" The Dodgers have agreed to terms with second-round pick Josh Lindblom, and he will report to low-Class A Midland."

(At first I thought that was a typo... "Midland?" Then realized that's where the Great Lakes Loons play.)

My lord it's hot here in the bay area. It's like everything's on fire. I can only imagine what it's like down there in LA. I can't imagine either pitcher lasts a long time. On paper, the matchup doesn't look good for the Dodgers, but you never know.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good baseball book, I am looking for a graduation present for my cousin, who just got drafted by Tampa Bay. He is not a Dodger fan, so I was hoping for something non team specific, all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

BTW when to the game last night, and that out Andy made in the 9th was a screamer, man that would have been sweet.

And ga oranje (for the football fans)

I guess with the exception of Nomar, the injury news is encouraging.

:)

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Bison Books (February 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080327789X

No, I wish. Well, actually, I took my wife to dinner last night. First time out for the two of us in some time, because of all the birthday/graduation stuff. Where we ate, Good Stuff in Redondo Beach, the TV was tuned to the College World Series not the Dodgers, and I didn't want to disrupt our date by playing Rick and Charlie on the radio as we drove around the Esplanade. So I caught up with the game in the bottom of the eighth. Maybe my relatively positive outlook was due to missing the Dodgers' offensive futility in innings 1-7.

Baseball book: I'm enjoying "Crazy '08," about what the author says was the greatest season in the history of baseball, 1908. She's good at evoking the times and the culture of and around baseball back then, coming into its own as a national pastime from its somewhat disreputable period in the 1890s.

Go Fresno State Bulldogs!

:)

Spot on!

- J. Edmonds homered to deep left
- M. Fontenot homered to deep left
- G. Soto grounded out to shortstop
- R. Theriot walked
- J. Marquis singled to right, R. Theriot to second
- K. Fukudome singled to right, R. Theriot scored, J. Marquis to third
- E. Patterson singled to right, J. Marquis scored, K. Fukudome to third
- D. Lee singled to center, K. Fukudome scored, E. Patterson to third
- A. Ramirez homered to deep left, D. Lee and E. Patterson scored
- B. Logan relieved J. Contreras
- J. Edmonds homered to deep left center
- Fontenot pops out to center
- Soto strikes out looking

Oh why is this everybody's fault by my own?

The Bulldogs do have Erin Andrews in their dugout.

I think Dodger fans are spoiled by our closer luck in part because our closest competition has also had a plethora of money closers. There's Trevor Hoffman. The Giants have had some great ones, like Robb Nen. Over in Anaheim, the Angels went from Troy Percival to Frankie Rodriguez. It seems as normal as having a third-base coach that a team should have a dominant closer from our perspective. But for a lot of teams, it's as elusive to them as finding a power-hitter has been for us.

Dodgers
Pierre. LF
Kemp. CF
Kent. 2B
Martin. C
Young. RF
Loney. 1B
LaRoche. 3B
Berroa. SS
Park. RHP

Btw, does anyone know if MLBTV makes Fox TV games available in the archives? Especially if they didn't show said game in your area during the day? (I'm going to miss most of it live.)

And my login name still doesn't appear. I type in the first letter and I get the little popup with previous names, select it, and my password autofills, but still.

Now we just need Park to pitch acceptably...

You would get four tickets for the price of three at $252. They're pretty good seats and for the KCRW World Music Festival concerts people tend to get up and move around anyway.

The issue that Kuroda does bring up and in my mind represents an on going problems with the Dodgers, is their inability it seems to stay on top of these problems, not catching them earlier and then managing the expectations on when the player returns.

Don't know if the Dodgers do this better or worse than other teams, but it does seem in the past few years that diagnosing injuries and deciding when players are ready to come back has been a problem for both trainers.

Wonder if Conte could ever comment on the subject? Also surprised that Torre didn't delegate the medical reports to someone, if he was too busy? Has baseball gotten to a point that like basketball they need more coaches?

Drat, I have to leave soon. It's been fun talking to myself here, too.

The Euro game is really something. Wow.

I'm spoiled. A game without the game chat just isn't as much fun.

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On that note, I'm outta here.

Charlie Steiner had a practical o-gasm with how far that ball was hit. That's ridiculous.

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080620/FSU06/80620015

my reaction....okay fine, give the money to Zach Cox.

Well, that was ball four.

We get it.

Also, JD Drew just hit a ball that still hasn't landed.

I don't use or understand much about the future pluperfect. The only time I got that interested was when my cousin used to tell me he went to Boston to get scrod.

Basically that the Dodgers are being patient with Kemp even though he isnt a baseball player yet. They could have been hasty and pulled him out of the lineup, but credit to them for sticking with him.

At least he can see why "Others are enamored" with Kemp.

Wish he'd start hitting, though.

However, it's under warranty so the Apple people will have to fix it.

Woo hoo! This is like watching the Beatles perform "Let It Be" on the rooftop of whatever building they performed it on.

Let it be indeed!