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I was raining prior to today’s 1-0 Dodger home victory over the Arizona Diamonbacks. According to the Dodgers Media Guide, here are the Dodger Stadium rainouts: 4/21/67 vs St. Louis Cardinals 4/12/76 vs San Diego Padres 9/10/76 vs Atlanta Braves 9/11/76 vs Atlanta Braves 5/8/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies 5/9/77 vs Philadelphia Phillies 8/17/77 vs San [...]

I went to the Dodger game last night. In the eighth inning, the Diamondvision prompted a fan sing-along to a piece of big-haired 80′s drek that I won’t call “rock”. No, I don’t want to bring my kids to sing or hear MTV-raised “fans” who should know better sing “A singer in a smoky room [...]

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I was a little sad to hear that Mike Piazza retired this week, unsigned and out of uniform. For Barry Bonds to fade out of baseball and disappear unclaimed and unwanted makes sense. It is unfortunate to see the greatest offensive catcher ever ride off into the sunset without a grand tour to let his [...]

I have never seen an article like Rob Neyer’s Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk today about a football or basketball story. Baseball box scores never die. Neyer does a spectacular forensic study in his new book “Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends“ of a story I read years ago about Thurman Munson and repeated [...]

I was greeted at the office today with a trivia question… what is the fewest number of pitches needed to win a MLB game? The trap I fell into was thinking of starting pitchers and began thinking of 15, one pitch per batter for 5 innings in a rained-out game. Then someone at my office [...]

I’m conflicted. My brain tells me there is no such thing as a jinx. My heart tells me otherwise. The haunted expression of the construction worker who dug up the jersey of the Red Sox’s David Ortiz in the concrete of the Yankee Stadium-to-be tells me that more than a few fans believe strongly in [...]

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Clemens: You want answers? Congressman: I think I’m entitled to them. Clemens: You want answers? Congressman: I want the truth! Clemens: You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has baseballs. And those balls have to be hit by men with bats. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Congressman? I have [...]

Congratulations to Rich “Goose” Gossage for being the only nominee to merit election to the Hall of Fame. I have a memory of Gossage pitching against Don Baylor of the Baltimore Orioles during a night game. Goose was in his wind-up and the stadium lights went out for a moment. When the lights went on [...]

Forgive the mix of Scottish lyrics and the combination of Loch Lomond with Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken. The low road is the short “high” road of syringes of HGH and steroids, paved with lucrative contracts gained through performance enhancement… properly at the cost of immortalization in the shrine of Cooperstown’s Baseball [...]