Go Dodgers?

Surprisingly I have been watching the Dodgers during the NLCS against the Brewers. I haven’t been watching much baseball over the last few years, and since Dodger co-owner Todd Boehly bought my football team, Chelsea FC, and have since screwed them up beyond all recognition — they went from winning the Champions League in 2021 to being a laughingstock within two years. Since Chelsea has gotten back to top-four form last season, I guess I’ve forgiven the Dodgers a little.

Watching what the Dodgers have done to the Brewers, the team with the best record in all of baseball, pitching them to death has been pretty fucking amazing. It’s wonderful seeing well pitched games again, nice 2-1, 3-1, 5-1 games where the starters go past the sixth. Okay, tonight Tyler Glasnow only went 5 2/3 innings, but Blake Snell went 8 in Game 1 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a complete game in Game 2. I think seeing a ton of those 10-9 games just killed me. I’m sure all the runs were great for a lot of other fans, but I’m just old I guess. I like those 1-0 games.

I remember one opening day game that Clayton Kershaw pitched against the Giants. I forget the year, but Kershaw pitched either a complete game or close to a complete game and hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth to give the Dodgers a 1-0 win. I just looked it up, and it was a 4-0 win. It was a scoreless game through 8 innings until Kershaw led off the bottom of the eighth with a homer. The Dodgers added three more in that inning, and Kershaw pitched the ninth for the 4-0 shutout. This was the last Dodger home opener I covered as a sportswriter. So I’m not completely full of shit. And I did just find the story I wrote on the game still on LAist!

Okay. That was a fun romp down memory lane.

I’ve also been watching a little NFL, mostly just the morning games on the Red Zone channel. I still can’t bring myself to watch a single game in one sitting.