Softball is one of the most interesting sports out there, and also one that can land you a good college scholarship. You not only stay fit and learn the ins and outs of a great national sport, but you also learn teamwork, leadership skills, and confidence. But, it’s not easy. To
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I recently did an article and interview with Kash Shaikh and former Dodger Adrian Beltre. Shaikh is the Co-owner/founder of Baseball United, the first ever middle eastern/Indian professional Baseball League. I spoke with the two men and we discussed the details of the new league, along with a couple of
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The Dodgers are entering an interesting phase of their next era of Dodger Baseball. They are beginning a youth movement. A lot of the veterans of this recent run have been let go. Justin Turner, Joc Pederson, Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager, Kenley Jansen among others have all left via free
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Sports can provide numerous learning opportunities and development for not only athletes but coaches too. But no coach is perfect. A closed-minded approach can even keep players from reaching their full potential and destroying the team. A coach must understand which areas they can improve in and learn new perspectives on
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Ever wonder what it would be like to watch a professional Baseball game in India or Dubai? Wonder no more because it’s happening. The first ever Middle Eastern/Indian professional Baseball League is a vision of Baseball United Founder and CEO Kash Shaikh. He is the kind of man that turns
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Welcome back! Despite Commissioner Manfred's best efforts to blow up the game he simultaneously runs and hates, the Owners and players finally reached an agreement on Thursday afternoon to end the 99-day long MLB lockout. I'm working right now, so can't add much at the moment (I'll have more later) but spring
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The MLB Lockout has dragged on well into January (thanks Manfred) with little hope of progress. With the sport essentially frozen, there has been almost no news to report other than minor league signings and front office hirings. There has been even less Dodgers news. Finally we were informed of
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The Dodgers are playing a series in Miami against the Marlins. Meanwhile tens of thousands of Grocery store workers, associates are risking Covid exposure to support their families, stock shelves and keep everyone fed. These people are hard working. What they do every day is very honorable and they deserve
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Mark this day on your calendars. On this date, Wednesday July 22, 2020 the year of our lord Dodger's president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman finally acted like a real large market general manager/executive by signing Perennial MVP Candidate Mookie Betts to a massive 12-year 365 million dollar contract extension.
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Are you desperate for baseball? I know I am. Now we can actually watch live professional baseball although without spectators in the stands. ESPN has reached agreement with the KBO and Korean media group Eclat to begin televising live games. The KBO is opening their season tomorrow and ESPN has
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With a global Pandemic on our hands and a crumbling economy things are as bad as they can get right now. But you know what would make things a hell of a lot worse? Something bad happening to Vin Scully. We don't need anything like that happening right now. The
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The entire sports world has been held hostage by the Coronavirus. Every sport is on hold until further notice. Some may not come back this year, while others are preparing to play shortened or abbreviated seasons. We still don’t know when or if sports, including baseball will return in 2020.
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In a simple world we would probably play a half season. With the Coronavirus spreading around the country like wild fire, all sports including baseball have been put on indefinite hold. It seems so trivial talking about baseball during a time like this. We do need to talk about it
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I wanted to break from normal protocol over here and talk about something non-Dodger Baseball related. Obviously there is no Dodger Baseball or any baseball for the foreseeable future. All sports, baseball, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS are all suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some things are bigger than
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Major League Baseball has announced that spring training has been cancelled and the start of the regular season has been postponed due to the Coronavirus epidemic. All remaining spring training/exhibition games are cancelled as of today. The regular season will be delayed by at least two weeks to possibly a
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The all-star game is going to be held at Dodger Stadium this summer for the first time since 1980. For the record this is just the second time ever that the midsummer classic is hosted at Chavez Ravine. Back in 1980, the Dodgers unveiled the brand new state of the
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