Amazingly, my wife went 22-10, with only one of her sweet 16 entries out of the running. Naturally, I did worse than her on all five of the brackets I filled out.

Gotta go with Choi over Ethier, since the WBC proved what a great pinch hitter HSC is. ;)
(I was there when he hit his 3-run bomb to deflate the USA's chances.)

I will likely hear a warning from Jon about having one's team play Alabama in the second round and the perils therein..

This leads me to believe that I should go to the post office and mail my auto insurance payment in before the deification of JJ Redick is complete.

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And yet you give so much...

I'm tired of Duke worship, and it has been getting progressively worse for years, egged on by Billy Packer and (especially) Dick Vitale.

What would it have been like had ESPN been around when UCLA won 6 or 7 straight championships?

NC State is the team that got me hooked on March Madness when Valvano took his team to the championship by winning game after game at the FT line and winning the whole thing on an airball.

Maybe the Mets will trade Lastings Milledge for Cody Ross.

(That last sentence was an allusion to the offseason's endless posts about how we could shovel some crap at the Mets and get Milledge back.)

I wonder what they would have done if Karros had ever played in New York. There would have been a bunch of stories about how much he missed his native Hackensack.

I was a Rams fan.

It took a long time to get over my bitterness.

There were plenty of seasons where I would have gladly accepted a 1-15 record for the Rams if the 1 win was against SF.

My tendency would be to dangle both of them as trade bait, and trade the one who brings the most back in, say, pitching prospects. An endorsement from Manny Mota is quite the halo for Repko, so you might get a GM who wants a scrappy, fan-friendly OF who's got a new supercharged swing. And Ross has impressed as well.

But neither of them are who we want to see out there in 2008. I should say, I'm in the camp that would be pleasantly very surprised if this year's team was very good, but believes we're on a track to be very good in a couple of years. So every strategic thought in my head is focused on the longer-term. I might feel differently in July, I suppose, but right now the Dodgers look like a mediocre, just-above .500 team that will succeed purely on the backs of a temporarily weak NL West. If winning this year means we let Arizona outrun us to the future, it won't be worth it.

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I remember that one. I was at work at NavCommSta Japan listening on AFRTS. It was nearly impossible for a basketball fan to believe that UCLA would lose an NCAA game up to that point.

Otherwise, I tend to root for bad teams that occasionally have shockingly good years. Like Cal. Like the Mets and Jets when I was a kid. Like the Clippers. And, of course, the Dodgers since '89.

If you were going to be on the 49ers wagon, you had to take the Warriors and Giants along with them.

People who cherry-picked the best teams in California were cheaters.

I don't think it really matters how well Billingsley pitches this spring. It sounds like the Dodgers want him to get in at least a couple months in AAA. I'm kind of worried how he'll do in Vegas. Hopefully, he won't walk guys because that's the key to pitching in Vegas. What I'm worried about is that his K rate will dip because his breaking pitches won't have as much movement in Vegas.

I'd love to see Duke lose to GW, even though it's unlikely. It would definitely hurt JJ Redick's draft stock.

I'm starting to agree with others here that Aybar would be better served to spend some time in AAA next year playing 2B. Playing everyday is important for his development and he can work on his defense at 2B in the minors. He'd be a good guy to take over 2B when Kent's contract is up, as long as Ned doesn't sign some washed up veteran.

The White Sox are 3-13 so far during spring training.

Russell Martin is 7-22 with 0 walks in 10 games. All 7 hits being singles. 0 walks in 10 games? Whats up with that?

heh, i woke up a little late today.

i think justin verlander was starting against the dodgers today. not sure though.

seo pitches tonight, cant wait for that.

Nats/Dodgers tomorrow in Vero Beach.

With Guzman, Ethier and Young slated as the starting OF in Vegas, my hunch is that they would be more inclined to trade Ross for something and keep Repko up. Repko will always be a 4th or 5th outfielder while obviously Guzman and Young need at bats and innings in the outfield to prep for MLB.

As far as the Dodgers, the most sucessful run in my lifetime remains 1977-1985 run, 1 title, 3 pennants, 5 division titles, 1 division playoff, and the 1982 team which was eliminated on the last day. Interestingly, only Don Sutton and Tommy Lasorda are in the HOF from those teams.

I'm not sure that this was my favorite team but I was happy that the main group Garvey, Cey, Reggie, Dusty et.al. won that title in 1981.

I will always be disappointed that my favorite player Bobby Grich missed out in 1986.

Ouch.

UW: 39
ILL: 11

I suppose it's possible that that's "fair," but it doesn't seem very likely.

High A: vLH: .240, vRH: .188

Double A: vLH: .250, vRH: .198

MLB: vLH: .385, vRH: .000

Mike Remlinger is an example of an MLB lefty reliever who throughout his career has been more effective against right-handed batters than against left-handers. Some southpaws are like that for whatever reason, possibly because of a peculiar way their pitches move. In Atlanta, Remlinger was very successful for years because he was never used as a LOOGY, but when Remlinger signed with the Chicago Cubs, Dusty Baker just assumed that because he is left-handed he MUST be good at getting left-handers out, and not-so-good pitching to right-handed hitters. Misused as a LOOGY in Chicago, Remlinger fell on his face. I think Kuo is similarly being set up to fail, all because Colletti and Little don't appear to be disposed to look up some stats and draw the logical conclusions.

I feel like I have just gone through a rigorous workout.

Maddux doesn't have a good fastball either and look at him...I'm not comparing Seo to Maddux, but I'm saying people put too much emphasis on a pitcher's fastball rather than the results it produces.

Heck, Billy Kock threw 100mph and where is he? Fastballs don't concern me...hitting the right spots on the pitches is what makes a pitcher great, not necessarily the speed of his fastball IMO

http://www.parksplace.org/dodgers.html

i am right, trust me.

no problem.

re 93

its just getting started! first kcal9 game tomorrow at 1005. i am setting my alarm!

what does everyone think should happen?

His marginal value seems a lot higher as a lefty reliever than as a starter in the works in 2007

96. I like the idea of keeping Kuo in the bullpen for at least this season. If he stays healthy (knock on wood) then they can consider it. I like the idea of following the Johan Santana path of solid relief work followed by a move to the rotation.

What happens if Kuo proves himself to be "closer material"? Does that complicate a move back to the rotation?

I just hope he stays healthy