Los Angeles Dodgers Blogs

Allan Malamud Jerry Crowe's latest string of clauses indicates that the Dodgers are even opting not to print already-announced poster giveaways, the latest in desperate fan-screwing cost-cutting schemes: Frank and Jamie McCourt finally landed in court this week, but this entire season has been a trial for Dodgers fans. … With Manny Ramirez off doing his thing for the Chicago White Sox as of Tuesday, the Dodgers have canceled their Sept. 17 promotion: Manny Ramirez Poster Night. … The posters were never printed, a club spokesman says. … I can't believe they won't even print the posters. Now...

Jon Soohoo, Dodger photographer, has been asked to test out his arm on a major-league mound before tonight's Dodgers-Giants game: As he watched Kirk Gibson hobble up to the plate during the 1988 World Series, seconds before one of the most iconic home runs in baseball history, Dodgers team photographer Jon SooHoo was focused on one thing: “What’s going through my mind at that point is to get that roll of film led into the sprockets properly in the camera to make sure there’s not any skipping,” SooHoo said. For SooHoo, Gibson’s home run was one of the greatest moments of his 25-year career w...

Jon Weisman, Dodger blog godfather and author of Dodger Thoughts, which runs on ESPNLosAngeles.com, has always been one to preach for calm, to proclaim level-headedness, to not start looting at the first sign of Dodger fan unrest. However, this McCourt divorce case has hit such lows, that even Weisman couldn't take the overwhelming duplicity and series of unabashed lies: White lies, little and giant, have always been part of baseball -- even the creation of the game is rooted in myth. But I can't remember a year since I've been following the Dodgers that seems as defined by misinformation a...

Apparently the California Attorney General's office is a little behind on its periodicals reading. About two months since the NYT reported Dodgers SVP of Public Affairs received a $400K salary from the $1.6M budget Dodgers Dream Foundation, the attorney general's office has decided to investigate: This one, though, is a real low. Not just another money-juggling act by the club but one that may have impacted a team charity in an unscrupulous manner. The attorney general’s office is investigating the compensation the Dodgers Dream Foundation made to club executive Howard Sunkin, who is an adv...

After yesterday’s loss to the Phillies, the Dodgers are now two games over .500, and 7.5 back in the Wild Card race. They’ve outscored their opponents by four runs, which means we’re not seeing much luck happening here; they’re a .500 team, and they’re playing like it. For the first time since 2007, we don’t [...]

Today had the potential to be one of the darkest days in Dodger history, and in many ways, I suppose it was. As if shipping off the man who sits atop the club’s all-time leader boards in several important offensive categories for next to nothing wasn’t enough, we had to deal with the start of [...]

We all know what the question is going to be in the aftermath of today’s game: did Manny Ramirez purposefully argue with the home plate umpire with the bases loaded, knowing that such a move would get him immediately ejected, in order to make a statement to the Dodgers to move him? My initial judgment [...]