Baseball 2016 Season Has Started

Let Play Ball, The Baseball 2016 Season Has Started

Hey Los Angeles Dodger Fans and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim fans

Are you ready for the 2016 baseball season?

Pre-season games started in March and although the games don’t count and supposedly no one care if they win or lose. The true is that it does count, not as wins or loses, but for the players try to earn a spot on the team’s roster.

It is the one time that everyone gets to play, not only the ‘old timers’ the ones that have already earned a spot on the team, but for all the new prospects as well. It is the one chance that a rookie has to show what he can do for the team. The one chance for the new prospects to impress the manager and the coaches, Let them know that ‘I can play this game, I am ready’!’

Let Play Ball, The Baseball 2016 Season Has Started

However, if that new prospect, and this year there are some really good ones, fail to impress, they are usually sent back to the ‘minors’. Of course this isn’t the end of their chances to make the team for 2016, but a minor set-back for them. They can be traded to another team’s minor division or better yet get call back to the majors as a replacement for someone that gets hurt or just to shake up the team, add a little new chemistry to the team.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/mlb/news/prospects/index.jsp?c_id=la

Officially The Dodger season started Monday April 4, 2016, against the San Diego Padres, with Kershaw pitching of course. At last year’s opening game against the San Diego Padres, the dodgers won and if over 53,000 fans in attendance.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/2015-schedule-scores.shtml

‘Opening Day’ for the Dodgers first home game will be Tuesday, April 12, 2016 against the Arizona Diamond Backs. I wonder who will throw out the first pitch this year. It’s a big deal to toss the first pitch, but does anyone remember who did it last year. It was of course Sandy Koufax who provided the Dodgers’ first pitch.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/43669704/sandy-koufax-provides-relief-for-dodgers-first-pitch

Let Play Ball, The Baseball 2016 Season Has Started
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During the pre-season the Dodgers looked good, they still had a few rough edges to work out and several of the new pitchers looked really good, however some did not. Hopefully as the season continues the new guys will improve and learn the routine of the team. The Dodgers need more than two pitchers to get us into the playoffs or better yet into the World Series.

That more than anything else will kill the team’s chances to advance pass the first round of the playoffs. The team needed much more than Clayton Kershaw and Zachary Greinke on the mound, especially since Grienke is not returning to baseball as a Dodger.

Officially the Angels season also started Monday April 4, 2016, with the Angels playing the Chicago Cubs. Here’s hoping that the Angels will find their missing pieces and put together a winning team that will not only take their division, survive the playoffs, but go on and play in the World Series.

The Angels also have a lot of new prospects to pick and choose from and the Angels still have much of their 2015 roster returning, this year looks very promising for the Angels.

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016?list=ana

Last season the LA Angels had a fair season, but ended up in third place in the AL West Division, not their best. It could be said that the Angels ending up in third place was due to a massive amount of injuries sustained during last year’s season. However, the question has to asked, if all those injuries could have been avoided if the team had a deeper and more talented farm system, or perhaps the injuries were due to current players that are close to retiring from the game of baseball. But for whatever the reasons are for the team not making the playoffs, the fans need to see changes for 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Los_Angeles_Angels_of_Anaheim_season

Let Play Ball, The Baseball 2016 Season Has Started

The Angels opening day at their home field with be Monday April 11, 2016 with the Angels versus the Oakland A’s. Last year not only did the Angels lose the opening game against the Seattle Mariners with Jeff Weaver pitching, but also lost the opening game at the Angel Stadium against the Kansas City Royals.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAA/2015-schedule-scores.shtml

Every year the Dodger and the Angel fans dream of a world series with the LA Dodgers play the LA Angels. The ultimate ‘Freeway Series’. But first both the Dodgers and the Angels have to win their division or at least make the playoffs and win then it’s on to the World Series.

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Sports blog for December 2015

There Still Sports In December

Happy Holidays

For a sports fan, besides all the regular Christmas and family items, buying the tree, do the decoration, buy the gifts, etc, etc. (and the list does seems endless) there is still sports!

December can be a hectic time of the year in the ‘Sports World’ for any sports fan. Starting with the baseball trades going on and this time of the year there has been many surprises and a whole lot of money once again being spent by the Dodgers.

All this and more to come, just to help prepare themselves for next season and a chance to make it to the World Series. Hopefully it will be money better spend than the last couple of years. Dodgers take the Division Title, but get bump out of the playoffs the very first round, this year it was the New York Mets that sent the Dodgers packing.

Then there is College Basketball and the attempts by each college team to make it to “March Madness’. Sports fans are starting to take an interest in the top schools, taking a peek at who will be in and who will be out. All this to help them get an edge in preparing their ‘Brackets’. As of today’s date, UCLA and USC are holding their own and hopefully they will both make it past the first couple of rounds.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/standings

Of course, if you a sports fan? There are also the college bowl games, which started December 19 and will end with the BCS Championship game on January 11. There is always the January 1, 2016 famous Rose Bowl game following the Rose Parade, a great way to just relax and rest up after celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends and/or family.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13004471/2015-2016-college-football-playoff-schedule-bowl-schedule

Of course, if you are not a fan of basketball or even football, there is also hockey! We have two teams, the Los Angeles, Kings and the Anaheim Ducks.

Before the season started, both teams looked like they had the players that would and could take them to the playoffs, unfortunately that has not come to past for the Ducks.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/standings/

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Teams that appeared not to be able to lose at the start have lost, take the Miami Dolphins, the New Orleans Saints or even Green Bay. Denver Broncos are also struggling with Peyton Manning out for the season, as well as the Baltimore Ravens, again with their Quarterback, Flacco also out for the season.

Then you have the winners, the usual, New England Patriots, but how about them, Bengals or the Carolina Panthers? Then there are the spoilers, no chance of getting into the playoffs, but can still do a lot of damage to their rivals by knocking them out of the playoffs. Fun, Fun, FUN!

www.NFL.com
So while you, the Sports fan, are working on that Christmas tree, wrapping gifts, or just out with the family, you will have one eye or one ear fixed to a TV or radio, trying to stay informed.
It is just how it works with us, the sports fan!

Oh, a word to the wise, while you are at that holiday function anywhere near LA, you may not want to bring up the Lakers, that is unless you are a Clipper fan!

Happy Holidays from the Sports4Dummies and good luck to your favorite team.

Oops another mistake by the Umps!

With the upgrades in the way we watch sports on TV, and the use of re-play in almost every sport, it’s definitely had its impact on how the games are being officiated especially in football.

http://operations.nfl.com/the-officials/officiating-development/

No longer are we watching sports are the regular old-fashion TV, but most sport fans are now watching the games on Cable TV or streaming it through their Ipad, phone or computer.

We, as fans, get to see just about everything that happens on the field. Sometimes over and over again as the station repeats the play at various anglers along with comments from the sports ‘experts’.

This has really put a lot more pressure on the officials. Not only do they have to deal with the
team players and coaches at the time of the call, but with the fallout from a bad call as early as that evening when ESPN or Sports Center brings it to everyone attention. Now add to that the ‘Social Media’, which everyone on Facebook has an opinion.

However, even with this, officials do still get it wrong, and sometimes, it is very wrong!

Error in time run-off on the clock and not noticed or corrected by officials in the October game between Detroit Lions and the Seattle Seahawks
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/Sports/7559xuidc/Sports-digest-NFL-admits-officiating-error.htm

NFL admits another error in Lions-Cowboys game
http://www.9news.com/story/sports/nfl/2015/01/06/lions-cowboys-game-officiating-errors/21357789/

In college football, the ACC has taking action against the team of officials who messed up and due to their errors, the wrong team won. You say, what’s the big deal, however, again, this is college football where one loss can prevent you from going to the payoffs. Not going to the playoff means a huge loss of revenue for the college.

The ACC (The Atlantic Coast Conference) has actually suspended the team of officials
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14026475/acc-suspends-field-officials-replay-officials-wild-miami-duke-finish

With College football actually doing something to try and clear of the mess of bad officiating, the NFL needs to follow suit. Just like the football players and their coaches are held accountably for their actions, so do the officials. Some errors appear to be so blanted that you have to wonder what the officials were thinking! Was there favoritism? Did the official actually lean heavier on a certain team verses another team? A lot of fans think so, why do certain team’s quarterbacks get sacks so much more than other quarterback from other teams.
Sack a favorite quarterback and get a penalty for late hit, sack another quarterback and it fine.

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Have to ask the question as to when will the NFL follow in the path of college football and make the officials actually responsibly for their actions. Perhaps a suspension of a game or two or even a monetary penalty would help the official take their jobs a little more serious.

Bad Calls In Sports

This is a very touchy subject and not just in football. Many baseball fans and sports announcer have discovered that certain officials when referring certain games against certain pitcher have either a very large strike zone or a very little strike zone.

Everyone by now has heard the story of a retired baseball player hiring Private Investigators to
get an advantage from Officials, if not click on the link, you will enjoy the read.

Lenny Dykstra admits to hiring private investigators to spy on umps
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25356639/lenny-dykstra-admits-to-hiring-private-investigators-to-spy-on-umps

This has got to be a real eye opener for the MLB. Even if Lenny’s story proves to be false, you still have to wonder ‘what if it’s true?’ How does the Major League Baseball fix the problem for the future? How does any sports venue fix the problem?

Unfortunately, when there is so much money to be had in sports now-a- days, cheating is to be expected. In sports the old say goes, ‘It isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught?’

Have Fun and Enjoy
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Baseball 2015 All Star Game. The 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

The 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 86th edition of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The game was hosted by the Cincinnati Reds and played at Great American Ball Park on Tuesday, July 14 and of course it was televised nationally on Fox.

The American League All-Stars defeated the National League All-Stars by a score of 6–3. It seems that the National League struggled yet again.

The host city was announced back on January 21, 2013, by MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. This will be the first time the city of Cincinnati has hosted the All-Star Game since the 1988 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played at Riverfront Stadium.

There was a huge amount of hype on various TV sports channels as well as the local TV news stations. There were lots of rumors and gossip.

One of the rumors was that after being banned for LIFE for gambling, Pete Rose was going to show up. Pete Rose played 15 seasons for the Reds and was a part of the Big Red Machine, and was banned permanently from the MLB for baseball betting.

Bud Selig announced that Rose would not be prohibited from participating in this years All-Star Game ceremonies. And he did!

Pete Rose came home for the All-Star Game and made a rare on-field appearance in the place where he’s still treated like a king.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/07/15/pete-rose-mlb-all-star-game.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/pete-rose-allowed-to-participate-in-all-star-game–mlb-commish-says-184711639.html

Another rumor until back in May 12, 2015 the Reds announced that Todd Frazier would serve as the 2015 All-Star Game spokesperson However, the biggest rumor, then gossip, then fact was the balloting problems that showed up and took center stage.

Balloting for the 2015 All-Star Game starters began online April 23 and ended on July 2. The top vote-getters at each position (including the designated hitter for the American League) and the top three among the outfielders, were named the starters for their respective leagues. The results were then announced on July 5.

A record 620 million votes were cast, surpassing the record of 391 million votes in 2012. Josh Donaldson was the leading vote-getter with 14,090,188 votes, breaking the record that Josh Hamilton set in 2012 with 11,073,744 votes. Bryce Harper set a new NL record for votes this year with 13,864,950 votes.

Which all sounds great, but it didn’t start out that way, after a few weeks it became apparent that ‘online’ voting system might have a few flaws in the system and due to these several flaws, for a few weeks the Kansas City Royals had 5 or more players playing in the All Star Game.

This cause a whole lot of uproar and a whole lot of sports ‘people’ wanting and demanding changes!

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/6/19/8811347/mlb-all-star-game-royals-votes

There were so many people insisting on a recount and demanding immediate changes that the MLB Commissioner had to step in. The Immediate outcome was the chances of seeing Omar Infante suit up for the American League All-Star squad were getting slimmer by the hour when just a few days from the All-Star game, MLB Advanced Media CEO Bob Bowman revealed in an interview with Jeff Passan that between 60-65 million ballots have been disqualified for the upcoming All-Star Game.

The disqualified votes come after Royals fans (and at least some National League fans looking to create chaos) came out in even greater unison behind 2014 World Series runner-up after initial results gave those players a sizable lead, putting a total of eight Kansas City players in line to start for the AL.

While 60 million votes sounds like a sizable chunk of the 300-some million ballots that have been collected so far, Bowman insisted that the 20 percent cut was on par with results from previous seasons.

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In the past, long before the internet, votes were made at the games by the people actually attending the game. The more games you went to, the more chances you had to vote.

Now in comes the internet and with it the opportunity to vote online, thus opening the process to being manipulated by a small group of computer experts, voting over and over again using different email addresses or even going as far as using different IPO addresses.

Lots of true baseball fans were concerned that once again, the true spirit of baseball had once again been trampled on.

These ‘sport enthusiasts’ would like for baseball to take a few steps backwards, with less dependence on the votes placed on the internet and more votes coming in from the fans that actually attended the game.

Also more weight giving the other baseball players votes, along with the baseball owners, and managers votes.

Another change being pushed is to remove the ‘win at all cost’ incentive placed on the game, with the winner of the All Star Game being given the ‘Home Field Advantage’ at the next World Series game.

This Year the American League beat the National League 6-3 to secure home-field advantage in the World Series for the third straight time and 10th in 13 years.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/tuesdays-sports-brief-064722110–mlb.html;_ylt=AwrXgiLmjLVVomkAxCFNbK5_;_ylu=X3oDMTByNDN1aDMxBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM1BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw–

Overall, good did triumph over evil and the game was played with a good mix of players from a wide variety of team both for the American League and the National League.

Now that the 2015 All Star Game is one for the books, and baseball is already working on the completing the second half of the season, there were some winners and some losers, such as; Pete Rose – winner, Mike Trout- winner and Kershaw-loser and Bruce Harper- loser.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2522799-mlb-all-star-game-2015-winners-and-losers-from-tuesday-night

MLB will reportedly change All-Star Game hosting criteria, this announcement came after the MLB had announced that San Diego will host the 2016 All Star Game.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/108620194/mlb-will-reportedly-change-all-star-game-hosting-criteria

No matter if you are a fan of the ‘All-Star’ games or not, almost every sport has one. Baseball is just one of the few that have it half-way through the season.

The ‘All Star Break’ does gives everyone a much needed break, it gives time for the players to heal a little, rest a little and for GM along with the managers to get ready for the trade deadlines that occur right after the all-star break.

The future of the All Star game, just like everything else on TV, it will come down to not what’s best for baseball, but what is best for the ratings.

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June’s sports blog 2015

Supporting Our Local Southern California Sports!

 

Apparently there doesn’t seem to be enough room in dodger fan’s hearts for both the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers. I don’t know why either.

Dodgers fans booed Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers and his son at Dodger Game.
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Article by By Eric Freeman

I have been a Laker fan since before Magic Johnson played for them instead of being a part owner of the Dodgers. For the most part, the Lakers have been a great team winning the NB Championships year after year. However, for the last couple of years there have been problems with the chemistry between players, the age of several of the players and the injuries. And although I know that it is just a matter of time that the LA Lakers will once again become the first class team that they once were.

http://www.nba.com/lakers/

The fact that I am a LA Laker fan doesn’t stop me from cheering for the Clippers, after all, they are a LA Team. I am still a Laker fan, but I am also a fan of LA Sports.

Any time a team from Southern California makes it to the playoff games, as a whole, we are better for it. Shouldn’t matter what LA Basketball team makes it to the playoffs, as long as someone does, I would prefer the Lakers, but will root for the Clippers. Why? Simple, it adds money to our local economy and it’s another notch in the belt for LA Sports.

Downtown business, whether it is hotels, motels, restaurants, or local stores, they all benefit. It also gives us, the Los Angeles Fan base, a reason to gloat.

You hear it all the time about how Southern CA and in peculiar, Los Angeles, is not into sports, how we don’t support our local teams. You especially hear this from the NFL, they love to use that as an excuse as to why LA doesn’t have or need a Football team.

The politics behind why Los Angeles doesn’t have an NFL team
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The only time a Laker Fan should be rooting against the Clippers is when the Clipper are playing the Lakers or they are both tied for first place and the Lakers need a win.

www.NBA/clippers

It is sort of the same thing that happens between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

I am a true Dodger fan, in other words, I ‘bleed blue’. However, I will root for the Angels, except when they are actually playing the Dodgers. I will especially root for the Angels when they are playing a ‘National Team’ and from the same division as the Dodgers. Example is when the Angels play the D-backs or the Giants.

How about all the LA King fans that openly support the Anaheim Ducks when the Ducks instead of the LA Kings make the playoffs, as in this year! Would they prefer to be rooting for the LA Kings, YES! But, still better to have a Southern CA team in the playoffs than none! Go Ducks! Again this is good for Southern CA
Sports, there are a whole lot of hockey fans up north and on the east coast that didn’t even know we had a hockey team, much less two and that the LA Kings won the Stanley Cup last year and the Ducks just missed the Stanley Cup Finals by a single loss.

http://ducks.nhl.com/

What it comes down to is simple, as a Southern CA sports fan, we need to be there for all our teams regardless of what our favorites are.

This Is SportsTalk4Dummies.com,

Spring and Sports go hand-in-hand!

Sports April 2015, a month to remember

April was a fun month for us sports fans! No matter what sports who follow, there was something going on.

April was the beginning of professional baseball, whether you are a Dodger fan or an Angel fan, it was great just to have the season start again.

www.Dodger.com

www.LAAngels.com

However there is still a dark side to the LA Dodgers; close to 70% of the market still is unable to see the Dodgers play and Vin Scully the game due to ‘Time Warner’ not making the games available outside their own customers.

Dodgers fans to remain in the dark as TV deal reportedly falls through!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/dodgers-fans-to-remain-in-the-dark-as-tv-deal-reportedly-falls-through-143820583.html

No matter who or who is not watching them, the Dodgers are off to a good start. In my opinion, several of their new players, such as Pederson, Anderson and Rollins are a real fine. However I do think that the Dodgers still need a great closer, especially with Jansen still out at least until mid-month. It’s not bad and it could be worse!

Rollins Plays Hero As Dodgers Open 2015 With 6-3 Win Over Padres.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/04/06/rollins-plays-hero-as-dodgers-open-2015-with-6-3-win-over-padres/

April was also the end of a very exciting men’s college basketball ‘March Madness’. We saw the end of Kentucky run for a perfect season with their loss to Wisconsin. Then it was on to watching Wisconsin loss to Duke in the finals. It was indeed a thriller!

Duke Beats Wisconsin 68-63 To Win 2015 NCAA Tournament

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/duke-wisconsin-final-score_n_7014744.html

Just as we got use to the fact that college basketball was done for the season, on comes the NBA playoffs. It was a bit concerning that once again the LA Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, the LA Clippers did. Go Clippers!

Lakers eliminated from playoffs, team’s earliest elimination in 54 years.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/11/lakers-eliminated-from-playoffs-teams-earliest-elimination-in-54-years/

You also have the NHL playoffs being played during the month of April. The Anaheim Ducks are in the playoffs, but sadly the LA Kings managed to miss the playoffs.

It was quite a shock for LA King fans when after wining last year’s Stanley Cup, they failed to even make the playoff this year. However, that means that us, the fans that were rooting for the Kings, will now turn our support to the Anaheim Ducks, after all, it would still be a Southern CA team winning the Stanley Cup!
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The Ducks have already won the first round of the NHL playoffs, and they did it in four straight games. Way to Go Ducks! Good luck in round two!

Check this link for playoff updates and schedules

http://www.nhlschedule2014.com/playoffs.html

It is a good thing is that Southern California has at least two teams for most sports, your team does make the playoffs, chances are the other team might. Such as, Lakers out, Clippers in, Kings out, Ducks in, Dodgers in, Angels out, (or the other way around, to early to tell yet).

Even USC or UCLA fans will route for the other team if their team doesn’t make it to the playoffs. Still beats an ‘outsider winning’. It’s always better for Southern CA when one of our local teams win!

Too bad the same can’t be said for professional football, LA still has no team! But that’s a whole other topic for another blog.

April is also important for the NFL. Most teams are in the hunt for new players, trading old ones, gaining new ones, even restructuring old contracts and make new ones.

There has even been a few surprises, such as the Washington Redskins deciding to pull the ‘franchise tag’ for RG3, when everyone else thought the owner would use the opportunity to trade him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/why-in-the-world-would-redskins-pick-up-rgiii-s-option–let-s-explore-151647567.html

The NFL also releases it’s fall schedule in April. LA Fans can start marking their calendars, booking their air flights, hotels and whatever they will need in order to attend either San Diego Charger or the Oakland Raiders games.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/2015-nfl-schedule–league-releases-the-full-regular-season-slate-000758569.html

This year, some team are really going outside the box in their attempt to gain depth in their rotations, even to the extent of the Eagles hiring Tim Tebow as their 4th Quarterback, A bit of an overkill, having 4 QB, but who knows. . .

Eagles VP of player personnel explains why they signed Tim Tebow
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/eagles-vp-of-player-personnel-explains-why-they-signed-tim-tebow-211405324.html

April also brings us freaking weather in which baseball players have to deal with, we are all use to a bit of rain, in which we deal with rain delays, but how often do we see snow falling dealing a National Baseball Game, well it happened.

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-04-22/yankees-tigers-snow-game-david-price-detroit-comerica-park

All in All, April was a great month for being a Sports Fan, can’t wait to see what May will bring!

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Dear Dodger Fans

I received this blog from another Dodger Fan and I passing it on!

This ‘Open Letter to Vin Scully’ by Jeff Polman is important and needs
to passed on from one fan to another, to another until something is done!

www.LADodgers.com

An Open, True Blue Letter to Vin Scully
Posted: 02/18/2015

Dear Vin,
I’m originally from New England, but have been following the Dodgers and attending their games since I moved out here in 1982.

I have always had the utmost respect and appreciation for what you do, and it will be a sad day in this land when you finally hang up your golden microphone.

It will be a sadder day, however, if the current, seemingly unending squabble between the Dodgers, Time Warner Cable and DIRECTV over the rights to the Dodger network TV broadcasts is allowed to continue much longer.

As you know, two thirds of the Los Angeles market was shut out of watching the games virtually all of 2014, which included masterful no-hitters by Josh Beckett and Clayton Kershaw, a triumphant Western Division pennant race with the Giants, and another season listening to your classy, informative tones for entire games.

It was unbelievably aggravating. For Dodgers fans truer and bluer than I, it must have been a nightmare. The entities with the power to end this stalemate have now had an entire offseason to take care of business and ensure this never happens again.

So far, they have accomplished nothing. The issue has been written about in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, discussed (though likely not enough) on local sports radio, yet no solution even seems to be in sight.
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In my mind, it is only a matter of time before angry Dodgers fans stop attending the games altogether. I certainly intend to be one of them. The Dodgers are more than just a team and a corporation; they are a public trust.

Older fans who first attended Dodgers games at the Memorial Coliseum, then moved on to Chavez Ravine and supported them for decades, merely want to relax at home now and watch them on TV with your wonderful announcing. Depriving them, even more than the rest of us, is a selfish, unacceptable crime.

Therefore, I am asking if you would do the one sensible thing that may finally put an end to this quagmire. Just pick up the phone, call the Dodgers, and say “Either fix this thing now, or I walk.” Sure, there’s likely no legal or contractual way this could even happen, but boy, would you ever be more of a hero to Dodger Nation than you already are.

There would be a Vin Scully statue in every Southern California town.

You may say I’m a dreamer, Vin, but I can assure you: I’m not the only one.

Best, Jeff

Jeff Polman writes about baseball for various Internet publications and writes “fictionalized” historical replay novels. Mystery Ball ’58, his latest one, will be available on Amazon in a few weeks.

There are probably a whole lot of us Dodger Fans that due to our advanced age, or little ones at home at old enough to sit still at a 3+ hour game, cannot simple drive out to the stadium to watch our Dodgers play as much as we really want to.

Therefore, we watch every game we can on TV, enjoying every moment, that is until last year when many of the Dodger fans were ‘shut out’.

And it wasn’t due to technical difficulties, but to the greed of a certain cable company. Not Good!

Hopefully if enough pressure is applied this situation with sort itself out and once again fans can enjoy a dodger game on TV.

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I feel the same way, Baseball and sports should be open to everyone and not control by those who has the most money, But that is the way everything seems to be going. So share this article with your sports friends and family.

Here the sports update February 2015.

Southern Californian’s and Their Sports!
Football, Baseball, Hickey, college and pro teams.

The National football league completely ignores us here again in Southern California, (no surprise), but that has not stopped us from being Sports Fans!! Great Sports Fans at that !!

And there are plenty of sports to go around here in Southern CA; if you prefer baseball, are you an Angel or a Dodger fan? Do you bleed red or blue? And, although, it has been awhile, but both teams have won the World Series with the DODGERS winning the National Division Title for 2014.

www.LADodgers.com www.LAAngels.com

If you love Hockey, are you a Duck Fan or a Kings Fan? Both teams have won the Stanley Cup and both teams do every well selling out their home games, even though we might not be able to watch them very often on our local TV/cable. Hopefully when the NHL’s contract with whatever company is responsible for showing the games on cable/TV, the NHL will push for a better deal and once again our favorite hockey teams will be shown again in prime time.

www.NHL/Ducks.com www.NHL/LAKings.com

Perhaps basketball is your choice of sports, okay then, are you a Laker Fan or a Clipper fan? Both teams share the same arena, The Staple Center. This year has been a pretty good year for the Clipper fans. In the past the Clippers have always the bride’s maid never the bride, until this year that is, with the Lakers in last place and the Clippers fighting to take over first place. If you are a Laker fan, perhaps the best news will be that the Lakers are looking to add some younger player to their rouster and ditch some of their older players with over-the-top contracts. There is lots of gossip out there regarding Kobe finally tossing in the towel and retiring. Who knows? He has been saying that now for several years!

www.NBA/Lakers.com www.NBA/Clippers.com

As for Football, we do have two of the best college teams available, are you a UCLA Fan or a USC Fan?
Each team has its share of devoted fans; some fans go back generations and have passed their choice of teams on to the next. You ask a young fan of either team and you will find that one of their grandparents went there or a cousin, uncle, whomever and it’s the same, whole families are fans for year after year after year.

Try getting tickets to any of the above sporting events and you know that no matter what the NFL says, Southern CA‘s love their sports. Our sporting events sell out game after game! Yet, the NFL repeatedly
States that southern CA cannot support a professional football team.

I had the opportunity to attend the last UCLA vs USC game, and although it wasn’t consider a complete

Sell-out there was close to 100,000 tickets sold. That’s more than a lot of the NFL stats for several of their teams.

Both the Dodgers and the Angels also fill their stadiums on a continuous basis. And the fans here are loyal, they attend year after year always in hope of a repeat visit to the World Series. It takes over 50,000 to sell out a Dodger game, and yet before and after the McCourt disaster, the fans have done just that and on a continuous bases year after year.

Even with a dreadful start to the season, the Lakers are still selling tickets to their home games, perhaps not selling out the games, but enough to let the Lakers know that the fans are still there and supporting them. The Clippers are also doing very well with their ticket sale.

It seems that although the NFL continues to think that our ‘market’ isn’t strong enough to support a ‘nationally rank team’. We, here in Southern CA are doing much better than other areas of the country that already have team, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars or how about the Arizona Cardinals, or my favorite, the Miami Dolphins. We continue to supporting our local teams no matter what the sport is.

NFL COMMISSIONER AXES LA TEAM IN 2015
http://espn991.com/nfl-commissioner-axes-la-team-in-2015/

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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/news/story?id=6057731

The talk of moving a team here as gone as far as investors locating 2 sites that could possibly work. One being near the Staples Center in downtown LA and the other being in the City of Industry where the
57 and the 60 freeways meet. Investors have drawn of plans, submitted them for approval and even put out feelers for NFL teams interested in moving here.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8994427

What does Southern California get back in response for all this work, the NFL commission had decided to put the idea of moving a team to LA on the back burner for now. The NFL has more pressing problems to deal with according to Roger Goodell, who on a side note has just received a huge salary of nearly 30 million with bonus for his handling of the ‘lockout’ back in 2011.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031107057.html

It is too bad that Southern CA can’t find a way to put pressure on the NFL and Goodell to place a higher
priory on this and get it moving again. There is money to be made by the NFL, the team that moves here , the owners and Southern CA. The sports fans here are ripe for the pick’ens, we just need a local team to support!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-made-nearly-30-220809067–nfl.html

Now there’s talk of the new owner of the St Louis Rams wanting to move the team back to LA. It seems
That he owns property here, right next to the ‘Hollywood Park’ in Inglewood. He has informed the NFL that it would be the perfect spot for the new NFL stadium to be built.

Rams need to follow NFL process to move to L.A.: stadium panel chief
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-stadium-20150117-story.html#page=1

But again, it seems that the NFL commissioner is backing off making a decision and has informed the
Owner of the Rams that he must go through proper channels, yada -yada -yada . . . . . . . .

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This the Season to be Jolly, especially if you are a sports fan! As 2014 nears its end, many sports are doing the same. The regular season for College Football is over and, ‘let the college bowl games began!

List of 2014-2015 College bowl games
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11419086/2014-15-college-football-bowl-schedule

There were several major upsets in the world of college football, almost every Monday or Tuesday we saw the rankings change. When the regular season finally ending, there was only one college still undefeated, and that was Florida State with 12 wins and 0 losses. However, even with their perfect season, Florida State is ranked 4th by the Polls and with Alabama ranked 1st.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls

As the month of December proceeds, the list of who plays who and in what College Bowl game will be announced.

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/college-football-bowl-schedule.php

However, College football isn’t the only sport, coming to end of their season, the NFL regular season is also slowly drawing to an end. In a few short weeks, we will be tuning in to the NFL to watch the several rounds of playoff games and finally ending with the ‘Super Bowl’

The Super bowl game will be held Sunday February 1, 2015 , and Super Bowl XLIX (49) will be played in the Phoenix, Arizona.

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/49 or http://phoenix.about.com/od/superbowl/a/Super-Bowl-2015.htm

There are a few sports that are not done yet, in fact, a couple of them are not even half way through their seasons.

Basketball is one of them, both college and professional. We all know about the College Basketball March Madness, right?
Sport fans barely have time to gather their thoughts from the Super Bowl when College basketball will be taking center stage in February and March.

http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness

March Madness[/caption]Then there is professional basketball, and just as Thanksgiving is all about turkey, family and football, Christmas is all Ham, family, presents and NBA basketball.

This year the Chicago Bulls will host the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas Day
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/12/report-bulls-to-host-lakers-on-christmas-day/

There is also going to be special Christmas uniforms for the basketball players this year. Can’t wait to see them.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-christmas-jerseys-to-feature-players–first-names-on-back-193859848.html;_ylt=AwrSyCQWLmlUqUQA4NvQtDMD

Below is a chart of all the games that will be played Christmas Day for our enjoyment. You can check it to see if your favorite team is playing and at what time.

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Let’s not forget hockey, a true winter sport, they are only into their 3 month of a 7 month regular season. The final games won’t even be played until April 12, 2015. At this very moment, the Anaheim Ducks are in first place in the Western- Pacific Division.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/standings/

All in all, it has been a great year for sports, no matter what sport is your favorite.
There has been some great wins and some very unexpected losses this year and you can’t forget all the drama both on and off the field of play this year as well. Some of which are still be played out in the courts.

We, here at Sports for dummies, want to wish you and your family, Happy Holidays, Season Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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World Series 2014 Is Over

Wow, was that a ‘World Series’ or what!

As we all know, the San Francisco Giants were the winners of this

year’s ‘World Series’ It was a really good series of games this year too. Not the usual with a team winning 4 in a row and it’s over.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/madison-bumgarner-pitches-giants-to-world-series-championship-in-classic-game-7-032618613.html

This year is was a little different. Both teams came in to the playoffs, not as winners but as ‘runner ups’, the wild cards. No Division winners!

How many times since the MLB has been keeping records has two wild cards teams beat all the odds and end up in the game of games, The World Series.

The Division winners at the end of the regular season in the American League were the Los Angeles Angels, with a record of 98 wins and 64 losses, the Baltimore Orioles, with a record of 96 wins and 66 losses and the Detroit Tigers with a record of 90 win and 72 losses.

The two wild card teams for the American League were the Kansas City Royals and the Oakland A’s.

As far as the National League the Division winners were the Washington Nationals with the record of 96 wins and 66 losses, then the Los Angeles Dodgers with the record of 94 wins and 68 losses, and the St Louis Cardinals with 90 wins and 72 losses.

The two wild card teams for the National League were the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants.

You had die-hard baseball fans dreaming of a Dodger vs Angels or perhaps an Oriole vs Nationals. There were also a huge number of sports fans thinking how cool would it be to have an East coast team play a West coast team, just imagine the what the TV ratings would have been.

http://www.camdenchat.com/orioles-news-rumors

Unfortunately for every single division winner, they lost! More importantly, they lost BIG! The Angels and the Tigers in the American League lost 3 games straight in the very first round of the playoffs. The Orioles lost to the Royals, who were the long shot, being the wild card winner in the second round of the playoffs.

www.LAAngel.com

All three division winners in the American League are done and gone!

It wasn’t much better with the National league, a little, but not by much!
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At least in the National League, it wasn’t 1, 2, 3 and done. The Nationals lost to the Giants in four games as well as the Dodgers losing to the Cardinals in four in the first round of the playoffs.

www.LADodgers.com

The St Louis Cardinals actually made it to the second round of the playoff only to lose to the Giants. At least with the Cardinals it took five games for the Giants to take the win.

http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=stl

So, there you have it, two wild card teams that managed to hang on and beat supposedly better teams, or least teams with better records.

Wouldn’t you have loved to know that in advance, a person can only imagine what the odds in Vegas would have been if someone had selected two wild-card
teams to go all the way to the baseball game of games ‘The World Series’.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/joe-maddon-ends-decade-long-rays-tenure-015830482–mlb.html

Of course the fallout from the division winners losing naturally was to blame in on the coaches, the managers and even the GMs. Several of whom have already been firer or moved up or down.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/los-angeles-dodgers

Of course the baseball players are not immune from the fallout. There will be the traditionally moving around of players, some with be traded or sent back to the triple A. Some players will just be let go, especially the players who will be a ‘free agent’ but next season.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

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