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Beware the Dugouts of March: The Los Angeles Dodgers' 2009 Preview

The picture to the right deserves a Pulitzer nomination.Today, The Dugout continues its month-long series of team previews by visiting the Dodgers' team chat room. Perhaps more importantly, we're resurrecting the personality of everyone's favorite Fauknerian man-child Dugout character. Wait, maybe he's the second favorite....

The Dugout: Manny Being Mandel

If we haven't talked about Manny Ramirez enough in our five years of logging AIM chats across the Internet, we're about to do it again; the baseball season is about to start and Car Man-Ram doesn't have a team. One of the reasons for this is the inflated free agent market, and the increasing number of teams focusing on...

The Dugout: Watchmaker, Part Four Is The New Watchmaker, Part Three

We open on a lone soldier walking through the desert. The year is 1861. The place ... Mars! Please read these before continuing:Watchmaker, Part OneWatchmaker, Part TwoWatchmaker, Part Three Special thanks to our pals at Deadspin for the heads-up on the hilarious future of boring gaming, a continued thanks to Dave Gibbons...

The Dugout: Movin' On/The End

What's great is that that guy on the right can reuse his sign if it doesn't snow in Philadelphia until January. Why did he draw snowflakes in the corners? Did he need to fill the negative space that badly? Maybe this is his 756th sign and there was a problem.In case you did not read part 1 and are unable to scroll your...

The Dugout: Dodger Day Off

It's been a roller coaster ride this season for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and their real-life equivalents in the Dugout Chatroom have felt it. They were accused of being yokels from the past, they acquired and perverted one of the most popular players in the game, and they discussed at length Andre Ethier's "tINCFoUTaCU"....