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Even though the official Major League Baseball Season started last week it just never feels like the first game until your team plays at home. This year the Dodgers started on the road in San Diego and then traveled to Arizona, stopped at the Grand Canyon, took a rafting trip down the Colorado River, ate lunch at the El Tovar and managed to win four of their first seven games.

They did show some signs of being rather odd at times....like pitching Jonathan Broxton, their closer, with a ten run lead....but then again the Dodgers have always shown a proclivity toward the arena of oddness.

They also scored a run on a play Sunday in Arizona that Vin Scully said he had never seen. Too detailed to explain but check it out if you have an interest in such things.

The Dodgers are in a division that appears to be wide open so that means that have as good a chance at anybody to make the playoffs. If they reach out and nab a front line pitcher during the year than that will enhance their chance of moving forward during the playoffs.

The offensive part of their team might be the best they've had in many many years. Their defense is solid and the only question is their pitching staff....which is highly unusual for the Dodgers.

I guess all the coin went to Manny and there wasn't any left over for arms. The fact that they didn't try to re-sign Derek Lowe was an indication that something was odd in Dodger town.

Of course I also wished they had re-signed Nomar....but at least he was able to stay in California.
Oakland got him for a million plus incentivites and that could be the deal of the century if he stays healthy.
I realize it's a big if but he could have helped the Dodgers in quite a few ways.

I honestly ,or hopefully, see Nomar being the manager of the Dodgers some day....but in the meantime he's still got a job doing what he does best.....playing baseball, and staying relatively close to Mia and the twins.

The Dodgers should win their division with about 89 wins and then it's just another whole world went it comes to predicting playoffs and World Series.

Of course I'd love to see them in the World Series against the Red Sox and watch a MANNY vs RED SOX NATION confrontation but that might be asking for too much.

IT WOULD BE SPECTACULAR........kind of like TIGER VS PHIL yesterday at the Masters.

GOOD STUFF even though neither of them won. They made the back story exciting and usually it's only the front runners who get air time.

TIGER is not the only player on the tour but sometimes it feels like that.

How great would it be to play Augusta.....just once with three friends?

Does anybody have Arnold Plamer's cell phone number?

While I'm waiting for that number......let's play some
baseball.

Michael Timothy McAlevey