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Kemp RF
Ethier LF
Martin C
Kent 2B
Loney 1B
Jones CF
Garciaparra SS
DeWitt 3B
Billingsley P
G. Blanco lf
Y. Escobar ss
C. Jones 3b
M. Teixeira 1b
B. McCann c
J. Francoeur rf
K. Johnson 2b
M. Kotsay cf
J. Jurrjens p
"We just got done doing a live web chat with Matt Kemp and throughout Delwyn Young was chiming in. Hopefully some of you got the chance to join in... there were more than 1,000 questions, which might be an all-time high. Pretty cool. If you missed it, the transcript will be up on the site soon."
The chat transcript is up:
http://tinyurl.com/6bs993
Is the guy calling the game giving you the pitch speed or are you trying to determine the speed through a Doppler shift sort of thing?
Jair is wearing the cap w/ the red bill.
rmlvr55: Hey Matt, Do you have any pre-game rituals? And keep up the great work your an amazing outfielder :)
Kemp: Me and Jeff Kent get together and listen to Lil' Wayne to get pumped up!
Even the Cubs and Red Sox?
No, he gives out the pitch speed every so often.
Someone had complained that there wasn't enough physics on Dodger Thoughts.
So there, we've met the minimum requirement.
Kemp: I'm a beast! Seriously though, what do you think of it??
The Atlanta papers are full of speculation about where Texeira will go.
It worked!
So Andruw will take that hit!
36 Yes.
Either you're kidding or you haven't been paying attention to one person's comments all year.
And I don't mean me.
But I know thee not because you are not a true believer in the one true Sudakis.
Wherever a perfect game is being thrown, he will be there to extinguish the flame of hope.
And I did look up Sudakis later; interesting player, it appears. I was still in diapers when he was at the peak of his career.
Maybe they can get Jar-Jar out of there faster than you can say "Phantom Menace."
He's sitting at .590 after that homerun.
I'm humming the riff from Black Magic Woman right now for you. Too bad you can't hear this far.
Don't turn your back on me!
A lot of hitters have done what Santana is doing in the Cal League, but not many have done it with a k/bb ratio of less than 1 and average in age for the league.
Dewitt played in the Cal League last year...Just sayin'...
Yeah, but does he know how to play the game? Does he do what he is told?
I don't know what you mean by that....you have me excited about Santana.
Sorry for the humming.
take out the extra "an".
What I mean is that the average age for the Cal League is 22-23 years old. Santana is 22 years old so this is not an older player beating up on younger pitching.
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Man, Russell's having some issues throwing to 2nd as of late.
Dewitt played the first half in the Cal League going 298/336/466 8hr in 339 ABs. Then they promoted him and he played the second half in the southern league.
So what should we call him in order to pretend he doesn't exist? "Black Magic?"
http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_9821977
Ethier was running on it. Frenchie has a gun.
If I were them I'd skip the thoughts of Barry Bonds and go for Kenny Lofton, who is still available, is always pretty solid, and unlike Bonds at least can field. But on the other hand I want the DBacks to fail, so I'm not sure why I'm giving them advice.
It's amazing what little attention he receives.
I can't figure out why.
97 D'backs made offer to Bonds?
I'm a HUGE Russel fan & would call you out on it IF it wasn't true but I agree, this is the first time I've ever seen him look that TIRED.
Torre needs to give Russell a few days off, he won't though, one thing I've noticed about Torre is that he is not an observing manager.
I bet he feels out of place too, what with being out of baseball for the first time in what 17 18 years?
Because his thighs are as big as elephant trunks.
I got scared & sat back down.
8ks but he got in trouble with the walks again. Arghhh.
Dewitt! on fire!
Time to go back to the dugout and listen to Lil' Wayne with the mustache.
I hope not.
CB needed to challenge Blanco with the bases loaded. Just through it right over the plate. Once he masters his control, watch out.
Oh well.
The 2nd runner should've been out on that throw. Martin did not make a clutch tag there.
Sigh.
Oh well, can't win 'em all!
Hey, everyone can have a bad game. He was due. As good as he is looking this year, he is not nearly "there" just yet. He still has some growing and maturing as a pitcher to go yet. He'll get there.
Justin Duchscherer, with a shutout, lowered his ERA to a Guidryan 1.78!
"Just like Wimbledon," says Vin of that check swing hit,
Andruw's bat speed looks a bit better last 2 games, but anytime he K's it feels like he's regressing again.
Andruw has regressed 51 times this season.
I am looking for any little thing here, OK.
Feh. Feh! I say.
Yep, onwards and upwards...
C Fergy
1b Garvey
2b Jr. Gilliam
SS Wills
3b Cey
RF Green
CF Willie D.
LF Tommie D.
SP Koufax
RP Phil the Vulture Regan
DH Dr. Strangeglove
yikes!
IP: 4.0 5 H 3 R 2 ER 1 BB 2 SO
Not too bad. Clearly not ready for the bigs again just yet.
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Wow, the Dodgers sure have taken care of Chipper this series so far. Hasn't helped much today, mind you.
Wade knew that one was gone.
Okay. I'm outta here. Wake me if there's a 6+1 comeback in the offing.
& smack, ding, wong!
vr, Xei
yay!
Vin went Johnny Sain when I thought he would go Luis Tiant.
suckers!
vr, Xei
thanks Taveras.
vr, Xei
vr, Xei
And... scene.
Night, folks. We'll get 'em tomorrow.
Tough night for young and old at Dodger Stadium.
/pollyanna
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