Tomorrow's HIGH is supposed to be 50 with showers. So I think Sunday will be the D.J. Houlton Show.

Thanks to some free pub from Rob over at 6-4-2, I've extended the window to order TEAM DEPO shirts. Can we get to 50?

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And for the Rox
Miles
Barmes
Helton
Wilson
Holliday
Greene
Restovich
Baker
Chacon

Dodger announcers are fond of saying that Steve Schmoll didn't pick up pitching until he reached the University of Maryland. However, in his senior season at Magruder High School in Rockville, Maryland, Schmoll batted .397 as a catcher and posted a 0.68 ERA as his team's closer. Despite these statistics, Schmoll did not receive an invitation of any kind to play college baseball, not even junior college or walk-on offers.

Can you picture even the most hardcore baseball fan doing that? We might all discuss whom the Dodgers draft, but would we ever listen in to the MLB draft and act that way?

Barmes is considered one of Colorado's better young players.

You have a backward slash I think in the link to that image. If you control-click, or right-click for PC people, you can copy the link, make the slashes appear correctly, and firefox will show the image.

game is under way soon, let's go dodgers

Does anyone else feel the same way? I know we all are hotly anticipating seeing Eric Gagne return to the ninth inning, but I'm really looking forward to seeing Werth again in the second slot.

The thought of this day-to-day lineup: Izturis, Werth, Drew, Kent, Bradley, Valentin, Choi (? - Is this the Choi-related result of Werth's return?), Phillips instills a lot of confidence.

Does anyone know the current status of Werth?

Now on with the game!

Jeez, 2 in a row that Odalis hasn't covered 1st! Get your fat butt over there!

Pause.

Pause.

Pause.

Sigh.

I think we'll need about 11 runs to win.

I'm sorry for all the bad things I said about you. Thank you for blacking me out this weekend.

Sincerely,

Steve

God bless Coors.

You say front slash, I back slash...

After Barmes' double in the 2nd:

"I don't know what Odalis is throwing, but the Rockies do and they're all over it,"

This has all the makings of a crappy weekend.

Odalis doesn't seem to have it tonight, judging from the comments.

I want to go find a rock to hide under!

Way to Choi!

let's do this little by little

BTW: Forgot to mention that Rockies announcers showed their intelligence a couple of innings ago by guessing that Chan Ho Park was from East LA. Orale Choi.

I hope Scott Erickson is available to pinch hit here.

If Valentin did break his wrist, let's send him to Werth's homeopathic guy ASAP.

Carrara comes in to face wunderkind Clint BARMZ. BAR-MIS is 3-for-4 tonight...

I thought our offense was looking suspiciously efficient during those first 14 games. The last two nights have been the law of averages catching up to us.

I sure hope Valentin's owie is just a bruise that will go away in a coupole of games.

Dodgers Team LOB: 16
Rockies Team LOB: 6

Well, it certainly seems like we've lost one we should have won. I guess it balances out some of the others.

Disclaimer: This posting comes by way of a 6-pack of Red Hook IPA, and after putting in 20 hrs in the law shop in the past 2 days, when I'm supposed to have Saturday's off...

I listened to tonight's game on XM and started wondering if announceers are becoming conscious to the fact that they are no longer a "local" broadcast. Their games are being transmitted across the entire U.S., if not the entire globe. In between pitches they were reviewing the Broncos' draft picks. Anywho, I found that worth mentioning only because of the disconnect of Broncos news being fed to a Dodgers fan in LBC when he's least expecting it.

Charlie Steiner is starting to grow on me. I've learned not to blame him for what happened to Ross.

Nori is going to be solid at 3B in replacing Valentin. Platooning is not his forte, the guy was a gold glover & silver slugger in Japan. The only way he's going to raise his performance is to play on a daily basis. How much you wanna bet our errors committed will reduce? But, there's no arguing that Valentin is The Man in the clutch.

Choi is a real disappointment, and I was routing for him too. Seeems like MLB pitching has figured out his weaknesses and are exploiting them to no end. What other options do we have at 1B? I wouldn't mind seeing Grabawski given more tries at 1B. Choi is stuck in a proverbial Catch 22. He hasn't figured out how hit lefties, yet Tracy won't give him the opportunity to try. Maybe he would be best served by a trip to Vegas. That way he could play daily against righties and lefties.

Did anyone see yesterday's Plaschke Apologetics? City of Blue coming to a bookstore near you.

I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would think, based on performance so far, that Nakamura is a better bet than Choi. Nakamura has 18 ABs, Choi 41. Choi has a longer track record, in which he's been a very good hitter and walk machine. Nakamura has a great track record in Japanese baseball, but that's like AAA-level competition. Nakamura plays 3rd well (by all accounts) and 1st base poorly, so far. Choi plays 1b well, but that's all. Choi is still young - only 26. Nakamura is 31. Finally, if we're going to worry that Choi's swing is too long and looping to handle inside heat, what do we say about Nakamura, who starts his swing in the on-deck circle? If it were me, I'd keep Choi, order Tracy to consider him the starter, with only occasional days off, and ship Nori back to Vegas in favor of someone who can back up the middle infield, at least until Antonio Perez is back. That's assuming that Valentin is back soon. If this is all they have to work with, then either Nori or Saenz will have to play 3rd, in which case, call up Flores or somesuch until Valentin is OK to start again.

6/18, .333 AVG/.400 OBP/.444 SLG

(.844 OPS for those of you who don't like to add)

that's not setting the world on fire or anything, but considering choi's slow start, it's certainly a trend in the right direction. a couple of homers in the next week would be good to see. choi looks a lot more confident at the plate now that he's getting some hits to fall.