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• Posted Gasol Was Well Received at Chavez Ravine to LAist
  Pau Gasol works it in the post in a game versus the Golden State Warriors. (AP Photo/Jeff Lewis) LA Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke wrote an article describing the lackluster reaction of Laker Nation last night as Pau Gasol made his first appearance of the season. Coming off a hamstring injury that sidelined the Spaniard for the first eleven games of the season, Gasol was back to his usual self, contributing 24 points and...
• Commented on Ethier and Kemp Among League's Elite
  I certainly understand where you are coming from, but Manny missed 50 games, then underperformed for the final stretch. Kemp and Ethier did it all year. Ethier led the league in walk off hits. Maybe last season (2008) there was...
• Posted Ethier and Kemp Among League's Elite to LAist
  Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp celebrate a run. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) I don’t want to beat a dead horse. Frankly, I don’t want to beat any horses. I do, however, feel a deep need to perform my civic duty and illuminate some additional reasons for the swift and generous resigning of Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp to long term contracts. As I mentioned in my post here last week, Matt Kemp and Andre...
• Favorited Dodger Shoots Himself in Leg on LAist
• Posted Dodger Shoots Himself in Leg to LAist
  Vicente Padilla on the mound for the Dodgers. Photo: Darron Cummings - AP The World Series isn't over yet, but that hasn't stopped the exciting Dodgers offseason from getting a little head start. Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla apparently shot himself in the right leg in his home country of Nicaragua today. In a report by MLB.com's Ken Gurnick, Padilla's agent Adam Katz notified the Dodgers of the injury following Padilla's treatment in a Managua...