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Less Dodgers, More L.A.
Dodger home record: 22-20 (.524)
When Jon attended: 3-2 (.600)
When Jon didn't: 19-18 (.514)
Dodgers at home: 745-600 (.554)
Jon attended: 293-233 (.557)*
Jon didn't: 457-374 (.550)
* includes road games attended
Current Roster with Estimated 2008 Salaries
(updated March 28)
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)
$12,300,000 Hiroki Kuroda
$10,000,000 Derek Lowe
$9,500,000 Brad Penny
$7,000,000 Esteban Loaiza
*$500,000 Chad Billingsley
Total: $39,300,000
Bullpen (6)
$2,000,000 Takashi Saito
$1,925,000 Joe Beimel
$1,125,000 Scott Proctor
*$500,000 Jonathan Broxton
$500,000 Chan Ho Park
*$400,000 Hong-Chih Kuo
Total: $6,450,000
Starting Lineup (8)
$14,100,000 Andruw Jones
$13,000,000 Rafael Furcal
$9,000,000 Jeff Kent
$8,500,000 Nomar Garciaparra
$8,000,000 Juan Pierre
$500,000 Russell Martin
*$400,000 James Loney
*$400,000 Matt Kemp
Total: $53,900,000
Bench (6)
$875,000 Gary Bennett
$600,000 Mark Sweeney
$424,500 Andre Ethier
$391,000 Delwyn Young
$390,000 Chin-Lung Hu
$390,000 Blake DeWitt
Total: $3,071,000
Disabled List
$12,000,000 Jason Schmidt
*$400,000 Tony Abreu
*$390,000 Andy LaRoche
Total: $12,790,000
Also Paying ...
$1,000,000 Brett Tomko
$750,000 Odalis Perez
$540,000 Yhency Brazoban
$500,000 Randy Wolf
$487,500 Jason Repko
$135,225 Rudy Seanez
$100,000 Mike Lieberthal
$50,000 Ramon Martinez
Total: $3,562,725
Working total: *$113,268,725
*Rough salary estimate
Thank You For Not ...
1) using profanity or any euphemisms for profanity
2) personally attacking other commenters
3) baiting other commenters
4) arguing for the sake of arguing
5) discussing politics
6) using hyperbole when something less will suffice
7) using sarcasm in a way that can be misinterpreted negatively
8) making the same point over and over again
9) typing "no-hitter" or "perfect game" to describe either in progress
10) being annoyed by the existence of this list
11) commenting under the obvious influence
12) claiming your opinion isn't allowed when it's just being disagreed with
And now for more Baseball and Les Carpenter: Les, is it true you were named after famed WKRP news reporter and two time Silver Sow Award winner Les Nessman?
Les Carpenter: No, unfortunately. I don't think I could have handled the turkey giveaway disaster with the dignity of Les Nessman.
It does remind me of the episode when he met Loni Anderson's boyfriend, a guy named Steel. Steel says "I always think a man's name says a lot about him, what was your's again?"
Les Nessman: "um Les"
Thanks for pointing to Ken's post. I don't always read the other Toaster blogs, and I'm glad I didn't miss it.
The emotion about his family was rendered wonderfully. But I was also struck by his "Why I blog" comments. I comment a lot, but haven't taken the leap into blogging, in part because I would have to shed my anonymity. But I'm creeping ever closer to it, and Ken's piece certainly provides an emotionally compelling rationale that might trump all my doubts.
Anyway thank you. It's tremendous how much sustenance your readers can get from what's supposed to be just a baseball blog.
"On the sixteenth signal, the pitcher just had to laugh. 'Well that one really takes the cake, doesn't it? That really took brains. Come over here a minute,' he said to the infielders. 'All right,' he called back down to the catcher, 'go ahead, shoe them your new brainstorm.' To the four players up on the mound with him, the pitcher whispered, 'Catch this,' and pointed to the signal that the catcher, in his mortification, was continuing to flash from between his legs. "Hey," said the Lunatic third-baseman, "that ain't even a finger, is it?"
--from The Great American Novel by Philip Roth (1973)
For the whole column
http://tinyurl.com/dlzxp
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5164460
hmmmmm
vr, Xei
Reporting Bradley and Antonio Perez for Andre Ethier. Top Prospect, but....
Who can fill me in on Ethier?
Who can fill me in on Ethier?
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