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When Jon attended: 9-5 (.643)
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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck14LKBI9GM
I am going to say NSFW, because people will probably think you are a weirdo.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031225/
I think the kind of movie Eric was talking about in 2 would have a character named Again.
I hope the guy that worked on that with a computer felt dirty at some point.
Thank You for connection to the retired barber in the previous thought.
When I growing up, Davie was my barber from birth through college until Vietnam.
Davie Jr. (who has 4 years younger than I) joined the Long Range Recon unit that I was a member of during my second tour in "nam".
In the middle of that tour he asked to switch R&R assignments with me so he could see his family in Hawaii. he did not return from that recon and still listed as MIA to his family.
Years later I always tried to return to him for haircuts. However they were sad occasions. He had this POW/MIA flag in front of the barber shop and died in 90's still missing and still honoring his son.
I always wondered if we had not switched assignments. However it always good to remember old friends.
I agree. I have not been following the Dodgers closing for too long. It has been really fun to watch Matt grow as a player.
If only I could watch sports without sound.
What are they saying?
Walking through Dodger clubhouse we do not see a passion there. There is still some division you can tell based on what is on TV and where people are hanging out.
A bunch of nonsense.
Steve Phillips said the Dodgers needed players in their prime, 28-32 years old, and had too many players either young or old, that were more inconsistent. He said Furcal was the one consistent guy they had, but he's hurt.
I hate you, ESPN.
Minnesota is hitting over .300 and the Angels doing what they need to do to win, is hitting .288 with RISP.
Nothing after the top of the 1st has been shown on ESPN2.
This is so clown shoes.
Yeah, but he's been consistently one of those two. :)
or maybe there scouts?
How many RedSox and Yankee's meet that criteria?
(And yes I'm aware which team won that game)
oh, hey, and check it out, they're still playing baseball?
It doesn't just happen to the Dodgers.
Drew and Ortiz seem so much older. I expected Eric to answer that question, you must be on your A game today.
If you want to say unnecessary roughness or a blow to the head, I can get on board with that, but in no way was that play a late hit.
I'm (a) working on a paper, and (b) watching the aforementioned Maualuga hit. :)
Usually when Kemp leads off he gets a double like tonight. I suppose maybe Pierre getting on on an error and then getting thrown out at second rattles the pitcher more.
Well, if they're not going to show it in HD, there's no reason to put up with Steve Phillips.
That is like how I can watch the Gonzaga/UCLA ending over and over. It never gets old.
My heart literally skipped a beat I was so excited during that.
Dietrich scared the crap out of me as a kid when I saw the "Blue Angel". The power of a woman over a man was forever ingrained in my brain.
I was crushed, I felt like crying with the crier.
If Gonzaga would have just held on that game, I would have won 3 NCAA pools I was in. It was indeed tear-worthy.
And then when little dribblers are hit like that, we got no shot.
So wouldn't the word average be better than chance?
It just seems like chance involves an equation that can't be quantified with no one on and no one out, but I can understand the average...
To only root for a team if/when they're winning.
Of course, Chad could be also be wearing down a bit at this time of year.
better lucky then good as they say.
They don't have any real offensive identity and they don't have a bigtime starter to highlight.
Jimmy Rollins, 2007
Alfonso Soriano, 2002 & 2003
Bobby Bonds, 1973
they don't have a bigtime starter to highlight
Billingsley should count here.
Also, it was really insightful to hear that Matt Kemp "is just not the prototypical leadoff hitter" and "doesn't have that lead-off hitter mentality" right at the start of the game. (And then bang, two base hit!)
{{Mute}} Hopefully the game itself can right itself and put me in a better mood.
And the points about Kemp were made so poorly, whether or not he's prototypical, it sounds like something we'd soon see dissected on FJM.
http://mollyknight.tumblr.com/post/47367345
What did the announcers say about Howard's strikeouts?
lol she thought Samantha Rosen was an asian male pop star.