What do the So-called Experts Know?

August 8, 2023

Absolutely nothing! Damn the experts- what do they know? It turns out… very little. They do not understand Andrew Friedman. Some of you don’t either. The experts were wrong about the Dodgers trade deadline acquisitions, and when they parrot that the Dodgers will be prime players for Ohtani, they are really uninformed! While some of you seem to love to beat the Shohei Ohtani drum over and over (maybe magically…

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Who do you believe?

July 30, 2023

Nobody! John Mozeliak, the GM of the St. Louis Cardinals, now says that the Cards are not trading Nolan Arenado… and maybe they aren’t. However, don’t believe anything any MLB baseball executive tells you. PERIOD! Nolan has five years and $144MM remaining on his contract and could likely have beaten that deal if he opted out of his contract… but he did not! Arenado and the Cardinals seem to have…

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The Rumors are called that for a reason

July 28, 2023

Who predicted the Rosario-Syndergaard trade? No one saw that coming! Of course, the Dodgers weren’t really looking to trade for Rosario, but somehow, they found a team that wanted Thor, and they took the bait. I would have never believed it. Over the winter, the Dodgers signed Syndergaard to take the spot Tyler Anderson left when he signed with the Angels (by the way, he has been almost as bad)….

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Ohtani or Bust!

July 15, 2023

Let me start this by telling you that I am not generally in favor of trading or signing Shohei Ohtani. He will be 30 years old next season, and the pure truth about pitchers is that in 2022, 51% of all MLB pitchers went on the IL for varying times. So, there is a pretty good chance that Ohtani, due to his age and due to being a pitcher, spends…

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Bad News – Good News!

June 4, 2023

The bad news is that the Dodgers lost to the Yankees, setting up today as the rubber match. The Good News is that last night was a “breakout” game for Michael Grove. In his best-pitched game so far in his young career, he was dominant… except for two bad pitches to the same hitter. Sometimes certain hitters just have a pitcher’s number. Groves’ mechanics were in sync and his release…

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I’ve Seen This Story Before

May 22, 2023

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…

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Monday Rants & Raves

May 15, 2023

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?

May 14, 2023

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!

May 13, 2023

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?

May 12, 2023

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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