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Dodger Thoughts reader Terry Austin passes along this four-part interview by Richard McGill with Dodger second baseman Blake DeWitt.
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Don Newcombe, Tommy Lasorda, Mike Scioscia and Sparky Anderson are among those participating in a fundraiser January 10 for the Toberman Neighborhood Center in San Pedro. Capacity is being limited to 300 people, at $250 per ticket. Bill Sharman's wife, Joyce, is one of the organizers. For more information, call (310) 832-1145 x102.
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New Dodger blog to check out: Reflections of Blue ...
81 Just got back from watching the Chargers game live. My San Diego native wife is trying to convert me from a lifetime of Raider fandom. I'm struck by how much of an imprint your childhood choices leave (Konrad Lorenz demonstrated this with ducks, right??)
If ever there were a sports franchise that worked hard to lose its fan base, it's the Raiders, and the Chargers seem like a team of interesting and noble enough guys... but as Lorenz would say, I've been imprinted.
Perhaps, sadly, forever.
Dittos to those who indicated it's no Moneyball -- which I still assign in my graduate research methods class -- but it's still highly readable. I'm forever a Michael Oher fan as a result.
Okay, it shouldn't bug me but why is he not wearing at least a little blue?
And apparently he decided to go with the popular beard look during the off-season
"Jeff was great to me all year." "He made the season a lot of fun."
As a younger Angeleno with an English Father, the NFL is dead to me until Los Angeles gets a team. Also I think I've let my hatred of the Padres extend to all facets of San Diego.
My connection with the Raiders is both Lorenzian and Freudian: I can't seem to escape the imprints of my youth, no matter how much subsequent pathology would suggest that it would be healthy to do so.
"Yes, I am."
"And you say you swim UPSTREAM to spawn?"
"Yes, every year."
"Louie, can you get a shot of that thing the salmon is using?"
"It's called a ladder."
"But how do you use the rungs without any feet?"
"Well...."
"So, you're a SALMON!"
"That's remarkable."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LjnqtSPps&feature=related
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