Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Get your tickets now – Weaver will start game 3
Opening day doesn’t cut it for me anymore, maybe someday when there is a ring ceremony to accompany the pageantry, otherwise, it is just to expensive a ticket for me to justify. Even when I had season tickets I’d sell opening day to help defray the cost of the season tickets. I always felt that …
LAD Prop Bets for 2017
You might know by now I’m a betting person, and while I don’t always bet I always like to look at the odds. Below are the odds for the 2017 MLB season brought to you by Bovada, (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV). I’ll only list the odds relevant to the LAD (and Matt Kemp). Who would you …
Ryu makes rotation against all odds
Back in December when we looked at the LAD rotational depth we had Ryu on there simply out of respect but in the analysis, I didn’t give him any innings. I think the Dodgers will give him a long look this spring but end up releasing him. I hope I’m really wrong on this and …
Rotation attrition hits acceptable levels
The Dodger rotation depth headed into spring was eleven deep which was what allowed the front office to trade Jharel Cotton / Frankie Montas / Grant Holmes / Jose DeLeon / Chase De Jong over the past eight months. That and Walker Buehler / Yadier Alvarez / Trevor Oaks / Imani Abdullah / Mitchell White. …
Andrew Heaney might be on to something
Pedro Moura wrote a column yesterday about Andrew Heaney and the unique contract he signed with Fantex that left me wondering if maybe Andrew Heaney started something that might become commonplace. eighteen months ago, Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney agreed to commit 10% of his future earnings to investors in exchange for $3.34 million up front. It …
Vin Scully and the General
This past Saturday Night we ventured out to the Cal State Northridge Valley Performing Arts Center to catch Buster Keaton’s groundbreaking silent film “The General” with the New West orchestra conducted by Richard Kaufman providing the soundtrack. It was a crime that we had never been and I have to admit my surprise at how …
Unscientific analysis has Dodgers winning another Western Division
For years I’ve done a silly little analysis before the start of the year to determine the Dodgers fate in the Western Division. What I do is take the five NL Western Division team and compare them numerically from 1 – 5 with 5 being best at each position. I like to think I’ve always been objective …
Batting gloves and Aloe Vera plants
Most of my spare time is spent gardening and for twenty years I’ve been slicing up my hands when I handle my Aloe Vera plants. I’ve tried using many different gloves but they are either too thick to get the feel for hand pruning the sharp dead fronds or too thin and the fronds slice …
WBC Goliath slays David
The entertaining 2017 WBC ended last night with the United States clobbering Puerto Rico 8 – 0 ending the surprising undefeated run by the Puerto Rican team. Marcus Stroman bounced back from his previous humiliation at the hands of the Puerto Rican team to no-hit them for six innings and the bats did the rest. …
Orel Hershiser mystery umpire
The other day on Dodger squeeze play I heard Orel tell Joe Davis about the time he was thrown out of a baseball game. Evidently, Orel had gone his whole career without being tossed but that came to an end when he was the pitching coach for the Rangers. To hear Orel tell it, Buck …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 