Bring The Dodgers Home!

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It was announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy in Delaware court today. Clearly this is a massive fall from grace for one of the signature franchises in Major League Baseball. And I won’t go into the gory details of their owner Frank McCourt. All I will say is that I am thankful the Red Sox and MLB rejected his bid to buy the team 10 years ago.

Now, if MLB had the guts, wouldn’t it be epic to relocate the Dodgers back to Coogan’s Bluff and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn? Imagine a modernized version of Ebbets Field with the Dodgers playing there. Brooklyn is hot these days – the Nets are moving there. Families are staying there. There has to be a rich former Brooklyn-ite out there who would pick up the Dodgers and their mess and think about doing this. I realize that the old “aura” of the 1950′s Brooklyn Dodgers will never be replicated. It was a different era in our society and in baseball back then, but I know a lot of former Brooklynites who speak with such reverence about the old Dodgers and Ebbets Field that I think it having the Dodgers playing in Brooklyn today could come close. What of the Mets, you say? Well, they are not doing too much better than the Dodgers thanks to Fred Wilpon and Bernie Madoff.

This will never happen, but wow, how amazing would that dream be?

J-E-T-S Winnipeg Jets

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Proposed logo for the new Winnipeg Jets

The NHL got it right by moving the Atlanta team to hockey’s rightful home in Canada. Winnipeg to be specific.  And the Winnipeg franchise got it right by naming the team the Jets, honoring Winnipeg’s hockey history and their original team’s name before they were unceremoniously moved to Phoenix and renamed the Coyotes.

As a sports purist, I think there need to be hockey teams in key Canadian cities and I see Winnipeg as one of those venues. Beyond those important cities, Canada also has some of the most unique and colorful names of cities and towns anywhere on Earth. Imagine the possibilities for team names if the NHL moved some of its other Sun Belt teams to places like Medicine Hat (Alberta), Lucifer Mountain (Alberta), Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan), or Ebenezer (Saskatchewan).

Logo image via Creative Guise

Grover Cleveland’s Barn

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Barn on grounds of Grover Cleveland’s birthplace

We were up in Caldwell, NJ this past weekend and stopped by Grover Cleveland’s birthplace. Took a few photos of the grounds including this barn in the backyard. In a related story, his ancestors are still bitter about having a rest stop on the NJ Turnpike named after him.

Tweets of The Week

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  • I'm at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop (174 5th Ave, btw 22nd & 23rd, New York) http://4sq.com/kKPTMZ #
  • RT @realpatriots: Welcome to Title Town, Lord Stanley @NHLBruins bring 7th championship trophy in Boston in 10 yrs #titletown #bostonrules #
  • Whoooooooooooooooot!!!!! Lets Go Bruins!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS #
  • 20stressful minutes to go! #bruins #lordstanleyscup #
  • Mike Emrick is an amazing hockey announcer #lordstanleyscup #
  • Here we go Bruins, here we go!!! #lordstanleyscup #
  • Wrigley Field is such a great experience, it doesn't matter if the Chicago Cubs win – Grantland http://j.mp/kAo6zQ (via Instapaper) #
  • Among the Hugs: A Visit to Wembley – Grantland http://j.mp/lX0PDF (via Instapaper) #
  • Why can't the @nhlbruins score any of these goals in Vancouver? #lordstanleyscup #
  • I really can't handle an overtime game. Couldn't we have saved some of those 12 goals over the past two games? #bruins #lordstanleyscup #
  • Boston's pinstriped broom collection is really growing. #redsox #

Bruins Win Stanley Cup!

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OK, I admit it. I am the epitome of a ‘front runner’/bandwagon/show up late to the party Bruins fan. I don’t think I watched a Bruins game all year until the playoffs. I’m the first to admit that I lost interest in the team and the sport of hockey.

Growing up in New England, I actually watched the Bruins as much as the Red Sox – Bruins teams that included Rick Middleton, Wayne Cashman, Ray Bourque, Terry O’Reilly, Peter McNab, Stan Jonathan, and on and on. So seeing them compete for the Cup and actually win it for the first time in almost 40 years just brought back a flood of childhood memories. Beyond that, watching this Stanley Cup Final series was just an amazing spectacle of hockey by both teams. Hockey gets a bad rap for being the “4th sport” in the US, but the athleticism and speed at which hockey players can do things on the ice is just amazing.

So now, as I look back at the past 10 years from a personal sports fan perspective, every single one of my teams that I regularly follow – Syracuse basketball (2003), the Red Sox (2004, 2007), the Patriots (2001, 2003, 2004), the Celtics (2008), and a certain hockey team that I irregularly follow – have won championships. Good times, good times!

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