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Dodger home record: 39-30 (.565)
When Jon attended: 5-3 (.625)
When Jon didn't: 34-27 (.557)
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
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Via Baseball Musings (which itself was directed by MetsBlog), we find this brief Associated Press mention and photo of pitching prospect Pedro E. Martinez, the 19!-year-old son of we-miss-you-Dodger Pedro J. Martinez and nephew of we'll-always-remember-you Ramon J. Martinez.
Young Pedro attends the Mets' pitching academy in Boca de Nigua, Dominican Republic.
Makes me curious to see if Pedro Guerrero has a kid playing anywhere.
(I'll take a Cinnamon Swirl one please)
I am more interested in hearing about the son of Jesus, who if he exists, is probably available.
vr, Xei
19 year old son from a 35 year old Pedro. Wowza.
Let's see. You've got a poor, likely not well-educated young man in a country where there likely isn't a lot of access to birth control....
You do the math....
Why? What's the significance? I DON'T KNOW!
Which I will not be engaging in.
Please stop saying "gap integrity."
It bothers me.
Sincerely,
Bob Timmermann
Get more list. More list!
Sigh.
Mitchell Butler.
(I'm getting a jump on somebody else's brilliant hindsight.)
I assume that the cat doesn't look like Pedro Martinez.
A bit of victory to report. Wendy Selin writes:
"I was at the school that was carrying the signs and hula hoops, I was picking up the Nutrition Network logs from Carver Middle School. I am a Union member, but I did not talk to any of the staff because the camera crew was filming. I would address this question to the UTLA Union for an explanation. Sorry I could not give you the information you requested...."
So, anybody know anybody at Carver? I submitted the question to the unreliable-looking embedded email form in the UTLA website, but, if somebody else had the means and the willingness to do a little groundwork. . .[bats eyelashes]
That brings us back to Jon's post in a way doesn't it?
Then again, with those two blown free throws, he might have just hurt his chances. Collison might be lonely tonight as well.
!!!!!!
very nervous now.
The Greatest College Basketball Team Ever beat South Carolina easily.
Ohio State, Wisconsin, and UCLA all squeeked out wins.
Young hits the three-pointer at the buzzer!
There is only one thing that should be referred to as "Big"...
David Eckstein's heart.
http://tinyurl.com/yydfe8
I hate players that run after the whistle. Especially the guys that pick up incompletions and run the other way, looking back every three seconds.
Speaking of soccer, Slate within a day had their "David Beckham is the worst thing for American soccer" article up pretty quickly.
That could well be true, but I was wondering if the article had been written several weeks ago and was just waiting for the news to be official.
They aren't shooting well.
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/488357p-411202c.html
The Greg Brock list of wiseness:
Gandhi
Dali Lama
Tom Cruise
The second Wise Man
Wisey McWiserson
Deepak Chopra
Kurt Rambis
And he's a professional educator! He should be handle to it!
I will correct Xeifrank no more forever.
I lost my nerve.
Of course, if this had been a baseball player, Ryan would have told us of the incredible shame that the player would have faced for taking steroids. And how the entire game would be suspect.
My oft told tale is that I won the school spelling bee one year on "parallel" and then lost it the next year on the same word when I omitted the initial "a".
My fourth grade spelling be championship means nothing. I think I threw away the ribbon. It's all pointless now, this spelling of the words correctly. If there is a spelling nihilism, then I am a spelling nihilist.
Sometimes you just serve them up on a tee.
Or perhaps a te.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/2338259
{Bangs head on desk}
Yutaka Fukufuji played the final period in goal for the Kings in their 6-5 loss to the Blues in St. Louis. All fans in attendance at the game got free food.
They also had to watch the Kings and Blues play each other.
Alas, just a football game.
Please refrain from barreling into me with such force. If the Lord wanted my heart to be on the right side of my chest he would have put it there.
Sincerely,
Reggie Bush
"He should be handle to it!"
Could you translate that from Timmermannese to English, or Middle English, or something?
Hey, what do you expect from a twerp?
Go Dodgers!
vr, Xei
I've got 4 cats who are 17. I expect all of them to live to 20 except the one I like.
That was a Great playoff game. Looking forward to the ice bowl tomorrow. For some reason I like football in terrible weather.
He wore good socks.
Here is the printable portion of her opinion about UTLA:
End of opinion.
Four more weeks 'til pitchers and catchers!!
12. SoSG Orel
6. Yes, but how is your cat's arm?
Not as strong as Pedro or Pedro Jr's, and he tested positive for catnip. Well-clawed, though. And a better free throw shooter than Lorenzo Mata.
(Bringing this back full-circle.)
That was an awesome migraine. I think I can taste my spleen, and I wanted to die. That's a migraine to be proud of. Not those silly little headaches. This thing wanted to kill me, and I respect that. You don't see work ethic like that from today's average migraine.
I hope you just get migraines and don't get cluster headaches.
Do you have any meds for them or do you just go off to a dark room and hope that it goes away?
You're in the prime age for adult males to start developing migraines on a regular basis.
Now that Ms. Selin has let on which school it was, I'm pretty sure all I need do is email my way through the staff directory, helpfully posted on-line. I started with the catch all email address, but will start emailing individuals next Tuesday, if I don't get an answer to that inquiry. If I don't know by Wednesday, I'll be picketing the school, sans hula hoop, on Thursday. That'll learn 'em.
No meds. take a ton of ibuprofen, turn out all the lights, lay in bed for about four hours.
My brother's migraines got so bad that he went through all the normal treatments and ended up with the experimental treatment of lithium.
Got rid of the migraines and cleared up that nasty bipolar disorder too.
http://www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand
If anybody would get in on this Andrew, I know it will be you.
It was on fire, last year. That should bring the price down, some.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Minerva
I think we could build a pretty great country. One-party rule, of course (Whigs). Nuclear power plant, build a Walmart, pretty sweet frisbee-golf team. Minerva has a terrible flag...Gotta get some design guys on fixing that. Barter economy (never enough love for the barter economy).
They're not handing out iPhones and cordless shoes for free (are they handing out iPhones for free?).
1. Bretty Myers
2. Freddy Garcia
3. Cole Hamels
4. Jamie Moyer
5. Adam Eaton
6. Jon Lieber (will be traded soon)
Myers is the closest thing they have to an ace with Hamels the future, but all-around it's pretty dang good. I like ours a little better, but I can see a case being made for theirs.
Then our favorite commenter will have to change his handle to DJ4PE