First Post: Friday, July 1, 2022

Master of the popup slide…

Not yet opened. He’ll be a free agent at the end of this season, and it seems he wants to join his long-lost buddie Bryce Harper in Philly starting next April. Maybe! In the meantime, he’s been immortalized with his very own bobblehead for your La-La Land Los Doyers…DOYERS!

Funny what you will see at a baseball stadium before the game if you are paying attention. More on that later.

First off, if you don’t leave for the game at least a couple of hours before first pitch here at Dodger Stadium, you’re gonna be waiting in traffic and at the entrance and will miss the top of the first, especially when the hated San Diego Padres are the opponent and it’s Trea Turner Bobblehead Night and 53,000-plus of your fellow Angelenos (and probably a few San Diegans) are jamming the stands. 

Inside the stadium, you will see the grounds crew applying the Diamond Dry to the infield dirt, and then watering it down, four grown men keeping a 75-foot-long garden hose aloft while another man does the actually spraying. You will see the lines for the batter’s boxes and baselines done-up in limestone. And you will see some guy applying a stencil that reads DUNKIN’ to the mound, and then shake-up a can of wedding-dress white Krylon and finish the stenciling. After that, he’ll hand-roll the famous interlocking L.A. logo next to the DUNKIN’.

Maybe the craziest ad involved Morton Salt. Morton Salt has an advertising board on the wall in the left-centerfield power alley. And during the game, along the digitized ribbon message board, the salt is pictured along with some kind of slogan like ‘Choose a better salt. Make a better dish.’

Fantastic! Except if you order the garlic fries or some other bland fried food from the concession stands along the concourse, guess what? Yup, you guessed it! No Morton Salt anywhere on the grounds! NONE!

Dodger Stadium, if you’re pushing Morton Salt on us now, why not give us a free taste during the game? MAKE MORTON SALT AVAILABLE AT THE CONCESSIONAIRES! Thank you. 

Strongshots: 

Emerald 1
#2 Proudtobesicilian (.379 Win Prob / 1.64-1 Fair Odds / 2.17-1 Premium Odds)

Emerald 6
#5 Enchanting Way (.327 / 2.06 / 2.67)

Longshots: 

Emerald 3
#4 Cody’s Choice (.290 / 2.45 / 3.83)
#2 Crooked Finger Ray (.267 / 2.75 / 4.24)

Emerald 5
#5 Major Munnings (.251 / 2.98 / 3.78)
#6 Northwest Rain (.224 / 3.46 / 5.25)
#1 Goldie’s Hill (.202 / 3.95 / 5.93)
#3 Makah Lane (.192 / 4.21 / 6.29)

Best wishes.