Saturday, April 20, 2013

Blog Kiosk: 4/20/2013


Mattingly enjoyed last nights rainout in Baltimore, pic via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2013.
  • The best Kings blog around shares some comments from some Kings players who wore Dodger themed hockey jersey's on Thursday, via John Hoven at Mayor's Manor.
Fraser on who was chirping Doughty the most: “Greener, he’s the biggest Dodger fan in here. He’s a Dodger season ticket holder.”
Greene on wearing a Dodgers jersey for the second time: “I might be an answer to a trivia question. The only LA athlete to be a professional in both sports.”
  • Via Aaron Gleeman at Hardball Talk, Ted Lilly will be back next week in the Dodgers starting rotation.
  • Chris Olds at Beckett provides a early peek at 2013 Topps Five Star Baseball cards.  Check out the Sandy Koufax on the right.
  • Bob Lemke passes along some interesting information.  Jackie Robinson earned $2,000.00 from Bowman for the right to use his name in their Baseball card set in 1950. 
  • I know I promised to never report anything McCourt related, but I can't help myself with this story.  Via Bill Shaikin at the LA Times, "Jamie McCourt tries to get judge to throw out her 'huge mistake'."
  • Yesterday I mentioned that MLB 13 has an alternate cover featuring Matt Kemp available through facebook to download.  For those who could care less about facebook (or in case this download disappears from there), I thought I would download it myself and make it available to all of you.  Get your own zipped copy here.
  • Hyun-Jin Ryu is the king of Korea. Via a tweet by @MyKBO, watch the video referenced below here.  And here's another youtube video of the game.
(twitter link)
  • Panini provides an early look at their upcoming 2013 Golden Age Baseball cards.

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