Even though the Angels are known to overpay, an increasing number of free agents would rather not get their mail in Orange County.… Read More Apparently, Nobody Wants To Play For The Los Angeles Angels
What does baseball’s first Mexican owner know about dealing with an evil empire? Plenty.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 138: “Battle of Britain”
Albert Pujols is clearly headed for Cooperstown. But that’s not the only Hall of Fame in which he belongs. … Read More Stuff That Grinds My Gears: The Los Angeles Angels “Wasted Money” Hall of Fame
Mike Scioscia’s departure raises many questions, not the least of which is one about the future of another “Mike” synonymous with Angels baseball. … Read More The Los Angeles Angels: The 2018 Post-Mortem
Only J-Dub could weave a narrative featuring Carson Wentz, Jürgen Klopp, and bourbon,,,sweet, sweet, bourbon.… Read More The Deep Six: Things I’m Looking Forward To
What happens when all your teams suck.… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 20 – The “Victim of Love” Episode
Today’s installment of the audio incarnation of the most interesting independent sports blog on the web is a three-parter. J-Dub gets into whether it’s time to declare a state of emergency in Liverpool, breaks down the common thread between the Steve Sarkisian and Curt Schilling stories, and finishes with a horrible tale involving the Los… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 18 – Liverpool, Sarkisian and Schilling, and Carl’s Jr.
This is another installment in the Sports Blog Movement series which takes a hard look at certain instances, or specific seasons which would make sports fans cringe in horror and pain, or expands on that to take a hard look at the long-suffering fans of franchises who have tortured their supporters for decades. The episode… Read More Tales of Depression and Sorrow: The Los Angeles Angels
If you are an old geezer like me, you know that during World War II, the NFL ran so short of players because of the war that for three years between 1942 and 1945, the league merged the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles into one team, the Phil-Pitt Steagles. With baseball season fast approaching,… Read More The All-Time “Played For Both the Twins and Angels” Team – The Calisota Twingels
1) Los Angeles Angels Upside: This team has ownership that isn’t afraid to make a move. Due to the free-agent signing of first baseman Albert Pujols and starting pitcher C.J. Wilson, the Angels committed $331.5 million, which left little room for the team to add anyone else significant during the offseason. New GM Jerry DiPoto did, however,… Read More The Dubsism 2012 Pre-Season Baseball Power Rankings
Given what happened the other night, there’s a lot of superlatives being bandied about…while the Red Sox and Braves both managed a serious dose of “epic fail,” neither of them are the worst choke job in pennant race history. So, before you let anybody tell you the Red Sox pulled off the worst collapse in… Read More The 10 Worst Baseball Pennant Race Collapses – The Red Sox Weren’t The Worst, Just The Most Fun
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
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
Over on Listverse, there has been another great-yet-odd list compiled. While the subject doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that I found it comparable to a somehow-sports-related screed, it is really hard to resist a list of people who were killed by radiation. Just think, the same power that heats up your lunch in… Read More Ten Famous Deaths By Radiation Poisoning and Their Equivalent Sports Firings
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 trading… Read More The Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Edition
Last night, the Dodgers avoided a sweep of the season series with their crosstown betters. Still, even though I’ve been a life-long Angels fan, Vin Scully as the “voice of the Dodgers” is one of the voices of baseball that should never be forgotten. This may be the last time I may hear Scully doing… Read More Drinking to Enjoy Vin Scully
Ever since Omar Moreno bought the Los Angeles Angels, there has been a war for supremacy in the Southland’s baseball market. Moreno may not be Georgi Zhukov, but his Red Army achieved as decisive a victory this past weekend at Dodger Stadium as Zhukov did against the Germans in 1943. Battered in this battle over… Read More Los Angeles is Now Truly The City of the Angels
Now that we are solidly into the regular season, it is time to take a peek at how wrong my pre-season rankings were. As boring as it may be, most of the teams floated right around their original spots, but there certainly are a few surprises. The Minnesota Twins: Granted this isn’t that big of a shock; that… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The First Look At How Wrong We Were
If you haven’t guessed by now, this blog is less about which teams I love; it’s more about why your team sucks. Granted, I’m certainly not alone when it comes to a hatred of the New York Yankees. But I had a special sort of bile-spewing, eyeball-popping rage for Hideki Matsui. If I ever needed… Read More Getting Over the Hate
Rankings By Division: American League: AL East: 1) New York Yankees Upside: The Bombers easily could have turned on the money-hose and flooded out free-agents like Jason Bay or Matt Holliday, or they could have wasted some serious dough by resigning an over-valued Johnny Damon. But, instead of having their usual explosive cash-gasm, they realized their in-house options are… Read More The 2010 Dubsism Major League Baseball Pre-Season Rankings
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