Braves Hang A Moses Malone (Fo Fo Fo) On Dodgers
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 1:39 PM PDT
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PrintFour-run rallies by the Braves in the third and fifth innings sealed the Dodgers' fate today, and another four runs in the eighth completed the 13-1 demolition in the third game of a four-game series in Atlanta.
When Ryan Theriot bunted after a leadoff double by Scott Podsednik in the first inning, and the Dodgers played the infield in during a third inning Braves rally, it was apparent the Dodgers were playing on a different level. But, such is the case with an offense averaging just over three runs per game since the All-Star break.
The eight runs given up by Vicente Padilla today are the most allowed by a Dodger starter this season. The previous high was seven runs, which has been given up eight times this year.
Notes
- The 13 runs is the most allowed by the Dodgers this season, as well as their most lopsided loss
- Jay Gibbons, who entered the game as a defensive replacement for Andre Ethier in the sixth inning, has played in all seven games since joining the Dodgers
- Podsednik played every inning of every game -- up to 146 1/3 defensive innings and 17 games today -- until he was pinch hit for by Reed Johnson in the eighth inning today
- Podsednik's first-inning double extended his hitting streak to 12 games
- Ronald Belisario pitched a scoreless seventh inning, but allowed four runs in the eighth, the last three of which came after a two-out fly ball landed in right field for a sun single. He has been scored upon in all three outings since returning from the restricted list earlier this week.
- Theriot reached base three times today, via two hits and a walk.
- The Dodgers have now been outscored on the season, 517 runs to 516.
Chad Billingsley and Tommy Hanson face off in tomorrow's wraparound finale, as the Dodgers seek a split.
WP - Jair Jurrjens (5-4): 7 IP, 6 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts
LP - Vicente Padilla (6-4): 4 1/3 IP, 8 hits, 8 runs, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
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Withrow got shelled again
There’s no way he hangs on to #1.
From where I sit, it’s a two horse race between Sands and Tray.
How could he be?
He is around a 6.00 ERA now. He has been awful for a while now.
On the other hand, he is hitting .308 and has an .857 OPS.
Think he can play 3rd?
:)
If he keeps sucking this bad I'm all for him switching to an offensive position, lol
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Sands has had an odd couple months
July it looked like he was possibly being exposed a bit, even though he was still hitting for power and walking. This month he’s done everything but hit homers.
Meanwhile, Russell is having a huge August. Maybe he’s turned a corner himself.
Out of options. Besides, with the season over, might as well work through the issues with the major league club.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
There ought to be a limit – like having lost by 10 runs or more – when PT changes the name of the show to Dodgers Dead.
by berkowit28 on Aug 15, 2010 1:46 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Ouch
Dodgers proceeding into advanced suckitude. Ned’s stupid moves didn’t make anything worse (Lilly, Pods and even Theriot playing all right) This season really blows though, Let it mercifully end and a pox forever on the McCourt family.
Just home from Turner Field...
…and, well, that fucking sucked.
Left during the stretch…absolutely miserable.
Didn't realize that Milton Bradley is going to need sugery on his knee and will miss the rest of the season.
Did that trade suck for the M’s. Who cares about Carlos Silva, but they also gave up 9 million and took on salary.
can someone explain the blue land co article in the la times today? is it saying mccheap found a legal way to embezzle funds from the dodgers to his private account?
Terms of one of his loans (I think B of A) puts a cap on his salary at like $5 million, so this is another way to get McCourt more salary.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I know people won’t believe me (or care) but the idea of the realco charging rent to the opco is incredibly standard for a Company with this type of capital structure.
People are absurd if they argue the McCourts should do anything for good PR. The McCourts will never get good PR in Los Angeles.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
The Lender should have been smarter and capped the amount the amount of intercompany loans/leases.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
I only take issue with the amount, which is far out of line with rents paid by other teams.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Right, I’m taking issue with the team crying poor, or of others crying on their behalf. The team has the revenue to support itself, instead its diverted to the McCourts in increasingly retarded ways.
“Retarded”
Come on, you are better than that.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Considering that the actual medical term is ‘mentally retarded’, ‘idiot’, ‘ignoramus’, and ‘moron’, I decided that word is fair game.
They term used in society today is intellectually disabled. That is what is requested by organizations such as Special Olympics and others who fight for the rights of those with less than us.
No one, and I mean no one, use “Retard or Retarded” anymore.
Not exactly. Take an ethnic slur that people don’t use anymore and advocate using it on this board.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I would say its more like the term ‘bitch’.
Its can be used as an insult because in most cases it means that you’re whining.
Retarded in this case is that the McCourts are using really stupid ways of funneling money to themselves.
I would not.
I have worked for Special Olympics for 15 years and can tell you that “Retarded” is the most offensive word to someone who is intellectually disabled.
Tripon, what you’ve really got to ask yourself is, is this really worth having an argument about? C’mon, he asked you not to use that word, and it seems like a reasonable request.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 15, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
And since this comment actually got me to look at how many times ‘retarded’ was used on this board. It seems regifield and me are the worst offenders. Along with Maddz, Ichchristmas, Ivdown, Npurcell, Julio Nievas, among others.
If anything, this seems to be a generation gap because its mostly the younger commentators using this word.
http://www.truebluela.com/search?btn=Go&order=date&q=retard&type=Comment
I was just
trying to help you understand from another perspective what some people feel about that word.
I don’t give a shit if you use it or not. I wish you wouldn’t, but this is a free board and I’m not a mod.
So please don’t stop because I’m asking you to. I would ask you to stop bc it is the right thing to do.
To be honest, I probably won’t. Because I just don’t see the connection between using that word and thinking of the mentally disabled. Earlier, you said
I have worked for Special Olympics for 15 years and can tell you that "Retarded" is the most offensive word to someone who is intellectually disabled.
But I taught students who were special needs students with low IQs, and they used this word as well.
I guess my question is, do they really take offense to this word, or do the people around them do because they understand the implications of the word to them?
Good point
I should’ve said the parents and the people who work for them take offense to the word along with some of the people afflicted with Downs or Autism that I have had contact with.
I don’t know that a lot of them understand the word. There are plenty of Special Olympians and others I have contact with that DO understand the word and hate it.
I am not trying to be “high and mighty” here. I say shit all of the time that would probably offend people.
I know, I certainly don’t think you’re preaching.
Honestly, I think a fair share of this is me being reflexive defensive about myself because I’m getting into a lot of arguments on the board for one reason or another.
I will say that this conversation is going to make me rethink about the word. Will I stop using it? To be honest, I have no idea, but maybe I will choose another word to express myself instead of using the word retard.
I definitely have said that word many times
Though I’ve tried to tone that down, same with gay or fag as well in here. I feel like people shouldn’t be as PC as they are (most people who have a problem with words like this seem to have no real affiliation with what those words mean, which is odd, but if people aren’t cool with something and it’s not necessary to say, then I’ll try and help).
Idk, it’s not a big deal one way or the other to me.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
I wish fag didn't have the current connotation it does
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Much like calling someone fag at work is totally cool
by regfairfield on Aug 15, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
As a practice, they should stop talking to the media entirely, and not cry or discuss anything. As I said, they won’t see any benefits in doing so. Especially if Frank and Jamie find a way to settle out of court.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t see why they should do anything to try and improve their PR or perception in the community.
People hate McCourt. No matter what he does, he is gonna be hated. People hate that he gave his kids good jobs that paid well. If I could do that for my kids, i would in a heartbeat.
He is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. If I were him, nevermind I’m not him.
Or you know, the hundreds of other embarrassing or evil things they’ve done in their term.
by regfairfield on Aug 15, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It was just one of the things
I remember reading the other day.
People ripping him for that, and other things.
He is screwed either way.
Not saying they should
I was just making a point of saying that all things he does can be viewed on one side of the fence or the other. Some will see good, and others will see bad.
I don’t know enough about what he has done to make a judgement one way or the other.
I hear the wind current created by the Glaus HR moved the storm away from the city.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
You are a soldier
I had a guy offer me two tickets to the AA team in LR the other day.
no friggin way I’m going out in that heat.
Well, it started out ok. It was overcast and in the low 80s and then about 20 minutes before first pitch, the clouds broke and that’s when it turned into a sweatbox. My arms and neck are toasted. Forecast today was 60% chance of rain. HA!
That was a monster shot. I just sat there looking straight ahead.
It was definitely a no-doubter. The only pluses of the game were the girl sitting two rows in front of me with the low-cut tank top and the braves fans not being their usual douchey selves.
Unfortunately.
However, I’m hoping the braves got it all out of their system and today and won’t have anything left in the tank for tomorrow.
So
how come McCourt isn’t a white collar felon yet?
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
That’s basically it. Nothing illegal about what he’s doing based on what the article says. Is it a bullshit way around the system? Yes. Does it make him look like a fool and a sham? Definitely. Is he a “felon” guilty of “embezzlement” as some of these comments would suggest? No.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
cool cool. I didn’t read the article, I just saw folk accusing McCourt of embezzlement, which is kind of a serious accusation to be throwing around
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 15, 2010 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Yo Eric:
Brilliant headline. (Again)
And now only 18 days until start of USC football season. I can keep watching this crap for 2.5 weeks…I think. May have to take a week off here soon if things don’t turn around.
do you go to a lot of games?
Are the tickets reasonable?
Trying to reference the cost to what the cost is for a game here.
Haven’t gone to a lot the past few years. Their average attendance went from about 43K pre-Carroll to several years of capacity (93K). Plus my kids always have stuff going on during the weekends. This year I only have one kid left in high school and I don’t think they’ll be selling out so I hope to go to a couple of games.
Single game tix are $55.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
depends
on if USC is winning or not, cause that determines half-capacity v. sellout
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 15, 2010 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Do they sell out much? With that stadium size I have to assume its quite rare.
by Michael White on Aug 15, 2010 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
That is pretty much the pre-Carroll numbers versus his glory days.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
see!
Kelly corroborates! but i’m still cute : )
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 15, 2010 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish I were
93k came out to see USC fairly regularly during the Carrol years. It was closer to 40k in the lean years.
Can’t really speak though, Cal’s the same way, but Cal was reaaaaaly terrible before Tedford, and still has trouble selling out
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 15, 2010 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
What do you think will be the avg. attendance this year for USC home games ?
by Dodgermanramon on Aug 15, 2010 3:14 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I think that’s fair, but that number will dwindle if Kiffin stumbles out of the gate
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 15, 2010 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I would say 70k – 75k it’s going to be interesting to see. I have had season tickets for about 10 years now and it’s been great I remember the Coach Robinson second stint and Coach Hackett years when I would get free tickets every weekend and you couldn’t find anyone to go with.
by Dodgermanramon on Aug 15, 2010 3:20 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Don’t forget Ted Tollner and Larry Smith!
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
This could be a heartbreaking ending for him.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I am getting
texts from my bro and a buddy.
I wish I was watching it.
Playoff with Watson, Johnson, and Kaymer is going to be good.
do you know what holes they are playing? I am assuming 16, 17, and 18.
Johnson just got a 2-shot penalty on 18. Brutal
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Addressing the ball in a “bunker” on 18, which all sorts of spectators were standing in.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe so. He (like America) didn’t know it was a bunker
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
A lot of courses have "bunkers’ and have “waste bunkers”. Depending on the local rule, some courses allow you to play out of a waste bunker as if it were the rough. Meaning you can address and ground vs a hazard where you cannot ground the club anywhere in the bunker for any reason.
That is a shitty break
Yes, as far as I could tell. But it sure as hell didn’t look like a bunker. He got royally fucked.
But the explanation is that they went out of their way to remind players. So he basically just fucked up.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
That is what they said. Was that it was a local rule. But if it was a bunker they shouldn’t have allowed everybody to walk there I would think
Hence the “waste bunker” vs “bunker” difference.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
This is freakin brutal for him
If people are standing in it and there isn’t a rake for it, then it should be regular ground and regular rules should apply.
What a crock of shit. I would handle this unprofessionally….
So are we now rooting to be at best the 15th pick overall in the draft?
I don’t want to win any more games than we have to to get that pick, because if we get 16 i have no doubt we’d sign a type A and be fucked, lol.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
I'm just afraid of the money situation
We would go get a Matt Bush or Tony Sanchez instead of a true top 10 or top 15 pick because Frank has no money…I wonder if by tomorrow we will have our opinions changed…show me something good, Frank.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
I don't think we will play bad enough to make it into the top 10.
I think we will finish better than….
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Houston
Milwaukee
Washington
Florida
Seattle
Oakland
Cleveland
KC
Detroit
Baltimore
Anaheim and the Mets will be close.
Anyone know time of the cutoff for signing draft picks tomorrow?
by SeanMillerSavior on Aug 15, 2010 4:30 PM PDT reply actions
Fun out of context quote theater
You’re a good man for coming out of the shower and talking to me.
-David Feherty
Ha! Feherty is hysterical.
Jim Nantz said he is the only guy he has ever met that drinks whiskey with a straw!
Used to…he went the clean and sober route and has been sober for several years.
Quitter.
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah
I am quitting too….
Maybe…Haven’t had any for about 3 weeks. I don’t really have a problem with it, just decided to stop.
I doubt it takes though! :)
But, what will you do during tailgating season?
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Is a Settlement good for the Dodgers
After I read the Shaklin piece in the times and on the heels of what we already know, I am beginning to think that a settlement before the trial is not good, because only a fully airing of the details of the bogus McCourt finances, coupled with MLB being shown-up, may force MLB to push Frank to sell.
I think if he works out something with Jamie and gets to keep the team, we ultimately will be worse off.
To get any type of settlement that will appease Jamie financially, it is likely McCourt will have to take on a partner because he doesn’t have enough cash or non-Dodger assets to buy her off.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
JMO
If you refer to someone who is “intellectually disabled” as a “retard” it is offensive. Since Frank McCourt is intellectually disabled I think using the word “retard” to refer to him is offensive.
Eric has the final say on what can be said on this board or what can’t, but I have no problem using the word retard to refer to fucking idiots. Just don’t use it when talking about the “intellectually disabled”, and it is obvious we have a few posters who fit this category so be careful out there.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Well put Phil.
But why is my mind cycling through scenes from “Something About Mary” and “The Ringer” right now?
by KellyStephen on Aug 15, 2010 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I got ya.
I want to make it clear and I hope I did earlier that I don’t care what people say on here. I was just saying that some people find the word offensive. I am included in that group, but I know what I am getting into on a free message board. I expect that I say things that offend people. I root for the Hogs and the Cowboys. I know that offends people!
I was just hoping to help educate, I hope that is the right word.
The fact you root for the Hogs and Cowboys
may upset people, but if anyone here is upset about the terminology of Hogs and Cowboys then they should march themselves over to the PC police and sign up.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I am very offended that you would root for the cowboys :P
Do you hate Jessica Simpson now? haha
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Now?
Can’t say I really liked her all that much before her and Romo hit it off.
She isn’t the reason we can’t win playoff games! :)
But now you guys have the Kardashian good luck charm for the season so that could bode well for you guys.
Saying Frank is intellectually disabled, is that a joke or is that true?
And I agree with your point of view.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Other Team SbNation Posters
I wasn’t thrilled with how the Phillie fan was treated this morning.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
by Phil Gurnee on Aug 15, 2010 4:44 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I’m not saying it was right, but when a Phillies fan comes on here he has to expect a reaction.
We don’t care for them.
Once someone gets going the rest are obviously going to pile on
BS
until someone acts like a dick, I’d rather they get treated like a baseball fan. Evan a Giant fan, but then that is just me. Telling a Phillie fan to fuck off just because he identified himself as a Phillie fan is the same as booing a Phillie fan at the ballpark for wearing his teams colors.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I didn't say it was right
I just said that some people will react. That is all.
I agree 100% with the treat em how you would want to be treated on their board.
I was being playful
Though I don’t think that comes off for some reason when people read what I say.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
That's what
Bride of K said.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 15, 2010 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Looking for a cool name for our
Chattanooga group of prospects. Back in 2005 we followed the Jackonsville Five (Broxton, Billingsley, Guzman, Martin, Loney)
With Guzman, Billingsley being top 25 material at the start of 2005.
With Rubby, Sands, Robinson, Gordon, Russell we have five again.
Withrow is being parked until next year.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
We can't just be lazy
and call the the Chattanooga Five? How bout the Looney 5? The “Our Team Hats are Kinda Creepy Five”?
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
I'm so glad that you included Russell :)
I too would like a cool nickname for this group.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
I refrained from picking “Russell and the Real Prospects” :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Putting in perspective how bad the offense has been this year:
The Padres are now averaging more runs per game than the Dodgers.
The 2nd half
putridness of the Dodger offense brings back memories of 196768, and that was the dead ball era.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Are you from the future?
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Or for the yutes
obviously 2003, which means 2004 might be fun.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Lol at commenters on Facebook for the MLBTR page
Broxton sucks because of the Rollins at bat in game 4 last year, Bills sucks because apparently he has bad mechanics, and we just shouldn’t look at his MLB and MILB experience, he’s just in the majors because he’s a first round pick.
Man oh man, haha.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Saw Hellickson pitch
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Has a very short putt (although longer than he would have liked)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 15, 2010 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
These strikezones in LLWS
are a freaking joke. . We need a gameday on these calls
by SeanMillerSavior on Aug 15, 2010 5:15 PM PDT reply actions
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