Dodgers improve to 11-0 at home, beat Arizona 7-2

The Dodgers, of course haven't played anybody good yet.

They haven't played anyone out of the NL West yet, with the exception of a terrible Houston club, and they lost two of three to the Astros.

It's kind of cruel that the Dodgers are setting their fans up for yet another disappointing year, despite spending so much money on that idiot Manny Ramirez.

By the way, only 30,530 at the game tonight. It's clear the fans aren't interested in getting played again this season. Of course, many might have been staying at home watching the Lakers get humiliated.

I hope they stay undefeated until this weekend when the Giants come in.....wouldn't it be sweet for them to be the team that breaks LA's precious streak?

I used to live in that great overpopulated pit called Los Angeles (actually in Burbank, at the time it was a current national joke), so I know of what I speak.

You see, LA baseball fans really aren't baseball fans. They don't even know anything about baseball. The thing is that the "wonderful" weather in LA is vastly overrated. The idea that LA weather is nice was a great coup for some PR firm hired by the LA Chamber of Commerce after World War II. Actually, there's nothing worse than a hot, sticky, smoggy Summer day in Los Angeles. However, when the sun goes down and the breeze blows in off the ocean after one of those horrid days, there are a few nice places in LA. One of the very nicest is Chavez Ravine. People will actually pay the price of admission and watch a bunch of bums transplanted from Brooklyn run around in their pajamas with strange glove on one hand, even though they have no idea what they're doing, just to sit and enjoy the pleasant evening breeze after one of those miserable LA Summer afternoons. And a nice man even come around selling beer and hot dogs. That is a nice experience.

This also explains why the "fans" at Dodger Stadium go home early. They leave during the seventh inning stretch. Remember, most people there really know nothing about baseball. So they see all these people get out of their seats and figure it's time to go home. So they do.

I hope that explains the typical LA baseball fan to you.

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First LA weather is all dependent where one lives. If you live by the coast, it's blissful, always; however, most cannot afford to lives in such places, so a majority of the population lives in the many valleys around LA, which it's always hot and dry, or in the winter, cool, breezy and dry; i.e. LA apart from the coast, is a desert. There's the LA basin where is can get muggy and smoggy, but again that's only a section of LA and most do not live in areas where it is smoggy and muggy. San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys get the smog on the horizon, but it's not muggy like a downtown LA morning can be. It's not bad now, like Bakersfield :puke:.

Second LA is a basketball town, even if Socal is baseball mecca. Most of what you just wrote describes the Laker 'fans' who shell out hundreds to go be seen. Dodger stadium gets fans no matter what, even in day games where people have to sit in the sun and bake in direct sunlight in 90 degree weather. The ones that leave early, hate traffic. I've been to baseball games in LA, Anaheim and San Diego; Dodger fans are the least harebrained bunch. Dodger fans, much like Kings fans are primarily families, where the parents take their kids to go see a game.

The Dodgers are one of the most storied franchises in baseball, and never have I gone to a game where I have not been in the midst of people comparing current Dodgers to the greats of the eighties.

during every game, there's always the same camera shot of all of the tail lights in the parking lot around the 7th inning.

The thing that's changed the most at Dodger Stadium is the transformation of the traditional atmosphere of organ music and baseball families, to the pop music and a lot (and I mean a lot) of young thugs from East LA.

There are dozens of fight videos on youtube, including this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqaEJwiRSU&feature=related

:P