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 […]
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 […]
Where the 91 Ends 