Posted tagged ‘dodgers’

Money still talks

October 26, 2025

“What we really need during a tense tied pitchers’ duel World Series game is a Jonas Brothers concert” said no baseball fan ever.

Meanwhile Game 1 could be the high water mark for the Blue Jays… or it could be the first win in an upset series. But Blake Snell signed 2 yr, $62 million contract w/ SF Giants in early 2024, pitching all of 20 games then skipping his last start before opting out & signing w/ Dodgers for 5 yrs, $182 million So World Series game 1 could not have been more fun for the Giants.

From World Series Game 1 “Dodgers last seven starting pitchers had combined to allow 5 runs. When all was said & done on Saturday night, Snell himself had allowed 5.”

Of course as an SF Giants fan I get it, LA could win the next 4 games. (And won the second.) You take your fun when you can.

Yes, Yoshinobu  Yamamoto pitched another postseason complete game in game 2.

The Dodgers are paying him the highest contract ever for a pitcher only – $325 million over 12 years – over $27 million a year

And yet Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow AND Shohei Ohtani are all making more in 2025. Over $32 million for Snell, Glasgow and Ohtani over $28 million

Trump doesn’t joke. So have to assume that he’s serious about running in 2028. But a big question, what loophole for a third term can he find that wouldn’t allow him to be challenged by Barack Obama?

Meanwhile, ICYMI -Now US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America So the President who claims he deserves a Noble Peace Prize now wants to start MORE wars to distract from the Epstein Files?

GOP Sen.Lankford questioned Trump’s administration’s strikes on Venezuelan vessels w/out approval of Congress. “Administration needs to give insight into Congress. If this was happening w/ this level of insight under Biden administration, I’d be apoplectic,”

So why ISN’T he apoplectic now?

Trump has no reason to send election monitors to California. And about 80% of the state votes by mail.

Except CA has rejected him soundly three times. DonOLD wants revenge, he wants his private army to harass and arrest Californians & at least he hopes to intimidate people so that they stay home.

In NJ, DOJ will monitor polling in populous & immigrant-heavy Passaic County. In California, DOJ will monitor LA, Orange, Fresno & Kern Counties; 17 million people including most heavily Latino areas of state.

Will ICE be with them? Trial run for 2026?

So Trump’s ICE now is arresting immigrant workers in blue cities. And many MAGA are laughing.

Pretty damn sure that many many Republicans employ undocumented folks too. At some point the numbers Stephen Miller wants mean going after them as well.

So you’re saying there’s not a chance….

August 25, 2025

It’s August 25, and the Colorado Rockies have been eliminated from postseason contention.

Sadly too late for the Rockies to be considered for the Little League World Series?

Los Angeles rookie Dalton Rushing, asked if Padres Dodgers rivalry is “the best in baseball” – “I think so. I think it’s pretty safe to say.”

Uh, Dalton, not only is Padres Dodgers rivalry not the best in baseball, it’s not even the best in California.

#BeatLA

SFGiants

Donald Trump is now demanding Roger Clemens “one of the greatest pitchers of all time” be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. For some reason he hasn’t said a word about Home Run King Barry Bonds. Very white of him.

If your commute involves a bridge, any bridge, wrap your head around the fact that the President of the United States may cut off funding to repair the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore because he doesn’t like Maryland’s governor…

Meanwhile, as Ukraine’s survival hangs in balance, we still haven’t seen Epstein files & inflation gets much worse, -Fox News top Sunday am headline:

“Former Biden SOS Antony Blinken asked to leave NY beach by lifeguard”

In the actual story “

Lifeguards enforced beach closures as hurricane brought dangerous conditions. (Turns out Blinken and a friend were sitting in chairs on the beach and told to leave.

And then his from Fox ” And “Blinken is no stranger to controversy over how he spends his leisure time.”

The people who are pretending that Wes Moore’s delayed-due-to-a-paperwork-error Bronze Star from Afghanistan wasn’t earned, are the same people who genuflect before Comrade Bone Spurs.

Fox News top headline on tragic Florida truck crash w/ immigrant was apparently at fault & 3 died. Don Jr sending emails “Trump sends own pen to sign booking of illegal alien trucker.”

Has Donald said anything about cop killer in Utah, or the CDC shooter,

or the assassin of Melissa & Mark Hortman? For starters?

JD Vance said “If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history they all ended with some kind of negotiation.” So he’s saying that Hitler and Eva Braun in their bunker negotiated whether or not he’d shoot himself before she took cyanide?

Good and bad seeds

April 4, 2025

As the men’s final four starts Friday night, not only has Cinderella left the building, the step sisters have gone with her. Four number one seeds left.

And this is largely because NIL money means top teams can just fill in their rosters by offering money to players from small market teams to join them.

Remember those days when one-and-done made the NCAA feel like an NBA minor league?

Now the whole thing feels like major league baseball.

And speaking of the Dodgers

Meanwhile over in baseball, the half billion dollar payroll Los Angeles Dodgers put Freddie Freeman on the IL after his ankle injury from falling in the shower. So what high-priced star from a small-market team will the Dodgers trade for to replace him?

Remember how Trump ordered all federal employees back to office and said no more remote work? Then he hightails it out of DC Thursday after instituting Trump Tariff Tax, and after his Saudi golf event will be at his resort Friday. Though maybe he isn’t even pretending to work?


For all those who cheer at the idea of privatizing social security… How’s your 401K doing today?

If your 401k is invested in a stock market index, you lost about 5% of it Thursday. And it’s down about 8% since President Biden left office. Are we great yet?

“Lululemon produces around 3.5 percent of its goods in the US.” You never know what might be the tipping point for suburban women who voted for Trump to regret their decision….

Agriculture Secretary Rollins -We understand there may be a “A short time of uncertainty.” Well the Great Depression “only” lasted 10 years.

So supposedly because a few trans girls play sports in Maine and because Governor Janet Mills won’t apologize to Donold, Trump has decided to freeze social security contracts and child nutrition for the whole state. Pro life my ass.

Remember being in college and couldn’t imagine how Jim Jones got 900 people to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. I don’t wonder anymore. Cults are cults.