Our Core is Clueless

Now that is what we call constructive criticism. You don’t call out the motives of players; you call out the results. Any turnaround has to start with our core.

when I watched bits and pieces(what I could stand) of the game, I was hoping for the renewed, home stand loving crew to bust out and show the lowly Pirates who the Dodgers really were and turn the ship around. Instead it was a sad display of lost opportunities and lackluster play. I mean HOLY CRAP!! After reading through the late night comments and this mornings comments, I can see we need a release. You’ve all probably seen this video a million times but please let it speak to your soul again this fine morning, at least watch the introduction again. As you’re listening, just insert the word "bat" for "guitar". Imagine Ned doing the yelling!

Enjoy this psychological release from the stress of watching the Dodgers play baseball this year.

I couldn’t help myself. Just wanted to make sure it didn’t get buried and wanted to share..

I’m not giving up hope yet.

let them get their losing streaks in early and hopefully they can finish off strong.I’m not too worried about the Madres staying in 1st for long.

I remember some seasons ago (pre fab 5) they would start strong and finish off weak.

Hopefully, it’s the other way around this season (crossed fingers lol).

I have another post coming in a few hours that will shed more details. Let’s just say…we miss Manny.

but Lebron James will be named MVP Sunday, according to Brian Windhorst. I expect much hand-wringing when it’s not unanimous.

With such dreadful play of late, I’m glad that there are some good movies coming out and there is a lot of interesting movie news floating around. I need something to take my mind off of how disappointing this team is.

Like just about everybody, I advocated for years — since those Jacksonville days of 2005 — hitching the Dodgers’ long-term future to the prospects. Win or lose, I thought, let’s do it with them; trading them for “proven vets” would just consign the team to mediocrity.

And then we watched them get better and better. And through the first two weeks of this season, they were better than they’d ever been. Then Manny went down and all this happened.

To be fair, it’s only been one bad week for the core. It’s a real, real bad week, one that the team really couldn’t afford to have, to see the entire offense shut down just as the pitching was turning a corner. Teams get “out of sync,” but that really doesn’t describe fully what’s happened to the Dodgers in April.

But to see the core fail the team is so thoroughly disheartening. They’re human beings and like anyone allowed to fail, of course. I won’t boo them; these are the guys I wanted to see. But because I’m so invested in these guys, because I can’t blame Colletti, because there was nothing that really coulda been done to stem these losses or make this hole they’ve dug not so bad — it just makes me feel worse.

Blaming Ned and blaming the players are not compartmentalized feelings.

bhsportsguy can whine about the players all he likes, but he’s doing the exact same thing he’s complaining about just in reverse.

Why act like we aren’t blaming the players? Does he read the game chats? Everytime somebody screws up, are we saying “holy fucking shit why didn’t Ned Colletti hit that ball”? No. I’ve never seen that here or on my site. It’s always “what a boat load of fail that play by Kemp was”.

So what exactly is the issue here?

The players are fucking sucking cock, true.

Ned Colletti is a moron for his comments, and in general, true.

does your simulator say how many games it takes to win West now?

is how big a deal you are making over Ned’s comments.

Excellent rant, Phil. Unfortunately for the Dodgers, all things you said are justified. I hope they can all get their act together soon.

I remember the 2008 NLCS Dodgers losing 8 straight (part of a 2-11 stretch that included a sweep to the Nats). They then won 8 in a row as part of a 19-8 close to that season. That was the first year I ever had season tickets and after the sweep to the Nats I can remember feeling like I didn’t want to go to any games. That’s kind of the way I feel now. I’m still debating whether or not I want to go to tonight’s game or stay home and watch the Lakers. I feel like a bad Dodger fan, but it’s so depressing over there right now.

It seems that too many on ALL Dodger boards- whether one of the more advanced one (TBLA, DT) or…let’s just say the not quite as advanced ones (Dodgers.com, etc.) have a tendency to beat up on whatever player they already decided beforehand that they can’t stand (Billingsley, Juan Pierre, GA)- or front office guy, for that matter (McCourt, Colletti)- and just put the blame on him/them. Right now, they ALL suck, and they need to get their acts together. Period.