Damn good swing! Fine looking horse too.
Baseball is a sport of rythm and timing. Its meant to be played everyday. I think you can make an argument that the layoff for the wild card round hurts the teams that earn a bye. 2 of 4 of the teams with a bye have been eliminated and a 3rd is on the ropes.
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Still not over being swept by the Diamondbacks. This one hurts just a little more.
Seeing Trea Turner do well hurts (but I am also glad he helped get the Braves up outta here). I wish we still had that dude on the roster.
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Nothing quite like seeing a Dodgers’ former roster spreading around the league and making other teams winners.
Something tells me Ohtani and Trout won’t be suiting up for the Angels next season. Ohtani will sign with another team as a free agent, and Trout will be traded in a salary dump to facilitate a rebuild.
As is the “Angel Way,” both will have great years next season - even Ohtani won’t be pitching…and the Angels will still suck.
or this
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See, I would root for the Doggers if Herman Munster played for them.
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TOP FIVE REASONS WHY IT IS RIGHT AND PROPER TO HATE THE DODGERS…
5- On the morning after the Dodgers lose, the sun shines a bit brighter, your breakfast tastes better, traffic clears for you, and your boss is nicer. The world is just a better place.
4- The 1981 Dodgers winning the World Series only because of that ridiculous split-season garbage, where they didn’t even win their division.
3- The 1981 Cy Young going to Fernando Valenzuela (and all the concominant cretinous hyping) over the best pitcher of his generation and the highest Hall of Fame first ballot vote percentage for a pitcher of all-time, Tom Seaver, who only went 14-2(!) with an ERA+ of 140 (over FV’s 135).
2- My brother growing up as a big Dodger fan and his constant drumbeat about the best infield in the NL was extremely gross. I never have and will continue to always never have, any Dodger on any fantasy team I ever have, til the day I die.
1- Tommy Lasorda, I could make this list a top 50, and Lasorda would hold most of the spots. The biggest jackass in all of baseball history, including Pete Rose. Fletch should have won the academy award for best picture solely because Chevy Chase punched the picture and uttered the words that most right-thinking and reasonable Americans should always say, “I hate Tommy Lasorda”.
Now, all this said, @LAUte has it right. He nor any other Dodger fan should ever care about my 1000x heat of the sun hate for them. They just have to deal with the final judgment they will receive from St. Peter when they reach the pearly gates.
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Having met Tommy Lasorda, I find it hard to hate him. He was one of the most warm and genuine people I have ever met. When my brother was living in Burbank and working for Disney, he used to eat at Tommy’s restaurant a couple of times a month, and introduced my dad to Tommy there one evening when my dad went to visit. Tommy spent an hour with them reminiscing about baseball and his time in Utah as a minor league manager.
Outside of my dad meeting Muhammad Ali, meeting Tommy was second on his dream meeting list.
BTW, my dad met Ali in Atlanta in 1996 when my brother was managing the Olympic Torch Relay for Coke. My brother introduced my dad as one of his biggest fans. That my dad was rooting for him to beat Sonny Liston in both fights, and watching his fights on TV was a family event. Ali was sort of taken aback that a white man, living in Utah, during that time in our nation’s history was a fan of him. They had a great dinner together before Ali went to the stadium to light the cauldron. Not baseball, but something worth remembering today.
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Yup. To hate Tommy just reveals a character flaw in the hater. 
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If it’s full of Dodger fans, I may not want to go.
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We’ll be fist fighting each other. You’ll be entertained.
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Couldn’t agree more. I had him on a flight from LAX to DTW and he was absolutely one the nicest guys ive met. After the flight he popped into the cockpit to thank us, even though we were an hour late.
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So he was a religious zealot on top of everything else.
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Wrong. He was just A Man Who Knows.
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I just read that the Brooklyn Dodgers were the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946-1956. Ripped the hearts out of the locals who loved their Bums.
No excuse, just greed.
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yeah but would Mr Ed come to Brooklyn ???
No, but a barista in Brooklyn definitely goes by Mr. Ed, Ironically.
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