Michael Elizondo

Allow me to reintroduce myself again: I'm a lawyer and columnist for @truebluela.bsky.social. My main claims to fame are in-depth longform essays while traveling around to world to field report Dodgers games, embracing the Gumpian life. I've been to all 30 MLB stadiums and the Tokyo Dome.

Aged like milk, it did.

Evergreen.

Game 3 success. Now to see if the dam holds for Game 4. (It won't, but it's funny either way.)

4300 words. How? Why? Arrrrgh. Eric, probably: You wanted extra money. Past-me, screwing me out of sleep because I wanted money.

I finally watched that fifth inning. ...what is it with the the top of the fifth inning?!? Also, yikes.

The 2024 Dodgers say hello. It took a fifth inning flop of the ages to prevent being the team that allowed Game 6.

Feels like Baker giving the ball to the reliever in '02. Just keep Milwaukee from scoring the rest of the way. Easy peasy. /s

And the shutout is gone.

/about to finally leave work /looks at the score and sees it's only the seventh:

Garrett Cleavinger was the first ballplayer to block me on Twitter. 😅

The second hand association with Polymarket caused this

The @Brewers are the first team in MLB history to have 7 consecutive batters get a hit in a postseason game. 🐦 https://x.com/OptaSTATS/status/2114899335108309165

Milwaukee not scoring a run for the rest of the series starting at 9:49 EDT on 10/26/26 would be very funny. ...and go.

Oh we're going full Germany v. Brazil. Good God Almighty, they've killed em. As god as I may witness, they've are broken in half!

Without taking anything away from the MIL pitching, which has been fantastic, three of the top six hitters in the TB lineup tonight are Ryan Vilade, Ben Williamson, and Johnny DeLuca.

Here's a fun little aside: Josue De Paula's second career MLB hit sold at auction for $2,350. That's neat.

Feels oddly appropriate.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

RIP. Eric Bauza brought us such joy by breathing new life into classic Looney Toons characters. Loved his Porky Pig and Daffy Duck in The Day the Earth Blew Up as well as his work on Coyote vs. Acme. A crushing loss.

jeez from the top rope-

I've been saying all year the World Series would end in 5. I was hoping it'd be Seattle. Instead the scene shifts back to St. Petersburg. Somehow this is all Blake Snell's fault. I don't know how, but that's the theory I'm going with. /s

Christ, that last pitch was in Kenosha.

With how the Rays are playing, it's like the Dodgers are still here. 🙈😂 But the off-Broadway, non-union equivalent. These are some ugly clutch at-bats. 😬

Like my old man, I'm a sucker for an auction and I'm prone to playing spoiler for items. Sometimes I wish the labeling was better. When Chris Taylor's authenticated nameplate from Games 1-2 of the 24 WS, the box was huge. I was so confused until I opened it. I need to find a 12x48 frame. 🙈

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Posting the Six Million Dollar Man theme to Will Klein's successful surgery update:

Okay. Marginally better. Not quite sure it took two bites at the apple for a reasonable "Thank you fans" graphic. I have fewer questions. The second bit of text can just be the caption, I'm not quite sure why it needed to be in the graphic.

Speaking of which, as an aside, do you know how badly you have to screw up to appear on my radar when I'm doing my best to enjoy an unprompted holiday? The Milwaukee Brewers decided to go full Michael Scott this past week, ignoring one of the cardinal rules of life: don't go full Michael Scott.

@stephenking.bsky.social not knowing the Majima Method: Confirmed. 🫡 (Red. Then blue. Then red. Also, be mad as a hatter (optional, probably))

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Wish they'd fill the time between the LCS and the World Series with more baseball. The Dodgers could be 0-7 since the NLDS by now.

They should be driven out of the party and/or eaten at the earliest opportunity. If you wonder where Republican-Lite aka Sorkinism-level Cowardice masquerading as Incrementalism took root, look here.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

Look, folks, I don't want to kink shame but if you're out here saying that Pepsi is the best cola you're just asking for it.

“.. According to Trump, Pichai responded: ‘No, no, no — this time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir. They cover really a lot of countries. Please don’t ask us to do that.’” @variety.com $GOOGL variety.com/2026/digital...

"I love being a lawyer!"

He's a cheap bastard who botched a ticket promotion to set the goodwill on fire from the first WS appearance in over 40 years. Rays in 4. Make it happen! (It won't. But more Bob Uecker fan fiction is not ideal.)