Lasorda can’t guide Dodgers over Nats – The Free Lance-Star
Curtain Descends on Dodgertown – The Post
To Acta, it’s good to visit Vero Beach – The Wash. Times
Mike O’Connor started off walking two batters, who both wound up scoring, but settled down and did not allow a hit for five innings.
The Dodgers were being managed by Tommy Lasorda, who weighs about 300 lbs now, because Joe Torre has half the team headed to China for some exhibition games. It is also the last spring of Dodgertown, the venerable spring training facility that they built 60 years ago. It will probably be desecrated by becoming the spring training home of the Orioles next. The Dodgers are moving their facility to Glendale, Ariz., only four hours from Los Angeles. Lasorda will be moving to down I-95 to Pompano Beach, where there are appropriate facilities for him.
MARC FISHER – Feds Working Overtime to Kill Stadium Parking Possibility – The Post
The U.S. Department of Transportation seems determined to prevent any use of the 1,060 car garage at its headquarters next to the ballpark. An angry Fisher details all the steps DOT has taken to prevent even federal employees with security clearances from using the garage for game parking. By the way, many other federal agencies don’t seem to have a problem with this sort of thing.
Deep bullpen leaves shallow list of spots – The Wash. Times
The bullpen looks to be the club’s strength again.
THOMAS BOSWELL – For Nats and Fans, There’s a Price – The Post
Bos looks at ticket prices.
DICK HELLER – A booming bassline assassinates ambience – The Wash. Times
Heller is concerned that the Nats will botch the music at the games. Me too, but if they do, it won’t because I didn’t fill out the You Make the Call form that goes live at 9 a.m.
PRESS RELEASE – Nats launch “You Make the Call” promotion – nationals.com
Acta Impressed By Kearns’s Power Surge – The Post
RF Austin Kearns hitting has picked up in the last week. He’s 4 for his last 10 and hit his first homer of the spring yesterday. He says his numbers will be better this year.