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    LAPD pledges to keep rowdy fans out of Dodger Stadium – but what about the surrounding neighborhood?

    Police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today pledged to crack down on  trouble-making fans at Dodger Stadium, with Beck threatening to arrest or throw aggressive fans out of the ballpark, according to L.A. Now.  Dodger owner  Frank McCourt,  whose team’s season opener was marred by the beating of a Giants fan in the [...]

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    Is it fall yet? Dodger season opener has neighbors fearing months of badly behaving fans

    Thursday’s season opener at Dodger Stadium went smoothly for the most part. But then the game ended and reports have been coming in about rowdy fans and a trail of trash and traffic left across Echo Park and Solano Canyon. Some Dodger fans apparently even brought their own porta-potties for pre-game tail-gate parties in Elysian [...]

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    The sounds of Dodger Stadium opening day *

    Brass bands-for-hire playing to a Latin-Polka beat competed with DJs and thumping sound-systems in Elysian Park this afternoon  as they performed before crowds celebrating ahead of the season opener at Dodger Stadium . Unlike previous years, today’s opening game begins later in the afternoon, at 5 p.m., which met with the approval of some fans. [...]

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    The earth moves at Dodger Stadium

    Many motocross fans might have been wowed by this past weekend’s Monster Energy Supercross at Dodger Stadium. But perhaps equally impressive as a stadium of roaring of motorcycles were the roaring trucks and earth movers that spread dirt across the playing field. The L.A. Times video below shows the transformation.

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    Here’s the dirt on the Dodger Stadium motocross & monster truck show

    Earth movers  have taken over the  Dodger Stadium playing field this week  in preparation for a motocross event this weekend followed by a monster truck show and race next month.  Christine Peters of Elysian Heights snapped the photo during a visit to the stadium earlier today as tons of dirt were being spread across the [...]

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    Will the Dodger Express keep rolling next season?

    The county Metropolitan Transportation Authority has declared the  Dodger Stadium Express a success, with more than 117,000 Dodger fans getting a free bus ride between the stadium and downtown’s Union Station during the last playing season. The Dodger Express provided a bit of traffic relief for the fans as well as Echo Park and Solano [...]

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    Dodgers try to prevent neighbors from blowing a fuse over Friday night fireworks

    The Dodgers informed Solano Canyon residents this week that the team plans to resume firework shows at the end of about a dozen Friday night home games next season to help boost attendance. The fireworks were a hit with fans but not with Solano Canyon residents, whose complaints about crying children, blaring car alarms and [...]

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    Monster trucks to roll, fly, twist & turn into Dodger Stadium *

    The Dodger Stadium grounds keepers will be working overtime early next year when Dodger Stadium hosts what some say might be the  first-ever monster truck race and show in the ballpark. The Monster Jam is scheduled to be held in February, with racing and contests to take place inside the stadium, according to a Dodger [...]

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    Who’s the gardener with the blue thumb?

    Three newly planted pines sit in the middle of what looks like a blue baseball (made from blue colored mulch) that has been created between the 110 Freeway off ramps leading to Dodger Stadium. There is no sign of who is responsible for the baseball-themed landscape but perhaps the Dodger groundskeepers had some extra time [...]

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    Prepare yourselves: The Yankees – and Dodger fans – are coming!

    Photo by Jesse Saucedo The arrival of the Yankees tonight at Dodger Stadium for a three-game series finds many Echo Park residents cheering but also dreading a weekend of traffic, trash and noise coming from the cars of visiting fans. How best to deal with this? On the Echo Elysian Forum, a resident named Matthew [...]

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    Protesters greet Dodger fans

    Dodger fans arriving for Monday’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks were greeted at the main gates by protesters rallying against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070. Opponents of SB 1070 have put pressure on the Dodgers to relocate their spring training camp out of  the state. Monday’s scene remained peaceful and some Dodger fans honked [...]

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    Beware 75-year-old women bearing baseball bats

    A week ago the staff of Central City Action Committee, a non-profit youth program in Angeleno Heights, was honored at Dodger Stadium for its community work. Central City director Maryanne Hayashi (pictured above on the stadium’s big screen) accepted the “2010 Good Neighbor Award” baseball bat in a pre-game ceremony on the field. But there [...]

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    State bullet train might take a detour under Dodger Stadium

    The plans to build a high speed rail line near the Los Angeles River and through Cypress Park and Glassell Park has drawn opposition from river advocates, including Councilman Ed Reyes. So, after several years of lobbying federal officials and state railway builders, engineers involved in with the California High-Speed Rail Authority Line are looking [...]

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    Dodger Stadium to sport: flea market shopping

    Echo Park Lake’s Sunday Swap Meet will be getting some competition – from Dodger Stadium. Flea market operator Phillip Dane plans to launch the L.A. Flea Market on July 18 in the stadium parking lots overlooking downtown. More than half of the 600 vendor spaces have already been rented for the first market, but Dane [...]

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    Will Obama use his Dodger Stadium parking spot today?

    Echo Park residents saw and heard a group of five helicopters flying in formation swoop over Dodger Stadium several times Saturday afternoon. Could the choppers have been practicing for a presidential visit to Dodger Stadium today? President Obama is scheduled to attend a $17,600-a-plate fundraiser tonight in Exposition Park for Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Last [...]

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    Dodger fan goes down

    The Dodger home opener on Tuesday found fans facing a larger and more aggressive effort by the LAPD and Dodger security to deal with tail gate parties and rowdy behavior on the stadium property and in surrounding Elysian Park. The above YouTube video (you need to sign and verify you are and adult to watch) [...]

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