Dodgers Lose Manny, Drop Game Two To Cardinals

time for Kuroda to be a stopper.

Kuroda and Padilla are our two best:)

Meh Im not that mad about this game. We ALWAYS suck ass in st. louis so this is hardly a surprise. Dont freak out about billz and CLayton yet. If this trend of walking 20 and Striking out 2 continues, then by all means freak out. Otherwise, we are ok.

What’s her mom look like!

sandman continuing his destruction and phil mentioning the good news about kyle russell maybe finally adjusting? cross fingers!

Manny injury copter!

(3rd time tonight), and so far Weaver has not allowed an earned run in 20 1/3 innings

I hate the Cardinals and hate going to ST Louis. I am going to make my annual Dodger trip somewhere else from now on. I am not in ST Louis this weekend, and this is why.

{sobs uncontrollably}

How was Knight and Day?

You are smart and I am dumb

You are handsome and I am ugly

You are witty and I am dull

We talked on here the other day about #99 and his overall worth and you were mentioning trading him because he won’t stay healthy and spends too much time on the DL to be trusted. I argued that your idea was foolish because when he got back this time it would be the last and he is way too valuable to trade away.

You win…..

and sorry this has nothing to do with the game, but I just looked through my ESPN Mag and read Molly Knight’s piece on the Dodger divorce.

I know it as linked here earlier this week, and many have probably already read it, but I finally got around to it, and I feel sick. I knew it was bad, but I didnt know how slimy and deceitful these people really are

everything from the allegiances in the front office, to McCourt’s plan to double tickets and lower payroll, to the expensive property and luxuries purchased while loans were needed to support to the team, to the money not spent on draft picks, to “project Jaimie”, while I knew about some of it, reading it all of it at once like that was really tough to swallow

I have no reason anymore to feel optimistic about this franchise unless it is sold, maybe I’m overreacting, but I feel that after we, in my opinion, inevitably miss the playoffs or get bounced before the WS this season, it will only get much worse before it gets better, unless a new owner with some real $ steps in and tries to clean things up

sorry for a negative rant after a tough coupe of games, It just happened to be the headlined article in the latest issue of ESPN, which I just happened to read : /

Wainwright tomorrow afternoon. Hiro will pitch like my hero and the bats will get us just enough runs to win a 4-2 game.

{does another keg stand}

Russell Martin left the game with a swollen left thumb. Per Dylan on Twitter.

Here’s me jumping to conclusions :) Do we activate Ausmus tomorrow???

Kyle Russell is heating up at the perfect time.

and only induced two swinging strikes all night, both to Holliday.

That is crazy. Sounds like he just didn’t have his stuff tonight.

LOLina Day today, from what I’ve heard…

Tim Collins, the short lefty the Braves got in the Escobar deal, struck out 5 in 2 innings tonight.

At the All-Star break my simulator had the Dodgers chances of winning the NL West at 43.33%. After the first loss to the Cardinals, it dropped to 39.18%. Now after the second loss to the Cardinals, it has dropped to 35.52%. Nonetheless, still slightly higher than the next team the Padres at 33.01%. The Giants are now third at 17.02% and the Rockies are fourth at 14.44%. The only division where four teams all have such good odds at winning their division.
vr, Xei

Not happening.

Idiots.

was definitely a good reason too. Awesome, hope it comes to DVD this way so y’all can see it (with this new score). Whoo boy.

Anyway… sorry about the Dodger game. Looked shitty from what I saw in the Gameday updates tonight. So bad that even the Yahoo box score linked above seems to gyp the Dodgers out of their 4th run in the run scoring plays list.

Hope they can still salvage a split… Night!

It was very hot – though not that humid. Bad thing was there was little breeze in the stadium.

We got there early enough to see batting practice.
I’m not sure if the Dodgers just try to hit line drives in BP, but there was only like 4 hrs in all of BP, and I think 2 of them were by Xavier Paul. Maybe baseball has changed, but I remember watching BP in the past and the players would just crank them out of the park. Tonight – not at all.

As for the game – I wondered why Randy Winn was starting. Then my d ad made a comment that he must hit .400 vs Billingsley bc no other reason he would start. Sure enough, he hits even better against him and really hurt him that 1st inning. Not sure why Loney was playing so far off the line.

We were discussing that after Yadier Molina hit a homer off Sherrill…that it could be his last night in the major leagues. Whats the point of keeping him on the team even if he did refuse a minor league assignment…just DFA him.

Overall, not a great time. Game wasnt close, it was hot uncomfortable stagnant air, and nothing that exciting happened.

Didnt even notice Manny had left the game until on the scoreboard it showed Paul in his place. No announcement was made. I’m not sure how he hurt himself either.

I know it’s only two games in, but I just don’t want to get so far behind that we find ourselves trying to dig out of a hole a la the first half.

ERA: 2.30
FIP: 4.24
xFIP: 4.19

Now look at,

LOB%: 84.9% (2nd in MLB to Wade LeBlanc)
BABIP: .232 (2nd in MLB to Trevor Cahill)

They’re going to have to knock me out before they put me on the DL,

AJ Ellis was seen in the background making a call to Iron Mike Tyson

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