For most Southern California residents, five straight division-championship Dodgers seasons have been played in the dark. From columnist LATstevelopez:
Outside Dodger Stadium in 2014, Bill Peterson and other fans protest their inability to watch Dodgers games on TV.
Goldfarb, 77, is the daughter of a man who composed music for Disney animation. A devoted Beatles fan, she still makes house calls as a physical therapist, and often watches baseball with one eye as she sits at the table and updates her patient files, with Coco at her feet. “Oh, shoot,” Goldfarb said when the Cubs homered. It was not going to be the Angels’ day, but there’s always tomorrow, and there’s no Angels blackout.
Two exhilarating seasons that led to World Series spots were almost entirely unavailable to millions of the team’s biggest fans. Goldfarb was one of several fans I talked to this week. Peter Bond, a Catholic deacon who lives in Yucaipa, brought up a beef I totally identify with.
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