The other day I posted a story about getting free pocket schedules from teams, especially the Dodgers (for your free schedules, please click here). 

If you know me, you would know that the Dodgers are unloved by me and the rest of my family - - -  hell, I'm a  Northern California Boy - and just can't love those Southerners for a variety of reasons, including the fact that my  parents are from Brooklyn, and my father was a Giants fan until they day he died (so he brain washed me). 

Other reasons include the  fact that I am an A's fan, and I can't get that lousy  Kirk Gibson home run against future Hall of Famer to be Dennis Eckersly (the Eck man) out of my mind.  Now I understand that the home run is part of the game's history, but if you are unlucky enough to have to call the Dodger organization once or twice a year for business, you would know that they add insult to injury because they play the &^%$#@ recording of the call/play when they put you on hold!!!   

With those basic reasons in mind, once I found out that they give away free pocket schedules, I developed a mission and hope that you'll join me on my crusade - for my reasons or your own  - and that's to  spend as much Dodger green  as possible this year, and do it like me, little by little -  by nickels and dimes ... asking for free pocket schedules!

In my mind, that will get them for all those brawls, insults and years of agony that I had to sit through at places like Candlestick Park.

And now that they were purchased by Magic Johnson and the gang, I would expect that they'll be spending and spending and spending to increase the Dodger brand and image, especially if they are to recapture the $2 billion they spent for the team. So, once I am done with this post, I'm going to get my share by signing up for another set or two. Hell, I might just do it once a week for the rest  of the season!!

Anyway, the purpose of this posting is two fold: after I posted the last story, I said, hey, let's see if we can get another set or two - and decided to sign up again - and guess what?

Yep - another set of schedules came today, and here is the envelope and schedules to  prove it!

When I got home for lunch today, I went straight to the mailbox, and started to sort through my mail. As I started throwing the junk mail in the round file, I noticed two funny looking envelopes.

Picking them out of the pile, I noticed that they were heavy, lopsided and printed in "Blue and Red" (on white envelopes). Reviewing the envelope, I noticed in the upper left hand corner that it not only said Los Angeles Dodgers on it, but it had their blue and red logo.... and thats when this Northern California - die hard A's fan  - smiled - broadly  - why?

Well, besides the fact that I grew up hating LA (I am a good SF boy), about 3 months ago I went to the Dodgers website and signed up for some 'free schedules'. Since I didn't think they would ever show up, I simply put it out of my mind - that is of course, until  today!

Now mind you, I am far from being a Dodger fan - hell, the picture on the front cover of this year's schedule, looks like Kirk Gibson swinging for the fences against Dennis Eckersly - and it turns my stomach - blech -  lol... but, I did get ten of the schedules from the team I LOVE to HATE! So after all these years of anguish and hatred, I finally got something FREE from the Dodgers - those losers from down south.

As such, I want to take this opportunity to give you the direct link to the  Dodger site - why? Well, I want you to also take advantage of this program, besides, it only seems fitting to make them pay for all the years of hardship that I have had  to endure at their hands, and if I can do it one envelope at a time - the better. YEA!

I have seen two other teams with this program - both of whom I am waiting for them to send schedules. The two others are the Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins and the Chicago Bulls. When (and if) they send me the schedules I signed up for, you will read about it here... and if they don't, you will read about it here also.

In the mean time, I have 10 of the schedules pictured on the right - sponsored by MasterCard (as opposed to the Miller Lite one's being sold on Ebay for $2 each).

Since I started collecting pocket schedules and joined BCCA’s skedder chapter (which everyone who collects schedules should join), I have been paying close attention to all of the articles that the newsletter’s writers publish, especially when it comes to the creation of checklists and what is being produced by our nation’s teams. Personally, I am proud to be part of a group that’s helping put  together information that will not only help the hobby grow, but helps us – as collectors and Americans – collect, document and record what can only be  considered true Americana. These check lists are then put online for everyone to see and use at:  the Skedder Update

Even though they have done a GREAT job at documenting or cataloging the schedules, only a few years of checklists have been pro

duced and published online for the world to see.  As such, they have not answered my overall question(s) – with the first (and largest) being, what’s really out there for us to collect?

Continued

About what you ask?

About this: I just had a module put in that will allow me to categories all of the scans that are being made - and I FINALLY get to see my site come to life - YEA!

Because of this module, I hope that you personally will see a big difference in this site over the next couple of weeks - not only will it be 'alive and kicking,' but more importantly, it will start fulfilling the function I have for it: To catalog Pocket Schedules!

In total I have about 2100 different 'schedules,' (my collection grew in between the last blog posting and this one), which I am sure just scratches the surface of the total pocket schedule world.s!