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Dick Enberg, the sporting voice of my youth, RIP
We lost one of the great broadcasters of the 20th century last night when Dick Enberg passed away. I’ve written about Dick several times on this blog. On Oct 16th after he retired from the Padres. Yup, in the early 1970’s Dick Enberg was my favorite announcer. Sure I loved Vin Scully but truth be …
Dodgers deliver lump of coal to STH for Christmas
Los Angeles Dodger season ticket holders have been receiving their invoice for the 2018 season and they aren’t happy with what they are seeing. I’ve heard a few complaints and Bill Shaikin decided to find out just exactly how much of an increase is really happening. The Dodgers say they haven’t finalized all prices on 2018 …
Naughty and nice
The Dodger front office had a lot more nice than naughty in calendar 2017 but let’s give a brief rundown of a subjective review of Dodger front office actions. Naughty – asking outfielder Brett Eibner to pitch and then releasing him outright after he blew out his arm. Nice – giving a Sept callup to O`Koyea …
What’s next? Cutch or Cain?
With the trade of the three onerous contracts this weekend the Dodgers have opened up some financial flexibility for 2018 even as they hope to stay under the luxury tax and reset the fines that MLB has been hitting the team with ever since they decided to be the $250M pound gorilla of major league baseball. Eric Stephen as always does a …
Dodgers pull off the expected in a very unexpected way
Most Dodger fans knew the Dodgers were going to try to get rid of the contracts of Adrian Gonzalez and at least one of Scott Kazmir or Brandon McCarthy but no one expected them to trade all three in one big fell swoop. It helps of course that the new GM for the Braves was …
Angels going for it
Using baseball reference the players with the most at-bats per position for the Angels in 2017 looked like this: Pos Name Age PA BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ C Martin Maldonado 30 471 .221 .276 .368 .645 74 1B C.J. Cron 27 373 .248 .305 .437 .741 99 2B Danny Espinosa# 30 254 .162 .237 .276 …
Are the Dodgers in decline?
Craig Minami in the TrueBlueLA comments asked this question. Is this a team on the rise, a team at the pinnacle or a team that be in some small decline? I started to answer but realized why I stopped posting lengthy comments at truebluela. By tomorrow, they will be gone, so I thought I’d answer …
With little to fix the Dodgers do little
Headed into day three of the winter meetings the Dodgers have done nothing to enhance the team that got within one game of being the 2017 World Champions but we did learn a few things. We learned once again that Houston feasted on Yu Darvish because he was tipping his pitches but Dave Roberts felt …
Invigorated with Wonder
There is no way to sugar coat how the last twelve months have made me feel about being part of these United States. I understand two party realities but I don’t understand the hatred I’ve seen being delivered by a percentage of our population. We can disagree on abortion, economic issues, tax cuts, spending cuts, health …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 