My friend and former colleague Steve Dilbeck now blogs about the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times.

I would like to read Steve’s blog. I would also like to read a blog about the Dodgers.

The trouble?

None of the latimes.com blogs will load. Zero. Sports, politics, news. None can be called up.

The people who run the website have to know this is their problem, and an ongoing one.

What I can’t figure out is why they don’t fix it.

The trouble actually started when we were still in California. Los Angeles Times blogs came up fitfully … and sometimes not at all. Yes, when I was sitting in a room not 30 miles from the Times’ building in downtown Los Angeles.

And over here on the shores of the Gulf, LAT blogs never load. Never. I am 0-for-Abu Dhabi.

I just tried to load Steve’s latest post. About Vin Scully. A post I would read no matter the author, actually. But I got the same result I always get when clicking on a LAT blog.

Failure.

Well, specifically, this is what I got, after 23 seconds of the spinning hourglass, that dread page with the information that reads: “Network Timeout … The server at latimesblogs.latimes.com is taking too long to load.”

That is what always happens.

It isn’t just me.  Leah can’t load LAT blogs. A co-worker at The National, also an American and a sports fan, has noticed LAT blogs don’t load.

I might be tempted to think this could be about Abu Dhabi or the United Arab Emirates which does, in fact, block certain sites … but an hour ago I was looking at New York Times blogs. And just before I tried to load Steve’s Dodgers post, I read a Lakers column by Mark Heisler.

To be specific, anything on latimes.com that is not a blog, will load. That has been the case throughout this months-long mess with the blogs. I can always get stuff that went into the paper. I can never get the blogs.

It isn’t me, I am convinced. It is the latimes.com blogs. They do not load.

How many clicks does this cost latimes.com per day? Of people worldwide who have just given up on the site’s blogs? Thousands? Tens of thousands? And aren’t page-views money? As well as the future of newspapers?

And LAT is letting me spend eyeball time on other sites, killing their “stickyness,” or whatever the term is … because their Lakers-Dodgers-Angels-USC-UCLA blog stuff won’t load.

Oh, and another thing: I can load blogs, no problem, from dailynews.com — which is the Los Angeles Daily News, a LAT competitor, a newspaper with a fraction of the Los Angeles Times’ money and (one would assume) technological abilities. In fact, I read Scott Wolf’s USC blog regularly.

I couldn’t read his LAT competition even if I wanted to.

So, Timesmen, fix this. Upgrade. Plug in. Power up. Make the hamsters run faster. Whatever it is you need to do to make your blogs observable around the (in theory) worldwide web.

I’m missing out on Stevie Dilbeck now. It’s getting personal.