Hanley Ramirez barely beats tag by Buster Posey in 4-3 win for the Blue Crew.

What a sweep of the Giants this past weekend, huh? This Dodger team is certainly good when it wants to be. Why doesn’t it want to be all the time?

That’s just one of the questions I’ve been pondering during a hiatus from Piewalla’s Dodger Blues. (Been busy, stuff happens.) One of the other questions I have is, when did Matt Kemp turn into a whiny little bitch? Also, what took the City Council of Los Angeles so long to notice there was a problem with Dodger broadcasts? Oh, and this classic, when will Guggenheim Partners really deliver on their promise to enhance the “fan experience,” as $tan Ka$ten (a.k.a. “The Invisible Man”) used to put it before he bowed out of public life? A few bobblehead statues and extra bars around the park isn’t going to cut it.

So, more than half the season is gone, the Dodgers have the two best pitchers in all of baseball at the top of their game, they’re increasing their lead over the faltering Giants (and there really isn’t another rival in the division). What once seemed impossible is seemingly about to happen, as Matt Kemp starts packing his bags for Boston and any fans who are paying attention don’t really care. Yet, no one is excited about it, no one is talking about it, no one really cares, because we can’t see it on TV.

That’s me with the “Honk to End the Blackout” sign. / Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, L.A. Register

“Owners Snooze, Fans Lose!” That was the complaint of about  30 diehard Dodger supporters angry over not being able to watch the games on TV. We walked up Sunset Boulevard from the Short Stop bar to the stadium to protest the standoff that leaves 70% of us in the dark.

It may not seem like a lot of people, but it’s twice as many as showed up for our last rally, and we got all the drivers honking to vent their frustration as they drove up to the Ravine for the miserable game. (The Dodgers fell once again to the Pirates, 5-3.) Even the Dodger Express bus drivers chimed in! It was great.

We made a lot of noise! And got a lot of TV coverage and an L.A. Register story.

This is just the start. $tan Ka$ten and his greedy Guggenheim goons will have to sit up and take notice when the next rally gets twice as many people as this one, and so on.

I know, I know. They don’t give a flying fig if fans can see the games at home. They get their blood money from Time Warner Cable either way. But they might start taking notice as the stands start to look as if Frank McCourt had risen from the dead.

Bobblehead nights are not selling out. Concession stands are only half-open or closed altogether during games. Of course, it doesn’t help that the team sucks, but last year they sucked at this point too, and people still came out for the games.

Lip service won’t do anymore, Mr. Ka$ten. You need to do something, and stop hiding in the shadows, avoiding the press and lying about caring about the fans.