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So now we know where Manny’s money went. To a new beachfront home in Malibu for Jamie McCourt. Wait, not one home.
Two of them, side by side.
For $46 million dollars.
Who can afford Manny or a pitcher like C.C. Sabathia when you’re writing fat 8-figure checks to Coldwell Banker? If you’re a Dodger player, […]

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This column/blog requires a disclaimer up front.
I like Lamar Odom. I really do. He’s been through a lot in his young life, he’s matured a lot the last few years and he’s always been a  standup guy and total pro with everyone in my business.
Now, here’s where the facts get in the way.
Lamar, this good […]

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You know it. I know it. Even Vic the Brick knows it.
The Celtics are better than the Lakers. Not just a couple of games better in the standings, either.
Better.
Oh, it could change with one turn of KG’S ankle. Or maybe the next time Paul Pierce requires a wheelchair, he’ll actually need it.
Maybe the Lakers will […]

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Memo to writers, reporters, critics, pundits, “Lakers Live” and Laker fans the world over:
Please spare us the endless talk and the annoying daily hand-wringing over the Lakers’ lack of defense or their failure to be aggressive. Don’t just read what I’m about to tell you, embrace it. Take it to heart. Accept it as an […]

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You can’t prove what I’m about to say without getting one of the Lakers to spill off the record, but I sense an uneasiness settling over the team that is certainly well masked, if not entirely shrouded, by the hot 16-2 start.
Andrew Bynum is not happy. The emerging 7-1 center wants to be on the […]

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During a lengthening career in sports media, I have seen so many stats, I should be wearing Coke-bottle glasses, like Harry Caray or Robert Q. Lewis.
But in 35 years, I have never seen a stat like this.
This is the greatest, craziest stat I have ever seen, and it’s also another reason why there’s not a […]

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Joe Torre says he won’t second guess himself about how his awful pitching moves and general overmanaging cost the Dodgers a critical Game 4 of the NLCS.
No worries, though, everybody else is doing it for him.
It wasn’t just one move, or two. It was all of them, literally every single one.  To wit:

Move 1, Lowe: […]

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(ED. NOTE:  Earlier today, we posted this column from SHLA columnist and KTLA Senior Sports Producer Ted Green regarding the Dodgers and Manny Ramirez, written before the publication of comments from Dodgers GM Ned Colletti on the subject.  With that in mind, here’s a follow up.)
I see where Ned Colletti told the media that […]

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Remember the scene in “Jerry Maguire” where Cuba Gooding, tells his agent (Jerry, played by that Tom Cruise guy) during a memorable phone exchange that it’s time to get paid?
Manny Ramirez, meet Rod Tidwell.
In other words, Show Him the Money.
What else can the Dodgers show Manny?
Do they dare show him the door?
The guy comes to […]

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I can think of 99 reasons why Manny Ramirez is the right choice for Most Valuable Player in the National League this year.
On the other hand, I can only think of one reason he probably won’t win it:  The usual, tiresome Eastern media bias.
Many of the baseball writers back there feign objectivity but are actually […]

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