The Manny Ramirez Suspension: A Brief Review

But our best draft pick this year, Garrett Gould, has POSSIBLY signed for $900,000. This is from a Varsity Kansas source who allegedly got this information from Gould’s girlfriend.

If this is true, I’ve only got one thing to say:

GIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

Applause my friend. No one, and I mean no one will do a better job.

Wish I was going. Hope we do a Dodger stadium outing.

from yesterday:

# Torre had a conversation in passing with Juan Pierre about his diminished role. “He just shook his head with a smile on his face, and certainly is aware of his situation in regards to this ballclub with Manny coming back. Again, the bottom line is things seem to happen that are supposed to happen. If somebody breaks down — we don’t want that to happen — he’s there for us. We’ll certainly try to keep him sharp by getting him in games here and there.”
# Torre anticipates returning to having 13 pitchers on the roster, which he thinks would translate into more opportunities for Pierre off the bench.

the numbers without Manny were interesting reading. Quite amazing we compiled that record when you look at the production from Andre, Hudson, Furcal, and Martin. As I said before, the last three weeks have felt like watching the 65/66 Dodgers as the rotation and bullpen have kept the games just close enough for some offense to peak through and give us some tough victories. I’d mention 2003 but we didn’t win enough of those games.

Have fun tomorrow night.

especially if he goes to the Cav’s, he ‘s exactly what the Lakers can’t afford to lose and what the Cav’s need. A double whammy.

Oddly enough after freaking out the first game of Manny’s suspension, the pen were the absolute stars of the suspension. Belisario (who) has become an ace in the hole few months he’s been in the bigs. Mota, (the guy we were all planning his retirement party for in April) put up numbers as good as Broxton??? And Broxton was absolutely solid and sealed many games. They won a lot of games keeping our anemic June offense in games. The numbers say that the starting pitching was solid but the numbers lie. The starters were were mostly solid, but when they were shaky they were able to get yanked on time before they did to much damage because Torre had confidence in the pen and bullpen backed them up.

May Pierre and June Ethier were also stars. You still almost much have to add their numbers though to come up with Manny production were used to. But it was good to see Pierre show the reason why he is on this team and for Ethier to bounce back and win some games for the team after struggling.

Kemp, Blake, and deserve honorable mentions. Solid performances and these guys are anchors of the team.

What is going on with Castro? Every time I look up the stats he’s a team hitting leader. Is he going to keep hitting though the World sSeries? If he keeps hitting is he going to be our shortstop and Furcal become are pinch hitting specialist? And Xavier showed he’s the real deal but is prone to really freakinsh injuries (staph infection?? Groin pull, rotator cuff, torn tendon OK, Staph infection????).

I guess we have to wait to see what Manny we are going to get. I keep thinking something like going from Babe Ruth to Ty Cobb hitting, but realistically, I think we’ll see April 2009 Manny and not August/September 2008 Manny, but we’ll see. I’m pretty positive of one thing, Manny will be able to hit.