Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Orange County Register senior editorial writer Steven Greenhut; former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell and the Weekly's irrepressible Gustavo Arellano--into the topic of local bloggers. The three
UPDATED WITH FIGGY NOW IN AND HUNTER CLARIFICATION (THANKS, HALOMANIA!) . . . Neither Chone Figgins nor Jered Weaver were was not added to the American League roster of tonight's All-Star game. (But, as the Los Angeles Times just blogged, Chone Figgins was just added due to an injury to Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria.) Only closer Brian Fuentes, one of two Angels named to the team, will be in St. Louis. The other, outfielder Torii Hunter, will be at home in Dallas, nursing his right groin/adductor mu
Roger Lodge, who hosts The Sports Lodge on AM830 that is broadcast live from Angel Stadium, went off on Joe Maddon,
the Tampa Bay Rays manager who also skippered the winning American
League team in Tuesday night's All-Star Game from St. Louis.
During a portion of his show that is simulcast on Channel 5's KTLA Morning News,
Lodge took the flat-topped, snow haired manager to task for failing to
get Los Angeles of Anaheim's Chone Figgins into the game, despite Figgy
having moved mountains to make
