Dodgers / Braves Game 2 Chat
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 3:45 PM PDT
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Here are the lineups
| Dodgers | Braves | |||
| LF | Podsednik |
2B | Infante | |
| 2B | Theriot | RF | Heyward | |
| RF | Ethier | SS | Gonzalez |
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| 1B | Loney | 1B | Glaus | |
| 3B | Blake | C | McCann | |
| CF | Kemp | LF | Diaz | |
| SS | Carroll | 3B | Conrad | |
| C | Ellis | CF | Cabrera | |
| P | Lilly | P | Lowe |
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I called in once
To ask if Sherrill’s issues earlier this season stemmed from weight loss. I guess I’m the only one who thinks he looked thinner at the beginning of the season.
by TopDeckTrueBlue on Aug 14, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Because we have an outlet to express our opinion intelligently.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sometimes I wonder.
Our threads feature a curious and at-times concerning back-and-forth between outright elation and white-hot anger (calling for murder or suicide or murder-suicide) all in the course of one inning. It’s a real piece of work and a fantastic social experiment in progress.
As much as thumbing our noses at the inferiority of DT callers might be fun, it gets old quickly. Especially this season, cheering for the team seems downright masochistic, but ragging on fans who don’t possess the (baseball) knowledge of most of the members on this site amounts to nothing more than ego-stroking. Do keep in mind these are still Dodgers fans and it would benefit all of us to raise everyone’s collective games even if it means stepping down from our perches and calling in.
It’d also be a great way to boost readership of Eric and Co’s blog.
I admit, this forum is full of baseball snobs. But I don’t care that callers of Dodger Talk are Dodger fans. Why would I? I come here because I like to talk baseball with smart Dodger fans. If I wanted to talk about superficial Dodger crap I would engage my co-workers.
Snob position to take? Yup. But I like that I can learn stuff from people here, and see no redeeming value in listening to idiots on DT.
I’d rather talk to smart Rockies or Pirate fans than listen to idiot Dodger fans.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't mind the snob position at all.
I was just putting it out there that the people who could best bring the level of conversation up at DT would be TBLA’s own. Why have one outlet for smart baseball talk when you can have two? More TBLA people calling in = less idiot callers calling in. By extension, maybe idiot callers start becoming smarter callers. I’m just saying that given the critical mass of knowledgeable baseball thinkers here, we could dictate the conversation.
That is, instead of listening in and then
making snarky comments from a distance. This doesn’t include you.
Hope he turns out to be a
Goulden God.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 14, 2010 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The last times the Dodgers were shut out in back to back ...
- games: April 25 and 27 this year vs. the Nats and the Mets on the road.
- days: June 12-13, 2008, by the Padres and Tigers on the road
- days/games by the same team: August 7-8, 2007 in Cincinnati, which followed being shutout in LA by Arizona the day before
Three consecutive games shut out is the Los Angeles Dodgers record. The other two times were:
- April 23-25, 1966 against the Cubs (two in Chicago) and Cardinals at home
- Sept 29 – Oct 1, 1962 versus the Cardinals (twice at home) and the Giants in SF (game 163 of the season), part of a rather famous Dodgers stretch run collapse.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Thanks for the concern about the car, guys. As for the police report, we called but they were really backed up and said we would have to hold forever, plus come down to the station. It just wasnt worth doing that.
Not sure what they used at the car wash…because they wouldnt tell us! Nice guys, but I’m sure it was something simple because they got it off in a hurry. I’m just glad its over with.
It’s probably some industrial strength cleaner. I have had that used when I got a bunch of sap on my car (used to park under a tree at my old apartment).
I would bet they would sell that cleaner at any auto parts store.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry to hear that, man.
We had our car broken into, and I asked the police to come up to do a report and fingerprints, etc., and they basically said, nah, we don’t bother with that.
by TopDeckTrueBlue on Aug 14, 2010 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Torre won’t announce whether he’ll be back next year until #Dodgers are officially eliminated from — or have secured spot in — playoffs.
If he doesn’t come back, who do we want to be the next manager?
People don't think it be like this, but it do.
I’d be OK with a complete staff overhaul. I don’t see that happening with Mattingly.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn’t they already say Mattingly would manage in the AFL this year? Just another unnecessary announcement that makes it awkward to go back on later. Would be great if they could find some real “player’s coaches” who actually knew how to deal with players from this quarter century.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100727&content_id=12679144&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la
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If they hire Mattingly as the next manager, then maybe he takes some advisor job to ease Mattingly’s transition?
People don't think it be like this, but it do.
That'd be awkward for Donnie.
Imagine getting a promotion but your boss is still working as a consultant in your office.
Google before you Tweet. It's the new Think before you Speak.
Bye-bye Joe, thanks for the memories
better luck at your next stop
by 68elcamino427 on Aug 14, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Sands playing 1B today.
If he can continue to progress and learn the 1B position well enough, considering our OF depth in the minor leagues we should be able to fill the one outfield vacancy within the organization by 2012 and presumably 1B as well.
Yep
4 shutouts, scored in the 3rd tonight
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants finally conquer the Padres
and win 3-2.
Lineup
Around about now, you start to wonder about Casey Blake batting 5th, rather than Kemp. We’ll see…
by berkowit28 on Aug 14, 2010 4:47 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
First 16 innings as a Dodger
by Ted Lilly: 0 walks, 14 strikeouts
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
We had something like 1500 comments yesterday. It’s a Saturday. People are doing stuff.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Saturday game and the team sucks.
People will still be around for weekday games.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Manny on Waivers
Would any NL team claim him? Maybe the Giants? If he cleared all the NL teams, I think the Chisox would be a strong possibility. The Redsox need him, but I don’t think they would go there even to keep him from the Rays. If the Rays could afford him, I think they would definitely make a claim. He’s just what they need.
Nobody is going to claim him, because they don’t want to be on the hook for his remaining salary.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
if someone claims him, they won’t have to.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
If he gets claimed, we might try to get something for him by taking a couple mil off that tab with the threat that if the claiming team doesn’t give us anything we’re going to make them pay the whole thing.
Course, I guess if you’re putting a claim out there you have to have already been prepared to take on his salary.
Google before you Tweet. It's the new Think before you Speak.
Right, but that would happen after he gets unclaimed.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
It would be
if they didn’t only offer the Dodgers a nothing prospect and want them to pick up all but $1m on July 31.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
It doesn't matter our relaitve position
it matters where the Sox stand. The Dodgers will definitely place Manny on waivers, but it will only depend on the respective claiming team(s) whether or not he will be claimed.
I don’t think there’s a chance at all he gets claimed.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
We might not have been in it, but we thought we were. The Chisox are only a game back, and if they can afford it, I think they would do it. Give them a leg up on signing for next year.
I’m saying the Sox were in it then, too, and they weren’t willing to pay anything more than $1 million. Nothing tells me they are willing to now, either.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
No, he threw strike 3 but it was called a ball
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Line drive in the boxscore for Lowe.
I predict Lowe will get ejected as he walks into the dugout for arguing that Carroll pitch after he gives up 2 more runs.
Las Vegas has got to be one of the worst cities in the US for MLB.tv.
All of these teams are blacked out: Angels, Giants, Diamondbacks, A’s, Dodgers, Padres.
It'd be interesting to see
Direct TVs numbers in LV, stemming almost directly from this policy
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Even more ridiculous:
All live Toronto Blue Jays games are blacked out throughout the entire country of Canada.
Well I know of one LA team what knows how to win
maybe some of the Galaxy’s good fortune can rub off on these bums
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
well they weren’t playing handball
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I just put the game on and it was loud as shit
I thought the speakers were louder than normal.
They are still on 42…..just like always.
Shocking news
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/08/14/milton-bradley-to-undergo-knee-surgery/
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/08/14/reds-broadcaster-thom-brennaman-breaks-leg-wakeboarding/
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I had a friend of
mine shatter his femur wakeboarding. I had to drive the boat back as slow as possible for about an hour. He spent 5 weeks in the hospital.
Wakeboarding a big sport in Ar - Kansas?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I have 3 friends, a married couple and another dude
that don’t have to work anymore bc of sponsorships in wakeboarding. It is pretty big here.
No pitcher has ever began his LA Dodger career with 3 starts of zero walks. Ted Lilly is in start #3 with 0 BB so far
That was way too quick for my liking :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Off to a wedding
to a student my wife taught in 4th grade. When the baby comes makes it to fourth grade, she is retiring.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
circle of life, very cool
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
better
if your the beginning of the circle and not the ending of it
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I know
doesn’t he know Stanton has it locked up? :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
She did
she commented last night for a bit, while you were living it up, wedding style!
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
All I'm saying
is Crystal Meth is bad…… The guy getting married had his sister show up about 5 minutes after the ceremony. She looks like she’d been suckin a lemon for a week.
When we do our set of TBLA public service announcements
I will consult you and have you record a few.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions
she's good
enjoying the muggy, though her cat may have been possessed by satan
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
all cats have a direct link to the dark lord.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
posted yeasterday
roommate a bail fan, going to a lookouts game yada yada yada
by MammothDodger on Aug 14, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm friends with her on Facebook
and she’s posted quite a bit on there since she made it there.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
1 pitcher
2 catcher
3 1st base
4 2nd
5 3rd
6 SS
7 LF
8 CF
9 RF
and I’m a girl!
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions
More McCourt bullshit
from Bill Shaikin / LA TImes:
The Dodgers have talked about creative ways their Chavez Ravine property could generate revenue for ownership. One such deal, a head-scratcher, is already in place: The team has been charging itself rent — $14 million this year — on Dodger Stadium property it owns.
The arrangement is documented in public court filings connected to the divorce between Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and his estranged wife, Jamie, the team’s former president and chief executive.
The amount of rent is unusual in that it is far greater than what has been paid by teams with an independent landlord.
More creative accounting
Well of course
Frank gets the team…
…and Jamie gets the real estate.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 14, 2010 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
He has made 3 very athletic plays today.
by KellyStephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
On that play off his leg, I thought the runner was out, too.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Lay off the sauce, this is a family blog.
by KellyStephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I was just talking off topically about Delonte West.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You think that is why Minnesota let him go?
Afraid that he’d start nailing teammates Moms and the TWolves weren’t having it
I suggest you all turn off your tvs and let the surround sound system take over. Listening to TV broadcast will become epic
Why is James Loney not batting 3rd?!
By the way
since Lilly walked a guy, here are the five guys to begin their LA Dodger careers with 0 walks in their first two starts:
Lilly
Odalis Perez
Terry Adams
Dennis Powell
Bob Welch
10 hits against Lowe tonight
In Derek Lowe’s career, he has allowed 10 hits 25 times. His team is 5-20 in those games, and he has lost his last 9 such games, dating back to 2006. Dating back to 2004, Lowe’s teams are 1-18 in his 10-hit games
I suppose lucky was a bad choice of words. Pods took off right away once it was hit. Very nice play.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Its so funny to watch some preseason football games and see someone make a very bad error that is on like the third string because you just know that person will probably be delivering you your FedEx package next week
you just hope it’s not anything fragile :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don Cooper is like a magician. Obviously 2 of his starts have been against the crappy Tigers, but Edwin has been dealing for the Sox.
I really liked him on The Club. He seems like a very good pitching coach.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Eric, what's The Club?
I know it gets referenced quite a bit.
it was a mini-series about the inner workings of the White Sox. On MLB Network last month.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
A show on the MLB Network that followed the White Sox.
by UCLADodger32 on Aug 14, 2010 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks fellas.
I’ll have to try to track it down.
Torre was talking with Schafer about what to do and he was like it doesn’t matter if our bullpen blows this I will just blame something on Kemp in the paper after the game
notice Kemp’s wearing a silver cross tonight?
by 68elcamino427 on Aug 14, 2010 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions
to keep the Count Von Shaefer at bay? Or is that silver bullets?
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It's a mutual option
I think there is a low chance (20%) the Dodgers pick it up. They don’t have the budget for a $4.5m non-closer.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions
9.75 yards per attempt will not get it done
Did he start?
by Greg Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a good #2
He played well in Philly when he had a chance. You a Sooner or Ram fan?
by Greg Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions
No shit. Is he still limited to not pitching back to back games?
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, really? So Broxton is back to set up man mode?
Alot happened in the 2 days I’ve been gone.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep
until he “gets his confidence back”
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
He has pitched back-to-back games twice in the last week or so. But they will stil ltake it easy with him
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Eric and UCLADodger32
Just catching up on the highlights for The Club. Good stuff, wish I could see the full episodes. Thanks again.
If I see they will be on again (they were rerunning them liberally for a while), I’ll let you know.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Serious question, if Lee is being asked to red-shirt at LSU, can he really be that good of an athlete that he should command a $5MM bonus from LAD?
Maybe this kid has just got a great PR team.
He was also supposedly going to be considered for the starting QB job as a freshman.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Serious question: I’m not much of a serious baseball nerd, but is a good change up worth anything without at least a decent fastball?
by Riffraffselbow on Aug 14, 2010 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
$5m is probably way too high
but a bonus of $3-4m would be within reason. Not too many freshmen start at QB, let alone play much.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Start? Probably not, but the report yesterday says he’s blocked through his junior year.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not getting into that conversation with you again.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't see the correlation between
redshirting as a QB in football, and commanding a 5MM bonus
by SeanMillerSavior on Aug 14, 2010 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
The correlation is that he was being talked up as a football player and baseball player. If LSU is finding that the talk wasn’t in line with his talent level I’m wondering if LAD will find that as well.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
He sees the dollar signs that being a closer will get him.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
That was actually me. You heard it from Hesperia
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve always thought it was a coin flip between those two.
I thought Kuo was better after 08, and Brox after 09.
by Michael White on Aug 14, 2010 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
#33
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Mortal_Kombat_Sounds.aspx
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I love Kuo's intensity.
If everyone played like that and still had the same outcome, there’d be a lot less frustration for all involved. That said, if everyone played like Kuo, you wouldn’t be in a shitty position to begin with. Nevermind a team consisting of all Hatteberg’s. Give me a team full of Kuo’s. Dominant pitching, bat flips to entertain. All you need is a lot of duct tape for that arm!
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