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Six Weeks to Decide

Predictably, the Dodger fandom is restless. By the time Spring Training started, many fans had pronounced the Dodger’s Off-Season as a colossal failure, and some even said that the Dodgers would not even make the playoffs. When that was proven false, the same fans are now…

By Mark Timmons · June 6, 2023102

Bad News – Good News!

The bad news is that the Dodgers lost to the Yankees, setting up today as the rubber match. The Good News is that last night was a “breakout” game for Michael Grove. In his best-pitched game so far in his young career, he was dominant… except for two bad pitches to the same…

By Mark Timmons · June 4, 2023104

Quick Hits

This is something new that I am going to try to stimulate conversation, but that only takes me a few minutes. Subject: Noah Syndergaard Ever since Noah (THOR) burst on the scene, he was a manacing physical specimen. He threw 200 MPH and was built like the Hulk. After he blew out…

By Mark Timmons · June 1, 2023111

Haven't the Dodgers Learned Anything?

Tim Busch has been a practicing attorney in Orange County for the past 35 years and is the founder of The Busch Firm, which specializes in high net-worth estate planning, real estate and business transactions, tax, and Religious Organization representation. Tim is also founder…

By Mark Timmons · May 31, 2023101

NBA and MLB: 13 Who Played in Both

C. Connors B. Celtics Chuck Connors B. Dodgers I was reading an article on yahoo about players who played in both the majors in baseball and the NBA. Multi-sport athletes are nothing new. Jim Thorpe played in the majors and also in the fore runner of the NFL. Babe Didrickson…

By Michael "Bear" Norris · May 30, 202383

Stone Needs to Roll Back to AAA

Some players burst onto the MLB scene and seem to be ready to play in the Show in their first game. Witness one James Outman! With other players, it’s a process. I watched Miguel Vargas struggle for a month or six weeks every time he went up a level. Gavin Stone flew through…

By Mark Timmons · May 29, 202343

Sound Bytes, or is it Sound Bites?

What’s for breakfast? How about some Stone-Ground Deviled Rays? If you have not been paying attention, maybe you have not noticed what The Bazooka has been doing: He has been taking 2-3 MPH off his fastball, and it is moving like crazy. He can still throw the Big Kahuna Heater…

By Mark Timmons · May 28, 202375

Is Thor Finished?

Today, on Dodgers.com, Juan Toribio has a great piece on Noah Syndergaard, who sounds like he has had a fork stuck in him. Andrew Friedman has made a number of excellent acquisitions, but this is not one and you can’t win them all.I think AF is about to end the charade. Toribio…

By Mark Timmons · May 27, 202367

The Knack

It sounds like the Dodgers might get The Knack soon. Great, I used to love the Knack. They had several great songs, like this one: What? It’s not “The Knack?” Is it Landon Knack? Oh, him… who knew? My bad! Well, actually… I have an opinion on this, and I think that just like…

By Mark Timmons · May 26, 202351