Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

T.J. Simers notwithstanding, the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation event with Joe Torre and the legendary Sandy Koufax was really special (even on TV).  Kudos to Fox Sports West for televising the event.  Unfortunately the event ran long, and my TiVO cut off after the hour and a half, but what I saw was really, really [...]

Today I had the opportunity to hear Joe Torre speak at the Milken Institute about the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and developing educational programs aimed at ending the cycle of domestic violence and saving lives.
From the Foundation’s Web site:
Joe Torre, former professional baseball player and manager of the [...]

As I sit here on one of Maui’s amazing beaches, I got to thinking about the manager of the year voting, and who I would vote for if given an opportunity.  There are certainly a number of worthy candidates with the favorites falling into two camps: the managers leading upstart teams on surprising runs, and [...]

Joe Torre should sleep a little easier at night knowing that the scheduling gods have given him a fantastic end to the season – now all he has to do is get through August.  Check out the remaining teams and records the Dodgers face in August (a combined one game under.500):
3 games at Arizona (52-63)
3 games vs. [...]

This week was a pretty busy week…had to prepare for a garage sale we had on Saturday and Sunday, therefore, not much time was available to catch the Dodger games on TV…I did, however, see a few things…
Joe Torre is amazing…
Last Thursday…2 outs, bottom of the 8th in St. Louis…game tied, 3-3…man on 3rd…Hong-Chih Kuo [...]