World Baseball Classic, Inc. today announced the final pool compositions and the full tournament schedule for the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The Dodgers announced today that Fernando Valenzuela, Adrian Gonzalez and Luis Cruz will represent Mexico in the 2013 WBC. The WBC will begin on Saturday, March 2 and the Dodgers will play host to […]
(Read More)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 […]
Muncy Reaches Milestone
Hitting 200 home runs is a highly respected and significant accomplishment over the course of a Major League career, which, of course, means hitting 201 is even better. During Saturday’s 18-2 pounding of the AL East first-place New York Yankees by the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd […]
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The Unappreciated Dodger
December 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 am 
by Harold Uhlman Over the years there have been many Dodgers that have left an indelible mark on the franchise. We have followed them, remembered them, even loved them. We still have Tommy Lasorda, the face of the Dodgers. We have Vin Scully, no, the incomparable Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers for over sixty years. We […]
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Buzzie Bavasi – The Wise Old Fox
December 2nd, 2012 at 12:15 am by Ron Cervenka The other day I had a very pleasant email exchange with Howard Cole of the popular ColeOnLA blog site. Howard is also the founder of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA). It is Howard’s dream that one day the IBWAA will join the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) in voting for the annual […]
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Down on the Farm – Albuquerque Isotopes Year In Review
December 1st, 2012 at 11:58 pm by Harold Uhlman Albuquerque has had a long and successful history in the world of minor league baseball. The first known professional baseball team in Albuquerque was founded in 1880 by W.T. McCreight who had played professional baseball with the St. Louis Browns. Games were played at the New Mexico State Fairgrounds. Over the years the teams in Albuquerque played […]
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Giving 110 Percent
November 30th, 2012 at 12:02 am by Harold Uhlman Baseball, the game we love, has many faces. First, and most importantly, there is the game played on the diamond. For us purists it is the most perfect of diamonds. Somehow the distance between the bases and distance from home plate to the pitching rubber are the perfect measures for the game. Then there is […]
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They Don’t Care… They Just Don’t Care
November 28th, 2012 at 8:06 am by Ron Cervenka What’s it been two weeks? Three weeks? Yet it has happened again – another Major League Baseball player has been suspended for testing positive for a banned substance. This time it is Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz and this time it was amphetamines, for which Ruiz will be suspended for 25 games to begin the 2013 season. According […]
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Poll: Who Do You Like?
November 27th, 2012 at 1:36 pm by Ron Cervenka With the winter meeting set to begin next week, Dodgers GM Ned Colletti has made it very clear that starting pitching is his top priority. But quite frankly, the free agent market for starters is very bleak. There are several top-of-the-rotation guys out there who are not free agents, but they would cost the Dodgers a great […]
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Is Fox the Best TV Deal for Dodgers?
November 26th, 2012 at 9:57 am by Ron Cervenka Back in early September, I had the opportunity (and pleasure) of meeting Tony Kinkela, an executive producer for Time Warner Cable (TWC). Tony is responsible for all current Dodgers pay-per-view broadcasts as well as all broadcasts on their all-new exclusive Lakers channel. Although my conversation with Tony was relatively brief, we did discuss the pending media […]
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Uribe’s Last Stand
November 25th, 2012 at 11:00 am by Ron Cervenka Like many others, I’ve made no bones about it and I am on record as saying it: the Juan Uribe experiment has failed… and miserably. He has been a disaster since the day that he arrived in Los Angeles. There is simply no kind or gentle way to say it – Juan Uribe sucks. Heading […]
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Networking
November 24th, 2012 at 6:34 am by Ron Cervenka During my 30-year career with the Burbank Police Department, I spent 23 years as a detective, including 16 years as the department’s lead robbery investigator. And though my partners and I didn’t catch ’em all, we certainly put our fair share of bad guys behind bars, some of them for a very long time. Even […]
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