Latest Dodger Loss Isn't Easier To Take, Even With Luebke
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:13 PM PDT
in Dodgers Game Recaps
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PrintA close game broke open thanks to a series of misplays in the sixth inning, leading to a 4-0 Dodger loss and a Padres' sweep. Cory Luebke became the fourth pitcher to get his first major league win against the Dodgers this season, joining Mike Leake, Luis Atilano, and Felix Doubront.
The Dodgers are playing so badly that they couldn't even properly execute a major league debut. Down 4-0 in the eighth inning, John Lindsey came to bat with two runners on base and one out to face the left-handed Joe Thatcher. After 16 years in the minors, this was Lindsey's major league debut. However, the Padres brought in the righty, Luke Gregerson, and just like that Lindsey was pulled back, in favor of Andre Ethier.
From a baseball standpoint, going with Ethier was the right call, but at this point does it really matter? This team is dead as a doormat right now, and Lindsey's smiling face is the best thing going. Plus, it's not like Ethier has been hitting lately anyway. Vin Scully, on the Prime Ticket broadcast, described Lindsey's reaction like this:
He must have the sweetest nature, he must be the most determined, to spend a lifetime in the minor leagues, to come that close and then come out laughing.
It's hard to get too worked up over this since Lindsey himself didn't, but it would have been nice to see him get to bat in his debut, even with a tough matchup. Lindsey is now forever in the record books as having participated in a major league game, but hopefully in Houston, with his family in attendance, he will get to do so for real.
Russell Mitchell also made his major league debut tonight, starting at first base. Mitchell struck out and flew out in his two at-bats. Trent Oeltjen made his Dodger debut, flying out as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning.
The Dodgers have now lost five straight games and have scored three runs in their last 41 innings.
The Dodgers head to Houston to start a four-game series tomorrow, with Ted Lilly facing Bud Norris.
WP - Cory Luebke (1-1): 6 IP, 2 hits, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts
LP - Chad Billingsley (11-9): 5 1/3 IP, 6 hits, 4 runs, 5 walks, 6 strikeouts
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i haven't
i’m pissed
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 8, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm always comfortably numb
since I spend all day, every day, in a gin buzz.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Sep 8, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
maybe i should drink gin like the great Kavula
this beer is angering up mah blood
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 8, 2010 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
i just wanted to see him
i’m over it
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 8, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly
It’s Bud Fucking Black who chose Gregerson vs. Ethier instead of LOOGY vs. AAAA guy.
Torre did what he had to do. If Andre jacks it, it’s a one-run game and just maybe…….. they only lose by one instead of four.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Well
now everyone can relax since the next 4 games don’t matter to anyone except those who think the Dodgers might sign a Type A free agent in the upcoming off-season.
yeah, Grady has been lurking in my thoughts for a few days
also
will belive the off season moves when I see them
McCourt has no credibility with me today
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 8, 2010 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
This series really didn't matter either
Except for the Giants and they don’t count.
by Michael Kieser on Sep 8, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I honestly don’t care what other teams may have a stake in the series. Only the Dodgers matter to me, and if they’re out of it, the game is meaningless.
by Michael Kieser on Sep 8, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Ridic, you'd be pissed if we were in those teams shoes
and you felt the teams chasing us were mailing it in.
Letting RH AAAA guy hit against a top RH set-up guy
instead of sending up your leading slugger (such as Andre is) who happens to be LH, is mailing it in.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Absolutely 100% on the money
Torre is never going to disrespect the managers of the other teams in contention, and he is right on that.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Fuck the Giants
Needless to say, no?
Fuck Larry Bowa in 1980
by NotJoeTorre on Sep 8, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
sideways
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 8, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m still wondering how playing Mitchell/Lindsey is equated to not trying the hardest the Dodgers can to win…
Its not like the regulars they’d be replacing have been playing any better.
And its baseball..crazy things happen in small sample sizes (See Marlon Anderson and Ronnie Belliard)
You really cannot compare those two to
Anderson and Belliard, no matter what you think about those two, they had played several years in the majors vs two guys making their MLB debut after many many years in the minors.
A small sample size is a small sample size.
It was totally unexpected for either of them to hit lights out for a month…
Likewise, it’d be unexpected for Lindsey/Mitchell to do that as well. But just because they’ve been in the minors for a while doesnt mean they have that much less of chance of doing it.
Dodgers outta luck
Dave Stewart outta love(for the Dodgers)…
Got a photograph…
Ok nevermind…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
It appears Rob Neyer
may be in the minority of the media on Torre’s move. Thank Ramona Shelburne’s story for helping that opinion out.
Time to burn one down to take the edge off another loss. I hate to admit how bad we are right now. So I won’t. It sucks to lose. I hope Lindsey starts the game.
by Skunkburner on Sep 8, 2010 10:24 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Not if you have a card, or your own garden.
by Skunkburner on Sep 8, 2010 10:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
He is likely to start Friday or Saturday with a pair of LHP starting for Houston.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
after tonight, he should start Friday AND Saturday
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 8, 2010 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
OT
100 degree weather to turn on the fucking heater!!! All in one week.
LOVE YOU SO CAL
Fuck Larry Bowa in 1980
gotta love the radical change in weather
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP
oh, wait…
/banned/
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 8, 2010 10:25 PM PDT reply actions
#
# Joe Sheehan joe_sheehan
I just want the Dodgers’ performance after the release to be part of the story, too. At least it’s factual and sourced. less than a minute ago via web
# Joe Sheehan joe_sheehan
Podsednik, since being anointed upon Manny’s being traded for nothing: .100/.100/.267. Nice guy, though.
Whoa? That bad?
You must not read my week in reviews! :)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
He was claimed by the White Sox on waivers
and the Dodgers let him go. That is the way the procedure is designed to work. Nothing nefarious nor wrong with that. And Joe Sheenhan is number one in not being a fan of the current FO of the Dodger front office anyway.
we gave away one of the best hitters ever
for salary so we could play Pods… we deserve to be pissed…
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 8, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Bartender, make mine a double
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Sep 8, 2010 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
JUST HOOK IT UP TO MY VEINS!!!!!!!!!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 8, 2010 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay protected pick
C’mon Fish, pick it up…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
I'll never forget where I was
the night John Lindsey almost came to bat. To a great man. Buon animo.
I don't know where I was
but I was probably drinking gin.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Sep 8, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was in my car and a pigeon shit on my windshield
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 8, 2010 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Forget 2007. Forget 2005
This is the most disappointed I have been with a Dodger season since 1992. I have never had my high hopes for the season dashed so spectacularly in all my years of rooting for this team.
And to think I really thought we would be playing in the World Series this year. I guess the joke is on me.
Man
You really set yourself up for disappointment there.
It’s baseball, man. two out of 30 teams make it in. It just wasn’t our year.
by Julio Nievas on Sep 8, 2010 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I just thought that the team would build on back to back NLCS appearances. I thought they had the talent to go all the way. Oh well.
by Michael Kieser on Sep 8, 2010 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It has been pretty disappointing.
It did seem the team was ready to again enter and have success in the playoffs. Just not our year.
You may have missed it, but we played in the last two NLCS
that is success in the playoffs.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
He really knows how to handle all type of sticks…
Yay, double entendre…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
old news
beat you to that story in the previous thread.
Every year has sucked in some way or another since 88!
by Skunkburner on Sep 8, 2010 10:34 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I don't see how one could be a baseball fan and in particular a Dodger fan
and only care if they have a chance to win a World Series.
That’s a recipe for disappointment for every team’s fans.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
No, that’ll be a disappointment for Lakers fans as well.
The World Series doesn’t allow basketball teams.
I did not feel nearly the amount of joy I expected when they beat Orlando in 2009. I was stunned by that shallow, empty feeling. However, the win over the Celtics was fucking great. :)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree
Somehow, KG being injured made it a little hollow…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I could give a fuck about KG :)
I just literally didn’t experience much happiness in the win.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
No
I have no reason why, but just when the buzzer sounded in Game 5 I did not feel as happy as I thought I would.
The Fisher comeback in Game 4 was pretty amazing though. I guess that’s where to moment was.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that three-pointer was fucking sweeeeet.
by Julio Nievas on Sep 8, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
If we stepped on Lebrick's dreams
Now that would be different… I could care less about KG being injured then…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope they fail
their arena was empty most of last year even with one of the most explosive players in the game and they get two more superstars.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
but remember
Bynum was playing on practically 1 good leg the entire series.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
I was pretty invested in that team though; I enjoyed them for different reasons.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Lots of things matter
There have been a shit load of great Dodger memories in the last 22 years.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I was doomed from the beginning
My first memories are the 1995 post season.
But I love this team and always will.
Steve Finley’s walkoff is still my favorite Dodger memory, except all things Manny.
I said this last year, I don’t root for a NFL team, I don’t openly root for the Lakers, I don’t root for another baseball team.
Fuck Larry Bowa in 1980
Well, the "all things Manny"
must include the 2008 and 2009 NLDS victories over the 100-win Cubs and the frickin’ Carpenter and Wainwright and Pujols led Cardinals.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The Manny memories, or the Finley one?
Because the Finley one is a seriously kick-ass event.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
I remain to this day unimpressed
but I understand how you young one’s can hold onto that event like it was a big deal.
Walk off grand slam by a trade deadline player to clinch the division against the giants. I disrespectfully refuse to capitalize giants. Outside of 2008/2009 it’s the best we’ve got.
The next most memorable moment is JD Drew and Jeff Kent getting thrown out at home on the same play.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
I'm with ya'll
a grand slam to clinch the division is pretty sweet. Might not be my favorite memory, but its one of em.
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Good teams are fun to watch.
But at the start/end of the season, the goal is a WS championship. I never played a game where it was ok if we didn’t win it all. You can hold your head up for having a good season. But you’re not the champ, and that sucks.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
by Skunkburner on Sep 8, 2010 10:43 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Kemp for Cano
Will the Yankees still do that trade?
Of course they would
In backwards world…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Not this winter
but after Cano becomes Cano again, and Kemp goes monster mash we will laugh to think we’d have done that this winter.
Lindsey will start on Saturday
says Torre (as per Dylan Hernandez).
Kemp and Furcal will sit tomorrow. Oeltjen will play in the OF.
Exactly how some of us predicted, you know? When they were done with the series that mattered to several teams, they would play more of the newbies.
So there ya go.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Not good news
<a href=“http:// ”http://bit.ly/ae8Fxv" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ae8Fxv " >Matt Barnes charged with DV.
Felony booking tonight
Could be a season with the Lakers turned into a stay in the Gray Bar Hotel.
See ya in the European League Matt.
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 8, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Never liked his signing
Now I know why
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
To add to that
I too was with you guys in wanting Lindsey to bat and thought it a bit cruel to pull him, but it was still considered the “right” move and even if we’re living in a Dodger centric universe where we just want to glom on to something, anything, that would be more fun than the pain of the last 2 months, there are like 5 or so teams that are watching that series and wanting the Dodgers to play their “best” players. Now we all know the Dodger regulars have mostly stunk for awhile, for the most part, but the league, the other teams, want them to be trying to win and that means giving your best players at bats.
It was said by quite a few of us here that after this series, when they went to Houston, more of these AAAA players we want to watch for fun, will get some playing time and that’s what’s happening.
Again, I wanted Lindsey to bat too, and I understand the frustration in general given how pathetic they’ve been on offense. But if it’s possible to have a little perspective, there ya go…
Anyway, gives us reason to watch those meaningless Houston games and enjoy it in some way.
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 don't want perspective
I just want to be mad as hell because the Dodgers flushed a perfectly good season down the toiled. ;)
I really give a lot of credit to Lindsey though. He took his so called “at-bat” like a true gentleman.
by Michael Kieser on Sep 8, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Dodgers were sweep by a Whale’s Vagina
by Jaydavis on Sep 8, 2010 10:43 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Oh well,
In the words of my little girl who reminds me that it’s only a game……
Hakuna Mattata.
by Skunkburner on Sep 8, 2010 10:52 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
In this joke
The Dodgers are the Invisible Man.
by kinbote on Sep 8, 2010 10:57 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd
for the callback.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Sep 9, 2010 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No
Darrell Revis got his money though…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll play
Not the game though
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
i dont see how you could criticize playing mitchell, lindsey, anybody
given how the “regulars” have played – just a heartless, underperforming, uninspiring group. collectively this team should be ashamed of how they have played since the all-star break. simply pathetic.
I have had my share of ballbreaking MOMENTS as a sports fan, but for season long disappointment and frustration and utter failure, the 2010 Dodgers are the runaway winners.
so frank mccourt, ned colletti, joe torre, donnie yankee, larry fucking bowa, jon broxton, ron belisario, octavio dotel, george sherrill, russell martin, casey blake, (oh yes) manny ramirez, matt fucking kemp, rihanna, anyone named “ortiz”, and yes, andre ethier and anyone I may have forgot, fuck you very much and thanks for the bad memories, you got paid millions of dollars to fucking FAIL. FAIL. You FUCKS.
im sorry I spoke ill of you, jamey carroll. sad as it is, at times you were the best we had. godspeed, blake dewitt and j-mac. ted lilly, I think we could have been great together given different circumstances. james loney, eh.
amen.
by lchristmas on Sep 8, 2010 11:04 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Get a grip bro
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
dude. It's baseball
And stop trying to put it on one guy. This has to do with Andre playing poorly since he got hurt, Matt changing his swing and not being able to fix it, HoF coaches throwing the stars under the bus, trading the best RHH the Dodgers have seen in most likely decades for nothing, Loney hitting 200 since the ASB, injury after injury, Casey Blake still starting.
I could go on. This team had the talent, it didnt happen. Its sports. This happens
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 8, 2010 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
What ...
trading the best RHH the Dodgers have seen in most likely decades for nothing
… does Pedro Martinez have to do with this?
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
RHH
is right handed hitter. Pedro was a pitcher…
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 9, 2010 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
crossed-eye reading after midnight. Still what ...
trading the best RHH the Dodgers have seen in most likely decades for nothing
… does Mike Piazza have to do with this?
(Imagine my befuddlement when I thought you were talking about JMac!)
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Manny is a better hitter than Mike
Mike played C and Manny is an OF, so he had more positional value, but I think Manny is a better hitter
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 9, 2010 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Over the course of their careers, yes Manny was better.
But who was the better hitter when with the Dodgers? Mike.
Well, at least when Piazza was moved, the Dodgers got Gary Sheffield in his prime. Monster haul considering.
by Michael White on Sep 9, 2010 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions
At the time they were traded, Piazza was at his peak
while Manny was old. Still, Piazza’s OPS+ with the Dodgers was 155, Manny’s was 171. It’s close, but I’ll say Piazza was a better hitter the day he was traded than Manny was the day he was allowed to leave on the waiver claim.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Manny 2009 - until he became a White Sox
153 OPS+ with LA.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I misunderstood what your were saying
I thought you were saying career, not LA time. I was talking about career, and even so, Manny was amazing with LA in his 2 seasons with us.
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 9, 2010 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
The idea of running a Sizzler truck grew after the chain’s chief executive, Kerry Kramp, saw people wait for nearly an hour to get food from vendors parked along Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.
“I became a food-truck-crazy maniac like everybody else because I couldn’t figure out what in the world was making people stand in line for 45 minutes,” he said. “I was thinking, ‘These people should be going to Sizzler.’”
That’s uh, not the point.
holy fuck this buffoon would be perfect for the colletti regime
kerry kramp? this guy is making decisions at a multimillion dollar (disgustingly awful) chain of restaurants? fuck the world, we don’t deserve to live in it with assholes like this allowed to run amok
by lchristmas on Sep 8, 2010 11:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Turns out Venable wasn't ruled out of the baseline
per Corey Brock / MLB.com:
Just to clarify, umpire Mike Winters told #Padres manager Bud Black that Venable was tagged. It wasn’t a running out of the baseline issues.
Still a really bad call.
Dotel, such a bitching trade
I’m going to go break something
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Does gripping my keyboard before smashing something with it
count?
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
zach fucking duke?
get a grip bro
by lchristmas on Sep 8, 2010 11:15 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Talking of bros
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
get a grip sis
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
(didn't want to call you a bro hoe)
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
hmm, is there a grippier way of saying we’re currently terrible? Or at least a less fratty way?
Wow, we sure aren’t playing baseball well, and won’t be doin the postseason dance, and are becoming hard to watch.
by Josie Becker on Sep 8, 2010 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
You were supposed to say
get a grip dude
I set it up on a tee. But yes, buffalo dicks would be appropriate ;-)
by The Dude Abides on Sep 8, 2010 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
hey, I don’t follow memes, specially ones I wasn’t present for (where is this coming from?)
The Josie sets trends
by Josie Becker on Sep 8, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
hey, I don’t follow memes, specially ones I wasn’t present for (where is this coming from?)
The Josie sets trends
by Josie Becker on Sep 8, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Chargers might be at the top of the list for teams interested in moving to LA:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-ownerrankingsparttwo090310
Of the teams theoretically in play for L.A. (Vikings, Jaguars, Raiders if Al Davis were no longer in the picture), the Chargers have moved to the top of an increasingly short list, partly because Spanos has come into his own as an owner – and also because his sincere efforts to make a stadium work in the San Diego area have been met with civic indifference. "Without a stadium he realizes they can’t compete [financially], and he has legitimately tried to get one built," the aforementioned AFC owner says of Spanos. "His dream is to go to L.A., and it may happen."
build the fucking stadium, NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
Too late... LA already has a pro team
They’re called the USC Trojans
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 8, 2010 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
fight on, for old SC
the halfback makes, a salary
but seriously….actually I don’t have anything
by Josie Becker on Sep 8, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey!
You’re talking about my second favorite team, this weekend anyway.
"There’s no reason I can give you that makes sense. A lot of what I do is a feel thing."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Sep 9, 2010 7:22 AM PDT up reply actions
LA Area Super Chargers!!!!! Come on, make it so!
by Josie Becker on Sep 8, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Fornicate the Chargers, in their aorta.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 8, 2010 11:50 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
LA Voters have never and will never
approve public funds for a football stadium. If any franchise is moving to LA, they are going to have to privately finance their own stadium (not happening) or get some suburb city (City of Industry anyone?) to help finance it.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I want the Jags
so I can wash the Texans crush them.
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
I've been trying to stay away from the NFL Network
So I just found out that the Niners cut Nate Davis…
WTF Samurai Mike… Nate Davis was our future… LOL
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
I will quote Tim
“If David Carr thinks you have a bad work ethic, you must find breathing too laborious”.
Thats why he was cut.
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
speaking of cooking shows
I was basically forced to become a fan of The Next Food Network Star because my teacher was on it… pretty good show
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 9, 2010 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Das
he lost in like the first couple episodes. But he wasnt anything like he is in real life
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Sep 9, 2010 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
They are executing previous participants in the Big Apple?
Edgy!
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Hells Kitchen starts in two weeks
hell yeah!!!!
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
This should be replied to Tripon’s comment
by Julio Nievas on Sep 9, 2010 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions
For the record
I thought Torre screwed up
1. by not hitting for Chad to start the 6th, with maybe high OBP guy Jamey Carroll. Thanks to Sept. callups he’s got a bloated bullpen and with SD having 7-8-9 coming up in the 6th, he can try and sneak Weaver, Troncoso, hell, even Link there. Chad was up into the 90s in the pitch count and wasn’t likely to go more than one inning anyway.
2. by not bringing in Sherrill for Bills when AGon came up with the bases loaded and one out. Sure, Bills got him to hit a mere sac fly, which was almost cheap enough, but why else was Sherrill up except to face AGon with runner on? Isn’t he more likely to induce a harmless out or maybe a GIDP from him than Chad was?
but not 3. by PHing Ethier for Lindsey. That’s what he absolutely must do in that situation. No doubt in my mind. Lindsey will get a start in Houston – in totally meaningless games – and Torre knows he can make that happen. Ethier has to hit there, just for the small chance he’ll hit a bomb against a RH reliever.
BTW, was I the only one who thought Ethier was limping a bit after runner out that GIDP?
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Chad had 98 pitches through 5 IP
Even a nice, neat, 12-pitch sixth would have him up to 110 pitches and probably done for the night.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
he had a serious grimace on his face after being thrown out. I’ve thought all along that this team shouldn’t have been anything but solid if they were healthy, and him having some sort of injury wouldn’t surprise me.
Based on the way he is jumping at balls at the plate, he probably has something that is affecting his bat speed. I’m picking oblique muscle to win, and back muscle to place.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
Also thought he may be limping to give people something to talk about besides his performance, maybe as a shadow injury to mask his poor play, but i also don’t see him as doing that. Course, maybe Manny left a little black book of how to get out of playing in those pesky late season games.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
He is
but I assume that is the result of something other than him forgetting how to play baseball.
He is jumping at pitches because either mentally or physically he feels he can’t catch up to a good fastball. Everyone goes through it, and before anyone asks, no I don’t have a personal line to Andre Ethier’s body (DOWN JOSIE) to know if this is fact. However, the way his swing looks that would be my very first guess.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
I know it's late but...
…that’s a hilarious headline.
"There’s no reason I can give you that makes sense. A lot of what I do is a feel thing."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Sep 9, 2010 7:23 AM PDT reply actions
You want to read a long and rambling email from a player who got DFA'd?
check out this novella from Willie Montanez, late of the Orioles
Lou, not Willie
or was that a sly homage to Phil? Willie is definitely of our era.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Whatever day Joe Torre retires on
will have been one day too late
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
Since every manager follows the same patterns
I always tend to give most of the credit and blame to the players.
As it should be. And I assume that when I don’t understand a move I just don’t have all the information the coaches do. But, I’ve questioned so many of his moves this year, namely the use, misuse and overuse of certain players (Broxton and Kuo spring to mind), that I can’t wait for Tim Wallach.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/
I don't get the overuse of the closer role
since the Dodgers really have never had a period of consistent games where they would be using that particular pitcher in a save situation.
Lindsey's career stats
When a guy appears in a game the way Lindsey did, what does he get credited/charged with?
A plate appearance?
An inning of play (or 1/3 of an inning?)
Thanks.
People don't think it be like this, but it do.
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