T.J. Simers had a scary episode that fortunately wasn’t much worse.

The Los Angeles Times columnist suffered from a  small stroke while covering the Dodgers in spring training. He wrote about how the Dodgers staff came to his rescue.

I alerted Times beat reporter Dylan Hernandez that I couldn’t cover the Dodgers. He told the Dodgers because he thinks delivering good news makes him more popular.

Dodgers PR guy Steve Brener called to confirm, a little too giddy for my taste.

I mentioned banging into the furniture and suddenly he’s got me talking to Dodgers trainer Sue Falsone. She wanted me to look in the mirror and smile. I never thought of that before. I never see anyone smiling when I arrive, so this was my chance to see what it would look like.

The rest is a blue blur with the Dodgers saving me. I wonder if this means their motto for 2013 will be: Win It for Page 2.

I hope I don’t have to wind up calling them the Choking Dogs.

And Simers wrote:

They had me stay overnight so the nurses could practice taking blood in the dark. Brener and Tom Lasorda stopped by. Lasorda used the bathroom so I would know he was there with me the whole way.

The Times’ obit writer emailed to wish me well.

Hernandez stopped by to see if it was time to apply for the Page 2 column. Ned Colletti was a visitor. There were no Angels, and I was pretty happy about that because the last place you want to see angels is in a hospital.

They tell me I’ll be fine. I’m supposed to interview Floyd Mayweather on Tuesday, so we’ll see.

To be completely honest, I wrote this to see if I could still do it. (I await the messages to the contrary.)