I understand you are excited about getting more fans to the game, as you should be, but at least check the records before you make some claim of being the first to do something, when there have already been two teams to do it, and 1 of them has already done it FOUR times.

… One upped by the Yankees once again

Times (financially) are clearly very good in MLB, but I’m not convinced that translates into a better sport for fans. World Series Championship trophies are nice to display, but they don’t equate to profits. No idea how MLB is eventually going to reconcile that one, if they even want to.

Being “home-grown” is somewhat over-ranked. Ironically, the most iconic player of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, was from Pasadena, California, 10 miles from Dodger Stadium. And the most iconic player of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Sandy Koufax, was from Brooklyn.

The ’81 team did have some great homegrown talent, such as Valenzuela, Garvery, Cey, Howe, and Lopes. But they also had important contributions from imports like Guerrero, Hooton, Forster, and Baker.

That ’81 title was tainted seven ways from Tuesday. The strike that year wasted 706 games, the team with the best overall record (Reds) didn’t even make the playoffs and ditto for the team with the best record in the NL East (Cards).

The ’88 team opened the series with a highly unlikely game-winning homer from Kirk Gibson and got a crucial game 4 save from Jay Howell (the closer suspended in the NCLS for having pine tar on his glove). Both imports, by the way.

It’s fun to watch guys who’ve been with the club make their way up the ladder to the bigs, but I get a lot of satisfaction watching a player somebody else thought was done have a great year (see Gibson). Bottom line, I want wins no matter where the guys wearing my team’s uniform happen to come from.

The Dodgers have drawn less than the average in baseball ONE TIME since they moved to L.A. in 1958. In the last decade they’ve average a million more than the league average.

The L.A. Dodgers have never had less than a million in attendance in their history. They drew 2 million in just their second season in L.A. and 3 million in 1978, versus a league average of just over 1.5 million.

The Dodgers drew 3.7 million (or more) in ’06, ’07, ’08, and ’09 with the cheapskate McCourt in the owner’s suite. They were the first to draw 3 million and they’ll be the first to draw 4 million.

Money can’t buy chemistry in the clubhouse.

Seeya 4/1—our latest ring ceremony is 4/7.

Nice to see Giants fans are so worried about the Dodgers that they can’t even enjoy their WS win.

Far too many players are not worth their contracts. The Dodgers have several of them.

And what evidence do you have that no owner ever uses his his or her own money to run a team? Yes, every owner should make more than the player–they’re the ones who are actually taking the financial risk and are responsible for more than just themselves. And when the risk becomes too great for them, they’ll cut costs, because they’re not running a charity. Ballplayers love to talk about how this is a business; why is it surprising that when owners do the same?

In any event I have no plans whatsoever to set foot inside Macondo Banana Massacre Field as long as Scrooge McLoria owns the team, and I dare say I’ll probably see more games at the Rogers this coming season on my periodic visits to TO than I will here at home. What with all the former Feesh on the team, I’ll probably be referring to them as the Feather Scales instead of Feather Lice.

Macondo Banana Massacre Field would be a great place for conventions if it had convention facilities, though. It’s just unfortunate that the building is accursed.