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Hanley Ramirez BobbleheadI see you, Hanley Ramirez, trying to be all exciting like your predecessor from another mother, Manny.

You come back from the D.L. for your first start of the season, and you’re hitting the ball out of the park, and slamming base hits all over the place. All on your bobblehead night!

It’s been done before, but it sure is fun that you did it again! Especially after that embarrassing first game, when the Dodgers were the Rockies’ bitch.

We could hear the organ music from the stadium wafting into our living room while we were watching the game. It was almost like being there, but we were drinking good wine and eating a home-cooked pasta dinner.

I have to admit I miss the Dodger Dogs, and it was always fun to hear my Top Deck mates tease Steve for the rabbit food he brought with him.

Maybe we’ll come back next year, if the money-grubbing owners let us have our Top Deck mini-plan. We’ll see.

Dodgers pitcher Ted Lilly gave up two home runs in the first inning.

Dodgers pitcher Ted Lilly gave up two home runs in the first inning.

Needless to say, I wasn’t wearing my earrings last night. Holy cow! Ted Lilly got spanked right off the bat!

I blame the fans. Where the hell were they? There couldn’t have been more than 10,000 people in that stadium.

Oh, well. Shake it off. We’ll get them tonight, right?

Dodger left fielder Carl Crawford

Dodger left fielder Carl Crawford

That was a spare, efficient game yesterday. A pitchers’ duel won by the Dodgers because Carl Crawford managed to hit up Kyle Lohse for two home runs.

Clayton Kershaw won the battle, though. Eight innings, four hits, 12 strikeouts. When he’s on, he’s on!

Before the game, when Jim Watson was interviewing Matt Magill about his first big-league start the night before, Watson asked Magill about when he was a kid and he came to the stadium to watch a game in the Top Deck, “where the real fans are.” Magill said he glanced up there a few times, looking for kids like he had been once. It made me miss the Top Deck even more. Curse you, Gaggenheim Partners!