Ah, to be young again.  Just take a look at the little boy below. He went to see his favorite team, the San Francisco Giants, play ball against the Los Angeles Dodgers with his dad.  What’s more, he almost wound up catching a foul ball…almost. The ball came up just a bit short and the [...]

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It’s time for the mid-summer classic, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.  The game will be played tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona with coverage beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox. Will good pitching beat good hitting?  It will probably be pretty hard to shut down these powerful lineups for very long. Taking [...]

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The Los Angeles Dodgers have filed for bankruptcy, blaming Major League Baseball for rejecting a TV deal with Fox that would have given the team an injection of much-needed cash. This is just the latest effort from Dodgers owner Frank McCourt to keep MLB and Commissioner Bud Selig from seizing the team that McCourt has [...]

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The Washington Nationals wasted no time in hiring a replacement for Jim Riggleman, who walked off the job earlier this week. The club has hired Davey Johnson as its new manager, according to ESPN. Johnson, 68, will take the reins for the remainder of this season as well as next, subject to league approval. Johnson [...]

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Here’s an epic parenting fail that took place at the Dodgers’ game the other night. The dad seen in the video below was holding up his daughter in hopes of catching a foul ball, but as soon as one came their way, dad dropped the girl and went after the ball himself. He dropped it, [...]

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The mess gets thicker within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. On Thursday, Jamie McCourt asked a judge to order the immediate sale of the team, saying that current owner Frank McCourt (her ex-husband) has mismanaged the club since he fired her as CEO. Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon set a June 22 date to hear [...]

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It’s not every day that you see Major League Baseball take over the day-to-day operations of a baseball team, but that’s exactly what’s happening right now to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced today that the league will take control of the Dodgers organization as the the nasty divorce between owners Frank [...]

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Manny Ramirez has notified Major League Baseball that he plans to retire after being notified of a violation of MLB’s drug policy. The Tampa Bay Rays slugger reportedly tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug (PED) during spring training and has decided to quit the game of baseball instead of facing a 100-game suspension. Major League [...]

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It looks like Joe Torre is out as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Current batting coach Don Mattingly is set to replace him, according to team sources. Mattingly has served as hitting coach for the team since the middle of the 2008 season, Torre’s first with the club.  Prior to that, both men were [...]

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A very sad story out of California today…a fan taking part in Mormon Community Night at Dodger Stadium before last night’s Dodgers-Padres game collapsed on the field during batting practice and later died. Don Hawkins collapsed near the third-base dugout after falling ill. His wife and grandson were present for the annual event, along with [...]

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Jose Lima, the former Major League Baseball pitching ace and All-Star who once won 21 games in a single season, has died. The Los Angeles Dodgers have confirmed reports that Lima had a massive heart attack and has died at just 37 years of age. Lima played for five different teams during his stint in [...]

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The divorce case of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and wife Jamie McCourt took an ugly turn on Wednesday morning when a huge pile of documents were delivered to the Los Angeles Superior Court before a hearing. In those documents, Frank details the trip the Jamie took with her bodyguard, Jeff Fuller. The two first went [...]

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