RIP Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness

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  1. blueplatespecial

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    blueplatespecial, Jan 17, 2014
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    I like his blast from the past paragraph:

    Back in the summer of 2007 when I first started this thing up, we were talking about Grady Little, Juan Pierre and David Wells and Mark Hendrickson and Olmedo Saenz and whether Wilson Betemit should be starting at third base over Nomar Garciaparra and wondering why Luis Gonzalez was getting playing time over Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier. Zack Greinke was working mainly out of the Kansas City bullpen. Clayton Kershaw wasn’t making $200 million; he was a 19-year-old walking nearly five per nine at Great Lakes and Jacksonville. You know, Jacksonville, which isn’t even a Dodger affiliate any longer, just like Vero Beach and Las Vegas.
     
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  3. irish

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    totally thread worthy
    we should invite him to dsp :duck:

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    Six years — a little longer than six, really — is a long time to do anything. It’s a long time to write about the Dodgers almost entirely by yourself. Hell, it’s a long time to be a Dodger. Back in the summer of 2007 when I first started this thing up, we were talking about Grady Little, Juan Pierre and David Wells and Mark Hendrickson and Olmedo Saenz and whether Wilson Betemit should be starting at third base over Nomar Garciaparra and wondering why Luis Gonzalez was getting playing time over Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier. Zack Greinke was working mainly out of the Kansas City bullpen. Clayton Kershaw wasn’t making $200 million; he was a 19-year-old walking nearly five per nine at Great Lakes and Jacksonville. You know, Jacksonville, which isn’t even a Dodger affiliate any longer, just like Vero Beach and Las Vegas.​

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    At the time, I was pretty close to being the blogger stereotype: partially employed, fully single, and making a pit stop at my parents’ house. Now, I’m over 30, married, and probably over-employed. Along the way I’ve had a lot of fun, met some great people — I can’t say enough about the commenters on this site — and managed to take a stab at a career working fully in sports. All of which is to say, I can’t really keep up with being a one-man band at a daily baseball site any longer. I’ve loved doing it, but it’s exhausting, and it just no longer works. (I’ve also developed quite the reputation for, you know, being asleep or on vacation when awesome things happen.)​

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    That’s a long way of saying that this is both post number 2,771 and the final post you’re going to see on Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness, and that’s both a happy thing and a sad thing.​

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    So long!​

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    But don’t worry: you’re not getting rid of me that easily.​

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    You see, I love writing about the Dodgers. Wherever that takes me, I don’t intend to stop. And while I can’t do it myself any longer, I do like working with great people, and that means something exciting is going to happen.​

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    So on Monday morning, don’t click over to MSTI.co like you otherwise might have. Instead, browse over to DodgersDigest.com, which will be my new home along with three of my favorite people: Chad Moriyama, Dustin Nosler, and Daniel Brim. That’s right, it’s a team effort, but this team spans about 6,000 miles, includes great prospect work from Dustin & Chad, awesome math things I don’t understand from Daniel, and whatever it is I add, which I believe is just funny GIFs and posts that end in “…and that’s okay.”​

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    It’ll look a lot like this site — not entirely, dig Eephus Blue’s cool logo — but it’ll be better: more content, more timely, and more awesome.​

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    Until then,​
    Smell ya later.​

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    Wow.
    I really like his takes and read him when I have time. Good news is that Dustin Nosler is an old friend from ESPN and that other place and I've posted with him for several years. He writes pretty good stuff too. So I'll be checking it out Monday, or when I have time.

    Good news/bad news at the same time.
     
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    well said :burp:
     
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    I like Mike's style of blogging but I can see why others don't like his type of persona. At least all these other Dodger bloggers are coming together for (hopefully) something better.
     
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    I follow them all and they are all very knowledgeable about baseball and the Dodgers. RIP---Guess, I am changing two of my favorite tabs.
     
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    This sucks. I enjoyed going to that site.
     
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    Dustin has a podcast with Jared Massey that its not great but not terrible either.
     
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  10. CapnTreee

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    wow.

    I do find myself oddly disappointed.

    oh well... erase bookmark
     
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  11. carolinabluedodger

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    Both were former ESPN posters and current posters at my former 'home'.
     
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    I didn't know they were posters? What were their handles? I'm a bit sad the site Dawdguh and I started didn't pan out. We both got so overwhelmed with work at the same time and what was worse was that we were starting to get tons of daily readers. We had also just been offered credentials to go to all the home games, but by that time, we were both burned out.
     
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  13. irish

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    send em invites
    would love to have em here
     
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    Dustin was DodgerFan29 (or maybe it was Dfan29) and Jared was Rocker, later Thinkblue.
     
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    I'm afraid they would sneer. I'm persona non grata there, I quit posting a few months ago because of the idiocy there that tends to take the form of ganging up on a poster and ridiculing everything they do or say. There are a lot of Cards and Braves posters, not so many Dodgers. I still read it, but that's it.
     
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    that says it all
     
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    Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good people there, I just got tired of the idiots.
     
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    Bummer. This was one of my daily haunts. Been visiting that site for years. Only posted a few time tho. Those guys go off on tangents and inside jokes to where it isn't even about dodger baseball anymore. Mike turned out good reads tho. Gonna miss his sarcasm. Ill check out the new site tho. At the end of the day just one less site to take me away from actually doing my job... so my boss will be happy..haha
     
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    Where's that?
     
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    Honestly stumbled over it a few times, not a big fan.

    Was disappointed when dodger blues went to shit, is that site still going?
     
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