case this is your first stop along the World Wide Web, Zack Greinke signed with the Dodgers on Saturday evening. Here’s the breakdown: Six years / $147M $12M signing bonus […]
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A Passion within a Passion
December 8th, 2012 at 12:31 am by Ron Cervenka Even if I have never met you before or have never even spoken with you before, I already know two things about you: 1) You are very passionate about baseball because if you weren’t, you probably wouldn’t be reading this right now, 2) You probably have some type of passion within your passion for baseball, such as memorabilia collecting, […]
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Time Running Out for Dodgers to Sign Ryu Hyun-jin
December 7th, 2012 at 12:16 am by Ron Cervenka When the Dodgers won exclusive bidding rights for South Korean left-hander Ryu Hyun-jin back on November 10 for a cool $25.7 million, it was pretty much expected that nothing would happen until shortly before the December 9th 2 PM (PT) negotiation deadline. The reason, of course, is because the 2012 Winter Meetings would not end until Thursday afternoon, […]
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Moving Day
December 6th, 2012 at 6:30 am by Ron Cervenka If history has taught us anything about the annual Winter Meetings, it’s that the biggest deals usually go down on the Thursday of the week-long event. If you recall, the Angels’ Albert Pujols / C.J. Wilson combined $331.5 million deal went down on Thursday at last year’s Winter Meetings, as did several other big deals. Now whether this has to do with […]
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Why Nashville?
December 5th, 2012 at 1:01 pm by Ron Cervenka A friend of mine recently posed a baseball-related question that I found kind of interesting and, more importantly, one that I didn’t have a clue about (which isn’t at all a surprise) – Why are the 2012 MLB Winter Meetings being held in Nashville, Tennessee which does not have a Major League Baseball team (nor does the entire Volunteer […]
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