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Dodger home record: 50-35 (.588)
When Jon attended: 9-5 (.643)
When Jon didn't: 41-30 (.577)
Dodgers at home: 795-635 (.556)
Jon attended: 302-238 (.559)*
Jon didn't: 498-404 (.552)
* includes road games attended
Current Roster with Estimated 2009 Salaries
(updated November 14)
Most figures are estimates (some are wild estimates) but will be updated as information comes in. Corrections welcome.
More contract details here.
Starting Pitchers (5)
$10,000,000 Hiroki Kuroda
*$475,000 Chad Billingsley
*$415,000 Clayton Kershaw
*$405,000 Eric Stults
*$400,000 James McDonald
*Total: $11,695,000
Bullpen (7)
*$2,500,000 Takashi Saito
*$1,300,000 Scott Proctor
*$1,500,000 Jonathan Broxton
*$425,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
*$420,000 Cory Wade
*$410,000 Ramon Troncoso
*$400,000 Scott Elbert
Total: $6,955,000
Also on 40-man roster
Mario Alvarez
Yhency Brazoban
Greg Miller
Justin Orenduff
Starting Lineup (8)
$17,100,000 Andruw Jones
*$3,000,000 Russell Martin
*$2,500,000 Andre Ethier
*$600,000 Matt Kemp
*$600,000 James Loney
*$500,000 Angel Berroa
*$410,000 Blake DeWitt
*$400,000 Tony Abreu
Total: $25,110,000
Bench (5)
$10,000,000 Juan Pierre
*$600,000 Jason Repko
*$410,000 Delwyn Young
*$400,000 Danny Ardoin
*$400,000 Chin-Lung Hu
Total: $11,810,000
Note: Team can buy out Ozuna's 2009 option for $200,000
Also on 40-man roster
A.J. Ellis
Lucas May
Xavier Paul
Disabled List
$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
Also Paying ...
$2,000,000 Brad Penny (buyout of $9,000,000 option)
$50,000 Gary Bennett (buyout of $900,000 option)
Note: Kansas City is responsible for $500,000 buyout of Angel Berroa's $5,500,000 option for 2009.
Working total: *$68,020,000
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When you can re-focus that energy and direct it to the moment before and during the taking of the action so that feels like years - then you're in the "zone".
8 - i'm not sure how that's going to go over.
I would not attempt the gambit in 8 .
You could offer to take her to a really nice dinner somewhere else in San Francisco. And then compliment her on her hair.
However, when it comes to courtship, I believe I have what Bill James would call "old player skills."
Ice cream in little plastic baseball hats
Course, then you're making her fat(ter), so there's a tradeoff involved.
Now watch, Castillo will hit a grand slam and Vizquel will go 4-4.
If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
You must have a really cool wife.
I tried that with the girlfriend I mentioned in the last thread. She was quick to remind me of my low Value Over Replacement Boyfriend (VORB) when I mentioned the thing about getting fat. ter.
Now, just don't suck, Dodgers.
That got sampled in a rap song. I was disgusted when I heard it.
Stand down.
No way.
"Most recently it was recorded by a rap trio consisting of San Quinn, Banga and Big Rich, and produced by Traxamillion. The track is called "SF Anthem", and uses samples of the original song for the chorus."
http://tinyurl.com/2jklpf
It's Bizarro Baseball!
Thank you for keeping the competition open.
Sincerely,
Kwame Brown
I'd be willing to have him be a poor clutch hitter for the Dodgers.
Well, if Banga participated, I'm good with it.
Pac-Man is making it rain at the club?
The Phils will send C Lou Marson, SS Jason Donald, SP J.A. Happ, and CF Greg Golson to the Blue Jays for SP Roy Halladay and C Greg Zaun.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7812
Sorry Red Sox/Yankee fans.
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I have that game on with the Dodger game through the courtesy of PIP.
Series with the Giants are pretty much my only chance to watch this team.
I wonder if he can paint.
Sadly, Hanley Ramirez had no RBIs in the game and now the lead is four runs.
And I have Kevin Gregg on my fantasy team! As well as Hanley Ramirez.
Life hates me! Why is this everybody's fault but mine?
Not on WGN anyways.
Juan Pierre has batted leadoff a lot of times too.
I'm just saying that it's not all that unusual for Winn to bat third. And it's not like the Giants have a power-packed lineup.
BWAAAHHHAAAAAHHHAAAAA...HaHaHa...Ha...Ahhh
Sigh...
Good stuff.
Stand down.
Chad Moeller is playing his first ever game in the majors at third base.
Just in case you want to move him into that position.
Check 33
Here is little something I didn't know (story of my life) [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Out_to_the_Ball_Game ]
from Wikipedia -> "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is an early-20th century Tin Pan Alley song which became the unofficial anthem of baseball although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song. The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game, in spite of being written from the perspective of someone not at a game. Fans are encouraged to sing along.
Wow. Rappers/producers really are running out of ideas.
Ooh, look who's entered the game! It's old friend Gagne.
Meanwhile... man a threat for the Giants? Oh well, the Dodgers could make up one run.
Are you no longer reading the the first 3 words of my literary offerings...?
I joined a little late. Is this a reference to when Vin led Wrigley Field during the 7th inning stretch about 10 years ago?
On Saturday, bhsportsguy (Hurley), Greg Brock (Jack), bluebleeder (Sun), and me (Kate) (I don't believe in typecasting), were at the Dodgers-Nats game and we looked up to the press box and saw Vin singing.
Check that. Just re-read the thread from Sat Night. That really IS cool!
It's true that Vin also led Wrigley Field in singing "ballgame," about a decade ago. I saw a highlight of it on Ch 5 once.
does anybody know when he won his last game?
And he's wishin'
Someone could cure
His lonely condition
When Tim Hudson left his last start early, he just said he had a little tightness in his elbow and he would make his next start.
Earlier today, Hudson was put on the DL as a precaution.
Hudson is now ruled out for the season with ligament damage.
whoever?
Micah Owings sucks.
It should be Scherzer time any time now.
5-3 Padres.
Ever.
Here's the lineup for today:
Pierre, LF
Kemp, CF
Martin, C
Kent, 2B
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Ethier, RF
Berroa, SS
Kuroda, P
Ichi!
Ichi!
Ichi!
That's the 2 time he has done that in as many games...
Ichi the Killer?
The Dodgers defense is seriously making some very embarrassing mistakes in this inning.