Clayton Kershaw & Matt Kemp Provide The Crackle & Pop, But What About The Snap? (Featuring A Snapdragon Giveaway!)
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 9:30 AM PST
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PrintFor eleven days beginning on December 18, Qualcomm Stadium, football home of the San Diego Chargers and San Diego State Aztecs, will carry a temporary new moniker: Snapdragon Stadium. Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm are the digital brains inside mobile devices made by top manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Nokia, and HTC. Snapdragon Stadium will host the Chargers-Ravens game on December 18, the Poinsettia Bowl on December 21, and the Holiday Bowl on December 28.
The Los Angeles Dodgers at their core are strong, with a duo as strong as any team in baseball. Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw had magnificent seasons in 2011, but it wasn't quite enough as the team won just 82 games and had to rally to reach .500 with a strong finish to the season.
The good news for the Dodgers is that Kemp and Kershaw will be around for quite some time. Kemp signed an eight-year, $160 million extension through the 2019 season to remain in Los Angeles and while Kershaw hasn't yet been extended you can bet that locking up Kershaw long-term is on the top of the priority list of the new owner.
The bad news for the Dodgers is that at least for the next two years the surrounding core looks to be a combination of declining production and increasing cost. There are 10 Dodgers signed through at least 2013, including six players signed this offseason. The difference in their 2012 and 2013 salaries is stark.
| Player | 2011 WAR* | 2012 Age | 2012 Salary | 2013 Salary |
| Ted Lilly | 1.65 | 36 | $12,000,000 | $13,500,000 |
| Matt Kemp | 8.75 | 27 | $10,000,000 | $22,000,000 |
| Chad Billingsley | 1.45 | 27 | $9,000,000 | $11,000,000 |
| Juan Uribe | 0.15 | 32 | $8,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
| Matt Guerrier | 0.35 | 33 | $4,750,000 | $4,750,000 |
| Aaron Harang | 1.40 | 34 | $3,000,000 | $6,000,000 |
| Chris Capuano | 1.30 | 33 | $3,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
| Mark Ellis | 1.10 | 35 | $2,500,000 | $5,250,000 |
| Jerry Hairston Jr. | 1.45 | 36 | $2,250,000 | $3,750,000 |
| Tony Gwynn Jr. | 1.15 | 29 | $850,000 | $1,150,000 |
| Totals | 18.75 | 32.2 | $55,350,000 | $81,400,000 |
| *WAR was an average of FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference | ||||
If you remove Kemp, the Dodgers will pay nine players who produced 10 total Wins Above Replacement in 2011 and will average 33 years old in 2012 a total of $45.35 million next year and $59.4 million the year after that. It's the main reason the Dodgers' 2013 payroll is already estimated to be roughly $107 million and that's without a first baseman or a right fielder.
We don't know what the new owner will do, or whether any new television contract would begin before the current one expires after 2013. What we do know is outside of the core of Kemp and Kershaw, the rest of the Dodgers will need to greatly improve if the Dodgers are going to contend in 2012 or 2013.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 9:32 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Honestly, should you be going along with a “sponsored post”?
At least, especially if this is something you may be compelled to do by SB Nation, don’t mix it up with real content as you did, that makes it masquerade as something approaching a regular post. Instead, put it in a box surrounded by “ADVERTISEMENT – SPONSORED POST” borders, so no one will have any doubt that it’s not a real post.
Better for the site’s integrity, even if everyone gets it already.
Just a thought.
From what I understand of this, the promotion is only being run in California and Texas.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
#fiftystateproblems
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
Better for the site’s integrity, even if everyone gets it already.
I’ll bite. If “everyone gets it already,” then what is the harm? We are all of us savvy enough to know what is going on here. Posts like this one pay the bills and keep the site up and running. We know where the line is between the content Phil and Eric generate on their own and content that is suggested by one’s betters.
It doesn’t mean that the writer of a sponsored post has lost his integrity — especially in cases when everybody who reads the post knows what is going on. In a certain manner of speaking, anything that anyone is paid to write is “sponsored.”
Except me, of course. I sold my integrity years ago. I got a very nice price for it, too.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
The only reason I'm here is because I thought it had no integrity
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
Don’t solicit for your sister, that’s not nice,
Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
(The great Tom Lehrer, of course.)
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
Of course!
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
Here was the assignment for this sponsored post: write about your team’s core.
The italicized paragraphs at the beginning of the end were generated by the sponsor, but the rest was just a normal post I would have written anyway.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
if I get asked to I will, but I doubt the soccer blogs are involved.
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
FWIIW – my whore comment was completely in fun. I can see a future where each post has a sponsor. People will complain but then they will get over it. My only problem is when you start sponsoring Acura’s.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Or Lexus
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 11:00 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I knew that, and took it as such.
Man I would have some fun with an Acura post.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
All you have to do to enter to win the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is make a single comment in this thread. Rules are above.
I didn’t open the rules (pdf file, BTW), but I assume manager and editors of the blog are excluded.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
my brow is furrowed from that list
Quite furrowed
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 9:37 AM PST via iPhone app reply actions
KEMP is the Dodgers core
without him they’d be doner than done. Or Dioner. With Kershaw nearly tied.
Now please send me my Samsung phone, thanks :)
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So, everyone is going to say that the Dodgers’ “core player” is Matt Kemp since he hits for power, gets on base at a high clip, steals lots of bases is a two-time Gold Glove winner in center field, has a fun nickname and is the best player in the National League, right?
That said, the second core player is clearly Emo Juan Uribe.
Well we have Kershaw, but yeah, they’re gonna say Kemp.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 9:41 AM PST up reply actions
Ernie Banks says, Where’s my P?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
Apple: core
I don’t suppose Qualcomm is looking for that.
I was hoping
That the prize would just be an actual snapdragon. But I supposed I could just go buy one of those at the nursery.
The core of the team is Uribe, I went for the rotten core because Kemp is surrounded by bad apples who should have been thrown out instead of placed in a fruit basket.
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Kershaw, Kemp, Kenley and the Overthehill Gang (including Andre)
what sweet fun
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
… or the Apple Dumpling Gang?
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
I got you beat, man.
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Per http://www.gardenguides.com/103-snapdragon-garden-basics-flower-annual-antirrhinum-majus.html
Snapdragons are a particular favorite of children who like to pinch the tiny individual blossoms and make the “dragon mouth” open and close.
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The team's core was obviously Andruw Jones.
I mean, did you see his gut?
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It’s a shame these posts went up before Yeonis Cespedes got signed.
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I assume Dodgers have no interest or shot at signing him, right?
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Given our history of Latin signings, absolutely not.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
It will come after the Dodgers' shocking signing of Prince Fielder to a 1/20/30/30 contract
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Dodgers didn’t scout Cespedes or put a bid on Darvish. Not that it’s surprising, but reminders your team is clueless are never nice.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
no it's not
Still hoping we’re one of the teams in on Beltran
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 1:16 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
sounding like
He’s going to get some good money
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 10:06 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
btw, it's apparently spelled Yoenis
e before o except after Y?
Or something.
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Google says we’re both wrong: Yoennis
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
Huh, or Wikipedia specifically. A lot of news sites are failing, too, then.
(No surprise.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoennis_C%C3%A9spedes
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real news sites, or the general bloggerverse?
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
"Real"
Detroit News, USA Today, NBC, etc, all spelled it with one “n”
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and yeah, USA Today is a middle market paper
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
I didn’t mean to “insult” the bloggers of the world, just that usually the credentialed set usually checks facts and stuff like that, while a lot of the b/R and their imitators will just parrot things
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
No I gotcha. From searching Google News
seems like both worlds mucked his name up pretty equally. And yes, Google News still considers Bleacher Report a “news” site.
Sadly a lot of newspapers have cut back or out on copy editing staff so there’s less proofreading help and more mistakes, all the time, even in print editions.
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Search for something that B/R would have a top result on Google. Click on the link. Hit back. There will be a link there telling you to ignore all search results from that site.
It will make your internet experience 12% better, guaranteed.
That’s a slang term for peyote, isn’t it?
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
…..don’t make it bad…..
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
I was going to take it in a Simpsons direction, but well done.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
What did the fair maiden say when she saw a swan?
Hey Zeus.
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
[X]
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
Not one of their best albums, it should be said.
but still, X rules.
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Yes! I keep forgetting to do that, thanks for reminder.
Still sad that they consider it “news” though.
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Polly wants a cracker
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Dammit that’s the same as the Cespedes gag.
Just way more accessible.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
The Dodger corpse player, is, of course, Juan Uribe, whose stinking, fetid, putrid cadaver of ex-Uribe will haunt the Dodger infield for years to come.
Oh, core player? There is only one choice.
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I think we just solved the mystery of all the putrid signings this offseason!
They’re there to mask the presence of Juan Uribe! I mean hell, he does look like a much less moronic signing when compared to this offseason…
my new BSI theory
Is Ned has some kind of Brewster’s Millions deal going on. He has to spend a certain amount of money on a certain number of players, none of whom can be on the team more than two years. He’s a Macdougal 2 year deal away from winning the prize.
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 11:14 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Clayton
Or
Rihanna’s
Ex
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
by TomasC on Dec 20, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions 7 recs
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
Kemp
First one out of the dugout, his physical size, enthusiasm and drive are the engine.
by padrecarroeselmer on Dec 20, 2011 10:03 AM PST reply actions
I vote for Matt Kemp as core player
He’s one of the top players in baseball, and contributes mightily to the Dodger’s success.
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by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks – I’ve always actually kind of wondered about why they don’t go to a commercial sometimes.
by TopDeckTrueBlue on Dec 20, 2011 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
I think Clayton Kershaw is the most important person to the Dodgers.
1. He’s a pitcher, you can’t start the game until the pitcher pitches.
2. He’s a pitcher, he starts every play in the game.
3. He’s a Dodger, and proud of it.
4. He’s the reigning Cy Young winner.
5. There’s a set of knives named after him!
When you
absolutely need to slice off your arm only a Kershaw knife will do.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
I give that picture a D. ;)
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The Dodgers core will be...
Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm, the digital brains inside mobile devices made by top manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Nokia, and HTC. Without Snapdragon processors Dodgers players will not be able to communicate before, during or after games with their wives, friends, family, lovers or agents. Without Snapdragon processors the Dodgers would only win 59 games and be the laughing stock of major league baseball. With them, the Dodgers future is bright. So bright you will need to buy some shades.
by Xeifrank on Dec 20, 2011 10:11 AM PST reply actions 3 recs
If the dugout/bullpen system in Busch Stadium (or whatever the hell it’s called) had used Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm, Tony LaRussa wouldn’t have looked like a fool making idiotic pitching changes in the World Series.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Multi World Champion Tony LaRussa
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
For a guy people liked to make fun of, he sure got to the World Series a lot.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
Indeed
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
I wasn’t aware that any of these Dodgers served in the Marines, so I don’t understand why any of them would be a Corps player.
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I sat next to a guy from the Navy at my old job. He tried to pimp me Amway products once.
by silverwidow on Dec 20, 2011 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
Nice, I like this better than the mobile site so far.
by fbihop on Dec 20, 2011 10:30 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
The iPhone app is much better than the mobile site, for sure.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
Using it now
But still can’t rec comments or see recs.
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Same as iPhone. Less indentation levels too.
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“Yes” – No one, ever
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
Ah! So that's what Cain meant!
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when it was hitting the late show circuit, I couldn’t tell if everyone was making fun of the absurdity of saying no in German or if they just didn’t get it
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t think there was anything to get. He responded to non yes/no questions with 9-9-9 also.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
As someone who spends most of the day writing snarky tweets about politics on Twitter, Herman Cain was my favorite candidate ever.
I would think it would circle around to being hard again because you get beyond parody at some point. Good to know.
Hell even The Onion just had to go with the completely true “Man who didn’t know China has nukes Presidential campaigned derailed by affair”
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Herman Cain is always circling around to being hard again. Allegedly.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
I got a couple of friends who swear to me that’s the Del burgers are just as good as In&Out burgers.
I had a friend swear to me that Hulk was gonna be a good movie.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
Movie in six words: Nick Nolte turns into giant bubble
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Best. Review. Ever.
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I imagined it as what a David Lynch comic book movie would look like
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
I would probably appreciate more if I came into it with that attitude and not wanting two hours of hulk getting angry and punching things.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
Full disclosure: I have seen zero minutes of any recent Hulk film.
I would be much more interested if these movies featured Bruce Banner on a long walk on the side of a road while piano music played.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Hulk is a kid’s book. Most of the Marvel universe is more adult now, but Hulk is a kid’s book.
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
HULK JUST PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Why did he become David Banner in the TV series with Bixby and Ferrigno?
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
I think it is David all around; mistake on my part
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
at least I meant to type David as that’s what I was thinking.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Was Bruce in the 60s/70s comics.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
I think I read somewhere that the TV execs didn’t like the connotation that came with name Bruce at the time.
It brought them down?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080615120643AAXVqHD
When they made the 70s show, though they believed the name Bruce was too “camp” and so gave him a more bog-standard name.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Recollections of Bruce Wayne?
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:58 AM PST up reply actions
The internet would have exploded back in the day over such a move.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
Well
I guess there had to be one person out there that did.
I just figured that one was Ang Lee.
I wonder what Ang Lee would have said in response to “Any regrets” if Lee had been in Zombieland instead of Bill Murray.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
I also thought Ishtar and Heaven’s Gate were great films. I tend to walk alone.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
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Never.
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Double Del
Del Ennis
Yoennis
the mind boggles
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
Looked up some Nutrition Info on this
It got a D+ grade
560 calories
Calories from fat: 315
by silverwidow on Dec 20, 2011 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
To be fair that’s better than I expected.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
didn’t see this until I posted, good man
by NotJoeTorre on Dec 20, 2011 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
NEVER
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
I submit
that the Dodgers’ core player is Capang, because if he can put up 360 innings with an ERA+ of 110 this year, all while ROCKING QUALCOMM’S REVOLUTIONARY SNAPDRAGON MULTIPROCESSOR AS HIS POWER SOURCE the Dodgers are gonna win this thing.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
if they each put up 180 innings it’ll either be the most incredible thing since 2009 nlds or most awful thing since 2009 nlcs
by G.Scott on Dec 20, 2011 11:18 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Snapdragon has 15 Value Over Replacement Cores
by Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache on Dec 20, 2011 10:33 AM PST reply actions
OK, I'll give a serious answer
We have spoken for years here about the Dodger core: the group of young players who all came up at the same time and formed the last great Dodger team (or were traded for key parts), the teams of 2008-09. Players like Loney and Martin and Ethier, pitchers like Billingsley and Broxton, and shoulda-beens or never-wases like Andy LaRoche and Juan Guzman. Since 2010, we have spoken about how the core has let us down.
But each of these talents has proven flaky. In the wave of young talent, only Kershaw and Kemp have separated themselves from the pack, and even Kemp is one year removed from a season that we can all regard as “disappointing.” Where that got the Dodgers, of course, is that when two players in that core did step forward and put up MVP/CY seasons, the rest of the team was not there to back them up.
The question asks, who is the Dodgers’ core player, the one who is so important to the team’s success… and if there’s one answer I learned from 2011 it’s that it’s nobody. The Dodgers had the shoulda-been MVP and the CY winner, and mustered up mediocrity. On a baseball club, no one player is the core.
Or I can put it more charitably: on a baseball club, the core player is all of them, right down to the last reliever out of the pen. They are all important to the team’s success, and without all of them contributing, the team is not successful.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:40 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Don't complain
He could barely afford to propose it.
Not a Wallis Simpson fan? Hate those slow-paced British movies? (I don’t get it.)
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
I hated Jordan’s mustache too.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
Did I write it that poorly, or do you mean poetry?
If it’s the former, well, shit.
If it’s the latter, I can come up with a rhyme, sure.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
Did I write it that poorly, or do you mean poetry?
Haha
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
How about if we change this to some of them
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
Touche.
Just saying that while you need more than 1 or 2 guys, 4 or 5 will do just fine.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
How about if we change this to some of them
Weasel words won’t win me a phone.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
Never liked him
If this is true, he can pontificate about Ryan Howard’s RBI totals in the slammer.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 10:46 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
I enjoyed your use of “the slammer” here. Well done.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
Pretty safe to say there’s a direct correlation between sports and child molestin.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
Kemp because he's the best offensive player
on the Dodgers
I still believe a lefty can after a bit master third base
by DodgerofTrolleys on Dec 20, 2011 10:42 AM PST reply actions
Not that that in itself matters but it really does for the Dodgers
I still believe a lefty can after a bit master third base
by DodgerofTrolleys on Dec 20, 2011 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
No matter who I think the core player might be
The answer needs to be Matt Kemp, given the $160mm he is now due.
You went to the game last night? Looked like a solid atmosphere on TV
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
yeah
it was pretty fun.
DeAndre Jordan had a couple of sick dunks that brought the place down. Also liked what I saw from the our rookie pg.
Jordan’s first dunk (down the middle) was awesome. I was happy that Bynum got his hands on one of those Chris Paul lobs to DeAndre later in the game. :)
I thought the T on Blake Griffin was weak, that he didn’t hang on the rim that long.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
I want to see more Devin Ebanks!
And less Metta World Peace.
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MWP needs to get in shape
Luke Walton needs to retire
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 11:02 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Also, Chauncey is listed at 6’3" but he seems taller. Maybe it’s just that he was reigning jump shots all night last night.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
After only one of practice plenty of players are going to look like crap. Especially the over 30 crowd who got out of shape thinking the season was never going to be played. MWP isn’t going to care about a preseason game. He may be done but basing it on that preseason game seems ridic. Was he so bad last year that he’s useless to this team?
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
I’m basing this on his play throughout most of last year. He’s a fun guy to have around but he’s nowhere near the impact player he used to be on defense. His shot always goes through stretches where it looks like some 12 year old is out there playing pickup basketball. It’s that ugly at times.
I would think my comments over time (though I don’t talk basketball all that much on here) would show that I don’t jump to quick conclusions based off of one poor or very good performance. I haven’t really wanted him on the team for a while now.
Just seems there is a huge gap between MWP not being what he was and being so bad that he should retire. Lakers are already quite thin, having MWP retire would do nothing to help the team.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
Do the Lakers still need him? Probably. Will he be worth a damn this year? Probably not. I guess he can still eat up some minutes and play some inspired defense from time to time but I don’t think he’s good enough to be starting anymore. The problem is he is too piss poor at shooting to be a good guy to have on the bench.
VegasBlues = Jim Tracy? ;)
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For the record, I personally don't think he's useless (yet) no, but am glad Brown is going to have him coming off the bench
rather than starting.
And yes, hard to judge players based on 1 exhibition game after a truncated training. But he did definitely have some very crummy stretches last year where he looked close to done. Still, I don’t think he is done, just that his minutes should be more limited. They have some younger guys like Ebanks and McRoberts who could really help a lot more this season.
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Why don’t they amnesty Walton?
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 1:59 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
They will most likely wait until next year to use the amnesty. No need to use it right away as they may have to absorb a bad contract between now and then in a trade.
plus
I think this is Walton’s last year under contract
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 2:03 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Someone asked about people who receive a brand new car as a Christmas gift. At a Academy Award party a few years ago that commercial came on (Easter Gift), and I asked who the hell gives someone a car as a gift? Of course this 50 year old blond pipes up that her husband did. What do you say when the couple is completely unknown to you? I asked if it was an Acura?
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Someone I follow on Twitter wrote this version of the car-for Christmas ad:
Husband buys wife a car! Wife expresses horror that he made a major financial decision unilaterally, on impluse!
I always thought that was awkward. here honey, I got you something that will cost us tens of thousands of dollars, that you may or may not comfortably fit in, and haven’t been able to test drive to see if it’s safe with bliand spots and whatnot. love you!
by G.Scott on Dec 20, 2011 11:13 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
What if it’s a really shitty car?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
It would take a certain sense of humor to put a bow on a Yugo
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, man. The best version of this joke is to take the wife’s Lexus, park it around the corner, and leave the Yugo in the driveway with the bow around it.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
anybody ever seen the traveling Yugo Museum? Actually not sure if it travels but I saw it in Chicago. Bloody brilliant.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Can you really call the Yugo a car?
I think that it was more of a monument to the car. It almost never moved under it’s own power. It was a road navigation hazard. It is the last thing that you want around when it is time to be quiet.
Our family "got" a car for Christmas once
Really, my folks decided they needed a station wagon to ferry them and their three sons around, so when we awoke on Christmas 1967 there was a brand new 1967 (you can bet my dad got a good deal with the ’68s out) white American Motors “Rebel” station wagon on our front lawn that Santa Claus had brought.
This is a ’67, but with a fancier finish, ours was just white. I believe those things came with a 200 hp V-8 engine standard.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
is that third window truck space? Another bench seat? coffin storage?
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Good lord, do you seriously not know what a “station wagon” is? Is the concept that out of date?
The thing is an SUV precursor. Behind the rear seat was usually a third bench seat that folded down to create a flat storage space. The Rebel’s rear seat faced backwards, so Dad could crack there rear window enough to suck in enough exhaust fumes to gas the rambunctious youngsters into submission
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
the first car I remember my family driving was my grandparent’s old station wagon. My only real memory of it was the night we got into a car crash. Whether or not it had a third bench seat escapes eight year old me.
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
My uncle had a Ford Taurus wagon in the 1980s and I remember siting in the way back facing cars behind us on the way to family vacations, etc.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
That just kills me. We also had a white station wagon, on our family trips the three boys got the 2nd row of seats, Tom and I got thrown in the back (no fold down seats), where my GI Joes and I played baseball for however long the trip was.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
American Motors was the weirdest car company
My dad bought my mother a Javelin, which was way too much car for her. I used to floor it and the wheels would spin without going anywhere.
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Gremlin
Pacer
They were different
Didn’t know they didn’t buy the Jeep brand until 1970.
Someone should bring back the Rambler name, it was a great car name.
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My first car was a ’66 Rambler.
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69 AMX was badass
My dad had one with the 390 and a heasrt shift kit, that succker was fast.
by MammothDodger on Dec 20, 2011 5:01 PM PST up reply actions
Roy Oswalt is seeking a one year deal now. Something like the Andy Pettitte 1/16 seems about right but man it would be funny if he got less guaranteed than Aaron Harang.
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BFDC Smash?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
Urban Meyer announced OSU to play in Mexico Bowl in Estadio Azteca. Says, “exercise your powers here, NCAA”
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Is that bowl game owned and operated by The Ocho?
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
oh you know it. Only available through streaming on Sega Dreamcast
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
Bonuses Urban Meyer won’t be getting next year: $150,000 for a BCS game, $250,000 for a BCS title appearance.
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
still dont get how auburn managed to get away with whatever it was that went down with cam newton.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Dec 20, 2011 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
Peyton Manning on the Seahawks next year. Book it.
Adam Schein @AdamSchein 2h
what a spot with bill polian. if you listened closely, caldwell is out, there is a 0% chance they trade top pick, and they will draft luck.
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Brett Favre stuck around for two years after Aaron Rodgers was drafted
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
Quarterback percolation is always a good thing.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
I hear that percolated coffee is fine at first, but like ten mins later it’s disgusting. Regardless, I want an old percolator
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
If you’re not pressing your coffee you’re not drinking coffee.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
you’re missing so many letters :(
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
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I don't use
s’il vous plait that often, me culpa : )
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
I only percolator I have anymore is my camping coffee pot. Camping coffee never lasts long enough to get disgusting.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
As much as it pains me to say it, Luck is probably good enough to start right away.
by puresilence on Dec 20, 2011 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Even with Peyton’s injury, I think you can get a first rounder for him, and that team needs a lot of help.
I doubt someone will take on his contract with all the questions surrounding him as well as give up an asset as valuable as a first round draft pick, does’t hurt to ask I guess.
Good point, think the Raiders are only on the hook for 2.5 mil this year though and only 5 mil guaranteed for next year. Also, Manning’s situation seems a bit unprecedented as far as the procedures/stem cell work done. I see your point though, just saying I find it very unlikely given Manning is due about 23 mil/ per year the next two seasons.
All Ireland, all the time.
John Ireland @LAIreland 26s
Yes…for pre and post game RT @Craigmackk: Are you staying with KCBS/KCAL now that you are the new Lakers’ play-by-play radio announcer?
They must spend a fortune powdering his forehead.
/cheap joke.
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by David Young on Dec 20, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
He goes through a lot of brill cream
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by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 11:58 AM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I watched the game last night on FSW
How was Ireland’s radio debut as the play-by-play guy? I know Spero Dieds was awesome, but as long as John didn’t embarrass himself, I might use him as the audio for the games: didn’t really care for Bill McDonald.
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Its just amazing that the Lakers are forced to use Ireland and McDonald for games now. Somebody in Lakerland just totally dropped the ball on this.
It was days like yesterday
that made me miss Chick Hearn even more.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Who is the biggest Dodger homer on the radio today?
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
Ireland becoming the laker announcer and taking the spot once associated with the greatest NBA play by play man in history, means Vic the Brick could be the man to eventually replace Vin Scully.
if that doesn’t soil your shorts you have a strong constitution
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
Macdonald wasn’t too bad. But I was pretty into the game and not listening to him too much.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Ralph Lawler was good but Bingo seemed to be the only word he knew last night:)
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
His bingo muscle got a workout, that’s for sure. I will probably listen to him on Wednesday.
I didn’t fully check but I don’t think the Lakers are broadcasting that game, at least I didn’t see it on KCAL in my guide. It will be on Prime Ticket and NBA TV though.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
Chauncy threw one up from at least four feet behind the arc as though he’s been doing it his whole career. Swish.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
I got to three and got really excited : )
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
I hung up because the choices I wanted weren’t there.
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Damn, Bored to death was a hoot
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I know, I'm bummed, the last two seasons were great. Loved Danson.
The other two kinda deserved the axe, but not B2D. Bummer.
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Ethan Martin
is pitching in the Puerto Rican Winter League.
He’s made 5 appearances:
5 games, 4 starts, 20.1 IP, 1.33 ERA, 14 hits, 16 walks, 10 SO.
Weird combination of numbers there. Interesting that they have him starting…
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Man, all over the place. An extreme MacDougal if you will.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Vance Lovelace is beaming as only Vance can beam.
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
i believe they said in the Baseball America chat
that they are going to try him as a starter again next season
by Brandon Lennox on Dec 20, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
and if i didn't read it there
i saw it somewhere else because that is def the rumor that he’s going to start again
by Brandon Lennox on Dec 20, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
If wonder if his low ERA is explained by either really good or bad defense.
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luck
he has it
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
the team's core
Kemp and Kershaw, most definitely.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
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Tuesday Trivia
What right handed power hitting platoon player has had the following OPS over the last three years?
.782
.827
.851
with a batting average never exceeding .247
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Sounds like
Mike Cameron territory.
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I think Mike is going the wrong way
.795
.729
.643
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
I know you said platoon (which I assume meant position player)
but I still have to inquire…Rod Barajas? :-)
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Just now realized
Christmas is Sunday, meaning the NBA is opening against a full slate of NFL games. Perhaps Christmas Eve launch would have been better?
nevermind, just realized only NBC is doing football on Sunday. Every other game is on Saturday. NFL moved first
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
lucky for the NBA. NFL would have crushed it.
by fbihop on Dec 20, 2011 12:32 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I’m reading “These guys have all the fun,” its about the history of ESPN, and man was the NFL the white whale for the network for their early days.
then they harpooned the whale, moving MNF to ESPN
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm.
“From hell’s heart, I stab at thee” the man said.
Hell’s heart = Disney?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
according to most people that have worked for the company, sure
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 2:29 PM PST up reply actions
They treated me OK until they fired me for no reason.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
that happened to my friend Fred too, right before he was to qualify for his lifetime Disneyland pass
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
IIRC there were only two original NBA games scheduled for Christmas (Bulls/Lakers and Heat/Mavs) and they bumped it up to five when that became the new opening day.
(It may have been three original games, but I can’t remember if Knicks/Celtics was always there)
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
New Year's Day is going to be weirder than usual though.
Since it will be all NFL, and basically no college games for once. Weird.
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Which means they are dishonoring my birthday and should be punished
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That blows
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by meercatjohn on Dec 20, 2011 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
This (no NCAA big bowl games) happens every time New Year’s is a Sunday, I believe. I don’t believe the Rose Bowl and Rose Parade have ever been on a Sunday.
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Kuroda
Per Tim Brown
While none of this is new or a surprise, I heard Monday morning that Kuroda was close to agreeing to a new contract and it wouldn’t be with the Dodgers. The Seattle Mariners said it wasn’t them, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, among others, answered similarly: "Not us."
Heard some audio from Jason Kubel's conf call with AZ media
Kubel said the Dodgers were his first choice. Said he had discussions with the Dodgers “quite a bit” but it sounded like what the Dodgers were offering wasn’t near Arizona. Asked how difficult it was to choose between LA and Arizona, Kubel said it was “very easy” to choose the D-Backs
Most days. Only Matt Kemp plays every day.
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One of the strangest Dodger winters in my lifetime. To be expected given everything that is happening. One is left to wonder if they would be shipping Andre out thus the interest in Kubel and Coco or simply going with major platoons in 2012.
Andre / Rivera
Kubel / Sands
Loney / Rivera or Sands
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I just wonder if all these shitty veteranny deals were part of making the team ‘attractive’ to new buyers? Or look more stable? I have no idea but Im trying to make some sense to this insanity.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Dec 20, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
like I said earlier
Brewster’s Millions
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Dec 20, 2011 1:17 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I doubt the product on the field (outside of high priced players like Kemp or good cost controlled guys like Kershaw) have much of an effect on how much the team sells for. The new media deal, owning the stadium, ticket sales, and other stuff like that will be what decides how much the team sells for.
Gonna be busy at SBN LA
Starting Christmas Day through April 7, there are only two days without a game from either the Lakers, Clippers, Kings, or Ducks: January 27 and February 24 (both Fridays)
Talk about chutzpah, the Clipper Season Ticket package actually has the Post Season Tickets attached. And that was before any deals involving Butler, Billups, and Paul. That was with Kamen, Gordon, and Aminu gracing the tickets. Ticket Manager must have had a fun time.
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Mattingly does ballet
Did this get posted earlier?
Don Mattingly in drag, in the Nutcracker.
Yes
but this needs to be a front page story. Mother Ginger
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UH Warrior Football
NORM CHOW APPROVED AS NEXT UH FOOTBALL COACH – Hawaii News – Honolulu Star-Advertiser fb.me/1me0Z8XXw
Good luck to him, I guess.
He seems to be heading down Oblivion Avenue
Maybe he should start drawing his pension
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Dodger Core
Obviously Kemp and Kershaw. If you had to push me into a corner and chose one it would be Kemp….I do believe that Ethier is just as important this year, because if he bounces back and can play the whole season it will be a big boost. To give us something positive to think about, what if Ethier never hits 30 HRS again but hits 40 doubles and improves against lefties-maybe that is possible.
Ethier must have a larget impact this year
I fully expect Kemp to do as well or close to what he did last season but Ethier must be the one to help protect Kemp in the lineup. With all the hoopla over getting a power bat in the lineup, Ethier is the best in-house candidate to take a “Matt Kemp” leap.
A local political blogger/activist passed away Sunday of colon cancer. Really sad and it hit me pretty hard, I knew her since I started my political blog and she gave me a lot of advice on politics and writing on the internet the past few years.
Anyway, I wrote something about her and here it is if anyone is interested.
Cancer really does suck.
Casey Blake is a Rockie
harding_at_mlb Thomas Harding
Casey Blake has agreed to terms with Rockies, pending physical, Rox GM Dan O’Dowd announced.
I might be the only one
but I’m gonna miss The Beard.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
I will miss him, too, for these reasons:
- he was easy to root for
- Juan Uribe, who is hard to root for, is playing third base
- depending on how you figure it, Casey Blake might be the third-best third baseman LA has ever seen, behind only Cey and Beltre
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
There’s no might about it.
Granted it’s not like there’s a ton of options. Who knew that Casey Blake had the 4th most plate appearances for an LA 3rd baseman.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
True
My memories of Tim Wallach blasting home runs into the cool L.A. night seem somewhat distorted now by my then-nine-yea-old mind. I liked Todd Zeile, too.
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
Blake out hit Wallach by a ton but Todd Zeile is probably number 4 or 5 on the All Time list. Now that’s just sad.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
one year, $2 million. Plus up to $1 million in incentives.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
Seems more than fair. $3 million if he’s healthy? If he can answer the bell, that is a good price. There’s just too great a chance that he’s be hurt/old, so any team with him needs another viable plan.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
Now half of the Dodgers’ 10 free agents have signed somewhere:
Barajas (Pit)
Blake (Col)
Broxton (KC)
Carroll (Min)
Rivera (LA)
The five that remain: Garland, Kuroda, MacDougal, Miles, and Padilla
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
My predictions
Garland – retire/NRI invite
Kuroda – 1/$15MM deal w/ LAAoA
MacDougal – Ned Special (2/$8MM deal, broken up as $750K/$4.25MM w/ $3MM deferred)
Miles – 2/$10MM deal w/ SEA or DET
Padilla – starts season rehabbing neck, signs MiLB deal during ASW, shoots himself in foot, nixes said deal
"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." -- Dr. Sheldon Cooper
shoots himself in foot
The proper term is “plaxidently”
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
I forgot about him
as he was a later FA
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
Reunited with Cuddyer
Good luck to him.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 3:07 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Huh?
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 3:11 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Prospect Mini Camp
Pitchers (8): Steven Ames, Michael Antonini, Rubby De La Rosa, Stephen Fife, Shawn Tolleson, Josh Wall, Allen Webster and Chris Withrow.
Position players (7): Alex Castellanos, Griff Erickson, Tim Federowicz, Tyler Henson, Alfredo Silverio, Scott Van Slyke and Matt Wallach.
only surprise to me is Tyler Henson
i’ve already done my write-up on him and he didn’t seem too special, although he did already play a full year at AAA as a 23 year old
by Brandon Lennox on Dec 20, 2011 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
it terms of suprises of guys who weren't invited
I thought Songco would for sure be there and I thought Lemmerman might go as well
by Brandon Lennox on Dec 20, 2011 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
What’s Rubby going to do there? General training, fielding, running around? Batting? I wonder if it’s even OK for him to throw the ball fielding?
Dont they have class type things where they talk about how to handle yourself as a big leaguer and things like that? Maybe hes going for that sort of thing in spite of already being in the big leagues..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Dec 20, 2011 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
learning how to balance a checkbook. getting lectured on staying away from hoes. the perils of herpes.
They cause you to piss hot on a drug test?
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
He can participate in workouts at least; also, the guys go around to parts of Los Angeles, like visiting Childrens Hospital and other places.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
BREAKING NEWS
dylanohernandez Dylan Hernandez
At last, Ronald Belisario has a visa. His agent says he will be with the #Dodgers when they open camp: lat.ms/ugLt23
Ned Colletti does not make plans that include counting on Ronald Belisario.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
However, he does make plans that include counting on his fingers.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
Is there anyone you’d actually take off the 40 man for Bellisario?
Troncoso I guess.
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
You do remember how terrible Bellisario was the last time he was here right?
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by regfairfield on Dec 20, 2011 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
Now all he needs is a mastercard and he’s all set.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Dec 20, 2011 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
but don’t get an American Express, paying back the whole balance each month is rubbish
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve done that ever since I’ve had a credit card. Otherwise they make money off of you and I refuse to be a debt slave.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 3:10 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
my student loans took care of that for me
by Josie Becker on Dec 20, 2011 3:15 PM PST up reply actions
I should rephrase
I refuse to be that much of a debt slave. Some things are unavoidable.
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
We officially have the ugliest team in history
"I'm telling you, y'all created a monster."
by Pure Azure on Dec 20, 2011 3:01 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Bill Conlin was a frequent guest on the Sports Reporter every Sunday morning. Think they’ll mention it at all?
That would require watching that show to find out.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 20, 2011 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
Dodger's Core player:
Juan Uribe. As Juan goes so goes the Dodgers, if he produces like he did for the Gnats we will get solid, but unspectacular production and late order run production. I can see that If Juan is not healthy he will be the beginning of the fall off for the Dodgers, we would then have to start Kennedy and bring up who ever we have in the minors to address bench depth and this would start the dominos falling.
The core player on the Dodgers can’t be Kemp. He couldn’t even with the MVP when the BBWAA had the opportunity to set a horrible precedent.
It can’t be Kershaw. He can’t even feed every kid in Africa.
It can’t be Ethier. He was a non-tender candidate, if only in his own mind.
It can’t be Billingsley. I saw it in his eyes.
It can’t be Lilly. We’ve already traded him once.
It can’t be Loney. He’s two different people.
It can’t be Gwynn. His name is too Friary.
It can’t be Jansen. He hasn’t even caught in years.
It can’t be Uribe. That’s why he is so emo.
It is Vin Scully.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The core player of the team is none other than...
Don Mattingly
by PopnFried on Dec 22, 2011 12:31 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Kemp and dee go hard
any day is a good day to be a Dodgers, Eagles, Penguins, Clippers, Texas A&M fan! except when they lose
I was born the year Brett Favre started playing.... amazing
If you're a troll, bandwagoner, or NNAMDI iZ SO GREATZ-er fuck off or i will go apeshit on you
by henry-dekoeyer-eagle-fan on Dec 22, 2011 5:21 PM PST via iPhone app reply actions
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