Dodgers / Giants Game XVII Chat
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 6:59 PM PDT
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PrintSan Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers, Sep 21, 2011 7:10 PM PDT
| Giants | Dodgers | |||
| CF | Christian | SS | Gordon | |
| 2B | Keppinger | 2B | Carroll |
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| RF | Beltran | CF | Kemp | |
| 1B | Pill | LF | Rivera |
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| LF | Belt |
1B | Loney | |
| 3B | DeRosa | 3B | Miles |
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| SS | Fontenot | RF | Sands | |
| C | Stewart | C | Ellis | |
| P | Vogelsong | P | Eveland | |
Game Time: 7:10 p.m.
TV: Prime Ticket
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let's finish them
GO DODGERS!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:05 PM PDT reply actions
David Freese saves Raffy. Three run HR. 6-4 Cards.
A win would bring the Cards within 1 1/2 of the Braves.
I can remember him killing us with a crucial error.
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Ha ha!
Sept 21st, 2011- Pitch Like A Pirate Night @ Dodger Stadium
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from the NL West
but they’d still be hanging on for the wild card
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
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The man has the best (and most) pocket-tweets in all of Twitter.
by fbihop on Sep 21, 2011 7:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hah hah hah
seriously. Keep that phone out of your corduroys, old man.
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double play!!
nice job guys!!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:14 PM PDT reply actions
Beltran
happy that he’s not facing Kershaw, or Jansen
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:16 PM PDT reply actions
Eveland should have pitched around Pill
to get to Belt.
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Glad the Dodgers won last night since I'm not quiiiiiiiite as confident in tonight's game.
But we’ll see!
Settle down, Dana, settle down. Thata girl. Er, boy.
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Bleh.
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Sorry to say, Dana vs. no one makes for a compelling match up right now. :-/
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0-2 to Belt
then four straight balls. AAAA pitcher.
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Maybe he’s just wild? Or simply not very good.
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There’s a difference between being wild and just flat out not challenging hitters. He is trying to get by on too many off speed pitches.
When your fastball sits 88, you can’t challenge hitters.
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Sure you can, you just have to locate. There are tons of pitchers who compete at 88 MPH. Dana Eveland isn’t one of them.
Locating doesn’t sound like challenging to me. Locating is putting it on the black at the knees. Challenging is throwing cheese at the letters. 88 at the letters goes into the pavilion.
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So we shouldn't ink him into the #5 starter spot for next season? :-/
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That’s a meme I haven’t picked up on. Who else?
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BTW, after reading the game chat last night
Was I the only incensed that Mattingly played in infield in with a two-run lead, one out, runner at third and Lincecum (LH hitter) at the plate against Kershaw?
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sheesh
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:22 PM PDT reply actions
Eveland in just a few minutes provides a stark contrast to last night
Exactly why I think going after a top notch starting pitcher is still more important than any position change (especially after the 2nd half performance of our offense)
If Rubby was going to be healthy next year I would say no but right now I think you're right
If they can re-sign Kuroda for one more maybe they can find 5th starter internally but would rather not go the AAAA NRI route yeah.
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Terrible. Even the Giants are having no problems with him.
I miss the guy who was briefly decent!
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Eveland
can’t pitch in DS
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:24 PM PDT reply actions
Jon brought up some stats a couple weeks ago. First two starts: he’s fine, after that he sucked.
by Julio Nievas on Sep 21, 2011 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
?
This is only his fourth start.
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I’m talking about when he was with another team
by Julio Nievas on Sep 21, 2011 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah
I’m more curious how the A’s got a 29-start, 96 ERA+ season out of him once.
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Would've been worse if Loney hadnt saved his butt there.
Whose the long man tonight? Ely?
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They are winding E-Valdi down. I’d imagine it’s Ely.
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Vin said that Kershaw will pitch again in Arizona. Isn’t Arizona the final series? So wouldn’t Kershaw be pitching again on the final day – Sunday- in San Diego?
by berkowit28 on Sep 21, 2011 7:28 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
San Diego is this weekend. And then they go to Arizona to finish the season.
Regardless he should be pitching on the 25th in San Diego.
So that’s a Yes? Didn’t you just repeat everything I said or is there anything different?
by berkowit28 on Sep 21, 2011 8:33 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
But I had to read your comment more than once before I realized that “final day” should still be tied to “in San Diego”. Stupid dashed phrase!
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Yeah, sorry. That wasn’t clear, I now realize.
by berkowit28 on Sep 21, 2011 8:46 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Kershaw pitches Sunday, that’s it.
(unless something got switched today)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Attaboy Dee!
BeastMode!
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Dee gets on
GO GO GO GO!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:30 PM PDT reply actions
I wonder if Eveland
is hurt by facing the same teams again. Not that he is great, just he just faced them so they probably at least have an idea of what to do.
If they keep him on normal rest
He has one more start, this coming Sunday in San Diego, and that’s it.
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REPLY FAIL
You know where to stick it.
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SAFE
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:31 PM PDT reply actions
I hope so too. #2 hitter bunting a runner to third on a 2-1 pitch sucks. Playing for one run here also sucks. Not like Kershaw’s on the mound; LA needs big innings!
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Dee at third
Kemp up!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:33 PM PDT reply actions
walked Kemp
C’mon Rivera!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:36 PM PDT reply actions
Mattingly must have learned this trick from Torre, where you hit your scalding hot rookie low in the order behind any number of washed up vets regardless of how well he is hitting.
See: Kemp hitting 7th or lower over 275 times in 2009.
shit
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:37 PM PDT reply actions
I didn’t like this Chevy commercial with the househunting couple at first, but on viewing number 67 it’s not so bad.
Alcoholic doctors who sway their professional opinions on whether their patients buy them a Newcastle or not.
things are different in England
all sorts of things happen in pubs. In Ireland, there are pubs that are also hardware stores. There are pubs that are also law offices!
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
No my dear
I don’t think you need to go bigger.
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by David Young on Sep 21, 2011 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
FAIL
Too bad Bison didn’t get his steal attempt there.
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Dana should be on a leash the length of a hair
(and not one of Lincecum’s hair either.)
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He has a higher pitching WAR this year than he does defensive WAR.
by slaps825 on Sep 21, 2011 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
2-2 in NY. Bottom 8.
Yankees can win the division with a win. Rays trying to climb within 1 1/2.
The Angels are only 2 1/2 back of Boston.
Hah hah Keppinger 2 for 2 in Double Plays.
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Four of the six outs Eveland has recorded, or 1 1/3 of his 2 IP!
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two DPs
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 7:45 PM PDT reply actions
I’ll take “Things a Chatsworth Director Says” for $400, Alex.
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by David Young on Sep 21, 2011 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'll take
Catch the semen for $200
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'!
by mleadman on Sep 21, 2011 7:56 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I care! One of my fave bands ever, though I'd lost interest in their more recent music
Of course I care and yet after reading 1000 tweets about it earlier today plus Facebook posts, etc, I don’t care quite as much as I did this morning. ;-)
But even though it’s the end of the band as we know it, I feel fine.
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About time
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'!
Murmur?
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One of my most favorite bands
Life’s Rich Pageant, for me, is their best album and Superman is their best song ever.
In college, on the way to play intramural softball, my roommates and I would blast Superman and It’s the End of The World As We Know It…
My 10 year old also knows all the words to End of the World.
regfairfield
did one hell of a karaoke of It’s the End of the World As We Know It.
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wow, that's a tough one!
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He was clearly aided by all of us yelling “LEONARD BERNSTEIN!!!”
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions
hah hah
I try singing along to that song and end up mumbling through much of it. Though that alone is a good (earlier) Michael Stipe impression
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We all joined in on
LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
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LOL
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
OBP_MACHINE!
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Drop In
Watching soccer, reading Sports Illustrated.
That line in the Moneyball trailer “Ugly girlfriend means no confidence” came from an improv session; it’s cleaned up. The actual line was “Ugly girlfriend means bad eyesight”
new girl crush: Rose Byrne. Love.
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
She's all head
We used to call those types Apple on a Stick
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
all head, really?
think she has a banging body myself.
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
my gift to you
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
Definitely more than just a head there.
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and
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
See
that is a woman who needs to eat
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
the body of a 14 year old scrawny boy, but pretty face!
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions
She looks healthy, like a petite Frenchwoman
approved
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
I like the French. I like the way they think
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:03 PM PDT up reply actions
these were implied, but since we’re being blunt, I would like to live in Paris, drink wine, eat cheese, watch cinema, eat Bouf Bourginon, and make sweet love to a French woman all the time, and then a French man the other times
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:06 PM PDT up reply actions
whatever, I won’t get fat, because of all the sex
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I don’t know what site you are linking from, but they are certainly blocked by my firewall!
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they're just from a facebook page.
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
Ah, facebook is blocked here
But in the pics I’ve seen of her, she seems to lack thighs.
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you should write an email to Zuckerberg, he’ll firebomb your office
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Bunting advocates might point out that
Had Miles bunted Loney to second he might – might – have scored on Ellis’ single.
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Sure
I hate sac bunts. Just sayin’.
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hit'em
oy
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:01 PM PDT reply actions
only one team worth rooting for in that battle
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
well you see
since going to the University of California, I find myself a supporter of all the things our great state does : p
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions
The A's are the only one in that group I tolerate
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the only OTHER one, needless to add.
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I support the Dodgers, I wish no ill to the A’s and Angels or Padres, and the Giants well, they suck
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a lot of DP
1 every inning. Gotta allow baserunners to make that happen. Lotta outs at 2B by the Giants.
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I’ve been looking at some splits which I don’t usually, such as groudball/flyball splits for batters. Noticed Barajas seems to hit groundballers better than others. I also noticed that Barajas has been terrible at Dodger Stadium .175 .269 .277 on the year…..maybe Ellis and him could be part of a home/road platoon next year lol.
Funny since Barajas is an extreme flyball hitter, I think.
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top of the lineup coming up
let’s do dis
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:04 PM PDT reply actions
For a team that touts its farm system
Damon, Dan Johnson and Casey Kotchman are there last hope against old friend Rafael Soriano.
And the product of the Edwin Jackson deal to Detroit
Matt Joyce strikes out.
Now, you are the Yankees, you just swept a double header, you clinched the playoffs and now the division, do you give the regulars off tomorrow?
Want to read a profile of Billy Beane with the paragraphs center-justified? New York Times Magazine has got you covered!
Vin fail
“What a difference a year makes, there was a song about that”
I think it’s “What a difference a DAY makes”, unless I missed that other version.
really, old man doing live TV and you’re gonna call that a fail?
by Josie Becker on Sep 21, 2011 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
vin does not fail
he just re-writes history
by shaqfor3 on Sep 21, 2011 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
If you listen to that song 365 times in a row, you’re allowed to change the title.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
hits like a little girl
fucks it all up
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we used to rent that at GreenCine.
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Charlie Steiner: "The National League West...ern wild card race is getting tighter."
Sigh.
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Ya know
After the 13th back foot slider on a 3-2 count that wasn’t swung at, perhaps switching it up will work?
Catcher on first, go for it no matter what.
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Fucking Eveland, just go for it dammit.
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In case anyone was wondering
The Dodgers club record for double plays is six, against St. Louis, on August 5, 1956 at Ebbets Field.
Is that six in a doubleheader?
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Hmmm
The media guide has abandoned me! It says 6 in one game on that date, but B-R shows 3 in each game. Don’t know.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
b-r says the record is 5, at least for games in their database
Most recently in this game in 1998.
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The Dodgers won four of those games, but Pittsburgh won this one in 1975. Ivan DeJesus, Sr. was involved in two of them.
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Welp, I've had enough of Eveland. It was a good run.
Utterly hittable crap.
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Gives me an excuse, or forces me, to do some writing work. See y'all later.
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Dammit - double PLAY, not double
This makes me pine for Eric Milton. Hell, Eric Stults.
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Kershaw followed by Eveland: A # 1 followed by a # 5 who pitches like # 2.
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two on for Jerry!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:30 PM PDT reply actions
He’s a country boy, not a metal boy. I don’t remember who said it, but I love the description of Sands having a face lifted from a Bazooka Joe comic strip.
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the song was
Bare-foot Blue Jean Night…. Pretty popular country song that came out just before summer.
Eveland pitches like a #2 or a #7, depending on your perception.
Just hope he doesn’t make that famous Kuroda bad game when the Giants got up off the mat, a notable point that reversed the Giants fortunes. Therefore, I hope the dodgers go against type and score enough runs to beat Giants each game this series.
Man, David Ortiz has been a quote machine this month
per Pete Abraham:
Ortiz: "I’ve been here nine years. We’ve never collapsed that bad. Trust me, we’ve been through some tough times. But this is bad. "
Maybe Ortiz really does need a hug, as the commercial suggests.
Mrs. Manny.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
As much as it sucks to see the Dodgers thumped on by the Giants
I’m kinda glad Eveland is getting knocked around. Had he had a great finish to the season theres a real chance NedCo would’ve given him a slot in the rotation next year, only to have this happen then instead of now.
Ellis just took all six pitches and struck out
That’s just a little too patient.
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He and Sands swung at one of ten pitches
result: 2 Ks. Fucking Vogelsong.
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Vogel is German for bird
Andre salutes him:
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I'm calling it
the patient is dead. 8:39 P.M.
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I’ve heard hitting is contagious…
…turns out, shitting is also contagious.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Have any of you heard that “We’re astronomy professors” commercial on radio?
Let me just tell you: astronomy professors might go skydiving for their 20th anniversary, but they would never describe their reason as “we spend a lot of time looking up at the sky, and we wanted to see what it looked like from the other direction.”
Fuck you, fake astronomy professors who talk like advertising copy writers think astronomy professors talk.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:38 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Humma Kavula's
Recliner of Rage
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s right.
I’d rage against the machine, but I’m too tired.
I’m more like, “Type an Angry Message on the Internet Against the Machine.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Bride has a Ph.D. in it. She is really smart though. Way smarter than me.
She likes to say that we are different kids of smart, but I think that means she’s smart and I’m not.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
But she’s smart and she married you. So what does that say.
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She is an epic fail when it comes to her taste in men?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll say.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
You must have taken the wrong class/prof
Astro 3 was a well-known mickey mouse class at UCLA. But you had to take the right profs. Prof Abell gave all-Scantron, no math tests, two midterms, a final and throw out the worst result. Easy A. I took it a senior and spent every lecture observing heavenly bodies – in the seats.
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Bride says Abell is famous for his catalogue of clusters, but he died 50 years ago.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know astronomy like an astronomer would, but used to love to go up to the mountains and look through this group’s Dobsonian telescopes at Globular Clusters etc…
Amateur astronomy is a totally different beast from what the pros do. Bride loves going up to the mountains and looking up at the stars as much as anyone, but can’t identify the constellations, etc.
She used the REALLY big telescopes on Mauna Kea. Mumble mumble redshift mumble mumble galaxies mumble mumble adaptive optics, and stuff.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Humma's favorite
Globular Clusters:
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I am groping.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dude
I am not THAT old! He did five months after I got my degree, so I had forgotten that he passed on before BH had the chance for the experience. Abell brought in a guest lecture who was an amateur astronomer who had discovered a couple objects. He mostly told us how great it was to stargaze while toking the mary jane.
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Who ya gonna trust, your own experience and wikipedia, or what Bride says in an offhand remark without really thinking about it?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn’t the answer always, “what Bride says”?
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Several times. Sounds stupider each time.
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Wanna know how astronomy professors would really celebrate?
By drinking. A lot. I mean, I’m an alcoholic, and whenever I’m around the astro crowd, I’m like, “Maybe you guys better slow down.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
My astronomy professor was pretty cool… and boring
by Julio Nievas on Sep 21, 2011 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
damn
Dee almost had that
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:40 PM PDT reply actions
sure seems like it
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
“Does my team suck donkey balls? I would have to say the answer is yes.” – Jim Tracy
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions
DP4
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another DP!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:43 PM PDT reply actions
Honest question
That doesn’t really count as a double play does it?
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
strike'em out
throw’em out
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by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Proof pitchers just sometimes get wild: Velez HBP.
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Atta boy eugenio, you got on base to start the rally that killed the giants all while still not getting a hit.
They pulled Beltran already?
Man, that is going to make LA’s comeback victory all the sweeter.
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And just passed Miles in OPS, .669 to .667
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, I read this is Eugenio passing Miles, and I was really struggling to figure out how, for a few moments. :)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Belatedly but Eugeni-0, OBP machine!
Heh.
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Holy cow! If only Velez had gotten a hit instead of HBP, we would know apocalypse was coming.
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Jamey got the run in!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:50 PM PDT reply actions
Time to beat the Vogeldong
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
#35!!!!!!!!
"I may be an idiot, but one thing I'm not sir, is an idiot." - Peter Griffin
Matt Kemp - NL MVP Clayton Kershaw - NL Cy Young
Clayton Kershaw, Giant Killer
What a list.
Howard Johnson had his HoJo working that year.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
35!!!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:54 PM PDT reply actions
BISON BLAST!!!!!!!!
SUCK IT VOGELSONG!
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Told ya :-)
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
Most Valuable Playa
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
M-V-P!
M-V-P!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 8:55 PM PDT reply actions
Nothing like a fat high fast ball to Matt MVP Kemp.
Thanks, Ryan “I hate the Dodgers” Vogelsong.
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116 RBI
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Awesoke
Tied for 21st in all-time Dodger history, with Dixie Walker (1946) and Jack Fournier (1924).
In LA Dodger history, Kemp is 6th. Up next is Frank Howard, 119 RBI (1962)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Loney wanted that one
Hanging cutter over the middle.
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 8:59 PM PDT reply actions
BTW
That’s why they call him →→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→
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by David Young on Sep 21, 2011 8:59 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Love this.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I am officially rooting for the Braves to choke and miss the playoffs.
(though hopefully not for the Giants. So, go Cardinals I guess.)
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I gotta go Braves over Cardinals or Giants
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+1. Given those options, I go Braves.
That said, the official Humma position is Brewers for NL Champs. Accept no substitutes.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I am, as Jon would say, verging on Rule 5 violating, but let's say I have my reasons.
Or we’ll just say I hate the tomahawk chop and blame it on that. ;)
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Mmmmmmmm. That is a good point.
On the other hand, the Cardinals do have their own history of racism, so that’s not exactly the moral high ground.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
The Braves are 88-67 and the Cards are 85-69.
The Braves have the inside track, no matter who they are playing.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Right, that was before play today. I apologize. Still, with a game-and-a-half lead with six to play, the larger point stands: the Braves have the inside track.
I guess it could be interesting if the Braves have to play the Phillies or Brewers. Do they?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Braves are at Washington, then host Philly
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Cool. I concede the point: the Cards could make this really, really interesting, if Philadelphia plays its regulars.
By the way, fuck you, Ruiz.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
But the host is saying IMPOSSIBLE
How could the Cy Young and MVP be on a team that isn’t in the playoffs.
WHAMMY!
well
according to this article, the 1962 dodgers did it
then again, they were still a pretty good team
Brain short-circuit
I read “isn’t in the playoffs” as something worse, like “.500” or “under .500”.
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Easy
Rest of the team is really, really shitty. Or was really, really shitty for the better part of a season.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
the younger guy who didnt have an MLB career.
"The #Giants have a better owner than the #Dodgers do. And his name is Clayton Kershaw."
it's Greg Amsinger
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I am not a fan of his. It sounds like he has a forced, fake announcer voice.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
My wife makes the same complaint regarding Evelyn Taft. I refrain from replying, “she’s speaking?”
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Bride’s comment: “She has big boobs.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Dan Plesac
“Matt Kemp has been the best player in the NL, and it’s not even close.”
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Without watching this
I am translating your comment as “I don’t agree with this host because he is not supporting a player on my favorite team.”
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Not necessarily
His arguments just don’t have merrit. He keeps bringing up Ian Kennedy for Cy Young consideration, that should tell you all you need to know.
WHAMMY!
According to MLB Tonight
Matt Kemp sucks cause he can’t make the Dodgers go the playoffs on his own.
WHAMMY!
I think if you keep staying high to Sands
He’s going to pull one out of here.
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This is an exclusive club - 35 or more HR, 40 or SB, 100 runs scored and OPS of .960 or higher
Rk SB HR R OPS Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB H 2B 3B RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF GDP CS BA OBP SLG Pos
1 Matt Kemp 40 34 104 .963 2011 26 LAD NL 153 652 567 182 28 4 113 73 24 151 5 0 7 15 11 .321 .399 .564 *8/D
2 Vladimir Guerrero 40 39 106 1.010 2002 27 MON NL 161 709 614 206 37 2 111 84 32 70 6 0 5 20 20 .336 .417 .593 *9
3 Eric Davis 50 37 120 .991 1987 25 CIN NL 129 562 474 139 23 4 100 84 8 134 1 0 3 6 6 .293 .399 .593 *8/7
4 Barry Bonds 40 42 122 1.076 1996 31 SFG NL 158 675 517 159 27 3 129 151 30 76 1 0 6 11 7 .308 .461 .615 *7/8
by bhsportsguy on Sep 21, 2011 9:05 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Sit down after a long night
Kids are in bed, wife is out, I’m sitting here with some small batch bourbon and some chocolate chips, just in time to see Kemp smack one out. Life is good!
WHAMMY!
by Champ Kind on Sep 21, 2011 9:05 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Wait, just chocolate chips? Not cookies?
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Wife is out. Who’d bake the cookies?
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I missed that key portion.
Carry on, Champ!
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Cookies are left over from last night
And yes, they are cookies, just chocolate chips wouldn’t have the same vanilla compliment to the bourbon.
WHAMMY!
That called strike three was right down the pipe
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess he was expecting something else
because that was the same pitch he’d been fouling off
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
When he guesses right, the ball will see much more flight time
"show me a hero and I'll show you a tragedy"
If he’s always guessing, he’ll be an AAAA player.
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A full year’s worth of plate appearances next year will sort that out.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
He’ll develop better pitch recognition than Billy Ashley, I’m sure of it. He doesn’t have to pull everything to be successful. neither
"show me a hero and I'll show you a tragedy"
And if it doesn’t, well, that will be disappointing, but it happens. Point is that the Dodgers need to keep him in the majors all year and see what they have.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Waiting for the ground-ball DP
from the catcher.
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Bochy said bunt
Not just to move the runner up, but because he’s tired of the goddamn double plays!
WHAMMY!
BAH - DeRosa is OLD!
Throw down to second on anything on the ground Lindblom!
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Apparently we are pitching away and out of the zone to whoever this guy is.
cal. lakers. dodgers. packers. chelsea.
vols. rangers. galaxy.
Clink clink clink
That’s the sound of ice smacking around an empty glass, time to get more bourbon, be right back ladies and gents
WHAMMY!
c'mon Josh
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:16 PM PDT reply actions
feck
"I was a little scared he was into that Oakland thing. We swing here on 3-0." Grady Little on Andre
fuck
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:17 PM PDT reply actions
I guess Matt Kemp
will just have to hit another three-run home run.
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My goodness, I would go bonkers.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Our pitching today is not what it’s been.
by berkowit28 on Sep 21, 2011 9:18 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Kershaw, Eveland
One of these things is not like the other.
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The pitching has been contender quality the past 3 months and Eveland reminds me of an older Charlie Haeger, a couple of good starts forgotten by a handful of awful ones
"show me a hero and I'll show you a tragedy"
No Eveland start has been as poor as the worst Haeger start, which I specifically remember because
1) I didn’t see it. I read about it after the fact.
2) The next day was Kerhsaw Hands Jimenez His First Loss, which I attended and was awesome.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
ha
i was at that game too. so awesoke
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too
IIRC Kershaw didn’t allow a ball hit out of the infield until the 8th inning.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I still think that game was the best of the 2010 season — even more than Kershaw’s CG shutout of the Giants (am I remembering correctly?).
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
"Keppinger couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle"
- Vin Scully
/didn’t actually say that
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 9:20 PM PDT reply actions
"Bullshit!"
— Vin Scully
/really did say that
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Joe Torre
had four GIDP in one game once.
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Kuroda's"famous" bad game .
I can’t find where Eric Steven asked me “what famous bad game” and he is of course right.
How does E.S. keep track of so many things and get them all right! G.O.Knows. Famous is an over statement.
Kuroda had that one inevitable “off” game where he was gone in 4+ innings at the end of the Giants series. The unfortunate part was that the dying Giants had been absolutely crumbling and lost the first two games of a 3 game series to the Dodgers as they lost ground to Arizona. After the victory in the Kuroda—final Dodgers game, the Giants went on an 8 game winning streak and got to within 5 games of the D-backs. I hope the Dodgers win as much as they can, as I don’t trust the D-backs to win and can see the unthinkable happening. Sure hope I am over-reacting.
The Diamondbacks need one win this weekend to
clinch the division. Any Giants loss at this point really ends their season.
Oh man, I thought you were talking about last season.
If it helps, the Giants’ season ends on September 28 :)
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm about 99.9% sure
that you are.
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What's the announced crowd tonight?
Have they said? It looks decent… decent as compared to the rest of this miserable season.
WHAMMY!
Crowds have been good past several games, haven’t they? Traffic getting into Sunday’s game was heavy.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the idea of keeping the Aussie around
Gives us an in to that elusive and oh so desirable “Men at Work” market. That’s pretty valuable.
WHAMMY!
Following the Reg macro
If it matters who the Dodgers 5th outfielder is, the Dodgers are pretty much screwed anyway.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
10-pitch PA for the Aussie
and counting.
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Dee should bunt on Mota
See if he’s winded from all those pitches to Oeltjen.
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Kemp’s been so good this season that he could probably hit a 2-run home run with the bases empty
"show me a hero and I'll show you a tragedy"
Matt Kemp is a GOD
We once had a bachelor party for Kemp. He ate the entire cake, before we could tell him there was a stripper in it.
WHAMMY!
Did I ever tell you about the time...
Matty was in a production of The King and I? Well anyway, before the show, Kemp chloroforms the entire cast, and slowly eats them in front of the audience for two hours. The production got pretty good reviews
WHAMMY!
Bosley Crowther wrote, “It is not that Matt Kemp eating a human being moves the art forward or makes a dramatic statement about our time and place in history. It is that Matt Kemp is eating a human being, and that must be seen.”
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
OH YES I HAVE DROPPED A BOSLEY CROWTHER REFERENCE
Where is Josie when I need her?!
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Missing your brilliance apparently
My guess is she’s busy blogging about the premier of X Factor or something.
WHAMMY!
I can only guess what Bosley Crowther would have thought of the X Factor.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
The things you find by following links on Wikipedia
When the Comden and Green musical “Subways Are for Sleeping” opened to mostly negative reviews, the producer David Merrick hired seven ordinary New Yorkers with the same names as famous theater critics to praise the musical.
However, he could find no one with the same name as Brooks Atkinson, the NY Times’ Theater critic. There was only one Brooks Atkinson in New York City.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Loney explains his hot hitting streak
Did I ever tell you about the time Matt Kemp forced me to wear a woman’s bikini? Well anyway, Matty tears off my clothes and forces me to wear this skimpy bikini. For the next three months I had to conduct my business wearing only a woman’s bathing suit. I would cry from shame and question my manhood daily, but Ill be damned if at the end of the month my BA hadn’t tripled.
WHAMMY!
ES knew that
Don’t you know, this blog allows him to read minds and preempt posts, it happens all the time to me, he steals my thunder, damn him.
WHAMMY!
Gameday had it as strike three
But it looked low to me.
by The Dude Abides on Sep 21, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
our bullpen
not so good tonight
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:39 PM PDT reply actions
true
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
At this point
Win or lose, I just wanna see Kemp bash some more balls. No, no wait, I still wanna see the Dodgers beat these bastards to a bloody pulp.
WHAMMY!
I’ll say yes. Probably won’t go back to back tomorrow. Could, but unlikely
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t get why Oeltjen has not been given any starting time in Semptember. The Dodgers keep using him as a pinch hitter, but he has not done well in the role. He’s gone .190 .320 .238 in 28 PAs as a pinch hitter. I guess the OBP is not so bad, but I’m far more interested in how he’s done when starting. In his 11 starts Oeltjen went .270 .396 .486, high BABIP, but still probably more meaningful then what he has done getting an AB here and there. Facing pitchers multiple times in a row and making adjustments is a big part of the game, and by excluding Oeltjen from doing that, I’m not sure the Dodgers are doing anything.
because they want to lure rivera back next year
and sands is obvioulsy going to start everyday. And loney is hot as shit and they are still trying to make heads and tail of it.
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
Hm, so you think they are trying to get Rivera to come back by giving him more playing time, interesting theory.
It’s just that even with Sands and Rivera making the team, Oeltjen and Gwynn would be the candidates for the left handed bench outfielder. Even though Oeltjen has been on the roster for quite awhile, we can’t make much of an evaluation of him.
I just think that
if they want him to come back they aren’t going to sit him. Also, they simply don’t think trent is a long term solution.
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
or short term
Trent is just kind of there because they have a spot on the roster and no better options
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
This is also the conclusion I’ve come too. Maybe Oeltjen goes to Japan. I could see that working out.
I do wish they would use him more
in the sense that I never want to see velez bat again
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
least mode.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it just me or is Ramon starting to look a bit more like the Tron Tron of old last few times out?
Maybe he figured something out, or still sucks and will revert back to suckitude shortly?
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One can hope for the positive, but...
It’s a little late, aint it? Too many guys seem to be figuring out too late for us… well some of those guys are rookies, so I won’t get on them too hard.
WHAMMY!
Well given he'd be a cheap bullpen depth option next year, I wouldn't mind if he was back to being decent again.
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Still here.
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by Humma Kavula on Sep 21, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Working, believe it or not.
And was catching up on the last Louie eps that I’d missed but they were kind of bumming me out a bit. So I came back here!
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The Douchiest of All Giants is warming up in the pen
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No , douchier. The Goateed Sky Pointer
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Actually, he's fully bearded now too, so the other bearded douche besides Wilson.
Romo.
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Nice hit by Sands, poorly fielded by Belt
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
nice job
for Jerry
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 10:19 PM PDT reply actions
Romo's a douche, but he's good.
Though strike 2 looked like one AJ shouldn’t have stared at.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Ugh
I hate that I have to admit that this poseur Romo is actually a bit of a beast on the mound.
WHAMMY!
Good job Romo
You just took care of two of our 8 spot catchers, but you are the man, THE MAN! Keep talking to yourself and how badass you are.
WHAMMY!
This is a scrub pitching game if there ever was one.
Eveland, Hawksworth, Lindblom, Kuo, Guerrier, Troncoso, Ely
hey now
lindblom has a fip of 2.53. Too soon to call him a scrub
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
Well Ely worked out of that pretty well ultimately
Meanwhile the Giants broadcast keeps cutting to a group of about 10 Giants fans and talking about how loyal SF fans are. WHATEVER.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Something like that, or get Reyes and Braun to slump
by Eric Stephen on Sep 21, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh no, he's bringing in Wooly Willy.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
More Giants douchiery, this time from tweeters
RT @extrabaggs: The 6 fans left at Dodger Stadium pick up the MVP chant for Kemp, whose 2-out single in the 9th is really aggravating to me.
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'm just impressed "6 fans" could be so loud!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Oh man... so close, Loney ripped that one, too. Darnit.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
golfed it
just enough
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 10:53 PM PDT reply actions
Well he got an RBI after all, even if on a bloop.
At least the Beard is sweating.
(Which is kind of gross.)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Haha, talk about a delayed reaction.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
To be fair, whatever his sucky defense and all, Miles has been pretty good in the clutch most of this season
I don’t know about batting him there in the lineup, but I don’t see point of PHing for him at that point.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
shit
just hung up there
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Sep 21, 2011 10:56 PM PDT reply actions
I detect a theme here.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Damnit! I thought that was gonna drop for sure.
Oh well.
Just beat em tomorrow, Blue.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
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