I just want to have good thoughts. So in that vein I thought I would share the above photo originally found on the Baseball Hall of Fame twitter account. It features a young and eager to teach Pee Wee Reese of the Brooklyn club demonstrating the proper way to "choke up" on the bat to a bunch of even younger fledgling Dodger hopefuls. Some of them are even paying close attention, so I wonder if they made it to the pros. After all, Brooklyn was a Baseball hotbed back then. Heck, as I look closely I swear that kid on the far left is a young Fernando... No?
Below are more links to check out:
- Here is the complete postseason schedule. It includes all the dates for every potential game and the channels you can watch them at. For the Dodgers, Game 1 will be at 6:45 PST and Game 2 is at 6:07 PST. Both games will be aired on TBS.
- Via Daniel Starkand at Dodgers Nation, "Zack Greinke Reflects On Career Season, 200 Strikeouts."
“This year I didn’t pay attention to strikeouts at all,” Greinke said. “In year’s past it would be a big deal, but I didn’t really pay attention to it this year. I just was trying to get outs, that’s all I really paid attention to.”
- Via Darren Rovell at ESPN, Clayton Kershaw was the #4 selling jersey during the regular season in all of Baseball.
- Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Corey Seager goes from prospect to key to Dodgers' playoff hopes."
“It got to the point where we kind of needed him here,” was how Dodgers vice president for baseball operations Josh Byrnes put it at the time.
- For just a moment relive the time the Dodgers and Mets faced each other in the playoffs in 1988 through the words of those who were there. Via Lyle Spencer at MLB.com, "Oral history of epic Mets-Dodgers 1988 NLCS."
Mike Scioscia (Dodgers catcher): We felt like we didn't have anything to lose. One thing about that club was that we weren't intimidated, and [we] played free and relaxed. We weren't worried about making a mistake. As far as star power, we didn't have a lot. But as far as a team, we had a great team from one through 25. Everyone knew their role. All of us could do what the situation called for.
- Ken Gurnick at MLB.com interviews Dodger GM Farhan Zaidi, "Zaidi: Mattingly has done a 'great job'."
MLB.com: Have you been pleased with the work of manager Don Mattingly?
Zaidi: I think he's done a great job. We've had, again, one of the biggest themes we've had is roster turnover with the injuries and having a lot of young players with options and trying to make maximum use of the 25-man roster. That definitely puts added stress on a manager and staff, not just to deal with the logistics of those moves, but also to deal with managing personnel turnover. From an on-field standpoint, every time you move a player in or out, you have to sort of recalibrate yourself on how to use everybody. So, I think he's done a real nice job with that and mixed and matched in some platoon situations, tried to navigate through some of the issues we've had in our bullpen. There certainly have been challenges with our roster that he's had to navigate and I think he's done a nice job.
- Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider, "Adrian Gonzalez nominated for Hank Aaron Award."
- Greg Zakwin at Plaschke, Thy Sweater is Argyle shares his newest Roy Campanella collectible, and it's awesome. Check out his 1956 Dairy Queen figurine.
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