I buried these guys yesterday. Dodgers and Angels. Not only won’t they make it to a Freeway Series, they won’t get out of the first round. So, yes, I will take credit for the Dodgers being up 2-0 with the aid of a semi-miraculous victory today … and the Angels taking a 1-0 lead on […]

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A Freeway Series! The Holy Grail of Los Angeles-market baseball fans. The Dodgers and Angels in the World Series. How grand! Just like all those Subway Series in New York! Right here in SoCal stadiums only about 30 miles apart. We’ve only been talking about this for … oh, 30 years, anyway. Or since the […]

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I’ve been in Paris for almost five weeks now. And not for a single day was I without an Internet hookup. Actually, I spent several hours most of the past 30-some days looking at this computer. Yes, while in Paris. I know that’s ill but it’s the truth. OK, here’s my excuse: I do two […]

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A friend of ours who is visiting in Southern California recently attended a Dodgers home game and an Angels home game … for the first time. Both of them. This person is a lifelong baseball fan, a dedicated Cardinals fan who knows the game well and generally knows and prefers the National League — but […]

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I am so impressed by this franchise. I am not an Angels fan. Wasn’t as a kid, wasn’t as a young adult. Didn’t really like the franchise when I covered it as a reporter, back in the late 1970s. But for a decade now, coinciding with the managerial career of Mike Scioscia, the Angels have […]

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Was it Branch Rickey who said this? Or who just got credit for it (as he did for so many other things)? Neither the Dodgers nor Angels made a big splash, here at the end of the non-waiver trading deadline. The Dodges got left-handed reliever George Sherrill from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for a […]

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I’ve been in St. Louis since last week, and seen and felt the buildup for the All-Star Game — scheduled to start within the hour. It’s a big deal here. Huge. The locals seem to assume that anybody who has arrived in the city since last Friday … must be here for the game. The […]

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How done is Vladimir Guerrero? “Well done,” would appear to be the correct answer. “Thoroughly cooked through and through.” The Angels keep putting him in the lineup, hoping for some last flashback to his younger days, perhaps hoping that whatever physical issues he has will somehow fade away … and he keeps doing a whole […]

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Lots to look at, today. From the Kentucky Derby to Game 7 of the Celtics-Bulls series to Dodgers and Angels baseball, Hatton-Pacquiao boxing, NHL playoffs, a NASCAR race … Well, lots of stuff. I’m a sports fan. And I can watch a fairly wide range of stuff, if the mood strikes. But it’s unusual, verging […]

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I was around the Nick Adenhart story for two days. The Angels’ young right-hander, their best pitching prospect, died early Thursday morning after being involved in a grinding auto accident in Fullerton, when a guy driving with a suspended license, apparently drunk, ran a red light and slammed into the small car Adenhart and three […]

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