The other day, while shouting insults at my burly friend, we decided to settle this like any red-blooded males would: In the squared circle. With a hapless referee and a handy supply of folding chairs. It would be a Mexican Death Match. But I was missing one key piece of equipment … The problem can […]

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This was an issue before I fled the country. Actually, it has been an issue for about 10 years now. Going to a game at Dodger Stadium can be just … plain … dangerous. It appears that two men dressed in Dodgers apparel attacked a Giants fan after the game on Opening Day and beat […]

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Former colleague Michelle Gardner sent me a link to the latest from our favorite ballplayer, David Eckstein. Eck, you may recall, was the little guy who made the most from a baseball career with the fewest natural gifts. Undersized, not very fast, almost no power as a hitter, a guy with a strange throwing motion […]

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It’s liberating, really. After four-plus decades of fandom only partially damaged by journalistic interaction with snotty and dopey players (and Tommy Lasorda), I swore off the Dodgers a year ago. To me, they’re just another team. It’s Frank McCourt. As long as he or his ex-wife are running the franchise, I want no part of […]

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I am excited about the idea of the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series. And they are one game away now, with three shots at securing their first championship since 1954 — or four years before they moved to San Francisco. Growing up in Los Angeles, as a Dodgers fan … I spent decades […]

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The best part of having two baseball teams in the Los Angeles market? Usually one of them will be pretty good. Didn’t work out that way for greater L.A. this year. And that doesn’t happen very often.

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I no longer recall what made me mull this topic. Maybe I was thinking of the new facilities in the Big Three sports in the U.S., and how many of them I have not seen. Which in a roundabout way led me to consider how many stadiums and arena I have been in that 1) […]

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Well, it’s happened again. My old hometown has lost the Dodgers. Or their minor-league affiliate, anyway. Last time, it stung, but not like this. A decade ago, 2001, the Dodgers were ordered by Major League Baseball to reduce their number of “high Class A” teams to one, from two, and the Dodgers decided to stay […]

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When I saw this on the wire … it made me smile. As I wrote in this commentary for The National. The idea of Bengie Molina hitting for the cycle … the man who gives new meaning to the expression “base-clogger” … who probably is the slowest man in baseball and a contender for Slowest […]

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That has to be the “sun rises in east” headline of the week, right? Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium … shouldn’t even be in the same discussion. It wouldn’t occur to me to compare them. And I usually don’t write off of what other people have said, but Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times actually […]

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