We all know the Corleone crime family, but do you know what they share with baseball families like the O’Malleys the Busches, and the Wrigleys?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 151: “The Godfather II”
A private detective, sausage being smuggled by gangsters, and baseball. What could be more American than that?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 142: “The Rockford Files – Heartaches of a Fool”
Just in time for the Holidays, a tale of a commando raid in Africa which is as much of a Christmas movie as Die Hard or Stalag 17…which somehow ends up in the saga of Frank McCourt’s Los Angeles Dodgers.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 120: “The Wild Geese”
Do you think the big media outlets are the only ones who can do those “click-bait” end of year “remember this” bits? Ours are better.… Read More Dubsism’s 15 Most Important Sports Stories of 2020
Now I’m forced to retire one of my favorite memes ever.… Read More Teams That Grind My Gears – The Los Angeles Dodgers
The last time I watched a show about families who like to kill each other, they wore hats and had names like Michael and Fredo.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 113: The “The Game of Dodger Thrones” Edition
Now that we’re past Mother’s Day, we’ve got a great picture for the story lines which will drive the next five months of baseball season.… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 44 – The Post-Mother’s Day Baseball-Palooza
J-Dub calls for an end to “Homerism” before something really ugly happens in this country, takes a look at why this upcoming World Series might be the most interesting we’ve seen in a while, offers a non-flattering view of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and thinks it’s time to shatter some myths in the NFL, particularly… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 23 – The “Back to Basics” Edition
So, in the last week, I’ve been forced to come to the realization that Roy Hobbs from The Natural is actually a 22-year old Cuban guy who is built like a Mack Truck and runs like a Ferrari. America, meet Yasiel Puig, your next next honest-to-oh-my-fucking-goodness baseball phenom. The guy has been in the major… Read More So, Have They Changed The Name of the City to Los Puig-geles Yet?
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Los Angeles Kings Win The Stanley Cup For purposes… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2012
A few days ago marked a High Holy Day in the religion of Tommy Lasorda Hating. June 4th marks the anniversary of the “the Kingman tirade,” which is fabled in song and story (rated R for language, definitely not safe for work). It all gets started by some dumb-ass reporter asking a typical dumb-ass question,… Read More Leave it to Tommy Lasorda To Have A Heart Attack on the Day I Usually Attack Him Yet Again
Although you would be hard-pressed to prove this by me, the following sentence does illustrate that hockey fever may indeed be gripping Los Angeles. Dodgers President Stan Kasten said he would like the Los Angeles Kings to host an NHL Winter Classic game at Dodger Stadium. It’s not like Kasten has no idea of the… Read More Hockey Fever Grips Los Angeles, Part I: Stan Kasten Has Lost His Mind
1) Los Angeles Dodgers ↑ 1 What We Originally Said: Upside: Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young last year and is a contender for the award again. He is signed with the Dodgers through 2013. Matt Kemp was the runner-up for the NL MVP Award, and was a single dinger away from joining the 40HR/40 stolen… Read More What We’ve Learned: The Dubsism Memorial Day Baseball Power Rankings
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 Dodgers and Yankees” Team – The New Angeles Dodgekees
Well, to be honest, that headline is a tad bit deceiving, but given the fact we are talking about two of the most dysfunctional franchises currently in the sports world, this story begged for a joke. After all, it is true the Vikings are terrible, and the Dodgers are broke, but it’s not like Page… Read More The Minnesota Vikings Are So Lousy Jarrad Page Would Rather Play For The Bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers
Being that we are at the end of what has proven to be a tumultuous twelve months, why not take a look back at the biggest sports stories of such a year? After all, I’m pretty sure nobody else does these sort of retrospectives… 15) The Establishment of Two All-Time Winningest College Coaches: Paterno and… Read More The Dubsism Top Fifteen Sports Stories of 2011
It’s no secret that this blog has not been friendly to Dodgers’ owner Frank McCourt. We’ve been the home to the Frank McCourt Death Watch, during which we have compared him to a parasite, insinuated that he may be one of the worst human beings in history, and had noted sports manager Joe McGrath author… Read More Frank McCourt: The Final Days of the Regime Are Finally Here
It’s been a busy week here at the Dubsism offices. without going into great detail, the bottom line is we are a couple days behind a story we’ve been following all summer. In other words, America’s long national nightmare is over: The McCourt’s have finally reached a settlement in their divorce which kept the Los… Read More Frank McCourt Death Watch: One Legal Ball-Kick Down, Several More To Go
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
First, let me define the concept of Cubsism. Named for the Chicago Cubs, Cubsism is an ideaology that permeates a sports franchise. It is characterized by the ability to be essentially viable while remaining an exercise in futulity on the field. It is named for the Cubs because no other franchise in sports embodies it nearly… Read More Dubsism on Cubsism
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