Andre Ethier On Kevin & Bean Talks Manny, McCourts, And More
by Eric Stephen on Sep 2, 2010 2:01 PM PDT
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PrintAndre Ethier was a guest with Kevin & Bean on KROQ this morning, talking Dodgers and to promote a current contest to make the bacon wrapped hot dog the official hot dog of Los Angeles.
You can listen to the interview here. Here are some excerpts:
On the McCourt divorce and whether it affects the team:
It really doesn't affect what we do on the field. We're down in the dungeon, down underneath the stadium, so we're kind of hidden and sheltered from all that stuff. Anything outside the team, whether it be this or anything else, gets filtered out and doesn't get too much to the players. I think Joe [Torre] and the front office staff do a good job, if people have questions, they nip that real quick and let them know we're here to play baseball.
On the impact of Manny Ramirez on the Dodgers:
From day one when he stepped in there, he was energetic, confident. You become confident around him. Just the emotion of having a player with his caliber and his ability to do something at any moment that would spark and change a game.
On Monday, the day Manny was finally moved:
You knew it was coming but kept hoping it wasn't. Everyone on the team was trying to rally around him and really let him feel like we still needed him and wanted him around. It just came to a point where it wasn't the right fit anymore, and the team was moving in a different direction, and so was he. What brought him to us, the same situation happened. We had our time here with him, and wish we still had him and would love to have him here, but at the same time it's time for a lot of us to grow up and keep moving on and moving forward.
On his and the players' relationship with Vin Scully:
He seems to know a lot about us, but we don't know a lot about him [laughs]...It's always a special time whenever you get to see Vin walking by.
Ethier also said he chose his at-bat music, Tres Delinquentes by Delinquent Habits because it reminds him of Los Angeles, and LA culture.
A few weeks ago, Ethier served hot dogs at the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. For every vote for the bacon wrapped hot dog, Farmer John will donate a pound of food to LA food banks up to 25,000 pounds.
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They should have asked if his kids like bacon-wrapped hot dogs
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
Haha
Little known fact: Ronald Belisario was in fact addicted to bacon wrapped hot dogs
by Eric Stephen on Sep 2, 2010 2:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Thats a tough habit to kick
Nothing worse then getting caught in the bathroom stall with a bacon wrapped hot dog
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or in the Bullpen
Howell: Ron, where are-my God…….
Ron: don’t look at me…….DON’T LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
MMMM Alley Dog..
but theyre only good if you get it from a super old mexican lady cooking it on a street corner.
I hope I can get some Manny dreads still
I try to get one
when leaving Galaxy games, from said super old mexican lady, but it’s hard since she’s running from the rent a cops, and I’m chasing her with cash in hand
where else would you get bacon-wrapped hot dogs at 2am.
oo, it’s thursday night, big going out night in the City. If I can stay up past 1am, I might run out and get one tonight.
Josie isn't going to like hearing about his entourage
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She may or may not enjoy him talking about meat
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who loves double standards?
I do!
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really? We make suggestive puns once in an Andre dedicated thread. How often do I have to hear about boobs on this board?
It’s a Kangaroo court, I’m calling Kangaroo court : p
Ummm if you watch the seminal work Expiremental CoEds 6 by the award winning Wally Balls you can clearly see that boobs are something everyone can enjoy. Furthermore.
Damn
I stopped the series at CoEds 5, I thought the acting was getting too hammy. Had no idea 6 was gonna be so revolutionary
I also am disappointed
that I wasn’t listening to this on my way to work this morning.
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It always trips me out a bit
how early these radio shows start, and for how long they run.
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Since my first exposure to the B-WHD was in Baja
The slogan should be
Eastern-most in quality
Mexican-most in sabor
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
He's got kind of a watery voice
like he’s gargling, and the bass in his voice comes on strong. Very nice.
What does that even mean
“kind of a watery voice?” Theres no words there!
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I don't know what that means
to have a kind of water voice! I can’t do it, we’ll do it live!
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like he’s gargling, and the bass in his voice comes on strong. Very nice.
did that not show up for you?
hah I was just joking
and making fun of bill o’reilly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
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anyone else notice
that in an article talking about Dre’s efforts in the BWHD campaign, the picture Eric posts was taken by a guy named Weiner?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
Perhaps thats why Eric didn't bother
to make his own caption?
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i mean really
what else need be said?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
no problem
i have my moments
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
This guy? I know where he lives.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
by underdog on Sep 2, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Absolutely awesome
Way to go :)
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
I knew you'd dig that ;-)
New episode tonight!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I'll be taking my friend to the airport tonight, but I DVR every episode so I will be able to catch it when I get back :)
Have they split the season up into 2 parts?
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Hrm I dunno... thought it was just making one run for the season
maybe a break is coming though?
And yeah the also repeat the new ones quite a few times so there’s that. (I often have a soccer game at the time it’s first broadcast but have a real late game tonight)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
They say this is the finale' in the commercials
But it’s only been just over 2 months, so I don’t think it’s the last of all the new episodes.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Oh hm
It might indeed be the season finale then. I think they only did a certain # of eps for the first new run. But I am pretty sure Comedy Central ordered many more, that it is definitely coming back.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I think they did 23 episodes, but have only shown 12 or so
The ratings I’m sure have been really good, so I don’t see why there wouldn’t be more.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Ugh, now they're doing calls?
I could’a talked to Andre? I could’a asked him why he didn’t respond to my going out and getting a drink proposal. I know he heard me, I was sitting at field level.
I worked with guy that graduated from there about 3 years ago. He just found a job in the IT field. That was his “major”.
His student loans amounted over $35,000.
No thanks.
35k doesn't seem out of line
for college debt assuming he financed it 100%. Plus it got him an IT job, which pays more (at least potentially) than most areas.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
Is it?
I’m not sure if it was high or not. I don’t know what he is doing, but he is making less than $35,000 per year.
I’m not sure what he does, to be fair. He was in school for about 2.5 years and did something with computers. Not sure after that.
He went to work at HP and I haven’t seen or heard from him since.
In economy's like this the key is to simply get the first job in the field you want to stay in
then when things kick in, he’ll be able to move quickly. In the long run he’s better off taking the low paying IT job right now, then taking a job that pays much more but won’t have the room for growth when things turn. Marty would know more that is JMO.
I would agree with that
the problem is it took him 3 years to get that job.
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Sorry, I was interviewing a job candidate
I’m trying to fill 3 positions. Anyone know anyone with Microsoft Dynamics AX experience?
But Phil is right. Assuming this guy is a kid, it’s best to take anything and then look for a better spot when he has experience. Experience is king right now rather than education. Not that a Masters won’t open a lot of doors.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
tru dat.
I need to go to school. I graduated from HS and that is it.
My wife rags me about it daily.
She is right, though.
That probably doesn’t constitute ragging. She just wants me to better myself. I am still torn on
whether to do it or not.
When I said
“never to late” I was not talking about education, just that 30 is not to old to start a career. I think Marty will agree in the IT world, experience means everything.
If you can survive on her income
it would make sense. Otherwise quite a strain trying to do a full time gig, hit school with enough classes that you don’t take 10 years to graduate, and help raise your young family. It may pay off but it will be quite a price to pay.
Well its from ITTTech though
For that price you can go to a good school. In fact, go to community college for two years, and then go to a good school, and it would be even cheaper, and you get a better looking education!
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What if you screw up on your grades?
Actually, is the myth that you can switch from community college to community college and not transfer grades true?
Isn't a transcript a transcript
you can’t decide what it says, or are you just being funny, or have things changed?
But each school
has it’s own transcript of your grades. It’s not like theres a cumulative record of every grade you recorded at every school you attended.
So in the above example, if you’re applying to a 4 year from a community college, but you screwed up at college A before going to college B, you only have to send the 4 year school college B.
What if you screw up your grades at ITT Tech?
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Don't you mean
go back to being a bagger?
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Either way
my point was moreso, you can fuck up whether you go to CC or ITT Tech
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Maybe
but in ITT Tech aren’t you only taking courses in your field as opposed to getting the AA and still having to worry about English?
Perhaps
If so though it should most certainly not cost 35 grand, although I’m guessing a larger portion of that was used on housing and food etc, cause I don’t think I paid 35 grand in tuition to UCI, and I think most people will take that over an ITT Tech degree.
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For example when
i was doing my CC curriculum I pretty much sucked, but once I went to the four year college and got into my core classes I was a deans llst student. I understood business, English not so much.
Sure
but you don’t get to go from ITT Tech to a nice four year college. I might be being too harsh on ITT Tech, but CC is just a gateway to the 4 year school, where ITT Tech is it, thats what you are going to sell your employers on.
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is that
where you got your critique of hats from Eric?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I went from a community to 4-year.
They accepted all my classes but started my GPA over from scratch.
I just saw the original
TBLA as posted by Julio in the last thread: http://web.archive.org/web/20060411085540/www.truebluela.com/
Two comments in a game thread. Now I don’t feel so bad about my Galaxy threads : p
Its like that at all of them
I’ve poked around some of the sites oldest threads, it takes a bit to get off the ground.
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makes sense
like any business the first few months are a wasteland until word of mouth gets around. But I guess an SBN blog is more like owning a Popeye’s than starting your own business
I heard an awesoke phrase
last night listening to the Real Madrid and Mallorca match from last week.
The Gol TV announcer is from England or Scotland. Real thick accent.
A substitution came on the field, the guy was obviously in awesoke physical condition. He took off running and the
announcer said “He’s as fit as a butchers dog.” I’ve never heard that, and I thought it was awesoke.
wow! I really hope that a traditional scottish/N. English saying, cause I’m using that all the time now.
Yeah
that will make you feel good. It was not much fun writing for no one. It was impressive that Andrew lasted as long as he did. Back then if he got a mention on Dodger Thoughts his hits were jump like crazy, but then they would go back to DT and say what a great story he wrote. I know I did, I didn’t join TBLA until I became a writer. It was a big day when Jon mentioned us, hard to describe how much that meant. Since our own site never gave us validation, it had to come from external sources.
Andrew was talented
you should check out his columns, he just had terrible timing, and should have not been so stubborn about getting help. He became burnt out in Nov/2008, dropped out of sight, SBN inked the Yahoo deal in 1/2009 with Eric at the helm and the rest is history. Eric has a lot to do with how great TBLA is, but he also had great timing. If he had taken the gig in 1/2008 no matter how good he was he would not have grown the TBLA fan base until SBN grew there own.
Anyway my point is, that I’ve never believed the effort/talent = results. You need both but without proper timing all the hard work and talent may simply never get find an avenue for success.
timing and or advertising
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So this Nicks guy handed the torch to Andrew, who handed the torch to you and Eric? Y’all need to start writing the TBLA True Story Tell All : )
Fairly easy time lime
Nicks to Andrew to Phil to Eric. I’ve made only one good decision in two years and that was to ask Eric to take over.
Agree. Plus, we know there was another event “luck” which helped cause the spike in traffic.
by Michael White on Sep 2, 2010 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Naw
“malicious mischief” and “public nudity” charges are no big deal these days.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Awwwwwww Thanks
Didn’t help that I kinda went crazy and became a recluse for a few months. But what’s done is done and Eric has way more and stepped in for me.
I've tried to do my part!
I’ve told all of the Dodger fans I know here about TBLA. That consists of my Dad, who does nothing on the net
but play poker, and my brother. He hasn’t been on here and read anything for whatever reason.
keithc13 fail!
Heh
my Dad dropped by a few times but he’s old school and the language put him off.
I’m surprised my brother who is a huge Dodger fan does not drop by, especially since he lives in Alabama now and has no Dodger friends. That has been disappointing. His daughter drops by but the stat heavy columns shes not a fan of. My oldest brother and his family lurk but don’t comment. Then again probably just as well my brothers don’t comment. Being the youngest like Eric they would probably give out more information then I’d like.
heh
Its scary to go comment on some other site that you have never been to before. Especially when no one else is. I imagine it something like the stereotypical school dance scene from a movie. Once a few couples start dancing everyone wants in.
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Heres a really cool video on Mariano Rivera’s cutter. His ability, not only to throw that pitch, but to stay out of the middle of the plate, is just amazing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/magazine/04Rivera-t.html?ex=1297569600&en=edab8b1fdb2539ac&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=BR-D-I-NYT-AD-FP-DYK-ROS-0810-MR&WT.mc_ev=click
Also from last thread
I think it was 4 Down who said he didn’t notice that Angels in the Outfield was filmed at the Oakland Coliseum. Well her’s the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQL2jP-uMq0 and at 2:10 it should be obvious to anyone who watched the ’88 World Series where they are.
Which again, why would a Hollywood produced film about an Anahiem team shoot in Oakland?
Also, does anyone know how to post a youtube line such that the video starts at a point in the middle?
That is weird
I was wondering where it was filmed as its obviously not angel stadium.
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here
The Coliseum was the location for the 1994 Disney movie Angels in the Outfield. Although Angel Stadium of Anaheim (known as Anaheim Stadium at the time) was where the Angels actually played, it was damaged in the 1994 Southern California earthquake. Anaheim Stadium was used for views from the outside and aerial views, while Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum was used for interior shots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland-Alameda_County_Coliseum#1990.27s
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Did SB Nation buy out the Sporting Blog? I click my old favorite for the Sporting Blog and it links to the main SB Nation site.
Josie
for GM
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Josie knows how
to find the biggest bat. Bar-hopping gal pals love her for that.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
On MLB Network, they said Johan Santana has only won one game this season in which he has given up more than one run.
That blew my mind.
Wow
Glad I’m not a Met blogger.
Remember that “goofy” guy who plays 1st for the Mets. Evidently he likes to argue balls/strikes so much that management has had to tell him to cool it.
I always wonder what life would have been like if Grant from the McCoven had press access during the Barry Bonds days. How would Barry have treated a blogger?
Beltre having a huge year for Boston
Wonder how this year would have turned out if we had signed Beltre to the same one year deal, moved Blake into a platoon with James. My crystal meth ball says that if Beltre had been our 3rd baseman, Manny would not have gotten hurt, and we’d be kicking the Padres ass right about now with a Furcal/Beltre/Manny Dominican left side.
don't know about Pods
but I doubt Manny would be anywhere near Beltre on a pop-up
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Can't speak for "we"
but keithc13 would not care.
It would mean more AB’s for the greatest Dodger of all time.
Jay Gibbons FTW
After Breaking Bad are chemistry
teachers the world over getting rich or killed? What would it take for a pond sucker to hold a geek a fied kick ass Chem teacher’s family as hostage until he made some great stuff, and to continue doing that under threat of death?
In the mid 2000's
Missouri laid claim to the Meth Capitol of America. More arrests per capita and more labs per capita. It was also
true that Missouri spent more money on fighting the problem than other states at that time.
Don’t know about now.
Was it for export?
Since the US GNP is mostly service now it does seem they need to legalize illegal drugs so we can get that number down. If we can export killer tobacco, I don’t see why we can’t export the best pot in the world, and show the rest of the world how Crystal Meth is made. If the terrorists can use the poppy to finance themselves we should be able to use our American know how to finance our fight against them.
This might need a side bar:)
Isn't it simply too easy to import Tylenol, which is worldwide, I think
and make the meth in your own country, using even cheaper supplies and labor?
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The pot plan could work though
We do have some mighty fine and rich farmland in the US and it might be a whole lot better to grow cannabis on it rather than to continue to pave it over with more crappy subdivisions of outer Bakersfield. Think of all the oxygen those plant can produce while they are growing!
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
If you refresh
you can see that I used my powers of moderation for good and not evil and did you a teeny favor.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I was going to ask you why you never do stuff like this for me. Get rid of stupid comments
and such. Then I realized I’d be running low on comments actually making the cut.
Thanks Dave!
to be fair
in the above case, I tried to catch a type before it came out, and the system posted a blank comment
It's more selfish than that
I wouldn’t care how many of your comments “made the cut”, I just wouldn’t want to live through that many refreshes of the page! ;-)
(When a mod deletes a comment, the entire page refreshes.)
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
In 2008
There were far more meth lab busts in the SE region – Ark/La to Ga./Carolina – than in the SW region, Tx/Ok to SoCal, which included the Inland Empire, but doesn’t include Kern County (Bakersfield).
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Allen Webster great start so far
6IP 2H 1R 1ER 1BB 6K’s
10GO – 1FO
by SeanMillerSavior on Sep 2, 2010 5:18 PM PDT reply actions
Some good stuff in Tommy's link to Gurnick
Colletti has already agreed that a big bat is a high priority this winter, and he’s probably more likely to land one via trade than free agency, but he also needs a starting catcher (Russell Martin was a question mark even before breaking his hip) and possibly a third baseman (Casey Blake is 37 and might be eased into a bench role).
Then there’s the pitching staff. Counting Vicente Padilla, who will return from the disabled list next week, three of the five starters — Padilla, Ted Lilly and Hiroki Kuroda — will be free agents, and Colletti said he will try to keep all of them, depending on contract demand
Speaking of catchers
and just to show how much I love this site. I’ve seen at least two comments on different sites where people say they think the Dodgers should go after Joe Mauer in the offseason. There is a word for that, but it’s been banned. So I’ll just say, bakayarou!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we should go after
Pujols, Miggy, Mauer, Morneau, Hamilton, Ramirez, Zimmerman, Wright, Utley, Votto, Braun until we get what we need.
i like the way you think
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 2, 2010 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Its nice to want things
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I see Blanton got the Coors treatment
Suck it Ruben Amaro, Jr.!
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
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