It was incongruous on a number of levels.

Jason Windsor was interesting to watch last nite. He pitched pretty well.

Tonite the Dodgers really need a dominant performance out of Billingsley, if he's capable of a 7IP 7K 1BB performance, now is the time to do it.

Just asking, that's long been an interesting 2nd career goal of mine, but I'm not sure what it takes to get it going. I'm 30, so there's still time!

He's playing third base, with Martinez at second base.

It's a very interesting and important field, but the compensation doesn't match the effort required and it can be disappointing for people who really want to "make a difference" in the world. 30 years old is by no means "too late." That was probably the average age of students when I started my masters program. There were some younger students (like myself, around 24), as well as older students (in their 40s and 50s.

Bud was the first of the sportstalk hosts on KABC and I recall winning a contest on that show for playoff tickets back in seventies.

The only thing I was surprised was when I heard that Furillo was only 80, which makes his not a whole lot older than I am when he started the talk show career.

I kid of remember it, when did they stop printing?

Vero Beach at Sarasota:
http://tinyurl.com/rb26n

Chattanooga at Jacksonville
http://tinyurl.com/ryvax

...and has anybody seen this new MLB.com Hometown Heroes contest? It's an interesting mental excercise, one that might be best explored by the Griddler.

33 - Ponson = AL Jose Lima?

You don't even watch though lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_(newspaper)

28 Blue, I sure wouldn't recommend my route to the planning profession, since (a) I don't know anyone else who's taken it, and (b) it involves working at a series of mostly dull, mundane government job until one lucks into a promotion into the one part of government (with the possible exception of being a librarian) that's actually interesting. I'd mostly second what D4P said.

What kind of planning do yo do, D4P?

Nah, that's just silly.

He's more of a Giants kind of player.

How did Ketchner do?

And now those kids are on my lawn again. If I've told them once...

Javy Guerra, a 4th round prep pitcher from 2004 is rehabbing from TJ surgery and he pitched today as well.

3IP 2H 0ER 1bb 5k

Mattingly went 0-3

To be fair, Baltimore isn't responsible for their half of the "dynamic duo." They are, however, responsible for letting Ortiz wear a uniform and pretend to still be a major league pitcher.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=2523013

You say that like it's a bad thing.

But, if this means that Aybar will play third everyday when Kent comes back to get Izzy off the field, that it is good.

I thought the Herald was a great sports section too back in the day. But it's interesting to me that writers I used to think were good, like Krikorian and Keisser, I now think are hacks. Also, Malamud was really no great shakes. The three-dot format just encourages laziness. Mike Waldner is a good example of that now.

I think that if the Herald sports section of the 80's were still here we wouldn't be singing its praises as much as before.

Meanwhile, just dropping in for a second for Bob:

Reggie Abercrombie singles on a bunt ground ball to third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. Reggie Abercrombie scores. Throwing error by third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. Throwing error by second baseman Marlon Anderson.

Ultimately, the run was scored as earned however, because subsequent hits would have brought the runner home. What a surreal way to resolve anything.

e.g. Dontrelle Willis, Runs Allowed: Wow!
Robert Fick, Power: Poor; Creating Runs: Avg.

http://asap.washingtonpost.com/nationals/

Pretty neat.

Great news about Wilber coming back up. He doesn't help us in the power depart, but he can get on base. Maybe Grits will realize that Wilber is better suited to bat higher up in the lineup.

I'm mostly interested in land use and environmental planning, though when I worked for a council of governments, I did all kinds of stuff: economic development, transportation, natural resources, community safety, infrastructure, telecommunications, regional planning, development review, etc.

And Nick Johnson ties it with a two run single.

And Nick Johnson ties it with a two run single.

Well, remember, those guys know a lot more about baseball than you or I.

"Suddenly, Neddy"
"True Blue Mother From Outer Space"

You killed Kenny! You @#$%^&*!

Then OF Daryle Ward struck out on three pitches to end the inning.

To the ninth!

i know there's a lot of general enthusiasm and optimism for what our prospects can become, but I'm not as excited to see aybar again. i'd rather loney got a 2nd shot, although he's being blocked by nomar and other LFers. if aybar coming up shakes us out of our funk, i won't complain.

And this terrifying enemy surfaced -- as such enemies often do -- in the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places...

Little BOB -- Little BOB of horrors!

On the double steal attempt, when the runner is thrown out at third, does the runner at second credited with a stolen base?

No

Tonight in Tacoma, Repko is back in the lineup, then you have the fivesome of Delwyn Young, Loney, Kemp, Guzman and LaRoche.

They better score a lot, D.J. Houlton is pitching.

I played all our rookies
And veterans too
It's better than nothing
Or Jorge Cantu
I'm begging you sweetly
I'm down on my knees
Oh, please -- hit for me!

I moved our old shortstop
And made him play third
Although he can't bat there
And hits like a turd
I've given him time off
His fam'ly to see
Now please -- hit for me!

I said when you first mentioned it that my dog had had a similar event. It took her about three days to get past it, but here we are two or three years later and she can still go from the back door to the side yard by the pool in about 4 seconds flat. Hopefully your pooch has a similar recovery.

So do you want my theory about why Jae Seo should have been credited with a save back on June 23????

Rain delay.

A bandbox of our own!
A fence -- let's pad it, please.
Grilled dogs in the loge
That cool, third-base-side breeze
New seats staring up at Diamondvision screen
In the stadium we share:
Chavez Ravine

They roam the outfield grass
(But I don't trust their knees)
And once, just once, I wish
Our pitchers'd bring the cheese
This season's had its ups and downs;
sometimes it hurts my spleen
I'll eat peanuts somewhere in
Chavez Ravine

I know Neddie's the greatest
But sometimes I think he's -- well -- a sadist
'Cause he got us Fucal
And the team's awfully frail
Still, that Neddie's our guy
At least till McCourt wants to watch him fry
And the ballpark they play in
Makes it easy for me when they fail

(I feel that this is accurate because only a dead man would have let Schmidt pitch the seventh yesterday)

that's good news

Just saying.

How hard can it be raining in New York? I would think they can wait.

never mind, he struck out.

:)

Eye hear ya. :o)

agreed.

I'm a former sportscaster, I loved baseball history because there was so much of it. And then one night I'm playing Trivial Pursuit--this was about 15 years ago or so--and I'm asked to name the homes of the basketball, football and baseball halls of fame.

I got Canton, Springsfield... and drew a blank on Cooperstown. To this day, I couldn't tell you why. It's not a haunting thing just weird.

Yeah, so, on with the game...

I'll pick this up after I put him safely to bed.

did you do you're sports brodcasting here in L.A?

I thought it was only one? Gonzalez and who else?

176
i suggest writing a strongly worded letter, by natural light if possible.

Heck, we figured this out in wiffle ball. One bounce over the fence is a GR triple. Sheesh.

except for that CS, earlier.

My buddy moved out there not to long ago, He blames L.A. real state for his exodus.

I tivo'd it...too tough to tell because they only give the behind view and not a side view.

He took a mirror all the way out to second base?

I'm going to look at U of A and ASU this weekend. Any things I should check out around the area or at the school?

Yea they are a melodic hardcore band but they are awesome. They haven't sold out, their new album is just as political and awesome as the rest.

Well I dont think you are old enough to go to the bars, but i guess walk around 4th street if you want. Theres not much going on there right now, in the middle of the summer, everyone went home.

The chicks. Don't forget the chicks.

Third baseman - Pedro Feliz
Second baseman - O Dog

Too hot. Chicks stay inside.

Kearns in right.

Okay, nice work from Chad, I would like to see him throw another inning. He seems to be on a roll.

Yeah, so apparently that Broxton rumor fell somewhat short, unless the PTNBL was Kemp.

Maybe Grits is developing for the future?
I hope.

220 Beautiful.

Cora's in.

And miguel batista (the poet) gets the ball on opening day.

Ultra scrappy.

let's not forget that Baez looms in the pen....

I went to Oregon, have an uncle that went to Chico State, and a wife that went to Boulder.

244- I'm interested in Oregon because of their Sports Management school. The only thing I'm not fond of is that it's ultra liberal (just like mine). I have a friend who goes there and she likes it.

I really think you should go to Cal. You can work on your Jeff Kent worship there.

Maybe SDSU? Or is your major impacted there?

[Sorry, Jon. Couldn't resist. Will follow rules. :) ]

And the runner on third is Rob Bowen.

If he scores, it's over.

All in all, pretty solid outing from Billingsley. Me happy (though I will throw a fit if Grady does the Tracy-esque move of letting him hit in the 8th if one of the 6-7-8 gets on base, and then tosses him back out into the game... He's still got stuff but c'mon, you've got Brox and Saito in the pen).

Ironically, at your age, I was ultra conservative and loathed the idea of going to Oregon and being around all those "hippies." I wanted to go anywhere else, partly because Eugene was my hometown and partly because of the "liberals." But financial considerations gave me no choice but to stay home and become a Duck, and I can honestly say that my time there was the best thing that could have happened to me. Being around people (and ideas) I had always avoided (mostly, in hindsight, out of fear) forced me to reexamine my own set of beliefs and to subject them to much stricter scrutiny and critique than I had ever done before. I learned a lot and am a completely different (and, IMO, "better") person for it.

286 - For me, libertarian means wanting less government and is generally more associated with republicans or conservatism than liberalism, but it really depends on the issue.

267- yea, I'll check it out if I get in. You can't get much more liberal than my school, sonoma state.

280- I don't really want to get into a political discussion because that can cause a lot of problems. I am not ultra conservative, just a moderate republican (yes, we do exist!). I'm a pretty accepting person, but I've had a lot of "stuff" shoved down my throat, from professors to other students. That's not why I want to transfer though because I realize that many colleges are like this. I want to go to a bigger school (my school has something like 8,000 students) that has more things to do. My school doesn't have a college town, so there isn't much to do. I kind of regret not going to Chico.

Apparently it would sometimes happen if a pitcher had allowed no runs, when it was called a "complete game shutout". Having never seen one, I'll have to look it up in the history books.

Am I missing something? I always had the impression of JD as a solid, if unspectacular, fielder. Maybe he's playing a bit hurt and it's preventing him from ranging around RF like he normally would?

If you are implying that Little should have let Billingsley go out there and try to get a CG then I would have to respectfully disagree. 105 or so pitches is plenty enough for a 21 yr old.

good news, is he spreading them around? right, left & center?

312 I don't understand the association of "hippies" with "liberals". Most everyone at any libertarian convention that I've been to is a hippie.

What I don't like about UofA
-Sometimes hard to get the electives/genED clases you want
-Some really stupid TAs
-The weather from May-September
-The City of Tucson. Not much of a downtown
-The speed limits. I swear everyone is basically 40MPH or under. Incredibly annoying
-our football team

Oh, that Nomar, I was hoping he'd hit a single and a home run in that at bat so he could get the cycle, but he wouldn't oblige.

I like the double to right.

Oregon does have a good sports management program; one of my roomates is on a summer internship at a major sports firm and a few of his fellow interns are from that program. Sports employers know about it.

Also, SDSU has a one-year Sports MBA program that seems to effectively get its students jobs with pro teams and other sports business players. If sports is what you've got your heart set on as a career, it's another option no matter where you end up finishing your bachelor's degree.

They had 29 that year. 12 by Ramon Martinez. 6 by Mike Morgan. 5 each by Fernando Valenzuela and Tim Belcher. And 1 by the immortal Mike Hartley.

Thanks guys.

thanks for the heads up, I'm listening.

Anyways, here's how I'd rate my school
What I like
-Beautiful campus, especially the newer buildings
-Amazing gym, top notch equipment. Less than a year old.
-There are no dorms, they are more like small houses. The rooms are spacious. Last year, my house had a full kitchen (as a freshman)! Next year, I'll have a single.
-They allow skateboards on campus
-Most professors are easily accessible

What I don't like
-A bit too small, you run into the same people a lot- too much like high school in that sense
-It rains a ton, it was raining in May! I love the rain, but it got kind of depressing.
-The weather is terrible until October
-My school starts in late August
-My winter break is a month a half, it's too long (if it wasn't this long, maybe I wouldn't have to start in the summer)
-The town is boring. It's full of families and retired people.

Congrats on the first win, kid.

Surprisngly and unwarranted IMO, Stephen Drew is top dog. Elbert is the only Dodger and he comes in at #14. Laroche was not on it which baffled me.

nerves maybe, Matt Kemp batting right now for vegas.

I usually write "FC-DI"

Something about the CG seemed to give the team a lift and create an air of dominance.

I know, I know, it's not provable by the numbers or whatever, but man it felt (past tense) good to see a CG once in a while.

Are there any numbers to show that pitchers get hurt less now (or other quantifiable benefit) because pitchers throw less? (notice I am once again hoping someone else will do the work :-)

Anyone remember that intrasquad game back in February with the Dodgers vs the Suns? If I recall correctly, the Suns won.

The future is bright.