Category Archives: Major League Baseball

Conflicting Reports on Mattingly – Will He Finally Be GONE?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by theHoundDawg

Reports are rampant in the media regarding the status of the empty uniform, the guy the Dodgers’ laughingly call a major league manager, don mattingly. As the best team money can buy comes off a three game sweep at the … Continue reading →

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Could It Get Any Worse For the Dodgers?

Posted on May 5, 2013 by theHoundDawg

The last few days have seen the Dodgers go from a slow start to the verge of implosion. They will take the field soon for the final game of a three game series in San Francisco, having lost the first … Continue reading →

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Hanley’s Back – Did WBC Kill Dodgers’ Season? And Ted Lilly is Hurt, Again

Posted on May 1, 2013 by theHoundDawg

A few years back, the POWERS THAT BE decided what a wonderful idea it would be for major league stars to play in a spring exhibition series known as the World Baseball Classic. What could go wrong? Well, for starters, … Continue reading →

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Angels’ Disabled List Overloaded – And it’s the Pitchers!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by theHoundDawg

The Angels currently have a disabled list that includes eight players, including six pitchers, five of whom if they were not injured, would not only be on the major league roster, but would own key roles on the Angels’ staff. … Continue reading →

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A Six-and-One-Half Hour Game Lost, More Injuries, and the Angels are Reeling

Posted on April 30, 2013 by theHoundDawg

So last night, the LA Angels took a 7-2 lead into the eight inning, and Oakland scored four runs to get close, and then a tying run in the ninth. The game went to the 15th inning, when each team … Continue reading →

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More Dodgers in Surgery, But They Take Two of Three From Overachieving Mets

Posted on April 25, 2013 by theHoundDawg

Oh, where to begin? On the day after Chad Billingsley underwent Tommy John surgery, it was revealed that a third Dodgers’ pitcher, is today undergoing THE KNIFE in barely two weeks time. Shawn Tolleson has a herniated lumbar disc and … Continue reading →

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Second Basemen Make Hay, and Home Runs

Posted on April 23, 2013 by theHoundDawg

Dodgers’ second baseman Mark Ellis is a really good ballplayer. He is an excellent defensive player, and a clutch hitter. Despite one season hitting 19 home runs, he is not a guy who would ever be considered a power hitter, … Continue reading →

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Dodgers in Free-Fall

Posted on April 23, 2013 by theHoundDawg

The Dodgers, i.e., the “Best Team Money Can Buy” as a team, are reeling, and their pitching staff is in shambles. With today’s news that Chad Billingsley will be undergoing Tommy John surgery and will be unavailable for a minimum … Continue reading →

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Streaking Angels Meet Their Number One Nemesis

Posted on April 22, 2013 by theHoundDawg

The Angels, fresh off a three game sweep of the Tigers, a series in which they outscored the defending American League champs 22 to four, tonight face their biggest nemesis in their fight to extend that streak to four games. … Continue reading →

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“The Best Team Money Can Buy”? 5 Batters Under .200?

Posted on April 19, 2013 by theHoundDawg

As “The Best Team Money Can Buy”, in other words, the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers, was preparing to play the Baltimore Orioles, the empty uniform of a manager, don mattingly, submitted a lineup that included five, count them, five, batters … Continue reading →

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Leave It To Joe

Posted on April 16, 2013 by theHoundDawg

A couple of days ago, after a great, come-from-behind win, I wrote about how the Angels [Were] “Primed for [a] Winning Streak”. They followed that up with another great team effort, behind the pitching of C.J. Wilson and Ernesto Frieri … Continue reading →

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Baseball, History, Marathons, and Tragedy

Posted on April 15, 2013 by theHoundDawg

April 15 – Jackie Robinson Day; a day when baseball reflects on the birth of its modern, true history, April 15, 1947. Also a day when the San Diego Padres, without Carlos Quentin and his slap-in-the-face eight game suspension, open … Continue reading →

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