Welcome to my Dodgers blog. This blog is a product of several months of waffling and pondering, but I finally made the plunge and I’ll take a stab at following the team and adding my thoughts to the blogosphere. Just as a little background, my father grew up in Brooklyn and despite moving to Michigan before I was born, he remained a Dodgers fan. He rooted for the Tigers, but his heart was still Dodger blue. I adopted that passion for the Dodgers and I’ve been following them ever since.
I have two people to thank for this blog. One I’ve been corresponding with for a few months now and the other doesn’t even know I exist. After reading one of his columns over at the Hardball Times, I began corresponding with Brian Borawski, who also writes on his own Tiger fan site, Tigerblog. He’s the one who prodded me into finally doing this, and actually helped me set up the site. When it launches later this year, I’ll be part of his informal network called Baseball Historians.
The other person I have to thank is Jon Weisman, who writes on his own blog Dodger Thoughts. Jon’s such a great writer and he writes with such passion. More importantly, he seems like he has a ton of fun when he writes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to fill his shoes or be the next Jon, but by reading his book (which is a great read for any Dodger fan) and reading his site, it made me want to give blogging a shot to share in the fun.
And not that Jon’s is the only great site. 6-4-2 is another great blog and I put a few more of the ones I frequent in my links section. If you’re not there, it’s not that I don’t like your site, it’s just that I haven’t found you yet.
So what will you see on this blog? I’ll be following the 2006 Dodgers as well as their minor league affiliates. I’m also extremely interested in baseball history so in April, I’m going to follow the career of one of the greatest Dodger pitchers of all time. April 17 is the 50th anniversary of Don Drysdale’s major league debut. Throughout the season, I’m going to document his appearances in a diary style that Brian has done over at Tigerblog for the 1935 Tigers and 1984 Tigers. Hopefully you’ll have as much fun reading it as I’ll have writing about it. I also plan on doing season lookbacks similar to this one to document the Dodgers history.
Hopefully you’ll stop by now and then. For those of you who don’t know, the name of the blog is a play on an old nickname for the Dodgers, which is documented here.
