World Series 2016 Cubs Win

Was that or was that not a great world series?  Some people are even calling it ‘epic’, especially the last couple of games.

It was definitely an early Christmas present for Cubs fans all over.  The Chicago Cubs were down 3 games to 1 with the Cleveland Indians only needing one game to take the series, and win the World Series for 2016.   But apparently it just wasn’t in the cards for Cleveland.

Here’s How the Chicago Cubs Won Game 7 and the World Series

www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/sports/world-series

Christmas indeed came early again for the Cubs, with one win, then another win, and then it was down to each team having 3 wins each, 3 for the Indians and 3 for the Cubs. Who was going home the 2016 world champions and who was going home the losers?

Chicago Cubs fans from all over flocked to Chicago to be part of history, to be part of the celebration, just to say I was there!   Thousands of fans descended on Wrigley Field, home of

Cubs even with the Cubs actually playing the last two games played in the Progressive field, home of the Cleveland Indians.

An estimated five million Cubs fans made their way to Chicago on Friday to celebrate the winning of the World Series championship, the last time they won was 108 years ago.

www.wrex.com/story/33635590/2016/11/Friday/local-cubs-fans-celebrate-world-series-victory-in-chicago”

The Chicago Cubs have been around since the beginning of baseball as we know it.  The team, first known as the White Stockings, was a founding member of the NL in 1876, becoming the Chicago Cubs in

wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_in_baseball.

The Cubs have appeared in a total of eleven World Series. The 1906Cubswon 116 games, finishing 116–36 and posting a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, before losing the World Series to the Chicago White Sox (“The Hitless Wonders”) by four games to two.

The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first major league team to play in three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it twice. Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which ended a 71-year National League pennant drought and a 108-year World Series

Championship drought, both of which are record droughts in Major League Baseball

The 108-year drought was also the longest such occurrence in all major North American sports. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason eight times through the 2016 season.
wikipedia.org/Chicago_Cubs

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The Cleveland Indians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Indians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since 1994, they have played at Progressive Field. The team’s spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Arizona.

Since their establishment as a major league franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships: in 1920 and 1948, along with eight Central Division titles and six American League pennants. The Indians’ current World Series championship drought is the longest active drought, and through 2016 is the fifth-longest in baseball history.

The name “Indians” originated from a request by club owner Charles Somers to baseball writers to choose a new name to replace “Cleveland Naps” following the departure of Nap Lajoie after the 1914 season. The name referenced the nickname “Indians” that was applied to the Cleveland Spiders baseball club during the time when Louis Sockalexis, a Native American, played in Cleveland.^[4] Common nicknames for the Indians include the “Tribe” and the “Wahoos”, the latter being a reference to their logo, Chief Wahoo, a controversial Native American caricature. The team’s mascot is named “Slider.”

The Cleveland Indians originated in Michigan in 1894 as the Grand Rapids Rustlers, a minor league team in the Western League. The team moved to Cleveland in 1900, changing its name to the Cleveland Lake Shores; the Western League itself changed its name to the American League (AL) while continuing its minor league status. One of the American League’s eight charter franchises, the major league incarnation of the club was founded in Cleveland in 1901. Originally called the Cleveland Bluebirds, the team played in League Park until moving permanently to Cleveland Stadium in 1946. The Cleveland Indians reached the World Series in 2016 and held a 3–1 lead against the Chicago Cubs, but they ultimately lost the series. At the end of the 2016 season, they had a regular season franchise record of 9,191–8,837 (.510).

Not only did the Chicago and Cleveland fans enjoy the World Series, but apparently so did a lot of sport fans.

World Series a boon for Fox with 40.5 million watching finale

http://www.walb.com/story/33661878/world-series-a-boon-for-fox-405-million-watching-finale

The 2016 World Series was the 112th edition of Major League Baseball‘s championship series, a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.

The Indians had home-field advantage because the AL had won the 2016 All-Star Game. The Cubs defeated the Indians in seven games, their first World Series victory in 108 years. They clinched the Series in Game 7 with an 8–7 win in extra innings, marking the fifth time that a Game 7 had gone past nine innings, and the first one to have a rain delay, which happened just as the tenth inning was about to start. It was only the sixth time in World Series history that a team came back from a deficit of three games to one to win a championship. This was the third consecutive year that the visiting team won the deciding game of the World Series.

The Chicago’s newspapers headlines were all about the end of their curse. What curse? The Chicago Cubs’ billy goat curse placed on the team back in 1945, by a fan not being allowed to bring his goat to the game even though he had brought the goat a ticket.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/28/sport/chicago-cubs-billy-goat-curse/index.html

Believe it! Chicago Cubs ended the curse and win 2016 World Series

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/02/sport/world-series-game-7-chicago-cubs-cleveland-indians/index.html

Hopefully next year’s World Series will be as great as this one and it will include the Los Angeles Dodgers or The Los Angeles Angels.

 

 

Sports October 2016

The month of October is one of the few months of the year that just about every kind of sports is available to watch. October is filled with a ton of sports action.

It starts off with the closing of the regular MLB season, then the wild card playoffs, ending with the World Series, last year the Kansas City Royal won the World Series, who will it be this year is anyone guess. There are quite a few baseball fans that are hoping for a repeat of Kansas City Royal’s winning the World Series. Of course I will be rooting for the Dodgers, it will be a lon shot but it could happen.

By the way, the Dodgers have already won their division, now we just have to wait and see if the Dodgers can make t pass the first round of the playoffs this year, it would definitely be a long shot, but it would be nice to see a National league team win, (except for the San Francisco Giants, of course).

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October also saw the retirement of one of the most loved baseball broadcasters, Mr. Vin Scully. After 67 years of calling the Dodger games, he has called it quits. During the last Dodger home game which was played on September 25, the Dodgers and their fans played tribute to Scully. It was truly amazing to watch.

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We also have the continuation of the NFL Football, which just started a few weeks ago, already there are more than a few upsets, but what I have noticed is the overwhelming amount of injuries by the players this year. I thought last year was bad, but this year is even worse.

Someone really needs to look into it, is it due to the shorter ‘boot camp’, or the earlier televised ‘preseason’ games, or just bad luck? Whatever the reason, it is really running havoc with Fantasy Football.

Could it be just be due to the fact that professional football is now being played on Thursday, Sunday and Monday now, maybe not enough down time between games for the players to rest?

www.NFL.com

By the way, the new LA Rams have arrived and the Los Angeles fans have more than exceeded the expected increase in cash flow to the Rams’ owner and the City of LA. Even the price of just parking your car for the game will probably go down in

There is also the continuation of college football. It is always fun to watch college football; these players are giving their all for their school, and perhaps a slight chance of making to the NLF. The famous UCLA and USA game will be held at the Rose Bowl Saturday 19th of November, which of course, will be a sellout.

For what it’s worth, both USC and UCLA have not started out as winning teams, personally I blame the coaches, both teams have the talent and should be a whole lot better than what we have seen so far, but the selections of plays being called by the coaches do not make the best use of the talent available. Both teams need to go back to the drawing board and either hire a new head coach or at least a new offensive coach.

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If you are not a fan of baseball or football, perhaps you are a fan of soccer and you are in luck because our LA Galaxy Soccer team is winding down their 2016 season with just a few games left. Then it’s off to the playoffs.

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The Los Angeles Lakers season is also starting this month. Good news for Lakers fans the opening game of the 2016/2017 season is Thursday Oct 13 7:30 pm with the Lakers playing the Sacramento Kings. Although a lot of Kobe fans were relented to see him retire, fortunately this did setup the Lakers to be able to do a whole lot of trading up during the off season. I think the Lakers will surprise more than a few people this season and be a real contender.

nba.com/laker/schedule

The Los Angeles Clippers will also be back. Starting with Thursday Oct 27 7:30 pm which is the opening game of the 2016/2017 NBA Basketball season for the LA Clippers playing the Portland Trail Blazers

nba.com/clippers/schedule/

Now, if you are thinking, ‘that yes’ there is a lot of sports going on in the month of October,
I haven’t even mentioned hockey yet. The NHL starts its season in October almost the same time as basketball.

We are so fortunate to have not just one but two hockey teams here is Southern CA and whether you are a Kings fan or a Ducks fan, doesn’t really matter, just like if you prefer the LA Angels or the LA Dodgers, doesn’t matter, you want both teams to do well at least until they play each other.

Wednesday Oct 12 7:30 pm is the opening game of the NHL Hockey season for the LA Kings with them playing the San Jose Sharks.

kings.nhl.com/club/schedule
and on Thursday Oct 13 5:30 pm is the opening game of the NHL Hockey season for the Anaheim Ducks playing the Dallas Stars.

ducks.nhl.com/club/schedule
October is a great month to be a sports fan, there is such a wide assortment of sporting events. It’s also the end of summer with the weather cooling off, the leaves on the trees changing, and the days are getting shorter. It’s a great time to get off the sofa and take that long walk between watching all the games on TV.

Sports May 2016

Sports Blog – May 2016

Sports May 2016, as I tried gathering my thoughts as to what my main topic would be for this month’s sports blog, I did a little remising of my past blogs for the month of May. I did one a few years ago on Little league baseball, or how about the one on the fall of the LA Lakers, which to this day they have not yet recovered and the rise of the LA Clippers. The Clippers have made the playoffs again this year and are heavily favored.

www.nba.com/clippers

I could write a whole blog on the many upsets that occurred during this year’s ‘March Madness. What a tournament that was. My bracket was so destroyed by the 3rd round, I just had to give up and throw in the towel, as did many of my friends and family members. I even had the nerve to pick Kansas winning the whole thing, like I said, ‘bracket destroyed’!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/sports/2016-ncaa-tournament
I was even leaning toward doing this month’s blog on Baseball and my two favorite teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but already did that last month. Besides we are only a month into the season, plenty of months leave to tackle that topic again.

However, I do have a major beef, with all the money the Dodgers have spend on pitchers and the Dodgers have a ton of them to choose from on their roster, why do they keep using the same ineffective relieve pitchers, day after day after day! I know it’s still early in the season and maybe they are hoping for some improvement, but most fans, including me would rather lose a game with a new relieve pitcher than keep losing with the same ones over and over again!

www.Dodgers.com

So, I guess I am left with either the NBA playoffs or the NHL playoffs, or better yet Kobe Bryant.

It’s hard to believe that Kobe will not be back next year and it’s unfortunate that the LA Lakers are still ‘bottom feeding’ in the rankings for 2016. I think this makes either the third or fourth year in a row that they didn’t even make the playoffs, let alone come in dead last.

Kobe Bryant Retires Tonight

And even through this was Kobe last year as a Laker, the Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, he did manage to go out in style, ‘Kobe style’ that is. His last game as a LA Laker, he scored a record high of 60 points. That in its self was totally amazing!

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There was also Adam LaRoche, of the White Sox, who decided to throw in the towel when he could no longer bring his son to work and hang out in the dugout.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/no-one-is-wrong-about-adam-laroche/
However, the retirement of Vin Scully is the one that personally I will feel the most. I have been a Dodger fan for many, many years and one of the reasons I am a true blue fan is the voice of the Dodgers, Scully! It didn’t seem to hurt as much somehow that the Dodgers lost, he always had a way of letting the fans know that it was only a game, and there is always another game right around the corner.

http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Dodgers-Scully-says-he-s-retiring-after-2016-6473854.php
I also loved the baseball stories and yet never missed a pitch or a hit. Besides all the baseball stories came the personal ones, not about him, but about our players, making them just a tad more human to us, the fans. He had a way of making it look and sound so easy and yet personally I don’t think there is anyone that does it better.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/146129476/vin-scully-announces-2016-will-be-last-season
I am looking forward to continue watching Dodger baseball as the season continues, even though I am definitely not looking forward to this being Scully’s last season as the one and only Dodger announcer.

http://www.si.com/more-sports/2016/04/17/media-circus-vin-scully-world-series-nba-finale-ratings

One last comment regarding Vin Scully, there is a push for Vin to one of the baseball announcers for the 2016 World Series game. This would be a great way for Scully to end his career. Hopefully he will get enough support from MLB to make this happen.

www.Sprotstalk4Dummies.com

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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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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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.

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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.

For One Thing Dodgers are cleaning house

In the world of sports at the end of the season is all about who’s getting Trading or Chopped?

Dodgers Cleaning House, will it help?

No matter what the sport, at the end of every individual sport season everyone associated with that sport ends up not knowing if they will keep their job.

This is especially true when there was a high expectation for a team ‘to go all the way’ and for whatever reason they don’t.

This was true with the Los Angeles Lakers last season when not only was Paul Gasol traded to the Bull, but even their coach Mike D’Antoni was replaced by Byron Scott.

www.NBA.com/lakers

Now it’s the MLB’s turn. There are many baseball teams that were expected to a whole all better than what they actually did. It didn’t seem to matter how much money the owners of the teams spend on players, they did not live up to huge price tags.

So, who will get the axe? Who will be sent back to AAA baseball and who will get traded? No one knows for sure, but the rumors are flying all over the sports world.

The Dodgers have already made the news with the hiring of a new GM, Andrew Friedman, and the former GM of the Tampa Bay Rays. What happen to Colletti, you ask? Well the owners actually kept Colletti as a senior advisor.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/14/how-dodgers-swiping-the-rays-gm-shakes-up-baseball-world/

http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/98487820/andrew-friedman-named-dodgers-president-of-baseball-operations-colletti-becomes-advisor

But I don’t think the Dodgers are done with cleaning house, high priced players that don’t earn their pay will need to either be traded or somehow, someway show the Dodger owners that they are worth the investment.
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However, it just isn’t the Dodgers, how about the Los Angeles Angels, the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Socks, the Atlanta Braves, and all teams that on paper should be playing in the World Series.

www.MLB.com

This year the Oakland Raiders did not even wait until the end of their season to try and change from a losing season by firing their coach Dennis Allen, after only 5 weeks into their season. Then the owner hires Tony Sparano as their interim coach.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/raiders-return-to-work-under-new-coach/

But there is still the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New York Jets, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the St. Louis Rams, each and every one of these teams have a losing season so far this year! Their owners are already looking at how to get their
‘product’ producing and become winning teams. New Managers, coaches, quarterbacks, whatever it will take.

www.NFL.com

Then you have the owner of the Washington Redskins. They have already replaced their coach, traded their under-producing players and there are still facing a losing season.

http://www.nfl.com/teams/profile?team=WAS

What it comes down to is no matter how good you are in you particular sport, have a bad year and you could end of being traded or become a ‘free agent’

It sometimes doesn’t even matter that you played you very best and the term as a whole wasn’t having a good year, in the eyes of the owner, someone will take the
Fall, to become the scapegoat so to speak.

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