How can you have Dodgers if nobody walks?


-New Yorker
Did you really think that Hoboken was the birthplace of Base Ball?

Nothing to do with Dodgers, but this thought just occurred to me!!!!

I believe Mr. Selig will use contraction as a double-edged sword. Yes, contraction will affect the MLBPA, but it will also affect the DRays situation as well. Should Selig contract the DRays, the lease will be null and void. However, the TB players will lose their jobs. So, I look for this happen: MLBPA will work with Selig and crew after the new CBA is signed to convince St Pete's mayor that it is in the club's best interests to move or else. Either way the Rays will be gone. Expect some type of compromise from MLB too. Tampa may get a troubled franchise but only after they construct a new stadium!!!
I have a feeling that this is very accurate.

Long live SB978 and HB2941. So Long Hannon and Derfler!! You will not be missed!!! Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbye!!!

I think that if the team contracts, then MLB will be on the hook for the lease.

Still, that would be one way to get out of the lease and "move" the club.

And another new stadium? They just built one! Ah, the Trop. A true testament to the folly of building a stadium before securing a team.


-New Yorker
Did you really think that Hoboken was the birthplace of Base Ball?

I just got back from a convention in San Diego (my first trip there), which I had always felt would be the one place I would want to live in California (if I ever lived there). After a few days driving in S.D. traffic, all I can say is, "You can have it!" The speed limit on the expressways is 65 mph -- in downtown! Of course, no one -- except ignorant outsiders like myself from Portland and other "backward" places -- bothers to observe those signs. I had to drive 70-75 everywhere just to keep up, and cars still whizzed past me. And if you're in the way of somebody in a REAL hurry (which is at least 50% of the people on the road), they'll pull up within inches of your bumper and honk until you move! I'm sorry, but California drivers are the absolute rudest I have met anywhere!

OK, maybe I'm exaggerating (slightly), but when I got home, I told my wife, "Honey, San Diego is a beautiful city, but I can guarantee you one thing -- we are in absolutely no way or for any reason EVER moving to southern California! People who live there may enjoy it, but it is not for me, and definitely not for you!" (She's intimidated by downtown Portland and the I-5 & 217 traffic.

BC, SD traffic is rather slow and laid back compared to LA's. That is, whenever you get to a stretch of freeway in which the eight lanes aren't bumper to bumper. But even then, all eight lanes of bumper traffic tend to move at 70 mph.

New Yorker: How can you have Dodgers if nobody walks?

Those who walk end up angels; to survive, you have to move faster.

If you are perambulating....

Portland in the National League.

Can I just say that I'm glad I don't live in SoCal anymore?

I gave up my car years ago, and I love it.


-New Yorker
Did you really think that Hoboken was the birthplace of Base Ball?