LADodgerTalk.com – Matt Kemp, Clayton Kershaw, Vin Scully, Andre Ethier and the Dodgers

After the game, Matt Kemp said: “This is just the beginning.” Tony Jackson of ESPN/LosAngeles hit the nail on the head:  Davey Lopes is helping the Dodgers immensely, especially Matt Kemp.  After describing Matt Kemp who went from first to third on what might have ordinarily been a double play ball, Tony wrote this: “There [...]

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Any Dodger discussion HAS to include the fact that Bud Selig allegedly denied Frank McCourt the opportunity to get a loan against future TV revenues.  Many people are jumping to the conclusion that this means Frank will have to sell the team, after all, he did the same thing to Tom Hicks and his team [...]

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Any disagreement so far?  OK!  I know we have some common ground already.  I’m not saying that they won’t win more, but I tend to think that 81 is something that is very plausible.  I mean, they won 80 in 2010 when everything went wrong.  So, winning 81 really isn’t raising the bar much. However, [...]

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Baseball America has released their annual ranking of Dodger Prospects and here it is: 1. Dee Gordon, ss 2. Zach Lee, rhp 3. Rubby de la Rosa, rhp 4. Chris Withrow, rhp 5. Allen Webster, rhp 6. Jerry Sands, of/1b 7. Scott Elbert, lhp 8. Kenley Jansen, rhp 9. Ethan Martin, rhp 10.Trayvon Robinson, of [...]

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I don’t understand why they didn’t have the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis again so I could easily attend.  What were they thinking?  It’s old news that the Dodgers are interested in the following players, although they presumably won’t sign them all: Russ Martin Vicente Padilla Matt Diaz Scott Podsednik An “Unnamed” LF Source: Tony Jackson [...]

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Tony has an interesting perspective on the Dodgers.  Remember that he’s around Colletti, Mattingly and the Dodger brass everyday.   Here’s his take for the Dodger offseason: http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/columns/story?id=5653412

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Clayton Kershaw struggled all night with his mechanics and admitted he was “amped up” and could get his rhythm.  Blake DeWitt played 2B like he hadn’t played there much (he hasn’t) and the Dodger hitters were again horrid with RISP.  They were 2 for 15 and stranded 12 runners.  You simply can’t win doing that. [...]

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I took this photo six years ago at Vero Beach. Obviously, Tommy Lasorda is sitting in the golf cart signing a ball for a little kid, who happens to now be eleven.  I know that because he’s my kid. But who is the person in the golf cart beside Tommy? I had never thought about [...]

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… because my old buddy, Tony Jackson hit this one out of the park:  Billingsley Learning To Let Go. Whatever needs to be said about Chad has now been said by Tony, and it justneeds to play out.  In a nutshell, Tony summarizes Chad’s struggles like this: “Billingsley’s biggest problem, the one that has plagued [...]

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Baseball seems to put Spring in your step when Spring is in the air.  It’s been a long, cold winter here – I usually enjoy the winter, but my surgeon told me that the first winter would be rough on my hip and it has been a bear.  Stiff, sore and constantly aware of it, [...]

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Tony Jackson of ESPN.LosAngeles and Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times are both reporting of the Dodgers interest in several players for the 4th outfield spot.  I suppose  there are reasons to consider Gross, Anderson and maybe even Johnson, but Brian Giles?  He became irrelevant a couple of years ago.  The problem is that none [...]

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Everyone is anticipating the May hearing scheduled for the purpose of determining the Dodger ownership. I happen to believe that there is at least a 50-50 chance there will be no hearing and that this issue will be resolved between the parties.

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ESPN Los Angeles has a good interview with Clayton Kershaw today.  Here’s the transcript: ESPN Los Angeles By the way, this is Tony Jackson’s new home: http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/columns/archive?name=tony-jackson It’s good to see him back on the beat! ESPN Los Angeles has lots of good stuff – I’ll have a link to it on the home page [...]

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Just texted with Tony Jackson – he was hired by the new ESPN LA Network.  It couldn’t have happened to a better guy.  Tony is as good as they come. I can say “I knew him when…”

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From the Dodgers: The new EspnLosAngeles.com network has interviewed 3 former and current Dodger “beat writers” for the job:  Dylan Hernandez (LA Times), Tony Jackson (formerly of the Daily News), and Ken Gurnick (Dodgers.com) – we should know who they hire in a day or two.  My money is on Tony Jackson! Dennis Mannion is [...]

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I used to post at the old LA Times DodgerTalk Board (I was MountainMover), which then evolved to World Crossing (which was a horrible format in my opinion, and now has about 6 people who post there).  The old LA Times board was great, but the Times screwed it up and people from there migrated [...]

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The fastball – scorching hot fastball, right?  Wrong! Well then, it’s the 12-6 big curve-ball?  Not even close! Oh, it’s the cutter.   NO!  Slider?  No!  Split-fingered fastball?  Nope! It must be the knuckle-ball.  No, you knucklehead!  … or that knuckle-curve, or slurve, yeah that’s it, right?   WRONG! It’s the change-up!  Well, that’s no so sexy!

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On Wednesday my brother and I made the trek to Greenville, Ohio to bury another uncle.  This is the third time in about 6 months that we have been there to bury our aunts and uncles – all were over 94 years old.   My bother and I are the last of the Mohicians. In February, [...]

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June 7, 2009 – Tony Jackson’s Blog – OK, that guy some of you are so fond of calling Mr. Softee, or whatever, came up big again, his second walkoff hit in less than 24 hours. But Ethier’s heroics aside, don’t overlook Cory Wade. He might have been the real hero of this one. He [...]

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June 6, 2009 – Tony Jackson’s Blog –  Missed most of the game tonight because I was at the gym — when you’re unemployed, you have time to do things like that — and I caught up with it just as James Loney was drawing that critical, seven-pitch walk in the ninth inning, which I [...]

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