The Dodgers would go two and four against their nearest rivals, the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks but would start the month with a sweep of Atlanta and end the month with a sweep of the Mets. They would run a record of 16-10 for the month of May and a hold of first […]
The 2024 Dodgers season rolled along and with the turning of the calendar to May, the Dodgers injuries really took a toll. They were playing solid baseball but not dominant as many predicted. Still, in the pupae stage of the season, optimism was high. The addition of Teoscar Hernandez provided a new charm and whimsy […]
And so, the 2024 Dodger season began. Following two games in Korea against the hated San Diego Padres, the Dodgers returned to the mainland for another week of Spring Training. With apologies, I’ll hop on my soapbox for a moment and complain about the inanity of playing two regular season games in the Far East, […]
A moderately chilly January turned into one of the rainiest February’s in Los Angeles history and the process for Rolando’s recovery became the focus of our lives. It was slow and tedious and wasn’t progressing great. He wasn’t regressing, we just didn’t see any real improvement. His mind wandered, his strength ebbed and flowed, his […]
A scary February dissolved into a potentially terrifying but hopeful March. We brought Rolando home from the rehab facility the last week of February and after a week at home, dad seemed to be recovering into himself. He still moved slow and required a lot of help, but the mind was operating at a higher […]
Since Rolando’s first fall in February of 2022 (a few days before the Rams-Bengals Super Bowl in Los Angeles) it felt like a yearly February pilgrimage to the hospital. It seemed like he was always stricken with some severe medical issue every February. February ’22 it was a Cardiac episode, February ’23 it was a […]
As a lifelong sports fan, I’ve learned so much about life. From the first backyard football game I caught a pass in, to the first baseball game my parents took me to and on up until this very moment, I’ve learned and continue to learn so much about the world and my life. The ups […]
The gravity of time pulls on all of us. Many of us spend our lives in the pursuit against that gravity but the scientific truth is that the gravity always wins in the end. Father Time is undefeated. As a person who loves and takes care of his Dad, I see the everyday in’s and […]
I remember watching a Dodger game with my buddy, Veggie, probably a decade ago and as he and I moaned at another blown save (Jonathon Broxton, yuk) a female co-worker asked us, what was the deal with baseball. She didn’t and couldn’t understand it. My response? “It’s about Fathers and Sons.” She nodded in agreement […]
Good morning, loyal readers as I give you this week’s The Odds and The Ends. What a crazy week, month and year it has been but at least, for Angelino sports, it’s coming up roses. Very rarely do cities have it where all of their sports teams are good. Boston had a terrific run with […]
Where the 91 Ends 