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From the Web › Los Angeles Times
They still have to fill Prince Fielder's shoes at first base, but the Milwaukee Brewers nevertheless just made a nice pickup in Joe Block, hiring the erstwhile...
Share • December 24, 2011 at 8:35 AM -
From the Web › LA Daily News
A U.S. District Court judge in Delaware on Friday dealt a significant blow to the Dodgers' plans to sell the media rights to future games, halting the sales process...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 11:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Judge puts sale of team on hold pending a Jan. 12 hearing.In a ruling that could limit the field of potential bidders for the Dodgers, a judge ruled Friday that the team...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 6:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
The Los Angeles Dodgers attempt at pushing through the sale of future broadcasting rights was put on hold by a federal judge Friday, pending his review of FOX network's...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 3:35 PM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
Fox Sports has won a significant victory in its effort toprevent the Los Angeles Dodgers from selling the media rights tofuture games.
Share • December 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The U.S. District Court has issued a stay on Frank McCourt selling a TV media rights deal in conjunction with selling the team, not that it will ultimately matter to...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The Dodgers must immediately halt their sale of the team's television rights, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday. In granting to Fox Sports a stay of a U.S...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Often when you read TV or film criticism, you see the word "manipulative." I've spent a lot of time thinking about what this word means in the two weeks since I saw a...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
I continue to maintain that it's mostly much ado about nothing whether or not Frank McCourt can try sell the Dodgers' post-2013 TV rights ahead of schedule, because...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
Shortly after the All-Star break, the Dodgers appeared to need a massive roster overhaul, as they were double digits under .500 and double digits out of first place. The...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
A U.S. District Court judge in Delaware is considering whether to halt a bankruptcy court order approving a process for the Los Angeles Dodgers to sell the media rights...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Remember Ronald Belisario?The relief pitcher—the one who came from nowhere to become a huge member of the Dodgers bullpen in 2009, showed up more than a month late...
Share • December 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM -
From the Web › LA Daily News
WILMINGTON, Del. - A U.S. District Court judge in Delaware is considering whether to halt a bankruptcy court order approving a process for the Dodgers to sell the media...
Share • December 22, 2011 at 11:35 PM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
A U.S. District Court judge in Delaware is considering whetherto halt a bankruptcy court order approving a process for the LosAngeles Dodgers to sell the media rights to...
Share • December 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
The New York Yankees were hit with a $13.9 million luxury tax bill Thursday, their lowest since 2003. The fee, assessed by Major League Baseball under its labor...
Share • December 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The legend that was Eugenio Velez has left the Dodgers, taking his record 0-for-46 skid to the Cardinals.
Share • December 22, 2011 at 12:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
On occasion, Big League Stew honors a birthday boy per week by taking a longer look at his career. Please join us in lighting the candles. Steve Garvey was indescribably...
Share • December 22, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › HardballTalk
From Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch comes word that the Cardinals have inked utilityman Eugenio Velez to a minor league contract. They also signed...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Former Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner will become the hitting coach for the Chicago Cubs' Class-A affiliate Boise Hawks, according to an ESPN.com report...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario has a seriously checkered past to overcome before he returns to the team following a 25-game drug suspension.
Share • December 21, 2011 at 1:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario is facing a 25-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy, according to a report in the Los Angeles...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
Creditors of the Los Angeles Dodgers are joining the team inurging a federal district judge not to halt implementation of abankruptcy court order authorizing the Dodgers...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
It was just over a year ago that we looked at Brian Sabean's vacation of an offseason and wondered if the San Francisco Giants could really afford to stand so pat after...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario has been handed a 25-gamesuspension for violating baseball's drug policy, the Los AngelesTimes reported Tuesday night, citing a...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Jerry Royster was hired as third-base coach of the Boston Red Sox, joining new manager Bobby Valentine's staff. Royster, a major-league veteran, replacing Tim Bogar, who...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 9:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Most of you have probably heard by now that longtime columnist Bill Conlin of the Philadelphia Daily News is alleged to have molested four children in the 1970s...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The bid book designed to detail what potential Dodger owners are actually buying has been sent out, according to Bill Shaikin of the Times. Some details:... The Dodgers...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
As I still wonder whether Vanessa Bryant will join a Dodger ownership group ...The Dodgers have announced their invitees to their annual January developmental minicamp...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The Dodgers' financial liability in the Bryan Stow case could be so "massive" as to threaten the ability of the team to pay its creditors, attorneys for the official...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 7:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Ronald Belisario is facing a 25-game suspension if he returns to the major leagues, a possibility that became more likely after Dylan Hernandez of the Times reported...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 7:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
It says something that the news is mentioned only in passing in this ESPN.com article on Colorado signing Michael Cuddyer, but former Dodger Casey Blake, remembered...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 7:35 AM -
From the Web › FOX Sports
Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario has been handed a 25-gamesuspension for violating baseball's drug policy, the Los AngelesTimes reported Tuesday night, citing a...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 12:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Belisario must serve a 25-game suspension for violating baseball's drug policy, according to a person familiar with the situation. Belisario must serve a 25-game...
Share • December 21, 2011 at 12:35 AM -
From the Web › HardballTalk
UPDATE: Belisario is expected to report to spring training on time after securing his visa, but he won't be on the Dodgers' Opening Day roster. According to Dylan...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 10:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Reliever Ronald Belisario has received a visa valid for the next five years and is expected to be in Arizona for the start of spring training, but he won't be on the...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 9:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
This will not be one of the prouder legacies of Bud Selig's tenure as baseball commissioner: This year's team in bankruptcy citing last year's team in bankruptcy in...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd thinks outfielder Michael Cuddyer is a perfect fit in Colorado.
Share • December 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Casey Blake served the Dodgers well for nearly four seasons until riddled with injury. Now he's signed a one-year, non-guaranteed contract with the division-rival...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
From the Web › HardballTalk
Ronald Belisario spent the entire 2011 season on the Dodgers' restricted list after failing to secure a visa in his native Venezuela, but we learned earlier this month...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 4:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Reliever Ronald Belisario, who missed last season because he was unable to gain entry into the United States, has been granted a visa and is expected to be in camp for...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Owner Frank McCourt has released his bid book to potential buyers of the Dodgers, but it's not making the investment look anymore enticing.
Share • December 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM -
From the Web › Yahoo! Sports
Hiroki Kuroda fits well with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but Frank McCourt's financial woes continue to dog the franchise.
Share • December 20, 2011 at 11:35 AM -
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The gentlemen on the left: Don Mattingly. The Nutcracker character on the right? Also Don Mattingly. No joke, that's the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers in his...
Share • December 20, 2011 at 9:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The quietest period in Dodger Thoughts history was after the birth of my daughter in September 2002. I had only started the site three months earlier, had fewer than 10...
Share • December 19, 2011 at 11:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Frank McCourt's sales pitch advises that the Dodgers' average ticket price last season ranked 10th in the major leagues, even though the team plays in the second-largest...
Share • December 19, 2011 at 8:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Frank McCourt's sales pitch landed on the desks of prospective Dodgers bidders on Monday, and the suggestions on how to make money from the team included this one: Raise...
Share • December 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The Dodgers signed veteran left-handed reliever John Grabow to a minor-league contract with an invite to their major-league camp.
Share • December 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM -
From the Web › HardballTalk
John Grabow has agreed to a minor-league deal with the Dodgers, according to Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors. To get a sense for how far Grabow's stock has fallen...
Share • December 19, 2011 at 10:35 AM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Club doesn't have much cash left to spend on free agents, so what it has now is pretty much what it will put on the field next season.Late one night at baseball's winter...
Share • December 18, 2011 at 5:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
The Dodgers are packaging a mini-plan featuring bobbleheads of 10 Dodger Stadium greats for next season. Here are a few more suggestions.
Share • December 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
It's Don Mattingly as you've never seen him, or wanted to. Say one thing about Mattingly, he is one helluva sport. For a good cause, he dons wig and giant skirt for a...
Share • December 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
In what's become an annual event, the Dodgers reshaped their front office, although Saturday's announcement was relatively minor compared to years past.
Share • December 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM -
From the Web › Los Angeles Times
Catching up today on some news new and old. Many of these items were tweeted by me over the past several days – don't hesitate to follow.Bill Shaikin of the Times...
Share • December 17, 2011 at 3:35 PM