THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL OH, CEY, CAN YOU SEE IT?Byline: TOM HOFFARTH By process of elimination The process of elimination is a basic logical tool to solve real world problems. By subsequently removing options that may be deemed impossible, illogical, or can be easily ruled out due to some sort of explicit understanding relative to the entire set of options, the pool of , the Dodgers have stuck Jose Valentin, Norihiro Nakamura Norihiro Nakamura(中村 紀洋, born July 24, 1973) is a Japanese professional baseball third baseman. Career He was born in Osaka, Japan, and spent almost all of his professional career in Japan with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. , Olmedo Saenz, Mike Edwards, Antonio Perez and Oscar Robles Oscar M. Robles (b. April 9, 1976, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico) has spent much of this decade as a third baseman for the Mexico City Red Devils (Diablos Rojos del México), and briefly as an infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers from May 2005 through 2006. at third base this season, once removed from Adrian Beltre cornering the market on the hot corner. By process of elimination, hundreds of poor Latino families were forcibly removed from the Chavez Ravine area of downtown L.A. some 50 years ago, promised a new community, saw that dream disappear and then couldn't believe how the city bestowed the land to Walter O'Malley Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. , who promptly cornered the market with a place called Dodger Stadium • • [ that opened in 1962. Keep those two things in mind when listening to the new Ry Cooder Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer and composer, known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American roots music and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many album, ``Chavez Ravine,'' which includes a melancholy cut called ``3rd Base, Dodger Stadium.'' ``Ravine old-timers locate themselves by a memory plumb line, straight down through the playing field of Dodger Stadium, to the town underneath all that cement,'' Cooder writes in the CD's liner notes. The lyrics, co-written by Cooder, William Garcia and Joe Kevany, tell the story of a stadium parking lot attendant who once lived where third base sits. He can look over at second base and see his grandmother's linens flapping in the breeze. ``Back around the 76 ball, Johnny Greeneyes had his shoeshine stall. In the middle of the first base line Got my first kiss, Florencia was kind. Now if the dozer hadn't taken my yard, You'd see the tree with our initials carved. So many moments in my memory. Sure was fun, 'cause the game was free ... Just a place you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . Up a road you can't go. Just a thought, laid to rest In my mind, just a time. If you care to know Where I'm gonna go when I hit my last home run: Third base, Dodger Stadium ... --As long as you're in the CD store, at least check out the cover of the debut release from Ringside ring·side n. 1. The area or seats immediately outside an arena or ring, as at a prizefight. 2. A place providing a close view of a spectacle. (Flawless/Geffen Records). L.A.-based members Scott Thomas and Balt Getty pay homage to the Super Bowl locker room scene from ``Heaven Can Wait,'' where Dick Enberg interviews Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), who still has that distant look in his eyes ... --If you had to go kicking and screaming to see Will Ferrell in (pick any of the dozens of movies he's been in the past two years), brace yourself for him as a NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. driver named Ricky Bobby in a film he's working on called ``Talladega Nights,'' scheduled for release next year. ... --Opening bid on eBay.com item No. 5402450043 is just $1 million for one of the three existing 10-foot bronze sculptures of Sly Stallone in his famous arms-raised boxing pose. The piece that Stallone commissioned in 1983 and was used in the third and fourth ``Rocky,'' movies once sat at the top step of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently occupied; the Pennsylvania Museum and School and now is at the Spectrum. It's being auctioned as a fund-raiser for the non-profit International Institute for Sport and Olympic History in Pennsylvania. No bidders so far. ... --Within seconds of San Antonio knocking off Detroit in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, Internet betting site PinnacleSports.com went out on a limb by installing the Spurs (5-to-2), Heat (11-to-2) and Pistons (7-to-1) as the favorites for the 2006 title. The Lakers are 35-to-1, and the Clippers are 45-to-1. ... --To what degree is Shaq trying to rub it into Kobe's sheepskin that he continues to educate himself in the academic field and providing photo ops of him marching with cap in gown in graduation ceremonies while the other seems to be content with a high-school diploma? ... |
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