Going down seven runs and then blaming the umpires? Really?

Really?

Tough one to lose, but it just seemed like it wasn't their night.

Tough loss.

8 I thought he caught it for sure too but replay showed it looked like it hit ground first, and Andre didn't argue it or sell it. Was very, very close though.

That's an amazingly difficult call to make, and I'm not even sure it's an out, even after watching it a bunch of times.

That's not a bad call...That's an unbelievably difficult call.

Casey Blake getting tossed must have fired Colletti up. Gamer!

Blake's beard put him at a .989 GAMR. Getting run must put him at .998.

On Thunder road Sweeney's gonna pinch hit,
Kent's gonna play second and bat cleanup,
and Jones is gonna play center if he gets two hits a week.
And McCourt is gonna wonder where everybody is.

/end rant

Get 'em tomorrow.

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I wonder if they're gonna call someone up to fill in for Nomar. Otherwise a weak bench is even weaker.

"Ejections: LA DODGERS' Blake by Gibson (8th), NY YANKEES' Torre by Gibson (8th)."

The replay they showed was convincing: you can see that the ball hits Ethier's glove webbing, on the ground, and pops up a touch. The ump must have seen the bounce and not seen that it was bouncing within Ethier's glove.

That call cost the Dodgers two runs, so you can either be accepting that a tough call isn't the reason to lose, or that the umps blew the game with that one call. As far as the Jints are concerned, I let emotions carry, so I say that the umps blew that one.

I can think of ten bad things the Dodgers did in this game, none of which have to do with the umpires.

Jeff Kent hitting cleanup...Jeff Kent being an absolute mess at second base...

Let's just move on.

Jtrichey, to address your question about Ted Lilly as a minor leaguer (by the way, in case you weren't aware, Lilly was drafted and signed by the Dodgers in 1996 -- a 23rd rounder -- and was traded by Kevin Malone to the Expos in 1998 as part of the deal for Carlos Perez, Mark Grudzielanek, and Hiram Bocachica): Lilly's best pitch, in his prospect days, was his curve. He could get his fastball into the low 90's, but it was straight and got pounded when he left it up in the strike zone. He also had a solid change-up.

So having said that, I counter with: we are here to discuss, to commiserate, to deal psychologically with the Dodgers, so why the heck not?

Great episode.

Casey Blake had a huge game.

I think we all need to return to Muppet Dodger Thoughts as soon as possible.

Willoughby is still the best episode ever.

From the perspective of the stands I would blame Kent's hobbling defense and Kuroda's loss of focus before I'd blame the incompetent umps. But the real culprit is clearly the Bossa Nova.

Sure, I'm sorry they lost and all, but I'm not bitter. Like Donald Rumsfeld says, you go to Dodger Stadium to watch the team you've got, not the team you want. Our team, folks, is memorably bad. You can't hate them. You just sit back and watch the clowns do their show.

Also, Jerome Williams has been promoted to Las Vegas.

New Simers article. Kent says he's likely going to retire at the end of the year,(Thank God) but won't 'Favre it'.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2jLxlyTrAC4

Talk about lack of depth.

Nevertheless, it's great.

That is all.

"I don't hang out with the guys -- never have," he says. "I don't go out drinking, look at porn, have a girlfriend or get divorced -- so I'm selfish."

As Will Carroll mentioned earlier, the Marlins are desperately looking for catching help, and are considering a variety of backstops. However, the catcher they covet most is the Reds' David Ross because of his reputation as an outstanding game-caller while also showing occasional pop at the plate.

By the way, the best episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

Considering I'm from LA, its very muggy to me. But then again, I'll be in Florida next week, so this will seem pleasant.

David Ross had a strange career.
His rookie year with the Dodgers in 2003, at age 26 and clobbered the ball: .258/.336/.556.
Then in 2004, he sucked--.170/.253/.291
And in 2005 he sucked--.222/.263/.380
In 2006, he comes to the Reds and figures it out at age 29--> .255/.353/579

His power seems to have fallen off this year but his bb/ks are pretty good:
28bbs/30ks, .250/.397/.397.

Interesting fact about David Ross:
Dodgers liked him so much they drafted him twice:
1995 out of high school in the 19th round.
1998 out of Florida in the 7th round.

And this has been your daily David Ross update....

NPUT