Troubled Duck Talk
by Phil Gurnee on Aug 2, 2011 11:29 AM PDT
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PrintFor some of his past interviews you can check out the Duck Talk Section where we ask the questions we want to ask and try to see through the clichéd responses we normally get. For those of you new to Duck Talk, this is a complete fabrication based on interviews within my troubled mind.
Aflac Duck: On top of a craptastic season we just got the news that one of the jewels of the team will probably be undergoing surgery. How heavily were you counting on Rubby De La Rosa in 2012?
Ned Colletti: This is a huge blow to the organization, you don't find arms like Rubby's very often. I'm sick to my stomach.
Aflac Duck: This might seem silly, but if you had done some basic research you'd have found that 38 De La Rosa's have played professional baseball and they have all shown an inability to play the game. Only two De La Rosa's have shown any ability at all and both of them blew out their arms in 2011. It would seem to be a waste of time to devote any resources to someone with a sur name of De La Rosa.
Ned Colletti: What are suggesting, that I put to much faith into a player whose last name was De La Rosa?
Aflac Duck: That is exactly what I'm suggesting. Why don't you sign some Young's. They are black n white, short n tall, fast n slow, power n singles, pitchers n hitters. The Young's run the whole gamut of success in major league baseball. You could field a team of Youngs. past and present.
Ned Colletti: That is the most asinine thing anyone has ever said to me.
Aflac Duck: I beg to differ, the most asinine thing anyone has ever said to you was suggesting that Carlos Santana would not be able to catch in the major leagues.
Ned Colletti: Oh big deal. Carlos Santana Carlos Santana Carlos Santana, that is all I ever hear. Have you noticed his batting average is .231. Big ffing deal.
Aflac Duck: BA is not my kind of stat but since you went there, lets talk about the batting averages of the players you either acquired this past winter or made a conscious decision to bring back. Uribe (.204), Barajas (215), Navarro (.199), Marcus Thames (.197), and James Loney (.253). Just for good measure I'm going to throw in Furcal (.197) just to cherry pick the heck out of this line of thought. For a combined 25 Million you got a potful of suck. Is any GM in baseball getting less bang for their buck then the Dodgers? And that is just the sorry ass hitters you have thrown at the Dodger fans.
Ned Colletti: Easy to bring up the failures but what what about Miles / Carrol and ............ Tony Gywnn?
Aflac Duck: You are a stud at identifying single hitters. No one does it better then you, why that trio alone has produced 190 singles. That is something to hang your hat on Mr Colletti when you go hat in hand looking fro that next gig.
Ned Colletti: I've got two NLCS in my hat, I won't need much else.
Aflac Duck: We already noted that you blew a huge chunk of Frank's spare change to build one of the worst offenses in baseball. You basically surrounded your MVP with duck shit. You didn't do much better in the pitching arena. You started with a crown jewel in Kershaw, a decent pitcher in Chad, and lucky enough found that Kuroda only wants to pitch for the Dodgers. So starting with 3 / 5 in the rotation you added Lilly and Garland to the rotation, Padilla as the gap between the rotation and bullpen, and Matt Guerrier. Each of them have failed in their own way. Garland was a physical risk and while he had a track record of being one of the best innings eaters, he also had an MRI that said stay away to the other general managers. You gambled and lost. To your credit you knew you were gambling so you signed Padilla as insurance for both the rotation and bullpen with Broxton being a huge question mark. Padilla also went down which also should not have been a surprise given his health history in the summer of 2010. Another waste of 6.5 Million. Frank must be loving you. Not to be outdone you signed Lilly for 34 Million over three years. The best news for Frank is that this is his cheapest year. Next year he gets to pay Lilly 13 Million for possibly continuing being the worst starting pitcher in the NL West. This year Mr. Lilly ERA+ ranks dead last among NL West pitchers who have made at least 10 starts. In fact, no one is even close to him.
Rk Player ERA+ GS Year Age Tm G IP H ER BB SO ERA HR OPS+ 6 Ted Lilly 72 22 2011 35 LAD 22 123.2 131 69 28 94 5.02 23 126 19 Mat Latos 87 20 2011 23 SDP 20 118.2 114 54 45 112 4.10 11 105 20 Chad Billingsley 88 22 2011 26 LAD 22 134.1 132 62 56 118 4.15 8 103Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 8/2/2011.
Aflac Duck: In a season that one would be hard pressed to find ONE good move you made this past winter, you also signed Matt Guerrier. MSTI wondered why him? Ken Gurnick noted that this was the longest relief pitcher contract since Jeff Shaw way back in 1998. You defended the signing by saying
NC: Matt gives us depth in the bullpen as he's proven to be a strong performer on a team that contends year in and year out, he's willing to take the ball in any situation and his track record speaks for itself. We're excited to have him in the late innings for the next few seasons.
Yet here we are in August and all those millions spent on Matt could have been spent on Frank's pedicures given the production you have gotten from it. From those left in the bullpen he's kind of the last guy anyone wants to see pitch these days.
NC: I don't think anyone wants to see Kuo pitch right now
Aflac Duck: Quack Quack, good point. Good to see you have not lost your sense of humor. Somehow I don't think Frank is laughing given that no one is buying tickets to see this team. How does it feel to look upon Chavez Ravine and see the stadium 1/2 empty night after night?
NC: Don't blame me because the fans are boycotting Frank?
NC: It is easy to be the Monday Morning quarterback but I feel I did the best I could do given the resources I had at my disposal. Many fans wanted Adam Dunn to replace Loney. Good thing I didn't squander what budget I had on that. Sure just about every single FA I signed this past winter other then Kuroda has been a failure. This is baseball, some things just don't work out. Not like there are any predictive metrics that would have warned me to stay away from this group of under performing malware.
Aflac Duck: You got to be a seller for the first time this summer. How do you think you did?
NC: I was awesome, first off I moved a healthy Rafy for a AA guy who strikes out a lot and plays the outfield. Then I followed that up by making the last deal of the trading deadline by trading an outfielder who strikes out a lot for a backup catcher, a worthless setup guy, and an arm that Vance Lovelace just raves about.
Aflac Duck: Yes Ned, you were awesome.
Aflac Duck: So what does the future hold?
NC:Looks like crap to me. Good thing I'll be the GM of the Cubs by this time next year.
Aflac Duck: Are you going to try to sign Kemp to a long term deal before you go?
NC: Stewart just laughs whenever I call him. Matt Kemp is going to be an extremely wealthy man in about 18 months.
Aflack Duck: Can you give the fans any bones to make them feel better about the future?
NC: Sure, Uribe will be here for a while. So will Lilly, and Guerrier. Add in Flash Gordon, and don't forget they get Kemp and Andre for one more year. So 2012 is going to be alot like 2011, 2013 is when the shit hits the fan. Luckily for Dodger fans when I trade Kemp at the trading deadline next summer I might still be here to make sure they get the biggest bang for their buck. I bet I can stock a bullpen that will last through the next decade.
NC: Almost forgot, don't forget the weak hitting backup catcher who will be competing for a job in 2012. He was in the Red Sox organization so he must be good. He'll make all Dodger fans forget about Jeff Mathis when they see him control the running game.
Aflack Duck: Back to the present, what went wrong?
NC: I really don't know. I built the team just like the defending World Champions were built. I created a crappy offense and loaded up on the pitching. Yet here we are fighting for last place and the Giants who have no more offense then we do are in first place. We have a Lincecum in Kershaw. They don't have anything like Matt Kemp and they still tower over us. Maybe I should get more crappy hitters, though it does appear that Andre is headed in that direction so maybe I don't need to do anything.
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Weird that I didn't know this duck talk was coming when I wrote my limerick
(the attempt to win tix to the O utside Lands fest, reposting from end of last thread)
I live right down the street from the fest
Which is full of some of music’s best
But with my budget tighter than a duck’s ass
My only hope is to get a free pass
I’ll quack as loud as I need for this quest!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Thought this was a nice start — in the dead thread, I put a link to some thoughts from Score Bard from the old Toaster site that I found helpful and you might, too.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Nice. Thanks!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Also, if you think it’s any good — totally up to you — feel free to submit my limerick. I love boing boing.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
i saw an aflac commercial yesterday here in dallas
any day is a good day to be a Dodgers, Eagles, Penguins, Clippers, Texas A&M fan! except when they loose
I was born the year Brett Favre started playing.... amazing
If your a troll, bandwagoner, or NNAMDI iZ SO GREATZ-er fuck off or i will go apeshit on you
by henry-dekoeyer-eagle-fan on Aug 2, 2011 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
the funny thing about the toaster
is quality-wise it was incredible, but the refreshing and the way the comments worked… well, it feels like the stone ages
That’s what kept the bozos away. Anyway, back then, text-based blogs like that worked more smoothly than places trying to be cool (e.g. what the ESPN blogs were like until a moth or two ago). Nobody minded. I bet you didn’t know that there was a way of underlinking comment numbers so you could click and go straight to that comment. So there! That was up to the minute in the minute that it was introduced!
Indentation plus up button is awesomer.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Although I liked being able to link to multiple comments, and if someone repeated something you could say something like “88 meet 71”
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
You can do the same thing here, though not as easily (clicking on the date & time of each comment provides a direct link).
For instance, your comment and berkowit28’s comment.
Nice
The other thing I liked was collapsing the comments 50 at a time, which was great if you had a crappy connection. But the Toaster didn’t have Fanposts, which easily puts SB Nation over the top.
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
In threads with lots of comments, the ‘z’ key is huge. Toaster had nothing like the z key.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
true, although I’ll also hit shift+A mid- game thread.
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
hey
i respect the toaster for what it was and sometimes simple is best…. but this commenting system is just SO MUCH better and easier to use. i loved the content and the posters and what not of the toaster, but i didnt love the almost-archaic commenting system. it worked, but like DY says, this is better.
The Duck speaks for Joeline Q. AngryFan. Ned, what have you done for us, ever?
And then Ned says Manny, of course.
Manny was like the Patriots getting Randy Moss
incredible talent, fun while it lasted, came up short…except the Patriots know how to build a team
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
and how many championships did the Patsies win with Moss?
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 2, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Andre
Kuroda
Carroll
Blake
Furcal (best LA Dodger SS they tell me)
Didn’t trade Kemp
Drafted Kershaw – did not ruin his arm
Nomar
Traded for Betemit
Greg Maddux (first time)
Randy Wolf
Saito
O Dog
Belliard Sept Run
Marlon Anderson Sept Run
Belisario
Zach Lee
Elymania
Padilla soap bubble
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Jim Thome, Marcus Thames.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 2, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
They are not in my success pile, though it was fun to see Thome do nothing for a month.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Wait
didn’t signing O-Dog prevent us from drafting Mike Trout!
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
Logan drafting an outfielder in the 1st round, are you nuts?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Aflac Duck: That is exactly what I’m suggesting. Why don’t you sign some Young’s. They are black n white, short n tall, fast n slow, power n singles, pitchers n hitters. The Young’s run the whole gamut of success in major league baseball. You could field a team of Youngs. past and present.
Ned Colletti: That is the most asinine thing anyone has ever said to me.
Yeah, Duck — if Ned was going to draft based on last name, he’d be trolling for Johnsons.
Me, personally, I’m still hoping for Team Cabrera.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
DODGERS ANNOUNCE SIGNING ORLANDO CABRERA TO FIVE YEAR DEAL
LOS ANGELES – Well, great. Ned Colletti has just signed Orlando Cabrera to a 5 year, $25 million contract.
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
man this duck is funny
any day is a good day to be a Dodgers, Eagles, Penguins, Clippers, Texas A&M fan! except when they loose
I was born the year Brett Favre started playing.... amazing
If your a troll, bandwagoner, or NNAMDI iZ SO GREATZ-er fuck off or i will go apeshit on you
by henry-dekoeyer-eagle-fan on Aug 2, 2011 11:47 AM PDT reply actions
My First Limmerick Attempt!
Journalists gather to ask
Hoping to take Ned to task
What have you won
Manny and done
Ethier flips off the rest
Well done — except ask/task don’t rhyme with rest.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Journalists gather to pest
So sure that Ned’s not the best
You know the rule
Manny you fool
Ethier flips off the rest
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
There ya go!
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
The questions, then, asked by the duck,
Took gumption and chutzpah and pluck!
And from Ned’s answer,
It’s CLEAR! He’s a cancer!
Or it’s just that he don’t give a fuck.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Jonah Keri said that the Dodgers only had the THIRD worst trade deadline.
one day I’ll learn how to blockquote a large portion of text. One day.
Highlight the phrase you think rocks
click on the quotes top the box
Come on with haste
copy and paste
Finish with bagels and lox
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Trading Trayvon Robinson: worse than dealing Colby Rasmus or being unable to find a replacement for Yunieski Betancourt.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 2, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
grantland
like how they have a sidebar for footnotes so we can all be david foster wallace now
=\
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Aug 2, 2011 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Klosterman, Simmons and Eggers made the site. With Malcolm Gladwell (supposedly) contributing. Of course its gonna have footnotes.
Malcolm Gladwell is perverse and often baffling.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t say he was verbose and confusing. I said he was perverse and often baffling.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
that was sad
and hilarious at the same time
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 2, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Jonah didn't even mention
the Uehara trade by the O’s. Fail.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
out of time...I really wanted to get to canard
The Mallard posed questions easy and hard
And quacked with the lilt of the bard
Why this! Why that! He’d playfully ask
but Ned would not rise to the task
and treated the chat like a canard
Hollywood wanted it hard
Use a cool word like canard
Ran out of time
Making his rhyme
Hoisted by one’s own petard
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
Now THAT is a limerick. Scans beautifully and a nice punchline. Rec, rec, rec!
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes. Well done. It even validates “hoisted” (“hoist” is the original which no one ever remembers) for the scansion.
I am humbled here. Should stick to writing film reviews.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Brava!
and even tied it back to Hamlet
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 2, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
For some light on the Rubby situation, they don’t do surgery to actually repair the strained UCL, they do surgery to increase blood flow to the area to increase healing and reduce time on the shelf.
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
I’m just the messenger, but i imagine they only replace the ligament if there is actual damage or tearing, not just a strain
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
Yep, messenger.
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
The Dodgers official tweet
Rubby De La Rosa diagnosed with sprained UCL. He is weighing options & determining course of treatment. Unfortunately surgery is an option.
Sprained, not strained. A sprain is a tear, but not a full tear. I imagine the size of the tear comes into playt.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Dodgers medical-services director Stan Conte said De La Rosa reported tightness in his elbow immediately after leaving the game, but that he initially had felt it while throwing a pitch in the third inning
You MF. Say something when it happens so you don’t damage it further.
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
that's considered weakness on the streets
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
by Pure Azure on Aug 2, 2011 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
The translator was busy in a meeting between Colletti and Kuroda, trying to talk Hiroki into waiving his no-trade, and he didn’t make it back to the dugout until after the game.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The same translator does the Japanese and Spanish translation for the Dodgers.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
it's true
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 2, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I would also bet that Stan Conte knows the Spanish for “my elbow hurts”.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
once you get past the absurd notion of no one else speaking spanish in the dugout (more spanish in dugouts than in professional LA kitchens) – you can laugh at the image of some poor guy pleading how bad he hurts and no one able to understand a word he is saying
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 2, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Rubby was up on the shelf
Gathering dust just like Elf
That DVD
Taken from me
Proves wear ain’t good for one’s health
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
US in line with Jamaica
Blatter I wish I could thank ya
This is a breeze
Move on with ease
Unless we run out of bank-a
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Two Thousand One and One
The Dodgers by June were done
Their GM was free
To move one for three
instead he acts like a Bum
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
Win column had a low sum
First baseman suckles on rum
Ned was a jerk
Wasting hard work
’Least he used hair gel not cum
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
rhym’njosie
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 2, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, man. The possibilities there are endless. Can you imagine a Cockney rhyming slang limerick — that is, when you read it through, it doesn’t rhyme, but when you replace the last word in the line with the rhyming slang word, it all falls into place? Oh boy.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Josie sure thought she was slick
Roaming the thread with her shtick
Wouldn’t you know
She started to slow
Trying to troll this guy Richard
by Josie Becker on Aug 2, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I dunno
Jack Z jizzed him in the Bedard/Travyon deal, verdad?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
watched that game with my college bro last night
Got to watch Kershaw and Kennedy dealing on two tvs at this random El Segundo dive bar. Good times.
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Aug 2, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn’t you hear Vin say the Arizona Onebacks?
by Eric Stephen on Aug 2, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Cuolda sworn he said wetbacks
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
I am definitely on board for this plan
But we can keep Kemp and Kershaw.
Aflac Duck: That is exactly what I’m suggesting. Why don’t you sign some Young’s. They are black n white, short n tall, fast n slow, power n singles, pitchers n hitters. The Young’s run the whole gamut of success in major league baseball. You could field a team of Youngs. past and present.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The Orioles have released Justin Duchscherer, who never appeared in a game for Baltimore, MLBTR has confirmed. The Orioles have since announced the move with a press release.
2012 Dodgers 5th starter
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
Nah, they’ll find somebody even Duchschererer.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
2015 Opening day starter in front of a home crowd of 201 fans in K-Mart & Toyota Stadium in Chavez Ravine.
Shit gets worse, bro.
by Taylor Maricle on Aug 2, 2011 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
If the bankruptcy thing is still ongoing, if Frank McCourt is still operating as owner of the Dodgers, will Opening Day 2012 be a sell out?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Yes
They still sold out July 4 and July 7 (Ethier bobblehead plus discounted seats though).
I think people will show up to opening day with McCourt around, and then continue to stay away beginning with game two.
Yep
July 4 was legit, the place was packed. I would estimate July 7 was around 50,000 or maybe high 40s
plus IMO opening day is as much about the party as it is baseball, thats why it will always be sold out, people want to take a day off from work and get fucked up!!
i could witness a beating and die of a nut allergy?
by delias man on Aug 2, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I always make sure all my brass knuckles are lined with peanut and shrimp residue just in case the beatee has an allergy.
Opening Day 2012
Los Angeles – The only records set at Dodger Stadium today were by the LAPD for arrests for public intoxication…..
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
haha not me, I have a secret hiding spot. There is a secret overflow parking lot that nobody knows about, I guess until parking is overflowed. But we go straight to that spot early, and its empty. Got soooo wasted 2 years ago I didnt even realize Hudson hit for the cycle til the next day!
shit, guess it aint so secret anymore, dam me.
by uschris0304 on Aug 2, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
if you are talking about the parking lot behind the the Think Blue sign up on the
hill, I surely hope you walk down the road as opposed to trying to stumble down the hillside.
From his description of the day
I’m guessing he stumbled down the hill
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Shit gets worse
Dan Savage lied to us all!
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 2, 2011 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
really?
thought that was common knowledge
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 2, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
It will be a 16 year wait for me to know what that is.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 2, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
The way that part of the peninsula moves
by then it will be the Portuguese Straight Club
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
You want to talk discrimination
I’m still waiting for my membership in the Marineland Bubbles the Whale Club
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Are you trying
to dash the hopes of a 55 year old?
Every day I check the mail box. And every day I’m disappointed. But, until today, there was always tomorrow.
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
I am a member…..TBLA event?
KCAL! FTMFW!
by robotmadeofnails on Aug 2, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Next time Phil is in the clubhouse
he’s gonna get the finger or something.
Maybe I should get more crappy hitters, though it does appear that Andre is headed in that direction so maybe I don’t need to do anything.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Maybe Ned has a point
I really don’t know. I built the team just like the defending World Champions were built. I created a crappy offense and loaded up on the pitching. Yet here we are fighting for last place and the Giants who have no more offense then we do are in first place. We have a Lincecum in Kershaw. They don’t have anything like Matt Kemp and they still tower over us. Maybe I should get more crappy hitters, though it does appear that Andre is headed in that direction so maybe I don’t need to do anything
2011 Dodgers: 3.87 ERA, 3.69 x-FIP, 3.58 SIERA
2011 Giants: 3.17 ERA, 3.52 x-FIP, 3.47 SIERA
it’s not like the Giants are a much better defensive team either…
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Individually, by UZR/150 (comparing players with min 200 innings):
1B: Huff < Loney
2B: Burriss, Sanchez > Miles, Carroll
3B: Tejada, Panda > Blake, Uribe
SS: Tejada, Crawford = Furcal Carroll
LF: Burrell, Ross << Sands, Gwynn
CF: Rowand, Torres >>> Kemp
RF: Schierholz, Ross << Ethier
Slight edge to SF, but probably not half a run per game worth based on who’s played what so far this year
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 2, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants are at +10 and the Dodgers are at +3.
The Giants have a bigger lead in defensive efficiency which means that Dodger pitchers are better at allowing really hard to catch balls.
@andrewngrant
so the universe just hates us?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Not at all.
Once you go to third order wins the lead shrinks to five games, and the Giants are seven wins better than us at pitching, while we’re three wins better offensively.
@andrewngrant
Nothing wrong with not using UZR
but better to go with what “everyone sees” instead of just what you see. :)
how close is the 3rd base defense?
I would think Blake and Uribe are pretty good there
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
not being fat is good for your mobility
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
more than half a run a game has to count for a lot when you can’t score for shit
yes?
half a run means less teams that score, for those of us on the offensive short bus a 7/10ths of a run is like mount everest
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 2, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
their runs scored +/- is only +3!
seems crazy to me..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Aug 2, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Did they ever announce pitcher of the month for July?
"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully
Doesn’t anyone find it amazing that 38 De La Rosa’s have played professional ball and only two were worth a shit and both of them may have blown out their arms in 2011? What kind of BABIP is that anyway?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
