I hate the Giants. I have always hated the Giants. Why? Because I’m a Dodger fan and they’re the Giants – it’s as simple as that. And while the players, coaches and managers today may claim that the intense rivalry between the two teams is only a fan thing, the truth of the matter is that [...]
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“Dodger Stadium for Dummies” – or Vice Versa
January 30th, 2013 at 5:57 am 
by Evan Bladh In July 2008, a yahoo contributor by the name of Nicole wrote a short piece on Dodger Stadium. It was essentially a “Dodger Stadium for Dummies” article – an informational piece about the Stadium for those that haven’t been there. Topics included: how to get there, what to eat, the best place to sit, things [...]
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Life in the Minor Leagues
January 29th, 2013 at 6:11 am by Harold Uhlman When I was a youngster I had a dream. That dream was to play baseball. I knew at a very early age that major league baseball would be an impossibility for me. Still, I had a dream to play at a level below the big leagues. I think that yearning came from watching the Liverpool Larrupers play [...]
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Will an Angry Fox become a Lame Duck?
January 28th, 2013 at 9:53 am by Ron Cervenka There is an angry Fox loose in L.A. today – not the animal but the television network. It has been confirmed that Time Warner Cable (TWC) has won the television rights to carry the Dodgers new television channel, having outbid Fox Sports (News Corps) who have held the broadcasting rights for the Dodgers for more [...]
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The Steroid Era – Round Two (or is it Three?)
January 28th, 2013 at 6:39 am by Ron Cervenka For the past ten years, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has gone to great lengths trying to convince everyone that the “Steroid Era” is over and that it is now nothing more than a painful memory and a black eye on baseball history. For that exact same ten years, I have argued and will continue to argue that [...]
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The Starting Rotation – What Do the Numbers Mean?
January 27th, 2013 at 5:54 am by Ron Cervenka One of the most ambiguous terms in all of baseball is the word “ace,” as in staff ace. It is a word that gets tossed around as casually (and sometimes as carelessly) as the words “superstar” or “heart.” But what exactly is an ace? Is it simply the guy who gets the Opening Day nod, or [...]
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Baseball Without the Draft
January 26th, 2013 at 7:25 am by Ron Cervenka If you have been paying close attention (or even slight attention) to the articles that we have posted here on ThinkBlueLA over the past two months about several former Brooklyn Dodger greats (and even a few non-Dodger greats), you have noticed that almost all of them had something in common. Almost to the man, nearly all [...]
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“14″
January 25th, 2013 at 5:35 am by Harold Uhlman On April 12, 2013, the highly anticipated movie “42″ will premier in theaters nationwide. What many baseball fans may not realize is that this likely Oscar nominee about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier could have very easily been entitled “14″ instead. In 1942 Branch Rickey joined the Dodgers as the team’s president and general manager. He [...]
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The $3.5 Million Baseball
January 24th, 2013 at 5:42 am by Ron Cervenka While scrolling through a long list of Dodgers related tweets yesterday, I stumbled across this rather humorous one (rt means “re-tweet”): This tweet was obviously made in jest about long-lost (but not forgotten… nor underpaid) Dodger third baseman Juan Uribe. I particularly got a kick out of the tweeter’s fictitious handle “@fattyswag5″ – a play on words of [...]
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The Preacher
January 23rd, 2013 at 6:00 am by Ron Cervenka One of the more colorful and popular characters in Roger Kahn’s great book The Boys of Summer is Brooklyn Dodgers left-hander Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe; popular not only to readers of this timeless classic, but also to those who actually played with him and to Kahn himself. Born on February 26, 1916 in Ash Flat, Arkansas and [...]
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