What’s for breakfast? How about some Stone-Ground Deviled Rays? If you have not been paying attention, maybe you have not noticed what The Bazooka has been doing: He has been taking 2-3 MPH off his fastball, and it is moving like crazy. He can still throw the Big Kahuna Heater occasionally, but hitters can time flat pitches… they can’t time movement! As I suspected, Julio Urias’s bullpen session has been…
Is Thor Finished?
Today, on Dodgers.com, Juan Toribio has a great piece on Noah Syndergaard, who sounds like he has had a fork stuck in him. Andrew Friedman has made a number of excellent acquisitions, but this is not one and you can’t win them all.I think AF is about to end the charade. Toribio writes this: Thor still struggling to regain his thunder With diminished velo, Syndergaard has seen ERA soar to…
The Knack
It sounds like the Dodgers might get The Knack soon. Great, I used to love the Knack. They had several great songs, like this one: What? It’s not “The Knack?” Is it Landon Knack? Oh, him… who knew? My bad! Well, actually… I have an opinion on this, and I think that just like Michael Grove, Landon Knack should bypass AAA and go directly to Chavez Ravine! He’s so much…
Freddie Freeman: Class Act
Last spring the Dodgers signed one of the best hitters in the game to a six-year deal. Freddie Freeman has done everything a fan, or the team could ask for. He is hitting .320 plus as a Dodger, and while not hitting a ton of home runs, he is driving in runs, scoring runs, and leading by example. Freeman is a pros pro. Freeman, whose birth name is Frederick Charles…
Did You Learn Anything?
Before the Dodgers played the Cardinals, they had won 14 out of 16 games, and then they lost 3 out of 4 to the Cardinals, and many of you lost your minds, wanting to trade away the farm for Timmy Anderson or somebody, anybody… “this team sucks” and all the rest of the BS that you spew when the Dodgers lose. Come on, people, this 2023 version of the Dodgers…
Pitching, pitching, and more pitching.
If you have been a fan anytime at all, you have to know that pitching wins championships. You look at any of the Dodgers 7 World Series winners, and there are outstanding games pitched in each. The Dodger system is loaded with young arms who have lightning in them. Flame throwers who can top 95 consistently. Now throwing it where they want, that is another story. Because of injuries, two…
I’ve Seen This Story Before
Since becoming a Dodgers fan at age 9, sixty years ago, I have seen this story so many times that I laugh instead of panic. Most years, the Dodgers had no chance, but I rooted for them anyway. In 1988, they had no chance, but the impossible happened! Over the past ten years, Dodger fans fully expect to win every game, every year… and rightfully so! The Dodgers are the…
Follow Your Heart
Having lived in other cities who have MLB teams, I know that sometimes the folks who live in those cities, or even states, feel you should be a fan of the team that plays there. I spent 12 years living in Phoenix and I have been here in Colorado for almost 13. When I was driving long haul and working out of Denver, I did that for almost 7. So,…
Mike Piazza: A 62nd Round Hall of Famer.
Michael Joseph Piazza was born in Norristown PA on September 4th, 1968. His father and Tommy Lasorda were friends. His dad was a high school dropout, was a self-made man. He worked in car sales, as a real-estate investor and a entrepreneur. His wife took care of Mike and his four younger brothers. He grew up a Phillies fan and studied Hall of Famer, Mike Schmidt’s, approach to hitting, His…
Enough is Enough!
I am not Catholic. I am not Jewish. I am not an Athiest. I am not Protestant, Baptist, or Pagan. I do not practice Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Falun Gong, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism. However, I fully support every person’s right to worship God as they choose or not to worship a God. There is nothing more divisive than religion or politics, which is why…