Jimmy Bramlett

With the Dodgers mired in a horrendous start to the season, it's easy to pile on. But for one moment there has been an oasis of hope.

I've used the song from Bye Bye Birdie "Put On a Happy Face" to talk about the Dodgers before. It seems appropriate with the gray clouds covering Dodger Stadium after the team got swept by the San Francisco Giants over the weekend. The Dodgers have put on a happy face led by manager Don Mattingly who reiterated his optimism after the sweep in San Francisco.

With scores of 2-1, 2-1 and 1-0, no one would have thought Game 4 between the Kings and the St. Louis Blues would see a bevy of goals being scored. But that's what happened. After falling into an early 2-0 deficit, the Kings rallied back to win 4-3 and evened up the series as it heads back to St. Louis.

We've hinted about it back in March. We reported about the rumors last month. Today the NHL made it official: the Kings and the Ducks will play a regular season game at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 25, 2014 as a part of the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series.

It wasn't pretty by any means, but the Kings announced their presence in the series. Thanks to a gritty goal by Slava Voynov in the second period, the Kings got the 1-0 victory after losing two disappointing games in St. Louis.

Chris Paul was ejected with 2:29 remaining in the Clippers elimination game, the game out of hand. Dwight Howard was ejected early in the third quarter of his elimination game with the Lakers, their game also out of hand. So why hasn't there been the same amount of outrage against Paul as there was to Howard?

The Laker haters in town climbed aboard the Clipper bandwagon, and it got them to the same place: a first-round exit. Sure the Clippers might have been really exciting during the season. They might have won a franchise-record 17 consecutive games. They might have seemed more functional and exciting than the Lakers. But after the Clippers lost 118-105 in Game 6, "Lob City" is as dead as the Lakers.

If you want to know why some people hate baseball look no farther than this game.

Anyone who watched the Kings Stanley Cup run last season would have been shocked after watching last night's 2-1 overtime loss to the St. Louis Blues. The Kings, save for Jonathan Quick, were nonexistent through 59 minutes. Quick made 35 saves through regulation as he held the Blues to a 1-0 lead, the one goal coming in the first period by Alexander Steen on a power play thanks to the Kings too-many-man-on-the-ice penalty.

It wasn't all smiles and roses in the Dodgers 6-2 win over the Colorado Rockies. Ask PSY. It really is a sad world he is inhabiting right now. A year after his "Gangnam Style" took over the world he's not getting the same amount of love for his new single "Gentleman". It was bad enough that he was overtaken in the Korean pop charts by the 63-year old Cho Yong-Pil last week. But on the day he came to Dodger Stadium to help renew his PSY-mania, he got upstaged by his fellow countryman Ryu Hyun-Jin.