Barajas, Kershaw Among 1,001 Reasons To Enjoy Dodgers Win Over Cardinals
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 8:18 PM PDT
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Three batters into the game, Matt Kemp hit a three-run home run to give Clayton Kershaw all the run support he would need. But the Dodgers weren't done scoring, pounding the Cardinals 13-2 Tuesday night in the second game of a three-game series at Busch Stadium.
Rod Barajas hit three fair balls over the fence tonight, and only one of them bounced first. The two-homer game by Barajas was the 68th by a Dodgers catcher since 1919, and first since Russell Martin on August 15, 2007.
It is the first series win in St. Louis for the Dodgers since 2003, and evened the all-time series with the Cardinals at 1,001 wins apiece.
Kershaw battled the sweltering heat and humidity to pitch six innings, needing 108 pitches and two jerseys to do so. He struck out eight, giving him a National League leading 207 on the season. Matt Holliday fanning in the first inning was Kershaw's 200th strikeout of the season, giving Kershaw back-to-back seasons with 200 punchouts.
Kershaw did not allow a run tonight, his ninth start this season without allowing a run. That ties him with Cliff Lee for most scoreless starts in the majors this year. Kershaw has a string of 14 consecutive scoreless innings, and lowered his ERA on the season to 2.51, third in the National League behind Johnny Cueto (1.89) and Ryan Vogelson (2.47). Kershaw is tied with Ian Kennedy for the league lead with 16 wins, and is tied with Roy Halladay for the league lead with 189 2/3 inning pitched.
Eugenio Velez entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning, and struck out in his only at-bat. Velez is now 0-for-26, the worst start to a Dodger career by a position player, at least since 1919. Whenever Dee Gordon is ready, which seems like it will be at some point this weekend, it's time for Velez to go the way of Dioner Navarro.
Despite the Dodgers holding a double-digit lead, the ninth inning was eventful. Infielder Skip Schumaker pitched for St. Louis, actually hitting 93 on the gun once. Schumaker struck out Trent Oeltjen which excited players in both dugouts as well as the stands, but then walked Andre Ethier and gave up a bomb of a home run to noted heater hunter Aaron Miles.
Then, in the bottom of the inning, Blake Hawksworth began his third inning of work, which would have earned him a save thanks to to MLB Rule 10.19(d)(3). However, Hawksworth allowed a run and left with two runners on base with one out. It would have been the first save of three innings or more by a Dodger since Ramon Troncoso pitched four innings at Coors Field to get a save on April 25, 2009.
Hiroki Kuroda goes for the sweep on Wednesday afternoon, facing Jaime Garcia for St. Louis.
WP - Clayton Kershaw (16-5): 6 IP, 6 hits, 2 walks, 8 strikeouts
LP - Kyle Lohse (11-8): 3 IP, 8 hits, 8 runs, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
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i love the heater hunter
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.
Triple H
the Heat Hunting Hobbit
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 23, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh and to actually answer the question, yes it was.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Aug 23, 2011 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was just going to amend that.
This is their first series win ever at this particular Busch.
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
we’ve had the bird in the hand, we finally got two in the bush
by Josie Becker on Aug 23, 2011 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice. Made me smile on that one.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Aug 23, 2011 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn, I missed the position player pitching, and it wasn't James Loney!
More importantly, yay for routs. Yay for rare series wins in St Louis. Go for the sweep, I say!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
And in more good news
via Joe Block:
#Dodgers RHP Kenley Jansen pitches perfect inning w/ 2 Ks on rehab at Rancho Cucamonga tonight
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too bad rod couldn't stay healthy
he now has a .738 ops for the season
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.
I wouldn't mind brining him back next year for much less money
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.
Is there anyone on the team you would not bring back next for less money other then Velez?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
navarro
no wait that fucker isn’t on the team anymore! Loney. Obviously not Etheir. Mac the suck. then spend all of our money on a 1st baseman. Padilla. Garland.
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.
basically I'm already operating on the assumption our payroll is going to be reduced.
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.
hope lilly and uribe bounce back a bit
hope our bullpen doesn’t get devastated by injuries again
play good defense
good starting pitching
be the giants
oh my god I’m ned colletti…
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.
if we can sign aramis ramirez
don’t bring back miles. But then we won’t be able to afford an upgrade at 1b.
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.
but
we’ll have either Sands or Van Slyke
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 23, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
though
that’s more an opportunity than an upgrade
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 23, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
to compete
we will probably need one of them to be good
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.
rod could be a good backup
maybe. At least not a horrible one.
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.
If I get his right, everyone other then Kemp you would bring back as a backup. Except Loney.
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gordon miles sellers carrol and uribe
would split up 3rd/ss/2b. Kemp and Etheir in the outfield. Platoon Gwynn and Rivera. Replace Loney. Try to sign aramis ramirez. Maybe get a 5th starter(assuming kuroda is healthy). I know this isn’t a particularly good team if we do that, but with the salary restrections we are likely facing its probably the best we can do and hope for slyke or jerry or someone to go big.
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.
oh yeah that guy
so yeah, that. hope fed and ellis are better then navarro.
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.
If the team has a bunch of prospects/rookies/near-rookies on it to start next season, listening to the likes of Rick Monday and Steve Lyons is going to be enough more insufferable than it is now.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
but maybe Steve Lyons will wonder if the uniforms would look different if they were green. Dude must smoke the most incredible weed.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
Seriously
What was he going on about tonight (or any night really)? Cards need to resign Pujols ASAP before Musial dies? Or something? WOT?
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 wish I was there for the game
instead I was up at the gym just working on my fitness.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
In the long run that's a better choice.
You can see highlights of the game, but you can’t watch highlights of yourself working out if you didn’t work out. Or something.
I decided to run to pick up a pizza tonight, to try to balance out the calories I’d be intaking.
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It is important to get in as great as shape as possible by age 30 so you can coast for the next 20 years
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Any special promo’s going on at DT this homestand. I need three good tickets for Friday Night
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
If you use the code
TrueBlue (it is a Jet Blue promotion) you can get some good discounts though for a Loge Seat behind home plate (Section 101) it still costs $44/seat with fees but that is less than $80 it cost normally.
With one more win
Kershaw will become the first Dodger to win 17 games since Chan-Ho Park won 18 in 2000.
Nothing is ever easy.
Ted Lilly is still listed to pitch on Friday
but they have not announced the rest of the rotation for the home stand.
Also
Barajas had as many extra base hits tonight as Ethier has all month.
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Two right?
Discounting Miles’ HR off Skip?
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
HRs off position players almost need asterisks.
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lets sign jeff mathis
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"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 23, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Every time the Dodgers manage a 3 inning save
I think of this, Jae Seo’s last appearance for the Dodgers, and how the official scorer ruled that he did not pitch effectively so no save.
Yes, but it stuck with me.
Seriously, what sort of good did that official scorer by not giving Seo a save? All he did was just show off that he saw a word in the rule book. He did not apply common practice. I don’t think there has EVER been a case before of a pitcher who qualified for a save under the three innings rule who was not given it.
You know what I hate? Those activist official scorers who keep trying to make new scoring rules from the press box. The official scorer should follow the original intent of the people who wrote the rule book!
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 23, 2011 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I know AZ has Goldschmidt but trading Brandon Allen didn’t make a lick of sense. His power = insane.
Diamondbacks should not trade with Oakland
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He seems like every other crappy unathletic first baseman in the Oakland system.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 23, 2011 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Was Barton’s incredible defensive rating a fluke last year?
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1, 3, 12, 2.
Yeah, I’d say so.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 23, 2011 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I always doubt any rating that shows a block of wood doing well.
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When one season is still SSS
One or two great plays must make for a big swing.
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When standing in the wrong place by six inches can cost you half a run, yep.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 23, 2011 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
yes.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I just watched his HR
My god, what was the distance of that? It’s a long way to that deck.
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Ziegler's good and they needed more relief, but we know how dangerous it can be trading prospects away for middle relief...
might be a SSS here but Allen does seem to have huge power. Might be a case of, no room for him, they should’ve gotten more for him, but everyone knew they had no room for him, so….
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Troncoso
I remember that game. Seems like that’s what got him known in LA. I think that was a big win if I remember correctly.
That was his second year. The win was way too early in the season to be big. Helped my fantasy team out a lot though. I picked him up since Broxton had, I think, pitched three games in a row, so I thought he might be used to save it. Wasn’t expecting it in that fashion.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Roy and Hamels
Did they get roughed up a little bit lately? Seems like Hamels ERA was a lot lower than Kershaws last time I checked.
Kershaw and the CY Young
Now that his ERA is under Hamels and Roy, he’s got the most K’s..16 wins is tops between those three. Is he in the driving seat right now?
Obviously the Dodger offense could get him zero wins the rest of the season (yes i know wins suck but i think we all know it can help a pitcher win the award). But seems like if he finishes with a lower ERA than both Hamels and Roy, can win 18-19 games and leads the league in K’s. That would be tough to vote against him one would think.
CK pitches in a well-known pitcher’s park, Halladay, Lee and Hamels (now injured, right?) in an famous bandbox. Many voters will consider this.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
He is gaining ground, the whole Doc Gooden thing with 200 K’s opened some eye’s tonight.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
People love milestones
and things that go woa
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Kershaw became the first pitcher to have back to back 200 K seasons before his 24th birthday since Gooden in 84-85-86
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Then Kemp should be a lock for the MVP
Anyway i don’t see how they could explain giving the CY Young to anyone but Kershaw if he gets the Triple Crown, and even if he doesn’t he now leads all CY Young contenders in Wins, K and ERA.
Ellis and Federowicz will likely get most of the September playing time, and it’s conceivable they could form a young tandem next season.
He erroneously calls Fed a switch hitter in the article.
Does everyone not know Ellis is 30 years old?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Can Gurnick (or you and me) tell the difference between 25 and 30 anymore?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I can still subtract 2011 from 1981
What is scary is that someone born in 1981 is 30 years old.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Makes me feel old
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
No one in high school was alive when Nevermind came out.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 23, 2011 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I was in 8th grade.
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 23, 2011 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Have to say the first time I heard Nirvana was like the first time I heard X.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
OUCH.
/stay off my lawn, etc
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 gotta say, the whole get-off-my-lawn thing is ha ha funny when we’re all joking among friends, but now that I am old and own my own home, I’m wondering:
Why you gotta be on my lawn? Look, there’s the sidewalk. Can you please just goddam use the sidewalk? Why you gotta be on my lawn?
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Do you yell at people
like me who let their dogs pee on your lawn?
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'!
No. I’m too passive-aggressive.
I gotta get a little older before I become aggressive-aggressive.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to meet someone who is passive-passive.
But I guess I’d have to make the first move.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I used to own a home on a corner lot with lawn on both sides and it was near a school! Get off my lawn was a real reaction.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Before I was born, when my sisters were little, like in 2nd or 3rd grade or something (the world may have been black and white then, according to a question 3-year old me asked once), my family lived directly across the street from a school, and my mom wouldn’t allow my sisters to cross the one street to get home without calling for her first.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
My parents were so overprotective that she would not allow us to walk the half-block to the school bus stop. She called the district and arranged for the bus to stop directly in front of our house.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I think my parents felt they had one kid to many. They pretty much let me go whereever I wanted from the time I could walk.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too
We were free to roam from dawn to midnight
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'!
Not that free, from dawn to dusk
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Not From Dusk To Dawn, eh?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
a terrible movie I will always watch
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
It was pointless fun for sure.
Then again, I didn’t hate Cowboys and Aliens either.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t hate it, but I’ll never watch it again.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Me either, but I liked the western elements of the setup. Not much of a payoff though, as it simply become another vanquish the weird aliens movie.
Olivia Wilde had the most amazing makeup the 1870s could possibly conjure up.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly I’d have liked the movie more if she was not in it.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Interesting point. Not sure how the people figure out what the aliens want and get any ideas how to defeat them without her though.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Use the dog he was pointless
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
During the school days, our homework had to be done first, but we were free to stay out until the streetlights came on.
I can remember walking to school by myself in first grade from St. Andrews Place to Van Ness Elementary in Hollywood. That must have been 1966-67. Different times.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Sadly, I don't even *have* a lawn.
I guess I can yell at kids to get off my front steps, or get off my rickety side picket fence. And pick up after your damned dogs!
{hikes up pants to chest}
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
however, you get to tell people to not steal your plants, so there’s the tradeoff
(ps I am in love with your house)
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
hah hah
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
In the summer of ’81, I worked weekdays as a summer day camp counselor like Maddz just did this summer!
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I was married and just about to finish college and start work as a newbie programmer
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Those vacuum tubes were a pain in the ass, weren’t they?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I was at my last summer of camp in Colorado and waiting for the baseball strike to end.
That summer, in August, we got snowed in while hiking at the Flat Tops near Steamboat Springs.
I was 25
having the time of my life
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'!
Jackson Browne and I are the same age. “in ’69, I was 21 , and I called the road my own..”
Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.
I remember seeing
Raiders of the Lost Ark that summer. Still working in a local store and going to school
My first real big screen movie was Star Wars, in Century City in 1977.
I saw Raiders in the theaters twice that summer. A sneak preview about a week in advance at the old Alex Theater in Glendale – the house was full and it was awesoke! – and later I talked a girl into seeing it with me in one of the big Westwood theaters, and it was awesoke again.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Alex Theater ruled
One of my stranger movie memories from back then, Glendale a little theater that couldn’t compete with the big guys downtown so it showed triple features of bad movies for next to nothing. Somehow they lucked into Billy Jack and I remember the lines were the longest I’d ever seen back then.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I was living in Glendale in 81
Then moved in with my girlfriend in La Canada later that year. By mid 82, I was back in Glendale on my own again.
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'!
We have come close to passing each other all the time. In Glendale, I lived on Chevy Chase/Glendale Ave and Chevy Chase/Central from around 79 – 82
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I lived on
Everett in the late 70’s, then Belmont in 81, then on Columbus and Stocker in 82 – 84
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 was all over these neighborhoods in those days. I once dated a girl who lived on Everett, just north of Colorado. The house next door to her was vacant for a little while, which she pointed out to me.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, my first wife lived on Everett and had a vacant lot next to her:)
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Would not shock me to find out she used to cut David and Marty’s hair.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh. This particular girl was a bank teller, but became a dental hygienist.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
One of my girlfriends back then
was a bellydancer. And my bookie. She was (and still is) awesome
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'!
Sounds like it. A winning combination.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I worked in the medical lab at
Glendale Adventist Hospital from ’78 – ’83.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
See
I lived like five blocks from there.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You must have drove a few girls up Scholl Canyon back in the day.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Had a friend who lived there when I was 14/15.
Only had one girlfriend in high school and I married so no, I had a van.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Was it a Chevy?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Totally
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s all right with me.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Talk about Shocking stuff
back in 79 I went to a place called Dave’s Van Shop in North Hollywood when vans were being tripped out like crazy.
That place is still around – what the hell do they do?
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Sell shoes?
Rides are still getting tricked out though, right?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Used to drink
in a bar/restaurant called Shenanigans on Broadway, right across the street from the paper I worked at. Really strong drinks and it took you 20 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the darkness.
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'!
We must have all had some drinks at the original Damons on Central near David.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep
I still talk about that place
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'!
Don't think I have actually
Seems like most of my drinking was at gatherings in peoples houses once I was of age. Underage was beer in parks or garages.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
To bad Damons was the best atmosphere. Dark as can be, naked Hawaiian girls adorned the murals, Mai Tai’s, best salad, steaks in my young life. Place books are written about.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I missed out, clearly.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
2000 hits for Paulie - Congratulations
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DODGERS 1 Better than sf
in Run Differential for the season!
The race to THE KINGS OF MEDIOCRITY is ON!
Castellanos got on base four times including getting plunked twice. Now at .361/.443/.675 for the Lookouts. If this guy could legit play 2B = GOLD.
Kimbrel with his 40th save. Him and Venters have been absolutely sick.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Aug 23, 2011 9:21 PM PDT reply actions
Starting to lose faith in Jerry seeing his crapload of Ks lately. I know some didn’t buy into him to begin with but whatever.
Luckily you have transferred your faith to someone two years older and a level below him.
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You also gave up on Trayon kind of quickly
heck of a day for him.
At least five hits the last I looked
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his babip must be approaching 500
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.
Everyone complained about the K’s, he’s stops striking out and everyone focuses on his BABIP.
Six hits today, last LA Dodger to get six hits in a day in his rookie season?
I’m going to say no one but I’d be curious if Uncle Google could find out.
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I've been focusing on both!
if he was a current dodger and somebody was giving him props for doing good today, his babip would be brought up here.
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.
When he woke up this morning
Scott Van Slyke’s OPS was exactly 1.000.
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Risers in August
Van Slyke
Castle
Jacobs
Buss
Songco
O’k something
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What Dodger uni number
has been worn by the most players this season? And who wore it?
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9 — Velez, Gimenez and… somebody else, right? IDJ2?
3 — Paul, Castro, Gordon?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
You have all the right players, just not in the right spot
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Bingo
From memory, or did you look it up?
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I forgot everyone who passed through the clubhouse was listed there!
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Memory
I saw Eric’s list, and remembered that Velez and Paul were #3, I knew for sure that Gordon and Gimenez were #9 (because I was #9 in high school so i notice when players are) and i kinda just winged it and went with Castro as the 3rd since i knew IDJ was #13.
by Taylor Maricle on Aug 23, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Let’s say there are two teams you don’t really care about, but you have to watch the game. Think, Baltimore and Kansas City.
Which would you rather see happen:
Position player pitch
Pitcher play in the field
Emergency catcher
what about 5 man infield
saw this the other day.. might have been toronto/anaheim… maybe its not as rare as I think..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Aug 23, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
position player pitch
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 players to choose from now, for Dodgers perspective though.
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TJ Simers has a new column
and it’s about Vin Scully. Kind of.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
The premis of the article is stupid and flawed
companies do these surveys about everything all the time no matter what. Simmers has to know that. He is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this story.
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.
I’m gonna side with Simers on this one. The Dodgers are responsible for what the survey says, no matter who is issuing it, and asking for fans to rank Scully is as dumb as it gets.
That said, Simers main job at the paper is to be bitingly funny, yet my facial expression didn’t change while reading that article.
I imagine the survey is some standard stuff cooked up by some firm that is subcontracted to do such things.
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Agreed that it’s a dumb survey. Mad at myself for clicking the link knowingly reading a Simers column.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Angels used Walden in the top of the 9th of a tie game. Might pay off with a victory. One on one out, bottom of the 9th. They need this since the Rangers lost again.
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No more save in play. Even the old schoolingest of managers would use their relief ace in the top of the ninth at home in most cases.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Torre did. I remember Lasorda doing it long ago. At home, once he got to the pen in a tie game, he used the best first then worked his way down, eventually getting to mop up men and Jeff Hamilton.
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Jeff Hamilton pitched in the Astrodome.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Never let facts get in the way of the line.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Not sure I saw them all when they came out but I definitely used to see more movies 30 years ago.
Movies made in 1981 that I have seen:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
Das Boot
Arthur (Dudley Moore, Sir John Gielgud)
Stripes
For Your Eyes Only
Excaliber
Clash of the Titans
An American Werewolf in London
History of the World Part 1
Time Bandits
The Cannonball Run
Quest for Fire
Taps
The Postman Always Ring Twice (Nicholson and Jessica Lange)
Dragonslayer
Nighthawks
Ghost Story
Private Lessons
Eye of the Needle
Wolfen
American Pop
Sharkey’s Machine
Bustin Loose
There are others that came out that came out in 1981 that I know I didn’t see when it was released but saw them later and some of these could fall into that list. But there is definitely a good chance I saw all of these in theater, even the cheesy ones.
Pretty weak year
looking at that list. Time Bandits is the best of the bunch.
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'!
Chariots of Fire
which I have never watched all the way through was the Oscar winner.
It was okay for sophomoric comedy and limited action adventure.
Raiders is the one that stands out though Road Warrior might give it a challenge.
The other nominees for Best Picture were Atlantic City (Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon callback), On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds
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I gotta see Reds again.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw Reds in history class one year. I enjoyed it.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I remember being confused
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Come on
Stripes, Das Boot, Exalibur, AWIL,
Time Bandits was good but it was the other movie like it that is one of my favorites
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Baron von Munchausen?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Oh, man, there was no movie I wanted to see more than Munchausen when that came out. I remember being really disappointed.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Time Bandits, American Werewolf, Wolfen, RAIDERS, Das Boot and Road Warrior were and remain classics.
Drop off after that but I like Dragonslayer, Stripes and a few others.
Man, I remember going to see Taps as a little kid and how it was THE movie to discuss among boys, especially teenage boys at least for that month…
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Taps
is worth seeing just for the crazy Tom Cruise. (When Timothy Hutton was going to be the big movie star).
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember taking a date to Excalibur and not knowing about the armor sex.
I seem to remember taking a date to see Body Heat also, wasn’t that an ’81 film?
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Body heat was awesome
They filmed a bar scene in a dive on Broadway in Glendale.
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 didn't know that
I had major hots for Kathleen Turner for quite awhile after seeing Body Heat. One of those movies that would suck me in whenever I ran across it on cable too.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
In Britain, Helen Mirren is famous for showing her tits in every movie.
/made up facts
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 23, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
And in the first 25 minutes of Arthur
plus that scene of Arthur in his future father-in-law’s trophy room, is really some of the funniest stuff you will see. John Gielgud kills.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Body Heat, oh my, glad I saw that in the theater. Became a lifelong fan of Ms Turner
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And Stripes
gave my friends and I the line – “Lighten up Francis.”
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Maddz Daddz used to quote extensively from Stripes…at us.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
Hmm
1. That’s a fact Jack
2. The Americeen FIghting Machine
3. Army Navy AIr Force Marines
4. We are 11-1 (or 10-1)
5. There she was just a walking down the street
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
This year on This American Life on their Father's day episode - they had a short bit where one of show employees
told a story about when she was at college and saw “The Jerk” for the first time and realized there were several scenes that her father used to recreate without telling the kids they were from a movie. Like when the phone book arrives or singing the thermos song. So here is Steve Martin singing “I’m picking out a thermos for you” and she goes wait, my dad used to sing this song.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Bernadette Peters – is a Dick Enberg moment for me
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh My
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Someday my kids will have the same realization.
The Steve Martin monologue, when Bernadette Peters is asleep next to him, was reprinted word for word on the back page of our wedding program.
Nice
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I just saw that again for the first time since it came out and wondered if I’d laugh again. I did. not as hard but then nothing is new anymore.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually
I would be disappointed if Humma and the Bride did not start to toss dialogue from “His Girl Friday” around the house just to confuse the kids.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha
that is really clever of the Dad using scenes from the Jerk.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
This - word for word?
I know we’ve only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
She’s gotten a bit more bizarre as she’s aged, or so I’ve read.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
haven’t we all?
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Kershaw's next six starts
08/29 vs. SD
09/03 at ATL
09/08 at WAS
09/13 vs. AZ
09/18 vs. PIT
09/24 at SD
Only one difficult matchup in this lot (ATL). He owns SD, so I’m thinking 18 wins is his floor.
The magic of that is there’s no game there you’d really have any fear of him losing, except maybe at Atlanta.
Sounds funny to say after tonight's game but
if the offense scores any runs for him.
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bourjos is the hero
back within 3?
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.
bourjos has a 1.1+ ops in august
in 74 ABs. Not bad.
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.
Humblebrag
So I tweeted this picture of a lawn chair knocked over that someone had on posterous and said it was the destruction after the DC earthquake. And I thought it was funny and that it would get some RTs. I’m still getting retweets from it hours later and it sucks.
If there was anyone that I actually cared about who replied to me today, I wouldn’t be able to tell because I got TENS OF THOUSANDS of @ replies today. So it sucks.
I hate Twitter.
I was sending that link
to all my friends
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'!
If it was a RT of me, then I hate you. So much. I’m pretty sure around 200 spambots followed me today.
Old fashioned email
I dont use twitter at work
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'!
Is there an actual downside to spambots following you?
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Birthdays are tough
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'!
Only them potentially sending me spam.
I can’t wait for the real people who actually followed me to realize that I mainly tweet about New Mexico politics and baseball.
spam direct message tweets or something? I pick up bots from time to time, but nothing untoward has happened and they usually disappear pretty fast.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I like knowing 62 people plus TacoBell care what I think.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 23, 2011 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
That happened to me during the fake apocalypse/rapture nonsense awhile back
I tweeted a joke that I thought was only marginally funny, an idea for a prank, and literally picked up several hundred new followers. Some of them were legit, some were legit but people who were soon to be disappointed when they realized I wasn’t a religious zealot (or a nonstop prankster). But wow, the retweeting got out of control.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
delias man
was right (not about you fbihop)
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
about everything
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 believe Josie just posted that pic earlier in the day
with something about the earthquake and he called faker.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
mine was
a drug store with knocked over shampoo, his was a fallen lawn chair
by Josie Becker on Aug 23, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
fake tweet?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know if I was the original, but I’m pretty sure mine was the most RTed. I used bit.ly, so I can track how many people clicked the links I tweet. Its currently at 171,600 clicks (out of 508K total to that link). Which is approximately 171,000 more than any other link I’ve ever tweeted.
I think this grew into just a brag from a humblebrag.
Screw it. I’m just gonna brag now.
Is it not weird to see Michael’s Furniture kids grow up and have kids and do ad’s?
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How many of the kids now have “less overhead”?
They need to do an ad tie-in with the Dodgers, featuring Colletti.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
How do they do it?
Volume!
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'!
art imitating art?
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.
I’ve always maintained that pro wrestling is the lowest of all arts – but it’s still an art.
by silverwidow on Aug 23, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
1982 was a better year for comedy
48 Hours
Tootsie
Victor Victoria
Diner
and even Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Night Shift
I cannot post that picture of
Phoebe Cates here. Settle for this one:
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don’t consider 48 hours a comedy
Victor Victoria – classic, one of the all time greats
Diner was over rated, JMO
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
What is it
an action adventure or just Eddie Murphy cursing for 2 hours.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
action adventure with Eddie saying some funny lines. Not a action – comedy like Midnight Run.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Midnight Run
is immensely better than the Analyze this movies.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Charles Grodin is brilliant in a way that only he could be.
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by Phil Gurnee on Aug 23, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
On the old Letterman show
I used to love when he would be a guest because he would be annoyed the whole time he was on with Dave.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 23, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Since I'm hanging around ...
Tonight was the Dodgers’ first 13-2 victory since 1955 (a year they won two games 13-2).
http://bit.ly/oIdOty
So you’re saying this is not something we see every day? 1955 was a very different season from 2011.
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by David Young on Aug 23, 2011 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
All right peeps -
I’m outta here. Gotta rest up for softball on Sunday.
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Might be time for a research article, last time a last place team had two players such as Kershaw and Kemp, under 26, one fighting for Cy Young, the other for MVP.
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Sounds like an article I'd very much enjoy reading
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Night all, nice of the kids to let the veterans get some playing time on Late Night With True Blue LA.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
"To give up home a homer to Miles, of all guys, is disappointing," Schumaker said.
by dodgerpreacher on Aug 23, 2011 10:54 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Sandy Koufax was good.
Kershaw reached 200 strikeouts the seventh earliest date in franchise history. Sandy Koufax has the five fastest, three of them in July. Recalling his thoughts on the milestone after his previous start, Kershaw said, "I probably said I don’t care, because I don’t. Outs are outs as far as I’m concerned."emphasis mine
is it too much to hope that its macdougal who gets dfa'd for jansen instead of lindblom?
i guess it doesn’t matter since lindblom would just be back in a week
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.
Could Wandy just change uniforms
Wandy who the Rockies claimed is scheduled to pitch against the Rockies tomorrow.
Reds v Marlins
are they moving up Thursday’s game to Wednesday to make a double header to avoid the hurricane? What exactly is going on.
Yes, as preparation or as a precaution due to Hurricane possibly heading their 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.
Ten great baseball quotes inspired by Ichiro returning to Cleveland. This one could describe the 2011 Dodgers:
“I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count a rally.” — Rich DonnellyNot counting tonight, of course.
this is close enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtImIqR5neU
Chukwudiebere Maduabum FTW!!!!!!!
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I thought Skip Schumacher looked sort of ticked when Miles kind of flipped his bat (just a little)
Advice: Don’t give up bombs to guys like Aaron Miles
The more you drink, the less gruesome I look.
Barca Blaugranes- SB Nation's FC Barcelona blog
@shadowking011
More advice: don’t bat flip when you jack one against a position player.
As was speculated above – Miles and Schumacher are former teammates, and it was commented that Schumacher gave Miles the Lasik recommendation. One can easily infer that they are friends, or at least friendly, so it may be all in good fun.
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by David Young on Aug 24, 2011 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
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