By the way, what's the time table on a return from Wilson Alvarez? I know he pitched a minor league assigments the other day. If I remember correctly, his K/9 is not too bad. Certainly better than Schmoll (who I expect to leave before Carlyle upon Alvarez' arrival).

Man, the Cards have a scary lineup. Except for Cedeno, who is scary in a whole different way.

I think Alvarez is coming soon. If he has no bad aftereffects of throwing 60 pitches with Vegas the other night, he's ready.

On the other hand, Carlyle's BABIP is .240, so his numbers aren't inflated by having a lot of hits fall in. He should definitely go down when Alvarez returns in a few days.

I was there and I have a scorebook!

-JD Drew, AKA David Jonathan Drew
-DJ Houlton, AKA Dennis Sean Houlton

The transposition is easy to see in Drew's name. Am I missing a silent J in Houlton's name???

Still have fond memories of Brian Holton and Game 5 of the NLCS in 1988.

I felt like I was stealing money.

So, I get my color for the games from this site. So thanks to all for that. I have been suffering from afar with Tracy's bullpen bunglings and 6 innings of Rick Monday, so reading here softens the blows.

This was in the last thread, but I wanted to lob in my own beach ball story. 8 years ago, I took my future wife to Dodger Stadium for our second date. A dreaded beach ball came our way. I caught it and handed it to the usher (she told me they donate them to charity). After I did it, I was booed as if I were Barry. Someone a few rows back threw a chunk of pretzel, with mustard on it, my way. Intead of me, it hit my brother's wife square in the back of her new leather jacket. Then the guy behind me called me a p---y, and asked me if I wanted to step outside. I told him we already were outside, and that it wasn't worth my time. Anyhow, for two inning the heckling continued. Finally, the usher came down and offered to move us to a new section. We accepted, and were moved from the section behind the ball boy to just behind home plate. So, other than the dry cleaning bill for my sister-in-law's jacket, we made out alright. Still, it was disheartening to see so many people fixated on a 99 cent toy.

Sorry my first post was so long. I will keep it shorter in the future. Keep up the great work.

Some new faces in the lineup (for this year) for Colorado with Dustan Mohr batting 7th and Garret Atkings batting 8th.

Jason Jennings has a career ERA of 3.10 against the Dodgers. Geez. He's not all that good.

I have a bad feeling already.

Unlike,say, the length of the bottom of the first.

It's not as intense as my dislike for Russ Ortiz. But give me time.

That last thread was really wonderful to read, by the way.

url for the jersey . . .
http://tinyurl.com/7b84z

The two teams that had more sacrifices than the Rockies were Houston with 98 and Montreal with 100.

I just don't think it's that rare. I've seen it several times in person. I once saw it twice in one game.

Rare was the ending to this game.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B08120LAN1995.htm

But you likely won't be able to figure it out if you don't remember the game.

"rockies suck"

first base is not occupied OR
first base is occupied and there are two outs

And no he doesn't have a thick lower body as he claims, he's just plain fat.

"Left-on-base bug bites bums in behind"

As for that last inning, can I at least take solace in our having made Jennings throw a lot of pitches? I'm trying to see some sort of bright side to dilute my frustration with this team right now.

Now if we can just start hitting this guy as he practically underhands it in....

And have scored just 4 runs.

What the ....?

That position is cursed.

Why I love Vin...

Plenty of Choi at Dodger Stadium!

1. I doubt he's a good enough writer to use sophisticated literary devices like alliteration.

2. Columnists don't write their own headlines anyway.

T-shirt, anyone?

Whatever works...

Last year was Cora, a less effective Izturis, Ventura, Ross, Encrancacion, etc.

And Beltre is having a less than phenomenal year so far this year.

Really? I think Bradley/Gagne are definitely leaders "heart and soul" type leaders, and the new guys (Kent, Valentin, Phillips) are meshing very well together.

Topic for discussion: is it possible for a player to have "heart," but no "soul"? And vice versa.

Extra innings in PETCO.