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The Dugout: Los Angeles Dodgers Spring Training 2011

Remember when the defining image of the Dodgers was of Kirk Gibson, struggling against his own body, doing the unthinkable and hitting a home run in the World Series against one of baseball's best pitchers? Or when it was the image of a brave African-American man breaking the color barrier and setting the standard for how...

The Dugout: Baseball Season is 200 Games Too Long

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim et al. manager Mike Scioscia has a plan to bring aid to some of baseball's scheduling woes. He is proposing a 158-game season that would maintain revenue while keeping the World Series out of the frozen tundra of November. Like any progressive thinker, he will be ignored and quickly forgotten...

The Dugout: The Celtic Warrior in Kansas City

WWE Champion Sheamus attended a Kansas City Royals game over the weekend, throwing out the first pitch and breaking character by being pictured with the only two things in the world whiter than him: a baseball, and a Royals jersey. Sometimes my two FanHouse titles ("blogger" and "pro wrestling writer") come together in...

The Dugout: Los Angeles Dodgers Spring Training 2010

Every March, The Dugout features one strip about every team in baseball as a warm-up to the regular season, and to let us say we did at least one Dugout about the Reds or whoever in the last calendar year. I'm going it alone this year, but I'm going to do my very best to keep this tradition alive. To show you how serious I...

The Dugout: No Regrets For Our Youth

The Dugout takes shots at a lot of players. We make fun of great players like Albert Pujols, suggesting that he is on steroids (he is), but at the end of the strip everybody knows we think he's awesome. We make fun of terrible niche players like Kyle Farnsworth, but we love them too, because to truly love baseball is to...