10 Day Road Trip Will Tell Fans A Lot

As long as I can continue to write, I will do my best to be informative until Mark returns or closes down the site permanently. Starting Friday in St. Louis, the Dodgers begin a 10-game road trip, their longest of the season. They play the Cardinals, Braves and the Rays, three of MLB’s hotter teams. Last time they saw the Cards, they swept them in Dodger Stadium. But the team…

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Who In The World Would Ever Want To Be A Catcher???

After seeing Will Smith spend more than ten days out with the MLB concussion protocol, it got me wondering why anyone in their right mind would make catching their profession. But many have answered that call. And over the years, the Dodgers have had some very talented ones. Mike Piazza may have been the best-hitting catcher they have ever produced. Campanella was a great defender and so far, the only…

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Monday Rants & Raves

Attention, Peter Seidler and his band of wannabes, never-weres, and just plain punks, the Dragon up the Freeway is alive and well and it just smoked your ass, you bunch of disrespectful reform-school dropouts! Clayton Kershaew’s Mother, Marianne Tombaugh, died Saturday. Up until now, we know very little about her life and death. Perhaps, Clayton will keep it that way… perhaps not. We learned very little about his father, who…

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Is Trayce Thompson Getting Screwed?

Let’s cut to the chase: Many Dodger fans believe it is a disservice to ask Thompson to do something he can’t do… and that is hit LH Pitching. Trayce is a RH hitter, and in the real world, he should hit LHP like you hit a rented mule. Except that he can’t! We can think what we wnt about it, but what does Trayce think? Well, the OC Register’s JP…

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May Day, May Day!

So, maybe you are of the mindset that when Dustin May got into a little trouble in the 7th inning Doc should have taken him out? That’s silliness! It’s true that Dustin May was cruising after six innings, and he got two quick outs in the top of the 7th inning. I think he had only allowed two hits at the time. Dustin was under 90 pitchers at the time,…

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Which Rookie Will Make the Biggest Impact?

That is a question many Dodger fans would love to have an answer for. The last couple of games, Miguel Vargas has begun to look more like the player that the Dodgers have liked so well for the last several seasons in the minor leagues. He has hit the ball a lot harder than in the month before. Outman’s power has not been evident the last several games and his…

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Why are there no workhorse pitchers?

It used to be that every team had at least one or two “workhorse” starting pitchers. These are the guys who started 33 to 37 games a season and pitched 25 complete games! In 1966, the Dodgers used a four-man rotation, which was composed of Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Claude Osteen, and Don Sutton. Let’s look at the stat lines: Sandy Koufax – 41 GS/27 CG/323 IP/1.73 ERA Don Drysdale…

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Progress is not Linear

It’s been nine days since my back surgery, and I have had more bad days than good days. Monday and Tuesday of this week were especially painful, and I have been unable to stand up straight for about a week. My Surgeon called me on Sunday, and he thought I should be more pain-free. It was I who reminded him that progress is not linear. There is no roadmap for…

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