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The Dodgers never had a Bambino, other than the one year Babe Ruth spent as Brooklyn's first-base coach back in 1938. They had Billy Cox, Billy Herman and Billy Grabarkewitz, but no one seems to recall them ever having a billy goat. So if a curse such as the Boston Red Sox's Curse of the Bambino or the Chicago Cubs' Billy Goat Curse isn't responsible for the Dodgers having gone almost two ... [link]

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Baseball Today: Tuesday, April 29
Published 4/29/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... -- Even somebody else's off-day stories have a Red Sox tinge. In Los Angeles, Derek Lowe compares playing on the West Coast with playing in the East and concludes: "Some people who have played this game for a long time say there is a certain mentality out here, that it's more about entertainment than winning . . . I'm not saying that's true, but a lot of people say that about Southern California." (dailybreeze.com) ...

L.A. Daily News: No curses for Dodgers’ Lowe
Published 4/29/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
L.A. Daily News: No curses for Dodgers’ Lowe Not while Derek Lowe is cooler than Ötzi the Iceman… “Having played on both coasts, I can see how people might get lulled into something when they play on the West Coast,” the Dodgers right-hander said. “It’s a laid-back atmosphere, and we draw great fans. It’s always sunny and 75 degrees. You can very easily get lulled into an attitude of, ‘Whatever happens, happens.’ I can definitely see how that could happen. “I’m not saying that’s the reason they haven’t had success for 20 years. They have had all kinds of different teams, and I ...

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Published 4/29/2008 by Andrew at True Blue LA: Front Page Posts
... Derek Lowe  thinks that we’re a bunch of chill dudes who don’t care about winning out here on the West Coast. This is not something that I heard from a bartender. ...

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