Author Archive: Phil Gurnee
Dozen is the number
All three NL wild card teams scored twelve runs last night, and all three won their games, keeping everything status quo for now. Mets still lead the Giants by 1/2 a game, with the Cardinals just one game back of the Giants. The scores weren’t really a surprise when you consider the Rockies used rookie …
See you on the radio, Charlie
If you think this column is about Charley Steiner you’d be dead wrong. It is about someone who is famous for his radio show, and who grew up an avid baseball fan on the East Coast, but it is not that Charley. It wasn’t just Vin Scully saying goodbye this weekend, long time Sunday Morning …
Grandal and Joc
As the Dodgers wind down September baseball, two huge reasons for optimism this October are the play of Grandal and Pederson. Last year the Dodgers were pretty much on the same pace but the team had two black holes in the lineup every time Grandal and Pederson were in it. Not this year, they are …
Mets score big on Phillies take a one game lead
in the Wild card over the Giants, with the Cardinals a 1/2 game back of the Giants. The Mets won yesterday 17 – 0, the Giants lost once again to the Padres, and the Cardinals were on the wrong side of a 3 – 1 score with the Cubs. With one week remaining it is still …
Dodgers blogs check in on an incredible weekend
Eric Stephen hits a perfect note Pedro Moura fills in for Andy Cut4 at MLB.com says they have everything you need to see and hear about Vin’s last game at Dodger Stadium. Jon Weisman is churning out story after story but this was one was what I was looking for or maybe it was this …
Do bad choices make great stories?
While riding the metro home from the Rose Bowl on Saturday Night I was struck by a jacket I saw on a young woman between 20 – 22. Her jacket proudly said on the back: Bad Choices Make Great Stories She could have been part of the group I’d hung out with at X concerts …
Vin sings
When word first came out that something “shocking” would happen on Vin’s last day, I jokingly said he’d be singing the National Anthem. I really hoped that it would involve singing. Writers all over the continent who actually knew Vin are busy writing why he was so important to this town or to the baseball …
The magic of 58
I’m going to turn 58 on Nov 24th this year. I was born in 1958 and I told Dave Young how cool I thought this was, that I was born in 1958 and would be celebrating my 58th birthday this year. He was unimpressed. But you know, 1958 was a pretty good year. I was …
A Hollywood ending that even Hollywood couldn’t write
The day that should have had so much promise started out with the horrible news that baseball had lost one of its great stars in a fishing boat accident. Winning a pennant now seemed inconsequential. Witnessing the last calls of Vin at home was already going to make for a stressful day, losing Jose Fernandez …
Horrible Sunday morning
Getting my car washed at 08:00 AM at a local carwash charity for Sebastian Bordonaro so he could get his service dog I had time to check out the twitter feed. I was expecting lots of Dodger love but instead, I got a punch to the gut. My favorite pitcher died this morning, an inspirational …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 