Onward Christian Dodgers

Ghosts of Dodgers Past Tommy Lasorda gave what the Los Angeles Times called "an impassioned motivational speech" at Spring Training yesterday, particular gathering attention for trailing a chain hooked with the over-worked arms of Ramon Martinez and others behind him. Looking as serious as an 80-year-old man in a baseball uniform can look, "Lasorda also put in a plug for the easygoing" current manager of the Dodgers, Grady Little, telling the players, "If you don't like this guy, you don't like Easter and Christmas."

He then paused, scanned the room, and said, "That Shawn Green isn't still with the club, is he?"