Baseball’s Winter Meetings are right around the corner. They start on Sunday, December 3rd, and run through Wednesday, December 6th. This year, the Winter Meetings are held in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. This is the Fifth time since 2000 (2002, ’07, ’12, ’15) that the event has been held in Nashville. If you have never been there, it should be on your bucket list….
Most readers here are old enough to remember what it was like to be a Dodger fan before the internet age. It was through the box scores and the Sporting News for those outside of southern California. For L.A. area natives, Dodger News was essentially limited to the pages of the LA Times, The Herald Examiner or (depending where you lived) the Valley News, SG Valley Tribune or Long Beach…
I had planned on writing a post dealing with player development today. But the tragic and heartbreaking news of the death of AC’s son has caused my mind to wander in so many different directions and has brought back a flood of memories of my introduction to baseball and how baseball was a language that I and my sons regularly spoke and still do to this day. Today I truly…