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Tonight's postmortem

As the Dodgers scrambled to shower, dress and get out of the clubhouse as quickly as they could so they could catch the Floyd Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya fight, they celebrated their victory by cranking the volume on some horrendous hiphop song that seemed to be titled, "I'm in Love with a Stripper." I'm sure some of you are familiar with it, but I'm proud to say I was not, at least until tonight. But if you know much about big-league ballplayers, the song was perfectly appropriate for the clubhouse. ... This is not the annual "family trip," but because Atlanta has such geographic proximity to the homes of several members of the coaching staffs, a good number of family members have been hanging around before the games. Grady Little's son and two grandsons, ages 3 and 7, were here, and Grady egged on his grandsons this morning as they pored a cup of ice on their grandmother to wake her up. Dave Jauss has his three sons. And Rick Honeycutt's son and son-in-law are here. Reminds you that as much as people tend to idolize the personalities in Major League Baseball, these guys are human, with families and lives just like the rest of us. ... Grady has this favorite line that uses about having grandchildren, and I hope he doesn't mind my sharing it with you. He'll rave for several minutes about how great it is having grandkids, how you can spoil them and then send them home when they get rambunctious, all the usual grandparent stuff. And then he'll say this: "You know there is only one bad thing about having grandkids. Every night, you have to go to bed with somebody's grandma."

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TONY JACKSON

Tony Jackson is in his fourth season covering the Dodgers for the Daily News, his eighth season as a full-time Major League Baseball beat writer and his 13th season covering MLB on regular basis. He is a native of Springdale, Ark., and a graduate of the University of Arkansas, although he refuses to root for the Razorbacks again until Frank Broyles is finally out of there. Tony is single and has a daughter who lives in Colorado. His hobbies include working out, reading and taking winter vacations with his daughter to non-MLB cities, usually in Mexico or the Caribbean. And he LIVES to blog.
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