My original image of me as an old man always envisioned me sitting in a chair listening to the baseball broadcast while fishing on some lake, river or ocean. That is not happening in the reality. But the reality is not bad, all things considered. I got to admit that Streaming has changed so much that moving overseas to Thailand, I can still get most of my entertainment that I like, and baseball is one that was very easy, a bit expensive, but well worth the price.
Yeah, I am a Dodger fan. Been one since Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Maury Wills Days. So I have really enjoyed this last decade of dodger Baseball. Baseball writers seem to forget that the current occupants of the higher offices in the organization all came from the Tampa Bay Rays system. All the Dodgers are doing is adding money to system. Tampa Bay has to trade all their stars because of financial restraints. Dodgers are an example of a what a good system can do if you also add money.
Watching Baseball in Thailand means most night games are in the morning next day for me, 6 am for East Coast teams, 9 am for West Coast teams, but day games on the weekend means all nighters for me. Thanks goodness the 7/11 attached to my condo here is 24 hours.
Finally, the Dodgers sat out the last two years of Free Agency, waiting for Ohtani to be available. 2024 started out with the Dodger having a roster full of expiring contracts. But I view the signing of Ohtani more of a marketing decision than a baseball one, expanding the brand overseas. Here in Bangkok the Yankees are the #1 seller of caps with LA a distant second. Be interesting if by 2025 that changes,
Lastly to make everyone not a Dodger fan happy, 2035 will be the final year of the Mets paying Bobby Bonilla 1 million dollars and it will be the first year of the Dodgers paying Ohtani 30 something million dollars until 2055. Hope I am around to have you all tell me "what a terrible deal, I told you So."
