I'm not with the team, so I can't explain the reasoning [for optioning Kershaw] but I'm sure Joe Torre will do so shortly...obviously someone had to go for Kuroda to be activated and it makes sense if we have six starters for the most recent one to get a little respite heading into the All-Star Break. At least that's my sense at this point.

It's also easier to limit his workload in the minors rather than on the 25-man roster.

3 - Maybe, but the Dodgers had little trouble keeping his pitch counts in line here.

All in all, I just think this went almost as well as could be expected. Short of him dominating, he got great experience, he learned what he needs to work on, he helped the team, and he came out unscathed - assuming he knows not to care about the 0 in his personal win column.

Ker-shaw! As if!

Man, looking at those all-time lists, it does seem like the culture of the Dodger organization is to breed elite pitchers, and not so much hitters. I can't imagine 10 percent of the thought process given to Kershaw and Billingsley was applied to Loney, Kemp or LaRoche in the past few years.

Dodger fans, I think we're going to be rooting for a great-pitching, so-so hitting team forever.

So, I'm browsing the web, something I'm able to do now and the two previous days since, you know, it's summer vacation and all. And I come across this.

The Diamondbacks placed Snyder on the 15-day DL Tuesday with a left testicular fracture.

From my brother, a urologist: "He should be fine. The likelihood of testicular salvage is very high if surgery is done within 72 hours."

Let the punning begin.

"touched on." See? It's starting already.

You hear me, Mr. Kent? I'm looking at you, sir.

I'm late on everything. In the old days, I used to "break" stories after a day or so. Before this wonderous site grew like a fern in the Amazon.

But that changes this summer, people. When you get head-butted at the picnic by yours truly, I don't want to hear, "Hey, didn't that used to be Suffering Bruin?"

A double.

He had a SLIM chance of qualifying after 2010, now he has zero.

But this year, it's different, right? We can be a league-average offense, we're just struggling, right?

Right?

Therefore, I passed.

LV Hilton: LAD: 53.48%/8.5
AccuScore: LAD: 56.00%/9.8
My Simulator: HOU: 52.96%/8.75

I hope the simulator is wrong on this one. :)
vr, Xei

Darn right, that's a capital T.

26 - Testicular squee?

Hope he gets that elusive win one of these days, even if in Jacksonville.

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Okay, I've had to read the comments here with my legs crossed uncomfortably for far too long. C'mon, can we change the subject?

Ouch.

Just for that...

FACT OF CHOI--INFORMATION ON A PLAYER WHO USED TO BE SB'S FAVORITE DODGER, SOMETHING THAT CAME DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO OBSESSION, RETURNS.

Last month, Paek Cha-seung of the San Diego Padres and Choo Shin-soo of the Cleveland Indians smiled at each other as they faced off. You might ask why and even if you didn't, here goes.

Both players had attended Busan High School in Korea. Is this the first time such a thing has happened in our beloved MLB? Of course not.

Three--count 'em, three--Gwangju Jeil High School alumni faced each other at one time or another. They were Seo Jae-weong, Choi Hee-seop and Kim Byung-hyun. I'm cribbing this information from a Korean paper so for you 'mericans, you can probably tell that they use the last names first over there. All of the Gwangju Jeil High alumni were pitchers. Only Choi decided to test the bigs with the bat in his hands.

You think I'm making this up, but I'm not. Those are the actual terms.

44 - I think the Dodgers change their minds pretty much every day or so on things.

But I hope Chris Snyder does not need these:
http://tinyurl.com/4yanr

Link is SFW

No, it's really a frieze.

Oh wait. Wrong reflexive response.

Nomar activated; Berroa DFA?

Penny activated; Troncoso optioned?

Andruw activated; Repko optioned?

We were members there for a year, but we just kept going through faster and faster. Kids liked the touch exhibit the most.

Life can be tough for a boy named Yeicok.

(God that hill is stupid.)

He and his former wife did not have children, but I don't know if that was medically-related or not.

I blame the Ausmus Girls.

Take that Ausmuses!

Manager Joe Torre said he expects Kershaw to be back in the Major Leagues in the "not-too-distant future." For now, however, he'll be starting at Double-A Jacksonville, where he was 0-3 with a 2.28 ERA before being promoted to the Dodgers on May 24.

"We made the move, not because he wasn't handling it, but we've got pitchers coming back," Torre said, referring to Kuroda and Brad Penny, who is expected to come off the disabled list to start Saturday in San Francisco. Torre also said that, after burning through six relievers in Tuesday night's 11-inning game, he didn't want to send reliever Ramon Troncoso out.

http://tinyurl.com/3zokzf

Well at least now we're sure that Kershaw won't be a Super Two in a few years. Thats good news.

112,

Yes.

And where are all the people complaining about Kent swinging at the first pitch? Pretty selective complainers, eh?