Dem Bums Live

Dodgers have the highest payroll in baseball this year (I think; you can tell me if I'm mistaken), and they are drawing more fans than any other team. But they still play like a bunch of sandlot boys. Or like the way they played in Brooklyn, 58 years ago.

They don't make the plays; they don't make the pitches; they don't get the key hits.

Dodgers played for more than 50 years before they won the World Series in Brooklyn. It's been 28 years since they even appeared in the Series here.

Last night they did a fold-o, giving up a 5-1 lead to the Padres and losing 6-5. Hats off to the Padres; they fought hard and deserved to win. But my Dodgers looked like bums.

What's the reason?

I don't think it's Mattingly, although he isn't the most charismatic manager out there. And I don't think it's Honeycutt, although I don't think he's the best pitching coach...

It's the players. They have to go out there and play if the team is gonna go anywhere this season. And some of them do. Some of them play their hearts out.

But some of them don't. Some of them probably can't, for physical reasons.

Ok.

I'm not gonna get into that.

And I'm just reacting to the season so far, and tonight's game in particular. And for me, they're Bums.

Maybe lovable, maybe not. but for me, for now, Dem Bums.