Rant & Rave Friday

June 18, 2021

Who will go down next? That seems to be a broken record for this season. Hopefully, everyone gets healthy for the stretch run. Tonight, Trevor Bauer goes against the D-Bags in AZ. The Dodgers are 3rd in team ERA… within .06 of the Padres and .10 of the Mets. They are still #2 in starter ERA behind the Mets, but deGrom keeps breaking down (he’s older than Clayton) and it…

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MLB Needs to Move the All-Star Game Back to Atlanta

April 19, 2021

This is not about politics. It is about the 2021 MLB All-Star Game which should absolutely be returned to Atlanta, where they planned to honor Hank Aaron in his “adopted hometown” of Atlanta. I know many of you want me to ignore what MLB did to Atlanta in moving the All-Star Game, but MLB is the one who made that racist decision. How is it a racist decision? It is…

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The Price is Right

April 16, 2021

Here’s an interesting question: How many different pitchers will have saves for the Dodgers this season? The Dodgers already have three different pitchers with saves after Dave Roberts elected to use David Price in a save situation last night. It looked like a bad choice for a minute as Daza and Trejo both singled to start the inning. Then Trevor Story pinch hit and Price fell behind 2-0 only to…

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Some Random Early Season Thoughts From the Recliner

April 15, 2021

“Baseball flows with the rhythm of life. Comes forth in the spring, lives in the summer, goes in the fall, plays in shitty Latin American ballparks in the winter” – Walt Whitman I have to admit that I’m conflicted about MLB’s decision to move the All-Star game from Atlanta.  I’m not conflicted about their decision.  Simply put, I disagree with the MLB’s action.  Why I disagree is not important.   I’ll…

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I am Trying to Get Back to Dodger Baseball…

April 9, 2021

but, I don’t know if it will ever be the same. Baseball was always an escape from the troubles in the world and a break from politics that have become increasingly divisive. When Joe Biden was elected President he promised to bring the country together. Instead, he has driven it further apart, and nowhere is it more apparent that in baseball, when he “parrotted” the false claims of Stacy Abrams,…

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The State of Minor League Baseball

November 10, 2020

Late last week, I listened to a podcast on the state of MLB and MiLB from Baseball America’s Kyle Glazer and JJ Cooper.  Baseball America has some of the best baseball journalists anywhere, and I have not yet found any baseball journalist who is more up on the subject of the state of MLB and MiLB than JJ Cooper.  I try to read everything he publishes. The National Association of…

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Upcoming MLB vs MLBPA Negotiations

November 8, 2020

Yes, baseball is a game played by a bunch of kids.  In MLB, they are very rich kids paid by very rich owners.  As much as most of us want it to remain strictly a game, we cannot.  MLB is a business played at a very high stakes level.  While the face of MLB (Rob Manfred) and MLBPA (Tony Clark) are problematic (and I am being kind), the high priced…

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RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT “SUMMER TRAINING”

July 4, 2020

Here I am, in the office on what has to be the most unusual 4th of July holiday in my lifetime.   Had several things that I wanted to write about (including the “Art of stealing pop bottles” :-), but busyness has reared its ugly head and gotten in the way.   It stinks to be your own boss and then have your boss be such a jerk.   ●          Well looks…

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Are MLB Owners Short Sighted?

June 22, 2020

I want to be clear from the start.  I am now, and I always have been on the side of the players when it comes to salary.  They are entitled to whatever they can get.  Scott Boras and Gerrit Cole can convince NYY that Cole should be paid $324MM, and that becomes his Fair Market Value (FMV). But Scott has no right to dictate to the owners as a group…

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Rising and Crashing of the Phoenix (AKA MLB)

June 20, 2020

Well I got my hopes up earlier in the week when Rob Manfred met face to face with Tony Clark and “reached a framework that could form the basis of an agreement” for a 2020 restart with full prorated play.  On June 17, the twitter world was all abuzz about this pending “deal”. Jon Heyman Breaking: MLB and players union are closing in on an agreement to play the 2020…

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