A 1500-lb. Lasorda bobblehead!

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That’s just part of the 40 tons of stuff the Dodgers sent off to Camelback Ranch this week in two trucks.

The trucks will arrive at Camelback Ranch-Glendale on Saturday, to be unloaded in plenty of time for next Saturday’s first workout for pitchers and catchers and the start of another Spring Training.

Bats and balls are shipped directly by their various manufacturers, in case you wondered. Uniforms and even bottled water as well as office supplies are in these trucks.

The first spring training game is scheduled for March 3 at home against the White Sox. The visitors have a long walk around a five-acre lake within the Camelback complex which separates them from the Dodgers. Or maybe they pedal-boat or kayak it.

147 thoughts on “A 1500-lb. Lasorda bobblehead!”

  2. Rollins signs minor league contract with White Sox. Guessing he will get playing time in the Bigs, as they have pencilled in a rookie as starter. Looks like Desmond, who might have been a good fit, won’t find a home there.

  3. It would be appreciated if everybody would stop arguing with Package. Besides, until the Dodgers win a WS, he is going to use scoreboard.

    Package, tell us about yourself.

  4. Article on vets needing to prove something includes CC and Hanley. I try to avoid looking at Carl’s paycheck (which makes him an immovable object) and hope that he can rebound a bit and contribute again at least at an average level, which would be good for a fifth outfielder. On Hanley, I don’t begrudge him. Thought he made some great contributions to the Dodgers and wish him well. http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/165089680/mlb-veterans-spring-training-2016?partnerId=ed-10056114-875107163

    • I will always be curious about how the Dodgers would have fared in the playoffs had Hanley not been hit in the ribs.

      For me, when CC slumps it is because he tries to hit the high pitch out of the strike zone. He needs to find a way to walk more. He could be a good DH. Less likely to get hurt and doesn’t have to throw the ball.

  5. Manfred is likely to rule on Chapman case soon. Puig as well, though that seems a bit minor compared to Chapman. An Utley rule may also be in the making, but the Commish just seems to be merely restating the existing guidelines as regards the runner being able to touch the bag. Also, doesn’t seem all that keen in introducing DH to NL. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/sports/baseball/mlb-aroldis-chapman-yasiel-puig-jose-reyes.html?ref=sports&_r=1

  7. With Pederson, Grandal, Puig, Turner, Crawford, Ryu, either injured, wounded, nose diving, etc, was that a team that should have tried to get one more great player to give them a better chance to get to the WS in 2015 and maybe a smaller chance to get there in future years?

    • And voila! Dodgers sign Sierra, Cuban pitcher who has 97-98 mph velocity with a four-seam fastball and 91-93 mph with a two-seam fastball. Montas goes on the 60-day DL to make room for the 24-year-old, who’s expected to start in the minors.

      • Should be required reading for all Dodger fans, especially the casual ones. And then their comprehension should be tested.

        And Friedman needs to learn to speak to media more directly and simply. I get that he’s doing his best to answer things which aren’t as simple as fans think– within the limits of what he can say–but complicated answers can tend to make unconvinced audiences think “BS.”

        If he told himself to limit answers to X number of words he might be better served.

        Hard to think of any of the standard FAZ criticisms not addressed. Good questions.

          • In theory, yes. But the more simply things can be explained, the more people comprehend.

            Unfortunately not everyone has a high level of verbal and written communication skills.

            Doubly unfortunately, many headlines-only Dodger fans don’t.

    • “But the player with the best chance to be the next Hanley Ramirez is …
      Hanley Ramirez. This year, the Red Sox asked him to lose weight and
      learn to play first base—in that order. You would think that a former
      shortstop could make a decent go of it at first base, but Ramirez is
      quite larger from his middle infield days. Besides, did you see former
      shortstop and longtime third baseman Alex Rodriguez last year try to
      play first base for the Yankees last year at age 39 as if he were
      wearing two oven mitts?”

  16. Link – I receved a notice of a class action suit by MLB.TV subscribers as regards MLB’s deliniation of team “territories”. In the settlement, though, MLB retained its rights to define markets, but lowered the cost of its services. So, no help for you or others it seems.

  17. Both those links to dodgers.com worked fine for me on the first try. All I can suggest is waiting a minute or two and trying again or, as foul tip says, go directly to dodgers.com and find the articles in the news sidebar there.

    • Another issue: Links here supplant Elysian Fields, rather than opening a new tab or window. Can you change the site preferences? Navigating back can be a nuisance.

    • The link on the blog page to Dodgers @ MLB.com now gets me a not valid message every time. When I emailed you about it a while back, this was sporadic. Now it’s constant.

      But all I have to do is begin typing d..o.. in a new window and dodgers.com pops up in browser history. So.

      Of the 5-6 buttons I regularly click on from the blog page, dodgers.com is the only one to give grief. All others work fine every time.

      Wonder what browsers site users employ? Firefox here.

      • This has been a site problem at times for a good while. Both worked when clicked on right after posting but now don’t. Why???

        Both stories @ dodgers.com

    • Even after the FO dismantled an already deeply flawed team and failed to add a single “impact player?”

    • Fairly close to FanGraph projections, but they have Cubs with 94 wins and Dodgers with 92.

      • The Cubbies have talented young position players, but their rotation falls a bit short of the Dodgers’. The two likeliest NLCS opponents, though.

      • Arrieta needs to show he is for real, is the second half of last season him? or how he was in the playoffs? good but not great….if he isn’t great, could be a tough year for the Cubbies. Lester…Lackey at 37…we’ll see. A lot of teams have good hitters.
        On the Mets, Cespeda, the one the final couple months of the season? or the one in the playoffs? Yes they look like they have a great rotation, but it isn’t even spring yet. Our rotation looked pretty good before last season also, and we all know how that turned out, even with our big two.
        Not that we don’t have issues also, just sayin….

        • Arrieta impresses me, but he doesn’t yet have the sustained success of a Kershaw or a Greinke. Lackey is, well, a lackey.

          The Mets have quality starters at every spot in the rotation, but their lineup is less impressive and they’ve lost a top reliever forever – Mejía may never play ball again. Céspedes is a role player capable of bursts of excellence.

  24. WBBsAs, Come on. You are deliberately provoking package because you know
    you can get a rise out of him. It’s stopped being funny, if it ever
    really was. Yes, he’s gloomy about the team’s prospects and he dislikes the front office. He’s not the first fan to feel that way about his chosen team and he won’t be the last. Give it a rest, please.

    • I check in every once in awhile and that is usually all that I want to do because of WBB v Package. I wonder how many people take a look and go elsewhere?

      • Bumsrap…not that I ever posted as much as everyone else here, but this banter (I am trying to be nice here) is a turnoff, leaving me no interest in reading the threads or posting.
        I am pretty down on what is going on with the team as well, but the personal attacks…well…I’ll check in from time to time to see if things change…I hope they do, this blog used to be fun.

        • They are both as bad as each other, they need to either stop attacking each other or go and set up their own blog, just the two of them, where they can go at each other to their hearts content and leave the rest of us to enjoy this site

    • Agree, though package can tone it down himself as well. It’s fine for him to be gloomy but he has also spent the last two threads with unnecessarily provocative comments.

    • I’m still amazed–but probably shouldn’t be–at the over-reactive and totally illogical mindset of those who seem to accept as gospel the idea that losing Greinke and splashy FA signings and trades by SF and AZ automatically mean the Dodgers can’t do better than third.

      But you surely don’t have to look hard to find it.

      Those folks tend to be headlines-only types.