I went to Angel Stadium this afternoon to listen to Mike Scioscia, Mike Butcher and two players talk about Nick Adenhart, and to see how the Angels dealt with the issue in the hours leading up to their game with the Boston Red Sox. I covered this for the New York Times, as well. You […]

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I was looking at the early stories on the death of the Angels’ prize pitching prospect, Nick Adenhart, when someone in the sports department of the New York Times called and asked me if I could get on the story, and then I was off and running. Funny, but right off I was thinking it […]

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We had the 28th annual Sun Baseball League draft the other night. And before I go any further, I am reminded of a comment I overheard while covering the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin — and may even have had on this blog somewhere, sometimes. I’m not exactly sure who said this, but I believe […]

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It will take a while for the surviving media pundits in downtown Los Angeles to notice … but the last serious player in Inland Empire sports journalism — and one of the final 3-4 in the entire Greater L.A. market — has given up its claim of “major league” status in the past 24 hours. […]

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I’ve been working on the sports pages, at the International Herald Tribune the past few days, and that means I’ve seen a lot of stories about the New York Yankees. And even the Mets. You know, teams actually doing something, trying to get better. Signing C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Francisco Rodriguez, for instance. The […]

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Go ahead and sing that to the famous tune from “The Wizard of Oz.” Good times. The Boston Red Sox aren’t winning anything. Specifically, Boston’s insufferable fans aren’t going to win anything, not this fall, and that’s wonderful. The Red Sox Nation can go back to whining and suffering and all that self-absorbed crap that […]

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After getting all smug about being able to see the baseball playoffs even over here in Hong Kong … we got to Game 4 of the Angels’ series with the Red Sox and ESPN International crapped out on me. They were showing Chelsea soccer. Against some Romanian team. I think. In one of those interminable […]

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I’m by no means the only one who has noticed that a five-game series is too short to decide something as important (at least in the baseball world) as who gets to the league championship series. Dodgers manager Joe Torre, whose team was on the lucky side of a short series against a superior team, […]

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Maybe an American expat can buy some sort of cable package, here in Hong Kong, that gets you all the sports TV you might be able to see back at home. I haven’t found it yet. But I’m not totally disconnected from the goings on, via television. I saw two L.A. teams in action today, […]

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So, here we are, a few days into the baseball playoffs, and the best team in the regular season is nine innings from elimination, and the worst team in the regular season is nine innings from advancing. Those would be the Angels and Dodgers, respectively, and their experiences so far — and likely short-term futures […]

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