We had our Thanksgiving Dinner last night in order to accomodate some schedule conflicts. We had about 35 members of our family here: inlaws, outlaws, no laws, etc. Today, we have to drop my wife’s neice and her husband off at the airport at 11:00 AM and then drive two hours to my daughters new house in Ft. Wayne to have Thanksgiving Dinner with her family. My wife and her…
The Dodgers chances of signing Sasaki dropped since he is not going to be posted until next year and as we sit here, the Dodgers have just $5,146, 200.00 to sign Sasaki, which means there are 28 teams who can offer Sasaki a larher signing bonus! Ouch! Now, that can change if Andrew Friedman trades some players for signing bonus money… but he will have to overpay to get it….
I think that in an hour or two, the rosters will be out. I think it will be Pages over Keirmaier, and if you think otherwise, you aren’t paying attention. I also think Henriquez will make the cut. The Dodgers will carry 13 pitchers. No question. They need as many bullpen arms as possible! This will be the staff the Dodgers carry: Anthony Banda, Ryan Brasier, Walker Buehler, Jack Flaherty,…
Kris Kristofferson has drawn his last breath. On this somber day, September 29th, 2024, the curtain has closed on a voice that has long echoed in the hearts of wanderers, poets, and dreamers. His songs, carved from the raw, sinewy elements of life, will forever linger in the bones of American music. I am an LA Dodger Fan, but I have always been a Kris Kristofferson fan as well. Kris…
Yeah, the bases are four inches closer, and the number of throws to 1B is limited, but no legitimate power hitter in baseball has ever done what Shohei Ohtani has done in terms of stealing bases. NOBODY! … and almost nobody is doing what he has done this year, in terms of stealing bases and ALSO hitting home runs! He’s not perfect, but to criticize his game says more about…
Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com ranked the MLB Farm Systems and the Dodgers are currently #5, behind these teams: 5. Los Angeles Dodgers2024 preseason rank: 82023 midseason rank: 62023 preseason rank: 22022 midseason rank: 2 Top 100 prospects: Dalton Rushing, C/OF (No. 39); Josue De Paula, OF (No. 49); River Ryan, RHP (No. 65); Alex Freeland, SS (No. 79); Jackson Ferris, LHP (No. 90) “We write this every time we do system…
You all think that yesterday’s debacle was the worst Dodger “Blowing a Lead Game Ever,” but it wasn’t even close! I remembered a column that Jon Weisman (now the Dodgers VP of Communications) wrote in his previous life as a blogger on “Dodger Thoughts.” In part, here’s what he wrote: “On August 21, 1990, I went to a baseball game with a friend. And I stayed for about seven innings,…
Maybe now Dodger fans can put their brains back into their heads and think logically… or is that too much to ask? Two wins in one day! Some good things happened during the games, including the Dodgers coming from behind to win Game 1 and Gavin Stone’s Gem in Game 2 where he became the 13th pitcher in MLB to go seven scoreless innings while striking out 7 and walking…
It’s not a secret that the Los Angeles Dodgers catchers have not been successful in throwing out runners trying to steal bases for quite some time. This year, Will Smith has given up 13 stolen bases while throwing out 10 of the runners, which isn’t bad, but in 2023, he allowed 72 stolen bases while throwing out just 19 runners. So far this year, Austin Barnes has allowed seven stolen…
That photo is of my wife and daughter, who each have three children. My stepdaughter, Cassie, also has three, and my daughter-in-law, Rhiannon, has two, including our first grandson and six granddaughters. We also have a mother in our life who has two children, and while we are not related by blood, it is a bond of the heart, as my wife and I are God Parents to the Children…