One of my favorite pastimes is reading the blogs of Giants fans and seeing them search for the slightest shred of optimism in the upcoming season.  Check out the McCovey Chronicles for a good laugh, as the blog encourages the front office to look into a trade for the Rays’ Ben Zobrist.  I’m sorry, who?  [...]

A sign of things to come in the regular season?  Perhaps.  It’s hard to read anything into the tea leaves for the first Grapefruit League game of the year, but according to our pal Ken Gurnick over at MLB.com, “Torre has made no secret that he likes the speed of Pierre, the likely Opening Day [...]

Jayson Werth was once considered one of the promising “kids” in the Dodgers’ farm system. After seven years in the minors and wrist surgery in 2006, the former Dodger signed with the Phillies. He played solid ball and is in the mix to be a starter in 2008. The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Charlie [...]

I know, I know. It just seems odd, doesn’t it? Nice guy Orel Hershiser just doesn’t seem to be the type of guy to bluff and challenge the world’s top poker pros, but that’s exactly what he will be doing at the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship. NBC has announced that the tournament will once [...]

One key question that needs to be answered during spring training is who the Dodgers will entrust with the third base position at the beginning of the season. Much speculation has been floating out there about who Torre’s choice might be. Will he go with Garciaparra, whose 11 years of MLB experience (plus a stint [...]