By now, we all know that Vin Scully, the greatest baseball broadcaster of all-time, experienced the loss of his wife, Sandi. The photo of the couple below was taken a couple of years ago: Sandra Hunt was married to Vin Scully for 48 years and at the age of 76, she was a beautiful, elegant woman, even as ALS ravaged her body. This is according to TMZ: Vin and Sandi…
I was listening to MLB Radio, as I am prone to do when taking a short trip. Indianapolis is a city that has a major highway (Interstate 70) dissect it East and West in the center of the city. Meridian Street dissects the city North and South and I-465 circles around the city (Indy is called the “Circle City”). One can easily drive around the loop in an hour, making…
The Dodgers are the class of MLB and favorites to win the World Series again in 2021… but San Diego has pulled closer. However, to think that the Dodgers will just blow by the Luxury Tas Threshold is both naive and delusional. There is not much room… They can sign Turner for $18 Million and two years, but Hendriks? Ha! Trading for Arenado? No way! Suarez? I doubt it!
Sign DJ LeMahieu? That would cost the Dodgers a draft pick. Remember when, after losing Mark Teixeira to free agency and the Yankees, the Angels were awarded the 25th pick of the draft as compensation. And who did they use that pick on? None other than Mike Trout. Or look at it another way: Signing Mark Teixeira cost the Yankees Mike Trout.
The key thing that Andrew Friedman will not do is Panic! It’s time for countermoves but it’s not time to panic. Maybe “countermoves” is not the right term. Maybe the moves that Freidman will likely make would have been the same moves he makes anyway. I have no way of knowing. I am sure that David Price will be back and that makes the Dodgers better.
One of the presents I received yesterday was from my wife. She was trying to honor me with a bourbon decanter by showing my age, but somehow it looks like my obituary. So, if anything happens to me between now and January 1, 2021, suspect my wife! But, seriously, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had 21 people at our family gathering and the food was fabulous….
Tommy John surgery repairs an injured elbow ligament. It’s most commonly done on college and pro athletes, especially baseball pitchers. But it’s sometimes done on younger people as well. Tommy John surgery is also called UCL reconstruction. UCL is short for ulnar collateral ligament. During Tommy John surgery, a surgeon replaces the injured UCL with a tendon taken from somewhere else in the patient’s body. The UCL is located on the inside of…
The one thing that was good in 2020 was that our beloved Dodgers FINALLY, FINALLY won the World Series. The fact that it should have been the second one in the past three years made it that more bitter and sweet. Damn those cheating Asterisks! That will always leave a bitter taste in my mouth!
If you can’t rant and rave what can you do? Dodgerrick and others brought up some good points about the evolution of baseball yesterday. Thought-provoking! I promise to think about them in 2022. I just want BASEBALL in 2021. PERIOD! I want it now! Remember that the Dodgers under Andrew Friedman typically operate with a quiet, say little, close to the vest approach. That is a fact. There are very…
While I cannot guarantee there will a 162 game season, I think we are likely to see at least 120 to 140 games… and maybe 162 games. If you just have “sight” you might not see it. I think it takes “vision” to see it.