Four + One Blog

Where the search for a well-rounded existence can stretch its legs.

If you’re new to the blog, here are a few things to get you started. The game behind the name tells the tale of where the name 4+1 originated. Here's a series on my philosophy on work. We've got a running series called What Three Guys Think and you can listen to my appearance on The Quasi-Glamourous Life podcast. Enjoy.

Los Angeles, Here I Come

I have refrained from writing about the Dodgers over the last few weeks. Things were so up in the air, and then I get superstitious. Maybe one of these days I’ll sit down and re-cap this season and the playoffs once they come to an end. It doesn’t help that Yoon started law school and [...]

Dispatch from Dodgertown: A Call For Help, Ah-ooooooh!

In case you are wondering, the last word of the title should be pronounced as so:
Wolf Howl-short
—–> This t-shirt will make more sense later in the blog, but you still won’t want to buy it.
I have a belief that we as spectators can play a part in the outcome of a sporting event. I know [...]

Vin Scully Friday

With the trade deadline minutes away, all Dodger fans are on pins and needles. In order to switch the nervousness to goose bumps here are a couple of great calls from Hall of Famer Vin Scully. We found out that Vin will most likely be calling the Dodger games for one more year before retirement. [...]

Note to NL Pitchers

Dear NL Pitchers,
In 2007 I was watching a Dodgers game with my brother-in-law up in Seattle. It was late in the season and Russell Martin had gone from being a surprising breakout in 2006 to a mainstay offensively and defensively in 2007. It was late in a tight game and there was a runner on [...]

Dear Ned Colletti, Please Don’t Be the Cleveland Cavaliers

Last night was another gritty, hard fought win for the Dodgers. They lost a lead, and then came back to win it in the 10th. Matt Kemp had a great looking opposite field single to win it. Things just keep on rolling for the boys in blue. They’ve only lost four series all season long [...]

Breaking Out of a Slump

By nature, I’m not a very partisan person. I try to see both sides of a story. I enjoy getting all the information and avoid making rash decisions. I don’t like joining up with causes and passionately proclaiming things to other people. But there are some exceptions. I’m a Dodger fan. And I’m decidedly PRO-Andre [...]

Reaction to a stomach punch

They said it would end. The naysayers in Boston said the honeymoon would end. The ‘clubhouse cancer’ would show up, destroy the team and ruin everything. They didn’t say anything about failing a drug test. They didn’t say a 50 game suspension was part of the deal.
I had just gotten into work, I was logging [...]

It’s not *this* economy, it’s the NEW economy… but that doesn’t make it easy

The first part of the headline is a tag line for a self-promotional series of PSA’s I’m developing from an idea that came from Mercedes Rose. ‘It’s not this economy, it’s the new economy. Get creative.’ The tag encompasses the upbeat and optimistic outlook that keeps me going. Make it happen. Move, shake. Meet, greet. [...]

Dodger predictions 2009

You know it’s baseball season when you spend 20 minutes of a Saturday night texting a friend about whether the dodgers should make a hypothetical trade (Matt Kemp for Miguel Cabrera) in two months when (or if, I suppose) the strapped-for-cash Detroit Tigers have their 2009 fire sale.
Happy Opening Day everybody.
Usually I just call my [...]

The game behind the name

We were living in the mountains of California at the time, in a little town north of Los Angeles called Frazier Park. Megan was pregnant with our second daughter, late summer was turning into fall. What a weekend it was shaping up to be. A four game series with the Padres. Late season with the [...]