Ryan Faces the World

Ok, I’ve been somewhat obsessed with baseball for the past couple of weeks.  Here’s the situation.  6 games left.  Dodgers are 2 behind the Padres in the West and tied with the Phillies for the Wild Card.  Dodgers play 3 in Colorado and finish up with 3 in San Francisco.  Maddux goes tonight.  Everything is […]

Oy. It was absolutely the most amazing regular season, non-clinching game I have ever seen. 4 straight homeruns in the bottom of the 9th to tie up the game and then a come from behind 2-run homerun by Nomar in the 10th to win it. I went completely out of my mind. The Dodgers vaulted […]

After Saturday’s frustrating game, 3-2 loss, the Dodgers’ starting pitcher was, for the second time in this series, making his first major league start.  And, for the second time in this series, he shut down the Mets.  Eric Stults pitched great, the Dodger bats beat up on Steve Trachsel and the Boys in Blue won 9-1.  […]

We got them back. Hong-Chih Kuo, in his first major league start pitched 6 shutout innings and the Dodgers shutout the Mets 5-0. So sweet. The awesomeness started with an error by David Wright in the first inning that allowed two Dodgers to score with two out. What a sigh of […]

Look how happy I was in the last post.  Beautiful Dodger Stadium, beautiful wife, tall friend.  The Dodgers dismantled the Rockies 14-5.  Their lead in the West was 4 games.  That was last Saturday.  And what happened last night?  I’m sitting in the ashtray called Shea watching the Dodgers get pounded 7-0 by the Mets.  […]

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The wife and I went out to Anaheim to visit my folks over the long weekend.  Hotter than a monkey’s ass out there.  I never realized this as a kid but there is no shade on our street.  No trees.  Just incredibly hot sun, light colored houses, walls and sidewalks and steaming asphalt down the center.  […]