Did we lose, or did they win? Both
In the wake of the Yankees’ elimination from the playoffs, Emma Span wrote the following at Bronx Banter: … I think the tendency of fans — and certainly not just Yankee fans, but perhaps especially...
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It’s whom you pay, not when you pay them
Ric Tapia/Icon SMIThe problem isn’t that the Dodgers are still paying Jason Schmidt; the problem is that Jason Schmidt couldn’t pitch no matter what date his paychecks arrived. With a third of Hiroki...
View ArticleBaseball, moist and delicious
Baseball is like the giant, moist blueberry muffin I had Wednesday morning. It’s so grand that you can dive into it with no fear of running out too soon, so full of flavor that each bite from top to...
View ArticleMy journey
… In about the mid-1990s, after it became clear how awful the DeShields-Pedro Martinez trade was, I started to conjecture that the Dodgers really could become the Cubs – that a journey to 100 years of...
View ArticleWinning breeds chemistry: revisited
Winning breeds chemistry, and not the other way around. Happy scores make happy players. That’s one of the longtime philosophies of Dodger Thoughts, a firm stance in a debate that came up often during...
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So why not a designated free-throw shooter?
If you’re in favor of the designated hitter in baseball, are you also in favor of a designated free-throw shooter in basketball? At ESPN.com, the estimable Christina Kahrl revived the arguments for...
View ArticleGround beef: Giants score 33% more runs than Dodgers, credited with 100% more...
The Giants “play as a unit, as a team, grinding out victories,” ESPN announced Dan Shulman said at the top of tonight’s broadcast of the Giants and the Dodgers, confirming my suspicions that the...
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Livestream of consciousness
Cardinals at Dodgers, 4:15 p.m. Nick Punto, 3B Mark Ellis, 2B Adrian Gonzalez, 1B Matt Kemp, CF Andre Ethier, RF Scott Van Slyke, LF A.J. Ellis, C Dee Gordon, SS Ted Lilly, P With today’s funky...
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Saviors
Life is jagged lines. In the majors, Yasiel Puig shouldn’t be expected to match the .383 on-base percentage and .599 slugging he has put up with Double-A Chattanooga in 2013, though to be clear, the...
View ArticleCorey Seager, a slider and the Dodgers’ October bubble
It was drowned out by the Howie Kendrick grand slam, by Juan Soto teeing off on the fattest pitch of Clayton Kershaw’s career, by Anthony Rendon taking a golf swing at a Kershaw pitch near his shins....
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