The Frank McCourt Saga in Los Angeles is like the psycho-killer in one of those “Slasher” movies who just won’t die. In the latest development, the Los Angeles Dodgers have reached an agreement to accept as much as $150 million in loans from Major League Baseball to keep the team afloat as it works its… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: Dodgers Strike Deal With MLB To Stay Alive For $150 Million More
Whether it’s stocks, fantasy baseball, or the real thing, trading can be a dangerous proposition. There’s no guarantee that the deal will work; only time will tell whether your investment pays off or whether you get to sell you blood to make the rent this month. But, one thing that is certain; where there’s… Read More The Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Comparison
Time for some brutal honesty, men. Every one of you has taken a “C-list” woman on an “A-List” date just because you knew it dramatically increased your odds of breaking a “dry spell.” Picture the Washington Nationals as Mr. Dry Spell, and free-agent pitcher Chien-Ming Wang as the C-list chick and you get the idea.… Read More Enter Your Own “Wang” Joke for the Washington Nationals
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that…” – Jerry Seinfeld If you’ve never been a fantasy baseball participant, this won’t make sense to you at all. In fact, most of this blog makes very little sense to most people, so you are far from alone. However, if you’ve known the joys of fantasy baseball draft… Read More Matt Stairs: My First Fantasy Baseball “Man-Crush”
Do you live under a rock? Of course, its a bad idea. Every time there’s a blown call in baseball everybody starts crying about how baseball needs instant replay. What nobody realizes is that these calls only ever come when it is a sympathetic character that gets “robbed.” Everybody was up in arms last year… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Instant Replay In Baseball A Bad Idea?
We’ve gotten to the point where you can’t have a discussion about the history of baseball without it getting mired into the “S-word”…steroids. Yet, leave it to the outspoken Curt Schilling to add yet another log on the “get over it” fire that really needs to be lit under the collective asses of the “steroid… Read More Curt Schilling: No Team Has Won Cleanly in Last 20 Years
Now that we’ve made it past Baseball’s Hall of Fame Weekend, and since Bert Blyleven finally has been inducted, you may have thought you were safe from my annual Hall of Fame rant. You were wrong. I have lots of rants when it comes to this institution. So there’s no misunderstanding, there’s only one guy… Read More The Definitive Dubsism Run-Down on Who Belongs in The Baseball Hall of Fame
Perfect…this is just what we need. Over the next 24 hours, you can expect ESPN to overflow with lawyers numbing your brain about the legal nuances in play here. We here at Dubsism intend to do no such thing. Rather, we will expose you to what is being reported and then translate it into what… Read More BREAKING NEWS: Mistrial Declared in Roger Clemens’ Steroid Trial
Yeah, I know it isn’t official yet. But Jim Crane is set to become the new owner of the Houston Astros; hell, someday we might even officially announce it. Houston businessman Jim Crane and current owner Drayton McLane agreed to a $680 million sale in May. McLane said at the time he expected the deal to… Read More Get To Know ‘Em – Astros’ Probable New Owner Jim Crane
For me, the All-Star break has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This is the point when general managers acting as jockeys must decide whether they are contenders or pretenders; whether to go to the whip (trade for talent to augment a “stretch run”) or… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The All-Star Break Edition – Will I Have To Eat My Keyboard?
Frank McCourt Death Watch – Day25: The Day IT Happened No matter what else happens in the Dubsism coverage of the final days of the McCourt regime in Los Angeles, this will be a day of infamy. Those of you that know me, those of you who have been readers of this blog, you know… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch – Day 25: I’m on the Same Side as Steve Garvey. Wait, What?!
We have far too much self-castration going on in the world of sports; so much so it is bleeding over into real life. Manny Ramirez cut his own balls off when he kept using banned substances. Jim Riggleman cut his own balls off when he had a temper tantrum and walked away from one of… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: So, You Want To Cut Your Own Balls Off?
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it is well worth the read. Today’s world gives us no shortage of things which make us want to stab ourselves in the eyes. Many… Read More Five Current Events That Piss Us Off and Their Sports Equivalents
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention that Mr. McGrath’s views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on Stupidity
Frank McCourt Death Watch: Day 6 Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an effort to prevent a takeover by Major League Baseball, Fox News reported Monday. Color me shocked. The guy’s been hemorrhaging money for years, he’s in the middle of the ugliest divorce in the history of divorces,… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: Chapter 11
Fuck the Dodgers. There’s all kinds of reasons to hate the Dodgers, Lord knows I’ve written about them time and time again. Just find “Los Angeles Dodgers” in the Tag Cloud on this page and you will see what I mean. But one thing I’ve never mentioned is the Dodger Dog. If you’ve never had… Read More Welcome to Hate Week – SoCal Baseball Style And The Vin Scully Drinking Game
I know that title sounds a bit flip, but in all honestly, this relationship was an affair, not a marriage. It all started a few years back when the Nationals fired the best manager they could hope to get at the time. On the rebound from Manny Acta, Mike Rizzo hired Jim Riggleman. From all… Read More When The Affair Is Over – Jim Riggleman and The Washington Nationals
Frank McCourt Death Watch: Day One It is time to start the countdown until Frank McCourt no longer owns the Los Angeles Dodgers. Everything seems to be closing in on him; there’s the divorce settlement which hinged on the TV deal, which Commissioner Bud Selig just rejected, which means we are headed for a one-day… Read More Dubsism: Your Home For The Frank McCourt Death Watch
If you don’t remember (I’m not sure how anybody over the age of 35 would forget), back in 1985 the soon-to-be Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears produced what I consider to be the vanguard in ultra-cheestastic sports/music videos when the foist the “Super Bowl Shuffle” on the world. Sure the Dodgers had the decidedly more… Read More Signs We Are Near The End Of Civilization: The PGA Goes All “Super Bowl Shuffle” On Us
Editor’s Note: This article is a collaborative effort between Dubsism and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in our BlogRoll and it well worth the read. There’s many things wrong in the world, which is why some of the things that should be… Read More Ten Things I Hate About Sports Right Now
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