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2003
6/22 Fast Five from the Weekend
6/21 Ladies and Gentlemen, Dave Ross
6/20 The Villains' Villain
6/20 Basing 6/19 1P + 30H + .600
6/19 The Return of Mr. Highwire
6/18 From Start to Finish, A Dodger Night (Groins Not Included)
6/17 More Dodger Extremes
6/17 Giants Among Us
6/16 Not Pointing Fingers Today
6/14 The Baseball Blender
6/13 Environmental Oddities, Reconciled
6/12 Fire Jack Clark?
6/11 A Star May Not Be Born (Paul Lo Duca)
6/10 The All-Time Los Angeles Dodger Team
6/09 Joe Shlabotnik, Your Life Is Calling
6/06 Wrong and Right (Fernando)
6/05 The Great Race (HR vs. SH)
6/04 This Was No Day at the Beach
6/04 Beltrevision
6/03 Draft Reports
6/02 Getting the Lowelldown
6/01 WeekOdds and WeekEnds
5/30 The Freshmaker (Andy Ashby)
5/30 No Big Deal for Diamondbacks
5/29 The Obvious, Child
5/29 Out There in the Fields (Rickey Henderson)
5/29 Too Much Range
5/29 On the Bright Side (Darren Dreifort)
5/28 Top o' the World (Sort of)
5/23 Buttercup (Pedro Martinez and Jody Reed)
5/22 Punched-Drunk Fan
5/22 Notes on the Undercard
5/21 A-1 Pitching Sauce
5/20 Who's Coaching the Coaches
5/19 That Explains It (Kazuhisa Ishii)
5/16 Til Death Do Us Part
5/15 Comeback Central
5/15 Once Around the Park (bottle caps and such)
5/14 Plunging Back to Reality ... It's Not That Bad
5/13 Suicide Squeeze
5/12 Rejects and Projects
5/11 O, Pioneers
5/10 McGriff-Kinkade Day 3
5/09 Trying to Make Me Look Bad?
5/08 Romancing the Unturned Stone
5/07 Q & No A
5/07 This Is the Cause
5/06 Frontier Justice in the Park
5/05 Late and Great
5/05 Fast Up, You Move Too Slow
5/04 We Show Up
5/03 If This Had Been an Actual Emergency ...
5/02 Environmental Oddities
5/02 Pythagorean Addition
5/02 Si, Monde-si
5/02 Cora becomes Kora
5/01 Up in Arms
4/30 The Greatest Stories Ever Told
4/29 The Cold Front
4/28 Whiff it Good
4/28 Wrong Again (Jason Romano)
4/28 Where Dodgers Go To Die
4/27 Sign Waves
4/27 Ah, Three Rivers
4/25 Touch 'Em None
4/25 8 Mile
4/25 Dark Clouds
4/24 We've Had it Too Good (Aprils)
4/23 Eric Gagne Is So Good
4/23 The Cone of Silence (Guillermo Mota)
4/22 Lack of Due Process (Mark Grudzielanek)
4/22 The Non-Miracle
4/22 Ugh (Guillermo Mota)
4/22 Vagaries of Vegas
4/21 The Tommy Game
4/21 I'm McGriff, Dammit
4/21 51 Pickup
4/20 Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying
4/20 Worth About $1.5 Million on the Open Market
4/19 Observations Down at the 7-11
4/19 Reader Poll Results
4/18 Todd Hundley, Hero
4/17 Ishii Success Plays Head Games on Writer
4/17 Psychological Dilemma P.S.
4/17 Call the Department of Transportation ...
4/17 The Good Humor People
4/16 Section H. Foul Shoe
4/16 Carded at the Concession Stand
4/16 Slumpers' Ball (Mike Piazza)
4/16 More Great Pitching?
4/15 Adrian Beltre Isn't the Problem
4/14 Too Good to be True?
4/13 Reader Poll
4/12 Look Down on Thy Neighbor
4/12 Quality Quality Starts
4/11 Strike One
4/11 Subj: Fans can't Wait Till Next Year. Take it to 'em NOW!
4/10 Look Who Else Says They're Tired
4/10 Seriesly Speaking
4/09 Because L.A. Must Know Where Roy Williams Will Coach
4/09 Is This What You Want Company to See?
4/09 Everyone's Tired ... of Mediocrity
4/09 The Antelope Becomes the Gazelle
4/09 Where'd I Put That Warranty?
4/08 A Real Opening Day
4/08 Getting There
4/08 The Inspections
4/08 The Boards
4/08 The Pomp. And ... the Circumstance too.
4/08 The Game
4/07 The Leadoff Nit
4/05 Can We Get Tommy John Surgery on the Offense - Stat?
4/05 McGriff Tiptoes into the Bizarro World
4/04 Did You Know...
4/04 Inconsistencyshii
4/04 The Comeback That Started It All (Tommy John)
4/03 One Side Fits All
4/02 Sending Out an SbS
4/01 Green's Light Goes Red
3/31 It's a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame...
3/31 Diamondbits
3/31 Opening Day Running Commentary
3/30 6 for 37, .162 (Jason Romano)
3/29 You Know You Screwed Up When ... (Vin Scully on Kevin Malone)
3/29 Do No Wrong ... Do No Right (Joe Thurston)
3/28 Who the Hell Knows?
3/27 Carrara-boom-de-ay
3/26 Bad Arguments for a Good Idea (Joe Thurston II)
3/25 Pal Joey
3/24 The Last Place You Look (Kazuhisa Ishii)
3/21 Parsing Andy Ashby
3/21 Topple-ganger
3/20 Fine-Tuning the Playoffs
3/20 Kevin Brown Crow Update
3/20 Raises
3/20 Unlocked (Joe Thurston)
3/19 The Crow Flies at Night
3/19 Turnover
3/19 A Mainstream Advance for OPS
3/18 Lull and Void
3/17 Money to Burn
3/14 Two Weeks and Three Days to Go
3/13 'Try Reasoning With Him'
3/13 Mark Belanger?
3/12 The Meaning of the Game
3/11 Slash (Darren Dreifort)
3/11 Not Very Newsworthy (KFWB)
3/10 A Shallow Defensive Analysis
3/10 Outside of Dodgertown (Phil Nevin, Garret Anderson)
3/09 15 Minutes of, Well, Not Fame, but Something
3/08 Not Just What, But When (Spring Training performance)
3/07 Trying to Make Shuey Fit
3/06 Kevin Brown's Next Team
3/06 Riffin' with McGriff
3/06 Does Dreifort Kneed to Relieve?
3/06 Mail Call
3/05 Is a Little Tranquility Too Much to Ask? (New ownership)
3/04 An Uphill Start (2003 Schedule)
3/03 Where There's a Wills, There's No Way
2/28 Here's What Passes for Controversy These Days
2/27 And Away We Go ...
2/27 Dodger Idol (Spring Training Opener)
2/26 Sunny Days
2/26 Walter Alston and Sandy Koufax: Two Views
2/25 Adrian Beltre and the Ticking Clock
2/24 The Competition
2/22 Koufax Knows Best
2/21 Koufax is Post-erized
2/21 What's All This Talk About a Health Insurance Crisis?
2/20 February Folly
2/19 Changes at Dodger Stadium
2/19 The New Stats - They Mean No Harm
2/18 Everybody Hates Kevin
2/18 Hello? Backup Catcher Injured
2/18 Brown is Here
2/17 The Proving Ground: Kinkade and Brown
2/14 Traumatized in '67
2/13 Taking a Bite out of Crime Dog
2/12 A Flood of Memories (1993 NL West Prospects)
2/11 All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium
2/10 Batting Second in this Report, Paul Lo Duca
2/07 Eric Karros: Sparring Partner
2/06 Almost Makes Me Want To Love Him (Raul) All Over Again
2/05 No. 6 for the Dodgers...
2/04 Let's Hope Those Ballet Lessons Are Worth It (Darren Dreifort)
2/04 A Bad Call (Bruce Froemming)
2/03 The Bridegrooms as Bridesmaids
1/31 You're in Mediocre Hands... (Ron Coomer)
1/30 Charmed, I'm (Sort of) Sure
1/29 Two-Trick Loney
1/28 Jason Romano
1/27 Daryle Ward
1/24 Dodger pitching
1/23 More non-roster invites for the bench
1/22 Dave Checketts
1/21 Jim Tracy is big
1/14 1990s Rookies of the Year
1/13 Lucky or Unlucky
1/10 Bullpen 2003
1/09 Starting Rotation 2003
1/08 Bench 2003
1/07 Eddie Murray & Gary Carter
1/06 Starting Lineup 2003

2002
9/18 Barry Bonds
9/13 Hideo Nomo - 132 pitches
9/10 "I'm not depressed, yet..."
8/30 Strike averted
8/29 Odalis Perez homers in 1-0 victory
8/28 Alex Cora injury/Janitor
8/26 Baseball Prospectus Minor League Overview
8/21 Jim Tracy's managing
8/15 Kevin Brown out of the bullpen
8/12 1982, P.S.
8/08 1982
8/04 Ups and Downs
7/30 Ishii walks Larkin
7/23 Why am I doing this?
7/22 Overachievers then, underachievers now
7/21 Inauguration


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