But he won't be able to see around my top hat.

Statuary: Frank White?

I think the Cardinals lead the majors in statues. Musial, Gibson, Schoendienst, Slaughter, and Jack Buck all have statues. There could be more.

The Reds have several at their new park also.

The Gene Autry statue in Anaheim always seems like something of an afterthought.

Or..you know...A statue of the fans.

I usually side with Greg on LaRoche/DeWitt, but the issue is at times a white whale for him.

I call shotgun!

After Dreifort, I didn't think I could love again. I've been hurt before.

I remembered it as a Winter 06 debate, but fair enough. You agreed with me...deal with it.

For me, there was no going back after the bat flip. I wonder if he got my flowers?

AP Summer Institute all next week though. In Long Beach.

The end of June was a harsh mistress. I took it out on Blake DeWitt, naturally.

At first read I thought that comment had something to do with fertility drugs.

It would be a lot easier if I had to rely on George Washington's personal courier relay my correspondence.

I can't go creating personal vendettas willy-nilly.

Start the seventh with one, based on matchups, let him try for two innings, or pass the baton in the 8th if he gets into too much trouble.

They can trade off. One monster from each side.

He'll always be house money to me.

Those chips can be made to look rather nice. Circus Circus had pink ones.

I'm still waiting on Brad Penny to come off the bump holding his elbow again.

Btw, I don't think the Kuo Wars series was William Shatner's best effort.

I have a soft spot for Kuo because of the way he went out after his scintillating debut. I figured he was done ala Kiki Jones and then he came back. And boom he was gone again. I can still remember the little smile I got when I was perusing the minor league clubs back in 2005 and saw that he was trying another comeback.

You are right, we are playing with house money but he's packing a full house at the moment.

Good thing that's not Pedroza's name, then. You can still go on hating Jamie McCourt, though.

In Detroit they have a Willie Horton statue. In Cincinnati they have a Joe Nuxhall statue. In L.A. you can throw four no-hitters and singlehandedly win two World Series, and all you get is a spot in the pavilion next to Tommy Lasorda.

It'll be like St Louis, and someone will have to watch after Bob.

It was just an offhand, cheeseball comment he made to us when we met him last year. I never had the impression that this was something he was actually working on.

It would be hilarious if he assigned a project manager to this. I still want to know what a statue of the fans will look like.

How will we human fans get into the stadium if it's occupied by 38,000 statue fans?

Lame.

How many teams have put up a statue of a player who never played for them? The only ones I can think of are Babe Ruth in Baltimore and Ty Cobb in Atlanta. I could see Pittsburgh putting up a Josh Gibson statue or K.C. putting up a Satchel Paige statue, though.

There's also part of the stadium that has a quote from Kluszewski along the lines of "Have you ever walked into a dark room where you didn't know where all the furniture was and try not to trip. That's what hitting a baseball is like."

53 - I think it'd mainly be expansion teams that replaced teams that moved that would have such statues. I could totally see the Mets putting up statues of Jackie and Ott.

Then I had to figure out whether to call myself and imbecile or moron. Tough call.

Half-wit was also a possibility.

http://reds.enquirer.com/2003/03/27/klu_600x474.jpg

The Gibson statue looks like it would dust you off.

My alltime favorite ballpark statue was a Buddha made into the image of slugger Alex Cabrera that used to be outside the Seibu Dome in Tokorazawa, Japan.

Cabrera has switched teams so I don't know what happened to the statue.

Frank Howard. Roberto Clemente. Hodges at the new Mets park, maybe?

Cy Young: 511 wins, 749 CG, 7354.2 IP

I know it was a different era, and some don't put much weight in those category of stats, but really, wow.

The food was ... not good.

He's deeply annoying. His reign was flawed. He's got some of the worst decisions in team history in his jacket. But he won, pretty consistently, and generally with something less than the best talent in the league.

Its the thighs.

More rumormongering

A Philadelphia scout attended Friday's game between the Dodgers and San Francisco Giants but reportedly got up and left as soon as Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe was lifted after five innings, a clear sign the Phillies are interested in the veteran right-hander.

Lowe is in the final season of a four-year, $36million contract, and the Dodgers conceivably could move him before the July 31 trading deadline. But the Dodgers' primary need, as stated last week by general manager Ned Colletti, is an everyday shortstop, and the Phillies clearly aren't going to part with reigning NL Most Valuable Player Jimmy Rollins, who is signed through 2010.

I don't see us trading Lowe with Penny ailing and Schmidt not fully recovered.

Their system isn't very appealing; especially the pitchers.

Actually, if this silliness prevents trading Kemp, I can live with it.

I'd trade Lowe in a heartbeat. LA has the pitching.

So true.

Funny how it seems.....Always in time, but never in line for dreams.

NL West champs:

LA: 46.5%
AZ: 46.0%

Playoffs:

LA: 47.3%
AZ: 46.8%

DeWitt .343
LaRoche .708

OIney says the reason we're out for CC is that other teams have no idea who the Dodgers have in charge of decisions. He asked if it's Ned, McCourt, White, the scouts... and it's the reason we can't get deals done.

He also blasted Colletti for being very vague about which young players are available, making it impossible for other teams to even try completing a dea.

Phillips says Colletti leaves teams hanging like Sabean... Will make them feel like a deal is a day away and practically blow them off looking to make other deals with those players and nothing gets done.

Just interesting view points on all this I thought i'd share... This is from the Baseball Show on ESPN Radio today.

I only post this because, IIRC, we were led to believe that (1) Depo was responsible for this kinda stuff, and (2) it would change when we hired The Great Communicator.

But those of us who are... we're still eligible for the promotion, right?

According to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, the Los Angeles Dodgers are seriously interested in Pittsburgh Pirates' shortstop Jack Wilson, but their pursuit will be put on hold while they restructure their offer for the infielder.