Fined and demoted works for me.

I got nothin'.

At least you get to watch the game.

Far be it from me to be sympathetic to the devil that is "playing hurt" but ballplayers have been playing hurt for eons and they keep playing through it lest they be accused of being called JD Drew. If my arm was hurting, I'd try to play through it. Tightness? Maybe it'll go away. Oh, it's been there a week? Let's check with the trainer. But for heaven's sake, don't let ANYONE, pardon my shouting, hear me complaining about pain.

Proctor, Furcal, Gagne, etc. ad nauseam... they all thought they were better off in the lineup than out. They probably didn't think they were hurting the team until after the fact, if then. It's the mentality I want in a ballplayer, even if its counterproductive. Put another way, no starting pitcher ever says he's tired, even when they are. It's the manager's call.

You want a shorter post? Read someone else. I'm back, baby. With a vengeance. It's summmer and I ain't teaching. I'll be posting.

A lot.

I've never known goats to be egotistical. Then again, there is nothing so ugly in personality as a goat with a God complex. So I get it now.

But our point man on effigies is in Cleveland right now.

His Juan/Jose Uribe confusion makes me sadder.

I've been thinking about this for a while: why not simply write into contracts the following stipulation: if pitcher P has X number of bad starts, as defined by Y, an MRI is mandatory?

This would be in the interests of teams, while at the same time getting around the stupid macho ethos of ballplayers..

Because Hendrickson would have died of radiation poisoning.

It's one thing to miss a game for general soreness, it's another to play with an injury that makes you a liability on the field. Especially if you're the manager's old favorite.

Saturday and Sunday's games vs. Anaheim will also not be shown. Plan accordingly.

Getting picked off of 2nd or 3rd is territory reserved for Juan Pierre.

WHAT was true? That Abreu was injured? Or that he was faking it?

The Gameday stringer is apparently drinking on the job. Take care.

I'll assume he did something stupid.

Ha ha!

and I hope he doesn't steal them. That's just immoral.

Real weird, since he's a right handed hitter.

Somebody needs to tell Rick Monday that the Dodgers have a ways to go before they get to .500.

Ozzie?

How can you agree with Eric's post and still be okay with Neddles?

I got a new-style Dodger baseball cap at the store today, then put it on about 45 minutes ago. Then I check into the Dodger game and they're up 2-0 in the 1st inning. My goodness! have I started a good luck charm?

I just took it off for a bit, I hope I don't mess up the karma.

Anyone else have one of these new style mlb caps?

I don't know you figure it out, I just am...

Makes me homesick for the Blue Line.

That's really saying something, Bob, but the Blue line works well for the first mile or so.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1972/B05200LAN1972.htm

Downing pitched a two-hit shutout.

Chicago was interesting. In the dispatch center, you could regularly hear calls from the bus drivers reporting passengers getting stabbed (or the drivers themselves being assaulted). Good times.

40 pitches for Stults thru 3.

Apparently, Franz Kafka has devised the system.

The PA on the train sounds like a McDonald's drive through.

I'm just saying, there's no need to pick on Cleveland specifically. If you're riding the New York subway you'd damned well better be paying attention to what's going on outside the windows because you'll never find out from the driver what stop you're arriving at.

"Proctor has been hiding the injury for well over a month and said that he was hoping to make it through his entire career without going on the DL. It was a nice mentality to have, but at some point, he was doing more harm than good and -- and this is just my personal opinion -- you would have to think his teammates would prefer him to miss two weeks than to keep hurting the club by pitching poorly while hiding an injury."

http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/prosports/2008/06/dodgers-proctor-comments.html

I'd prefer the second, but then I was also the kind of guy who would rather be the last man off the bench for the varsity team rather than the star of the JV team.

He hasn't been as bad defensively as I feared. Offensively, he has.

80 Retrosheet credits all pre-1969 non-winning relievers who finish out a win with saves, regardless of the situation when they entered.

Honestly, I think Kershaw's improvement ark (for lack of a better term) will be higher if he stays with the big club the rest of the year than if he goes back to Jacksonville.

I'm a big fan of our very own Red Line, provided your travel is to mostly landmarks. I've used it to get from Universal City to Staples, Union Station, Langer's, H&H, etc.

Stolen base, Loney!!!

538/783/1321 he's actually been good the entire month but has gotten on fire of late.

Hopefully this won't be the peak of the game.

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btw, re: the latest injury revelations, not to be a conspiracy theorist but I still feel like Proctor was told to say he was hurting. Basically I feel like his initial more candid response that he wasn't hurt was the truth. And now he's been fed some talking points about his arm.

It's all there on the grassy knoll, there was a second injured arm! I'm telling you! {{mmmph!}}

Whoops, thought that was out, but I'll take the yikes-double

For all the conspiracy theories about Loaiza and Bennett, they really have had ailments.

I was thinking the same thing Underdog but I think Proctor new what to say... They stay on the major league team when injured right?