DAY 1 I recently completed what I’m going to call the California Baseball Pilgrimage. The idea was to go to a Major League Baseball game at the home stadium of every single California team on consecutive days. That’s five ball games in five consecutive days. My first stop was Petco Park to see the Padres …
I recently attended a baseball game at Dodger Stadium where I thoroughly enjoyed the Dodgers come from behind victory over the Chicago Cubs in extras. Around the 7th inning, with the Dodgers trailing 2 – 1, the crowd began to roar. With the roar I began to notice movement. It started at the left field …
“Ch-ch-changes There’s gonna have to be a different man Time may change me But I can’t trace time” With age comes a certain amount of wisdom and I think I know what Bowie was talking about. His interpretation may be a bit extreme because David Bowie was a rock chameleon, constantly reinventing himself. The song …
Bakersfield is chock full of fine dining experiences. We are especially known for our Basque cuisine, probably because we have one of the largest Basque communities in the country. You can likely attribute this to the fact that the climate is very similar to the climate of the Basque region of Spain and France. If …
When last we saw David, he had decided to sell The Money Pit, which he originally bought as a flip but then turned it into a rental. This due to his poor decision making on the rehab and his bad luck or inability to properly screen tenants as a property manager. With, really, nowhere else …
NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST LOS ANGELES DODGERS (106 – 56 in 2021) The Dodgers are consensus favorites to win the World Series this year, picked by just about every preseason pole to do just that. It seems like every season they put out the strongest lineup in the major leagues, at least on paper. Last …
NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL MILWAUKEE BREWERS (95 – 67 in 2021) For the Milwaukee Brewers it’s going to come down to pitching. But then, it comes down to pitching for most teams. Reigning Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burns is once again joined by Brandon Woodruff and Freddy Peralta, arguably the best 1-2-3 combination in …
NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST NEW YORK METS (77 – 85 in 2021) The New York Mets had a very disappointing campaign in 2021. Give credit to the new ownership, though. Steve Cohen didn’t wait around hoping to see improvement year over year. Instead, he pretty much put a brand-new team on the field with new …
AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST TORONTO BLUE JAYS (91 – 71 in 2021) Under the new playoff format, in which MLB has added a third wild card team in each league, the Blue Jays 91 wins last season would have gotten them into the playoffs. But last year there were only two wild card teams, the …
CHICAGO WHITE SOX (93 – 69 in 2021) Last season the White Sox brought in Tony La Russa to manage the team. He promptly guided them to 93 victories in spite of an unprecedented number of injuries. Of course, that was the whole point of bringing La Russa back to Chicago. The man started …