This guy has 'em bad:
http://tinyurl.com/29u3p3

from wikipedia: "He is married and has a son and a daughter."

i guess what they say is true: all the ex-gms of the dodgers are taken.

Also, Oswald, Tell DePo that he is gone, but not forgotten.

FDR
Ike
Caesar
Babe Ruth
Michael Jordan
Martin Luther King Jr.

(Ironic name, in this context...)

Depends on whom you ask. . .

Also, I'd call an emergency meeting of the Irony Commission on that one.

And should that be a new Jeopardy category name?

"Alex, I'll take DePodesta signings, adulterers, or both for $1000."

"The answer is: JD Drew."

Yes, I have bags under my eyes like Jean Reno. And its times like these that make me think of Bill Matthews.

http://www.insidesocal.com/mlb/

One thing that I am really psyched about this season is Ghame Over's return, I'm hoping it is sooner rather than later, which if he's throwing off the mound doesn't seem like too much of a stretch.

Phil Jackson lost his 6th straight game last nite---1st time in his career that that has happened.

I'm hoping the Lakers continue to tank, get in the lottery, win the lottery, and take either Durant/Oden.

Also, this has to be Kupchak's last year with the Lakers. I cant think of someone that could do less with more, than Mitch has. You got the best player in the league, and his prime years are being wasted...

Trading Shaq..
Caron Butler for Kwame...
Smush, Odom..

Hopefully the Shaq trade isnt a "curse of the bambino' type of deal..but its looking that way in the near term.

One good thing for the Lakers...they arent as bad as the Celtics. Solace in that.

All I can say is check out the comments (I think it is comment No. 4) in today's entry of Inside the Dodgers for really in many ways, a horrible mistake.

I did get a chuckle only because it was so bad.

Odom, Walton, Kwame, Mihm, Kobe and now Radmanovic have all been injured. When healthy, they're better than they were at the end of last season, which is a top 5 team.

I think talent-for-talent the Kwame for Butler trade was bad, but on this team I'd rather have Kwame than Caron. Smush is making next to nothing (It would be like Pierre making the league min). The Shaq trade wasn't Kupchak's fault in terms of making it or for what he got in return. Shaq cried & intentionally dropped his trade value as that would mean he'd be going to a more talented team.

Ghame Over - Born April 2005, Died August 2005.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to The Stop the Parodying of the Phrase "Game Over" Foundation (TSTPOTPGOF), located at 1000 Elysian Park Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012. The Foundation is registered as 501(3)(c) organization with the IRS.

From BaseballHQ:
"Gomes healthy after shoulder surgery... Jonny Gomes (OF, TAM) arrived at training camp and pronounced his shoulder 100% healthy after surgery last September to repair a strained right rotator cuff. He also added a significant amount of muscle during the off-season. The shoulder injury derailed the 26-year-old Gomes in his career trend:

On the positive side, Gomes increased his plate patience and Eye, and his low BA was partly caused by an unfortunate Hit Rate. Gomes discovered the rotator cuff strain in early July and tried to play through it as DH. However, the injury took its toll in the second half (.148 BA) and sapped his power (93 PX). With a return to health, Gomes should build on his burgeoning power (179 PX in first half), supported by a lofty Fly Ball Rate (54%). "

That, and serving Weird Al at the liberry

I hear Oswald will be wearing his Team Depot shirt to dinner soon.

I was gonna take off work for the first Milwaukee game, but I see that it says "Prime"-- last year that almost always meant that it was not going to be shown on MLB Extra Innings/FSN. If I procrastinate any longer I'll be automatically enrolled again, anyway.

To paraphrase his response, he said that while BP will always be stats heavy organization, it doesn't mean you overlook other factors, such as scouting and that is what he brought with him when he came to Baseball Prospectus. In Kershaw's case, when you combine the things that you can see, his size, his stuff, where he is in his advancement of throwing a changeup and curve, and his control, plus his lights out stats albeit in a very small sample size against overwhelmed competition, you have to make him a very good prospect, who may be in his top 5 in 2008.

Okay, now who else have a subscription to BaseballAmerica.com?

And buys the Baseball America prospect book, John Sickels book and the 2007 Baseball Prospectus book?

And in the end there will be someone I have no clue about that will make a big contribution to some team (probably not the Dodgers unless he comes from another team).

Not that USC is not playing much better this year (and Jon can sneak a peek at his Cardinal) but to send hockey off television, not exactly what the Anschultz and Leiweke thought when they started running the Kings.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if that had an influence on Tiger's decision not to play the LA Open last week...

Also, the fact that he has won nearly 1 out of 4 tournaments he has played on the PGA Tour is perhaps the most dominant performances in his or her sport in the last 25 years.

I don't buy that, because I think he would have won LA, and I think he believes that too. He's not the type to back down from that kind of challenge. That being said, until just now, I didn't have a very good alternative explanation for why he skipped it. But I can see him thinking it would be cool to break Byron's streak at Byron's tourney, so maybe that's what he was thinking.

Substitute hockey or soccer and I'll agree :)

But you'll be able to look back and say, "Meh, D4P broke that story weeks ago"

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I've always been a fan of z's since being a fan of assassination is still a bit of faux pas.

The only thing I can think of here (other than two leadoff hitters are better than one!) is that he's supposed to be a pretty good bunter, and that when he's bunting Furcal over he doesn't necessarily have to sacrifice himself in the process.

Do you think this whole thing is just Little doing the ego massage for Furcal? (like he was doing with the starting pitchers the other day...no number ones around here...just starting pitchers)

Anybody got any tips or can't-miss stuff I should know about?

Should take my Stanford cap and sunglasses so I can recreate the famous photo?
http://tinyurl.com/pukkb

94. I tend to go into a coma any time there is any golf news on, so I probably won't be able to say that.

Et tu, Penarol? Sheesh...

There is about a 0% chance I will visit 50 states by 30, because I have only been to two other states.

Sorry D4P, Oregon was not one of them.

You can triple your state count!

As far as things to see, I don't think I could go there without going to Disney World. But then again, I'm a pretty big Disney fan.

Is that an overstatement? (Obviously not an improbability, considering the source.) Anyway, I know they weren't all best friends or anything, but I never heard this one before, not like it was said about Garvey.

Note to Steve: It's probably too late to begin any pre-trade character assassination.

Meanwhile, what does Gavrilo Princip have to do to get a little respect from this crowd?

According to Saturday Night Live, he's the greatest comedy killer in history.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mkillers.phtml

http://tinyurl.com/2tze72