Dodgers Saturday Links: Vin Scully, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Starting Rotation

I LAT’ed myself (more or less) in the last post, so here it is again. Apologies for repeating if anyone actually saw it there:

I was busy in the earlier part of the game and kept the TV on in the background like a radio, just popping over to see the occasional thing happening when I could. Only not much was happening, other than Gonzalez’ homer and Lilly being very stalwart. I heard Vin announcing he’d be returning next year – at least thought I did, and had to check later to verify it. But I must have missed some things in the background. I sat down just in time to see Loney’s homer, and looked up to what I thought would be Dodgers pulling ahead 2-1, only to see 5-1 on the screen! I was thrown for a loop – what? Huh? So I had to rewind back (I always record in case I can’t watch live) until the score showed 0-1, to follow everything through, double balks and all, I also followed along here at True Blue on my iPhone to get the reactions, though I couldn’t participate. Only what with all the new posts, when I had to go back to the main (mobile) page for what turned out to be the Scully update-continuation, the Kemp 30-30 update-continuation was already up although I hadn’t seen that happen on either my live listen nor my rewind-watch. So I knew what was coming (ah well), but it sure was beautiful when it happened. Actually, both homers were, Loney’s lefty-at-home-homer as well. Quite a night! I just couldn’t add my two cents, which weren’t needed. Anyway, they always come too late as my thumbs try to get there on my iPhone.

Comment on the SB Nation mobile app: it looks really nice. But, until such time as it may be able to do live updates (which I suspect may drain batteries as it checks every few seconds, so I wonder if this will really prove practical), here’s a request: since you have a Refresh button, which is great (so I don’t have to press to bring it to the top of the page first, as in Safari), please get it to work so that when it refreshes, it finds the same location. That way we could refresh when we want and carry on. The way it works now, in game threads, it’s far, far too tedious to scroll down every time. In Safari I have a clever add-on called "End of Page" that triggers in Bookmarks,which brings me to the end of the page immediately. So it’s an extra step, but far quicker than scrolling. That’s what I’ll go on using until there’s some way to refresh at same location or there’s a similar add-on for the SB Nation app.

Miles 2B, Loney 1B, Kemp CF, Rivera LF, Ethier RF, Blake 3B, Ellis C, Carroll SS, Billingsley P

Fowler CF
Ellis 2B
Gonzalez RF
Tulowitzki SS
Helton 1B
Smith LF
Kouzmanoff 3B
Iannetta C
Millwood P