with Maddux pitching today, i'm pretty confident he'll give us a quality outing, Let's hope our bats can deliver today. coming off a 16 inning game of course
In the "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you" mode, I see that Prime Ticket is once again refusing to show me a Dodgers game when Maddux is pitching.
7 If they're willing to give up Kottaras, they're either very desperate, or trust Bard to keep up his 2006 level of play rather than his pre-2006 play. Kottaras was BA's #2 prospect in a system that's not very good. Plus he was on the 40 man roster, so the Padres had to get him past the other teams somehow.
5 Well, it is the same car, although through some screwy mistake the DMV had the plate numbers mixed up...hey! That's it! It was whoever had the original plates that offended Murdoch back in September '98!
If the Padres are truly giving up Kottaras for a month of David Wells, then they're even more dumb than I thought they were. It's not like Kottaras is a super-stud, but Bard is having what seems to be a flukish year and you don't want to deplete an already barren system to get a non-impact player.
I'm not saying the Hendrickson trade was any better, but at least we truly have the minor league depth to make a trade like that and have a truly dependable replacement.
Hey Das, saw your note from the last thread. Boy the wild card contenders are just lining up to play the Nationals now. They have just listlessly, aimlessly, sloppily cratered. Must be not fun in that clubhouse right now.
Some folks have expressed to me that they think it will be hard for the team to fire (or promote to an Ambassador of the Game position) Robinson because he's such a legend and the race politics are so complicated in DC, but after this season, which looks to end up closer to 100 losses than 90, that task would seem to have gotten a mite easier.
[20] One of the things I noticed coming over to the land of purple mountain majesties is the blatant disregard for the head butt in physical confrontations. To Europeans it is a trusty and time honoured technique used to settle many an unpleasant situation.
Scott Proctor hung a slider to Craig Monroe for a 3 run homer with two outs and the score 3-2 Yankees. Joe Torre is really overworking Proctor. Torre is doing to Proctor what Jimbo did to Mota.
alex white attended first day of classes at UNC so we lose his rights.
However, Akins decided to attend riverside CC so he will be a draft and follow for us and we control his rights up until one week before the 2007 draft.
Apparently, having a day off on monday and tuesday and throwing 14 pitches in the yankees first game today has Rivera taxed. They pretty much lost because he was unavailable.
With Travis Hafner up to bat with the chance to hit a record 6th grand slam to end the game in Cleveland...he struck out looking on a 3-2 pitch that Gameday said was quite low.
32 Gameday agrees with you, Kuo is listed on the roster, Hamulack isn't. If Maddux is hurt at all, there's a very good chance Kuo pitches as long as he can.
52
But wasn't Hamulack a "fresh" arm? He has actually pitched reasonably well in his most recent stint. I don't understand calling him up for a few days and then sending him down when he pitched OK.
56 I guess that means that kuo will pitch tonight, and they'll activate Hamulack on friday. If that's not what they're doing then I'm with you in wondering what they're doing.
56 I guess that means that kuo will pitch tonight, and they'll activate Hamulack on friday. If that's not what they're doing then I'm with you in wondering what they're doing.
we had a golden chance to score last inning, let's see if we get a chance this inning, like Bob said You need to get those early runs against the Reds because their pitching is lights out.
73 Vero Beach's season ends a day sooner than Vegas, maybe that's the reason? Vero isn't really playing much anyways, as they've only played 7 games in the last 15 days. No matter where Hamulack was optioned, he probably won't even leave LA.
31- do you know how much White was asking for? Wasn't part of the point of trading Odalis so that Ned would have a little more flexibility at the deadline or to be used on the draft? They better sign Akins.
my coach always told me if you hit the ball right back up the middle to the pitcher your seeing the ball very very well, so i guess Ethier saw that ball very very well (that was a shot!!)
I checked Maury Brown's site and he had no followup posted to his initial story about free agent compensation, but then again he also has mentioned that he is out for a few days after surgery.
A long standing joke is Betemit and Lugo batting before Martin in the order. And don't think Russell can't run the bases.
The Reds gave us that run, and it is a bit troubling that two innings we've had first and second and about 0 outs, and can barely get any runs in.
112- People make for an inefficient fuel source. Which isn't to say there's no reason to set people on fire; it's just that the benefits are intangible.
58. katysdad
Regarding an earlier thread discussing draft picks and the new CBA, this just in from Baseball Digest Daily:
"Many rumors are circulating stating clubs have been notified that, as a result of the new CBA, they may not get draft pick compensation for departing free agents. This is completely false. There has been no formal or informal communication on this subject. I have confirmation from two very high level sources indicating that absolutely no memo has been circulated among the teams. There may come a time when compensation is removed, but we still appear to be far from that day."
It seems like you would have to change compensation over time, since teams "relied" on the compensation when they made their deals. I mean, we were just glad to get rid of garbage like Guzman, but some teams care about compensation.
it's weird to explain because of my spelling skills, but he dose hold a regular job & i'm guessing he did watch & moderate last nights game, maybe he's just a little tired & needs some R&R?.JMO.
I thought that a more fitting tribute for Mr. Brock, who purports to be a teacher, would be to teach his next class as if his class was like the one in "Blackboard Jungle." Go find a kid who looks Vic Morrow and beat him up. Then befriend Sidney Poitier and get him on the straight and narrow. Then tell the Jamie Farr kid to change his name.
Can anyone show me where the statistics are for percentages in different scenarios? I'm trying to argue my case on another web site on the pointlessness of bunting.
Sorry Bob, I have a hard enough time convincing students that Martin Luther has nothing to do with Martin Luther King Jr., and that Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has nothing to do with Levi's Jeans.
122 - Did you see that motorcyclist on Letterman the other day?
And whoever asked about INVINCIBLE last night, from what I could tell Papale saw the lineman was leaning by looking at his fingers and audible'd to change the coverage. That's about all I can say without spoiling the best part of the movie for everybody.
I read somewhere that Watterson said that he named Calvin and Hobbes after the two early-modern figures--John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. I assume it must be a sort of ironic thing--both chaps have to count as some of the more grim and dour in western history. I usually mention this to my own mids in western civ.
149 mentions a calculator showing the win expectancy in each possible situation; so you can go (same inning and run differential) from, say, man on first no outs, to man on second and one out, and see the change.
I copied this table once, which is a little easier, or at least quicker to use. Unfortunately, I don't remember from where. Use a monospaced font and put tabs between columns to see it correctly:
It clearly shows the negative value of a sac bunt, in average terms; it doesn't adjust, say, for a pitcher up with the score tied in the bottom of the ninth.
Nice play. A runs scores, the runner advances, and Maddux will come out for the 7th inning. A complete game would be really nice here, considering what the bullpen has been through recently.
180 - Sounds like three-way conversatin between Ted Williams, Boggs and Mattingly, recorded for posterity by Gammons in the '86 SI baseball preview issue.
179 He's been disappointing this year, hitting .255/.323/.362 in 141 ABs. He has however shown some improvement the longer he's played:
June- .188/.212/.375, 32 ABs
July- .268/.349/.339, 56 ABs
August- .283/.356/.377, 53 ABs
First column is outs, then runners, then expected runs scored. The last column is the probability that at least one run will be scored; yes, the label is a little cryptic.
Typical sac bunt (man on first, no outs) drops run expectancy in an inning from .88 to .69!
211 - Me too. I can see why he wants it, but it is such an inelegant solution. I think that it cramps style by being vague and essentially allows everyone to point out imagined violations, like the kid in grade school with his hand up and a finger pointed. One of the best things about DT is how flip and clever the commenters are and having to worry if you need to post a winking emoticon to make sure you don't violate rule 7 ruins much of the experience.
241 -- You jinx. Next you're going to tell me that Betemit has seven homeruns as a Dodger and Lugo got lost on the way to the stadium and headed about 300 miles east on the 15.
I think somebody in Vegas that the Dodgers should add to the 40-man roster and call up -- but probably won't -- is Eric Stults. He struck 10 and walked one batter in 7.0 innings tonight, and in his last game he struck out 10 and walked one in 6.1 innings. He's a lefty starter who throws an 88-92 MPH fastball, a plus change-up, and a cutter. He is another Logan White guy, taken in the 15th round in 2002 (two rounds before Russell Martin). In his last nine starts for Vegas, his record is as follows:
60.1 IP, 49 H's, 19 BB's, 54 K's, 2.98 ERA
If he is not put on the 40-man roster before the next Rule 5 draft, he is definitely getting taken away by another team, and he is good enough that we won't be getting him back. We should call him up now and see if we have something in him. The fact that we are talking to the Red Sox about a fat 43-year-old southpaw and are willing to give up God knbows what to get him when Stults is wasting away unnoticed makes me sick.
255
In my 5th grade play, I played Oceanus and I had to scold Prometheus and tell him that "you must become humble if Zeus is to forgive you. Remember, a vain tongue is subject to correction".
Subscribing to the maxim that "He who governs least, governs best," the greatest British PM is easily The Duke of Wellington, who led the government for one month (11/1834-12/1834).
There are too many people to thank so I'll close by saying I prefer my t-shirts to be sized XL.
232 I really don't think you or anyone needs to be that careful. Jon is really just talking about pretty extreme obnoxiousness; it's not something anyone would inadvertently do. The occasional comments fussing about the rules (leaving this particular debauched thread aside) are virtually all jokes.
"The occasional comments fussing about the rules (leaving this particular debauched thread aside) are virtually all jokes."
That is quite possibly the worst interpretation of any set of interpersonal dialogue in the entire history of human communication--nay, the entirety of entity-to-entity data transfer in the Milky Way Galaxy.
255 - Did you get to utter this, the most famous of Franklin quotes?
"My Prize Question therefore should be, To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix'd with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes."
Betemit is like a clone of what Jose Valentin was supposed to be for the Dodgers last year. Low AVG, Low OBP, but lots of HR power, at least this month. 7 in 93 ABs aint exactly Matt Kemp, but its close enough.
In sixth grade I was the narrator for the Christmas play. It was the exact same speech that Charlie Brown gave in "Its a Charlie Brown Christmas". I hate speaking in front of people so I was very nervous. But at 12 I was already an athiest so I also resented the fact that I was in a religious operation.
281 Jacksonville and the GCL Dodgers. The GCL playoffs have already ended (the Dodgers lost), and Jacksonville will be playing a best of 5 series Sept 7-11. The Southern League Championship series should occur the week after that. Ogden also has a chance at the playoffs, but they still have 8 games to squander thier 2 game lead for second.
Yes, but I thought rule #9 was only meant to be taken literally. After all, there is no traditional taboo in baseball about talking about a sweep; in fact, usually half the fans show up with brooms if it is a possibility that day. Where is the list's Hermeneutics and Exegesis department?
I'd pass on resigning Nomar
It's a cruel trick of the English language that resigning and "re-signing" mean basically the opposite.
Has made me do a double take more than once in the papers.
I find bringing brooms to a stadium in anticipation of a series sweep to be one of America's dopiest sporting "traditions". I don't believe the Dodgers let people bring brooms in.
Some stadiums just let people bring in little whisk brooms.
Who, before going to a baseball game says, "Hey honey, pack up the kids and a broom, we're going to a ballgame!"
The only reason for having a broom around is if the police declare shenanigans.
I think Betemit needs to play everyday. Give him 500+ ABs next year and you are going to get 25-30 homeruns.
I also think we need to take it slow with Laroche because of his labrum. Don't push him too hard. I would maybe start him at Vegas at the beginning of 2007 and go from there.
I think the Dodgers would have more faith in giving Betemit an everyday job than Loney. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
I dont think there's much chance Nomar comes back at all. There was at one time quite a bit of pressure to resign him early in the year bc he was on fire and carrying the team, but he's really slowed down since then.
There was at one time quite a bit of pressure to resign him early in the year bc he was on fire and carrying the team, but he's really slowed down since then.
and theres that .380+ hitting 22 yr old 1b down at AAA
The principal person who will want Nomar Garciaparra back is Bill Plaschke.
But Colletti and Ng can do the math and know they can get a better deal. Nomar would have to get very hot or lead the Dodgers to the World Series to get any consideration.
So there has to be a stat for streakiness. Something like "most games that were preceeded by a game with the same outcome". I say we are high in that stat.
We won! this could be addictive.
329,330 I think you are right. And as appealing as Nomar can be there is that AAA guy. If he was 25, I would be sure his average would dip a bit in the Majors. At 22 its possible he may get a bit better!
Next year's the team will be similar powerwise except Kemp in CF should give the team about 25+HRs (which is significant). Betemit replacing Nomar's power should be able to happen.
So I expect a little more power next season, which will make the team that much better.
I agree with not re-signing (I'm adding the hyphen) Nomar.
But I think if we replace him with Loney, we do need to build some more power into the lineup. So where would that power go? Seems like it would have to be Kemp and if so, is he going to play Center? If not Kemp, who? And more to the point for now, where?
If Loney plays next year, where do you think Cornpone will bat him, eighth? Naw, that's reserved for Martin... Personally I'd like to see Loney and Ethier hitting second and third, then Kent, Drew, Betemitt, Kemp, and Martin. Furcal leading off, of course.
349 I have seen real teams win with speed and defense and not much power. But I have to agree it is much easier to win with balance that includes a good dose of power.
I'm not sure where to get it but Kemp, and maybe later Laroche. One good thing is that players often develop a bit more power as they mature and even age. I think Furcal, Martin and Ethier will add more power as they get older, and even Loney.(Betemit of course) Maybe this is one place we add a
Free Agent, though I think it will come.
349 -- Obviously Kemp will be in center. Loney will be at first. Betemit and LaRoche will get looked at very closely in spring training and either LaRoche spends another half season in Triple A or he beats out Betemit in spring and Betemit becomes the Chone Figgins-type "super sub" that the reporters who cover the Dodgers are always saying the Dodger brass wants.
Lofton, CF
Lugo, 2B
Drew, RF
Nomar, 1B
Ethier, LF
Betemit, 3B
Martin, C
Maddux, P
in case anybody missed today's line up on Jons previous thread. I think Lugo has magical powers over grady :o)
Who the heck did I offend, and how?
Rupert Murdoch, when you cut off his limo in traffic, back on September 17, 1998.
He copied down your license plate.
Padres up 4-1 on the DBacks in the 9th.
Catcher George Kattaras appears to be the player headed to Boston.
It wasn't me, Mistah Fox, it wasn't me!
The Yankees and Red Sox played a 9-inning game in 4:45 recently.
so i'm guessing it was a good 16 inning game, wow 9 innings at 4:45 that's a bad 9 inning game.
I'm not saying the Hendrickson trade was any better, but at least we truly have the minor league depth to make a trade like that and have a truly dependable replacement.
Oh, so it was just as long as a yankee-red sox game.
Yes! No stupid trade from Ned.
I say unto to you Mr. Robinson:
BWA HAH HAH HAH!
http://tinyurl.com/oxynr
I must be driving Mr. Baseball Manager crazy. Good times.
Especially if they replace him with Dusty Baker!
I repeat my comment from 19 in regard to Dusty Baker coming to DC.
5-3 Tigers.
Scott Proctor hung a slider to Craig Monroe for a 3 run homer with two outs and the score 3-2 Yankees. Joe Torre is really overworking Proctor. Torre is doing to Proctor what Jimbo did to Mota.
It's now 5-3 Tigers.
alex white attended first day of classes at UNC so we lose his rights.
However, Akins decided to attend riverside CC so he will be a draft and follow for us and we control his rights up until one week before the 2007 draft.
so theres a good chance we can snag akins.
http://dodgerblog.typepad.com/sports_baseball_dodgers/2006/08/tk_title_1.html
And I was worried about what Ned was going to do.
IMO the Padres know they don't have anything for the future, so they wanna win now.
21 - I was at an O's/Yanks game at the end of '02 when Soriano was sitting on 39 HRs and iirc 41 steals at the time.
He put up a nice big clutch 0-5 with two whiffs. Good times.
yes sir.
Good Lord.
Yeah, no opposite-field HR here, DJ...
I've been getting more into hockey since Alex Ovechkin showed up here. He's something else.
But wasn't Hamulack a "fresh" arm? He has actually pitched reasonably well in his most recent stint. I don't understand calling him up for a few days and then sending him down when he pitched OK.
But that was just stupid. Really, really stupid.
"Tad Iguchi makes all the plays, especially the productive outs. He's Ozzie Guillen's MVP."
Do with that what you will.
BELIEVE ME I KNOW! :o)
I guess that's not against the rules when it can be misinterpreted positively.
Like that would be a useful thing to have!
The anti-Ryan Franklin.
anything Bin Laden is not fun nor funny.imo.
He also has struck out only 14.4% of his ABs.
Give somebody a cellphone with text message service and they can express any opinion they so choose.
As long as its one of the three options listed.
I wasn't alive to see Ruth or Mays. I guess that goes without saying.
Vin said the old joke used to be will we catch Osama Bin Laden first or will Aaron Harang get a hit first.
I'll give this to Greg Brock...He was the best Greg Brock I've ever seen play baseball.
I dont think it could go in effect this offseason. it is just way too soon.
Its just a rumor and it should not effect this year so Lugo should still net us some picks.
99 I think Vin said the joke was in the Cincinnati locker room last year.
STOG does rhyme with log...
Yes, the Padres beat Arizona 4-1
The Reds gave us that run, and it is a bit troubling that two innings we've had first and second and about 0 outs, and can barely get any runs in.
58. katysdad
Regarding an earlier thread discussing draft picks and the new CBA, this just in from Baseball Digest Daily:
"Many rumors are circulating stating clubs have been notified that, as a result of the new CBA, they may not get draft pick compensation for departing free agents. This is completely false. There has been no formal or informal communication on this subject. I have confirmation from two very high level sources indicating that absolutely no memo has been circulated among the teams. There may come a time when compensation is removed, but we still appear to be far from that day."
it's weird to explain because of my spelling skills, but he dose hold a regular job & i'm guessing he did watch & moderate last nights game, maybe he's just a little tired & needs some R&R?.JMO.
I can only picture Jon with a beard. :o)
i can only picture jon as brian cashman.
I thought it was more like Plato's description of a philosophy king.
B A, Bay
B E, Bee
B I, Bicky By
B O, Bo
Bicky By Bo Be Bo Bay
Bicky By Bo Boo
The way they are playing there's a good chance they'd blow it.
I'm not very imaginative.
Case closed.
No, I'm not kidding.
so Brian Cashman?
Cool. I learn something new here every day.
Jon Weisman is many things to me.
122 - Did you see that motorcyclist on Letterman the other day?
And whoever asked about INVINCIBLE last night, from what I could tell Papale saw the lineman was leaning by looking at his fingers and audible'd to change the coverage. That's about all I can say without spoiling the best part of the movie for everybody.
I read somewhere that Watterson said that he named Calvin and Hobbes after the two early-modern figures--John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes. I assume it must be a sort of ironic thing--both chaps have to count as some of the more grim and dour in western history. I usually mention this to my own mids in western civ.
WWSH
So nobody looks like Paul Mazursky either? You're not married to Anne Francis?
agreed but with Orel Hershiser's body. Robo Weisman!
Life is cruel sometimes.
Or be quite troubled by it.
Let me count the ways.
149 mentions a calculator showing the win expectancy in each possible situation; so you can go (same inning and run differential) from, say, man on first no outs, to man on second and one out, and see the change.
I copied this table once, which is a little easier, or at least quicker to use. Unfortunately, I don't remember from where. Use a monospaced font and put tabs between columns to see it correctly:
Outs Runners Expected Prob > 0
0 --- 0.49 0.275
0 1-- 0.88 0.435
0 -2- 1.13 0.633
0 12- 1.50 0.636
0 --3 1.37 0.837
0 1-3 1.75 0.870
0 -23 1.98 0.860
0 123 2.37 0.882
1 --- 0.26 0.159
1 1-- 0.52 0.276
1 -2- 0.69 0.414
1 12- 0.92 0.425
1 --3 0.96 0.667
1 1-3 1.17 0.653
1 -23 1.40 0.686
1 123 1.57 0.678
2 --- 0.10 0.067
2 1-- 0.23 0.128
2 -2- 0.33 0.224
2 12- 0.44 0.231
2 --3 0.38 0.275
2 1-3 0.50 0.286
2 -23 0.61 0.277
2 123 0.76 0.321
It clearly shows the negative value of a sac bunt, in average terms; it doesn't adjust, say, for a pitcher up with the score tied in the bottom of the ninth.
Off day tomorrow, too.
Are you gonna answer me, Mr. Big Man?
I think breaking ALL Jon's rules would make this the best comments thread in the history of the internet! (Rule 6)
On a different note, any minor league afficianados here? How is Van Slyke the younger doing and projecting out?
bluto
Setting: clubhouse, Dodger Stadium, on an off day or at another suitable time.
HOF Sandy Koufax drops by. He starts talking pitching with future HOF Greg Maddux.
The ultimate power pitcher and the master craftsman pitcher would not seem to have a lot in common. But they begin to talk.
A silence falls over the clubhouse.
Fortunately, someone thinks to turn on a tape recorder.
Hey....it could happen....
By the way, Pitt the Elder was Britain's greatest prime minister.
it's kind of like the teacher not being hear!! Jon!!! you're so cruel! & tempting at the same time.
Lord Palmerston!
pitching the 9th is the true test, but i'll be happy with 7 or 8.
June- .188/.212/.375, 32 ABs
July- .268/.349/.339, 56 ABs
August- .283/.356/.377, 53 ABs
MP at age 20
Prime Minister at 24
Dead at 36
Govern fast
Drink a lot
Leave a bloated corpse
http://www.olivercromwell.org/exhibition/ex14.htm
200 - Bottom of the page.
200 - Bottom of the page.
200 - Bottom of the page.
(Rule 8. We're almost there!)
so the first column is outs, then runners, then chances of scoring, or is it expected runs scored? And what's the last column?
so the first column is outs, then runners, then chances of scoring, or is it expected runs scored? And what's the last column?
so the first column is outs, then runners, then chances of scoring, or is it expected runs scored? And what's the last column?
only because he trusted Maddux to be near the bag.
Outs
Runners on base
Expected runs to score
Chances of scoring more than one run
Sorry, the last column is the chance of scoring at least one run not more than one run.
First column is outs, then runners, then expected runs scored. The last column is the probability that at least one run will be scored; yes, the label is a little cryptic.
Typical sac bunt (man on first, no outs) drops run expectancy in an inning from .88 to .69!
to be honest i'm still trying to understand some of the terminolagy of it.
As well as knowing more about baseball, Bob also types faster than I do!
nah! i kind of like it because i know some people can go over boared (including my self)
1) Pitt the Elder
2) Lord Palmerston
3) Benjamin Disraeli
You can email me your essay on your picks and I will decide the winner. The winner gets a Ministry of All the Talents t-shirt.
Very little love for William Gladstone or Wintson Churchill.
(that should take care of #4)
(No? Dang it.)
Sorry, the nominations are closed.
I believe it to be the most misunderstood post of the evening.
Unfortunately, people started asking where there was a posted code of conduct and that forced Jon to take action.
You just like Pitt the Elder because he fought to repeal the Stamp Act on the colonies.
Thanks. And man, with all those fly balls Tomko gives up, who else fears the ineveitable blow up of Brett?
This is a freakishly talented group of people.
I like to see that opposite field homer from him on the righthander side.
Then again, I am enjoying it now that we've adopted the "let's hit it over that wall out there more" strategy.
greg beat me to the punchline.
It wasn't my post.
It's what I do.
In 5th grade, I was in a play and portrayed Ben Franklin. Pitt the Elder was one of the characters, but I had to call him "The Earl of Chatham".
60.1 IP, 49 H's, 19 BB's, 54 K's, 2.98 ERA
If he is not put on the 40-man roster before the next Rule 5 draft, he is definitely getting taken away by another team, and he is good enough that we won't be getting him back. We should call him up now and see if we have something in him. The fact that we are talking to the Red Sox about a fat 43-year-old southpaw and are willing to give up God knbows what to get him when Stults is wasting away unnoticed makes me sick.
In my 5th grade play, I played Oceanus and I had to scold Prometheus and tell him that "you must become humble if Zeus is to forgive you. Remember, a vain tongue is subject to correction".
Subscribing to the maxim that "He who governs least, governs best," the greatest British PM is easily The Duke of Wellington, who led the government for one month (11/1834-12/1834).
There are too many people to thank so I'll close by saying I prefer my t-shirts to be sized XL.
I almost forgot what those were like!
back to back to back!
Time for them to regroup--after all, that is the team they are chasing for the wild card!
That is quite possibly the worst interpretation of any set of interpersonal dialogue in the entire history of human communication--nay, the entirety of entity-to-entity data transfer in the Milky Way Galaxy.
"My Prize Question therefore should be, To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix'd with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes."
Oops, I meant 279.
Just another fellow I have demanded satisfaction of.
The Cardinals are 19-6 against the West and the Mets are 20-7.
I'd pass on resigning Nomar, and play Betemit, Furcal, LaRoche, Kent in the infield.
Yes, but I thought rule #9 was only meant to be taken literally. After all, there is no traditional taboo in baseball about talking about a sweep; in fact, usually half the fans show up with brooms if it is a possibility that day. Where is the list's Hermeneutics and Exegesis department?
that infield looks pretty good. Although I do would like Loney to play somewhere on the Dodgers.
It's a cruel trick of the English language that resigning and "re-signing" mean basically the opposite.
Has made me do a double take more than once in the papers.
Some stadiums just let people bring in little whisk brooms.
Who, before going to a baseball game says, "Hey honey, pack up the kids and a broom, we're going to a ballgame!"
The only reason for having a broom around is if the police declare shenanigans.
I also think we need to take it slow with Laroche because of his labrum. Don't push him too hard. I would maybe start him at Vegas at the beginning of 2007 and go from there.
Usually the problem comes in a sentence like "Nomar is thinking of resigning".
I dont think there's much chance Nomar comes back at all. There was at one time quite a bit of pressure to resign him early in the year bc he was on fire and carrying the team, but he's really slowed down since then.
and theres that .380+ hitting 22 yr old 1b down at AAA
But Colletti and Ng can do the math and know they can get a better deal. Nomar would have to get very hot or lead the Dodgers to the World Series to get any consideration.
not if his health doesnt permit it.
I looked him up having never heard of him.
Its not a bad fate but our farm should do better.
Bill Hall has a 907 OPS this year. Why do you "fear" that?
Thanks, beautiful.
vr, Xei
329,330 I think you are right. And as appealing as Nomar can be there is that AAA guy. If he was 25, I would be sure his average would dip a bit in the Majors. At 22 its possible he may get a bit better!
So I expect a little more power next season, which will make the team that much better.
But I think if we replace him with Loney, we do need to build some more power into the lineup. So where would that power go? Seems like it would have to be Kemp and if so, is he going to play Center? If not Kemp, who? And more to the point for now, where?
I forgot to do that and i'm going to have to score myself an error on that play..
Tacos and a Dodger win though, I can't be mad
That's kind of mean, dontcha think? Grady's a likeable enough fellow.
I'm not sure where to get it but Kemp, and maybe later Laroche. One good thing is that players often develop a bit more power as they mature and even age. I think Furcal, Martin and Ethier will add more power as they get older, and even Loney.(Betemit of course) Maybe this is one place we add a
Free Agent, though I think it will come.
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