Now can we keep him, huh, can we mom, can we??

We needed this. We needed this berry, berry much.

9 We're three back? I love the NL West!

Bob's sweet B-R.Com touch is needed for a more detailed look though.

Eric Stephen.
Eric Enders.
Eric Stults.

Gods among men.

http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/Kgbz

And I am in freakin' Cleveland.

QED

Okay, I'll just take a win.

Guess how many highlights Eric Stults was involved in? I'll give you a hint: think less than one.

(sigh)

Oh well. They did show highlight how the White Sox starter had a penchant for giving up stolen bases. The key to the game, apparently.

What is it that we're going to trade Penny for? Or do we just want to get rid of Penny.

Okay, probably not very likely.

Anyway, it'll probably be awhile til he comes back and who knows about Kuroda, and Kershaw could struggle some, too, so it's great to have another solid option in Stults.

I just might write Eric Stults a letter. And I never write fan letters.

I've had that as a macro for two and a half years.

Okay, never mind, I need to go to bed.

Karl Ravech responded with some stupid nonsense about how maybe with Torre the front office will be inspired to make a trade this year, but the important part of this is, why the heck would we be looking for pitching?

Have any other writers mentioned this?

There, fixed.

It's the seventh inning and we lead, need to go to the pen. It's the eighth inning and we lead, need to go to the set up man.
It's the ninth inning and we lead, need to go to the closer.

Also, I didn't know (until now) that Kemp ran through a stop sign from Bowa. Players used to be fined for that stuff, back in the day. Maybe Bowa went medieval on Kemp's ass in the clubhouse.

I can dream, can't I?

Moreover, given our third-base coach, what are you going to do with all the fine money? Start your own country?

The turdlets on BBTN are severely misinformed. In other news, Pierre can't throw, Kent can't run and I need some sleep.

Our own local media can't cover the Dodgers properly. Why in the world would ESPN get it right? They have no clue what's going on here at all. Fox, ESPN, etc. Though, we haven't really given them a reason to pay attention.

I mean, Eric Young? Come on. It's actually depressing watching someone fight a losing battle with the English language like that.

And some C-list country music singer doing her version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Which served only to prop up the two commercial breaks on either side.

I think that they were sometimes fined even if it didn't hurt the team.

Point taken about Mr. Helmet-Head.

Also, not only that Fresno won, but won with their best player missing the entire CWS due to injury.

ESPN isn't just bad. It's useless. If Keith Law writes something interesting, my friends email it to me.

Who??!!!! Was it Carrie Underwood?!

Gosh, what a shame about Baseball Tonight, but in ESPN's defense, you have to realize, that the guys cutting the film are just a bunch of kids straight out of college. They're just going to find the stuff they're looking for, and if there isn't anyone from back on the West Coast, you'll get no footage of Eric Stults.

It's simply logical. That's why ESPN needs a west coast HQ for WC highlights and analysis... In fact, that's exactly what they'll do by next year!

http://www.allbusiness.com/services/amusement-recreation-services/4567685-1.html

IP 9, H 4, R 0, ER 0, BB 1, SO 3, HR 0, ERA 0.60

Complete Game Four Hit Shutout!

Offensive Leaders Tonight:

AB 3, R 1, H 1, RBI 2, BB 1, .269 DeWitt
AB 4, R 1, H 1, RBI 1, .277 Ethier
AB 4, H 1, RBI 1, .313 Martin
AB 2, RBI 1, .200 Stults
AB 3, R 1, H 1, BB 1, .290 Kemp
AB 4, R 1, H 1, .310 Loney
AB 4, R 1, H 1, .279 Pierre

A very satisfying win for the Dodgers!

http://www.southsidesox.com/

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The most striking, thing, Eric is that the West Coast isn't the only region that's slighted by "the Worldwide Leader." I could even understand if it was just us in the boonies. It turns out that there are people on Deadspin and elsewhere complaining about the lack of coverage the Cubs and Cardinals get. Can you imagine?! The two premier franchises of the NL not getting their fair shake.

I thought the same thing, but I think Eric wants a network that specifically focuses on sports West of the Mississippi. That would be very refreshing. If I ran a network like that, I'd have Jon Weisman on every week to break down the NL West.

They never even tried a real nightly baseball show. Their roundtable of dunderheads was terrible (The Best Damn Show).

Still better than Fernando Vina:

"That guy can hit"

Thanks, Fernando!

I just feel like if enough people don't watch, and the ratings dip, they'll change things up.

Maybe less EY, less Kruk, a little more Gammons and Keith Law. Bring in the Prospectus guys like Sheehan, that only get on the Hot List once in a while.

No big loss. Hell, who wouldn't prefer Mark Sweeney over him?

From TJ:

>>Torre intended to take him out after eight innings, going so far as to shake his hand and tell him he was done, but Russell Martin pled Stults' case to Torre, and Torre agreed to let him start the ninth and take it batter by batter.<<

NOTE TO NATIONAL MEDIA: The Dodgers are not selling their young players.

It probably needs to be said every thread.

What a night to see a musical.

Did something happen at Dodger Stadium?

Its great for Travis Denker that he got a chance but he just wasn't that highly thought of as far as I could tell in the Dodger system.

If you never advanced farther than High A ball in 5 years and you have not been injured or had a position change, you just don't figure much in their plans.

>>Entering his seventh year of pro ball, Stults said he went into the spring understanding that time wasn't on his side.

"When you're 28, you don't think you're old, but when you're in an organization with a ton of young talent, you have to take every outing seriously," he said.<<

:( I really want to see this guy do well.

The guy threw a shutout in the show. I've got friends who are waiting tables, two years out of the minor leagues, who would give anything to do that.

Good for you, man.

17 fly ball outs
7 ground ball outs
3 Ks
1 bb.

White Sox were 4-28 on balls in play.
Thats a .142 average.

Not as good of game as Kuroda's by any stretch, but he threw strikes and thats a big key in success.

Hopefully Kershaw can get some Ks, bc the White Sox luck probalby wont be bad two days in a row.

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And once again bryanf has spoken the truth. :)

However, the show has devolved over the years almost to an MTV level. Highlights get shown about as often as a music video is played on MTV.

The analysts are bad enough (I like Olney, Stark, Gammons, and Hershiser, but that's about it), but Karl Ravetch just isn't good as a host. Here's a piece of advice, Karl: not every HR is hit off a bad pitch, so you can stop saying "hang 'em and bang 'em" for each HR you show.

Also, Steve Phillips debating Steve Phillips last year was the nadir of the show.