Blog Kiosk: 3/10/2011

• The Dodgertown Classic presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California takes place this Sunday, March 13. The University of Georgia and Saint Mary’s College baseball teams will play at Dodger Stadium at 10:00 a.m., followed by USC and UCLA at 2:30 p.m. Dodger Stadium gates open at 9 a.m. and parking is free. Tickets are $7 purchased in advance and $12 day of game. Each ticket will permit access to both of the day’s games. Concessions will be offered at a half-price discount.

• ESPN previews the 2011 Los Angeles Dodgers fantasy baseball season, here.
  
• Business Insider says the Dodgers (along with the Mets) will be forced to sell. I know. Old news, right? I think we all get the feeling the McCourt's are not long for LA. Below is an excerpt:

  We are also hearing that the McCourts will "have to sell." However, their situation may be more attractive to potential buyers, with an operating profit and a new deal pending with Fox for the rights to broadcast games. The problem is that as long as the McCourt divorce is tied up in, well, the courts, it's not clear who can sell them.

• Check out DodgerFilms Spring Training posts here, here and here.
  
• I don't know if any of you are interested in this at all, but here is a link to Baseball America's Bat Guide 2.0- for the non-wood kind.
  
• An El Paso, Texas collector has won the signed Babe Ruth Baseball in a pack of 2008 TriStar Futures. It was a Christmas gift from his wife. From Beckett.com
  

  Chavez also plans on letting his wife pick all the boxes from now on.

  He also received an Alfonso Soriano printing plate and a Jason Heyward autographed minor league jersey in his Christmas stash.

  “Guess my wife really knows how to pick them,” he said.

• Yes, I agree. Zero Hedge is right about this, and Naked Capitalism is very wrong. The financial mess that brought us the credit bubble was not caused by those who saw the forest from the trees and invested accordingly.

  They claim "the shorts" drove the demand for creating all of the "toxic" CDO's that almost brought down the Financial System down because after all, the Investment Banks couldn't sell a CDO to lazy/ignorant institutional investors and CDO managers if there was no one to take the short side of each trade.

• This is great. Way to represent guys!

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