Make Greg Brock happy and call it a Communication Breakdown.

He doesn't want to pitch out of the bullpen, he's not effective unless balls that get hit find leather and Jupiter is in Mars... 700k is 700k but short of praying he pitches well enough for another team to notice and find him valuable in a trade, I don't see any reason for keeping him.

And Plaschke's Penny article was incredibly self-centered, even by Plaschke standards.

todays made me wretch though. just wanted to point it out.

1. Loney learns to play the outfield acceptably.
2. LaRoche learns to play the outfield acceptably.
3. Bigbie learns to play the outfield acceptably.
4. Kemp learns to hit the curveball.

young promising pitcher traded for mediocre, veteran, right-hand batting, overpaid OF.

The Dodgers are very left-handed in the OF: LuGo, Juan Pedro, Ethier, Anderson, Bigbie. Loney, if he's in that mix. That's the underplayed aspect of signing LuGo.

I can't recall whether Mondesi was ever as clueless with uncle charlie, and I have this fear that Kemp will never amount to more than Billy Ashley or that Mexican RF we had in that same era as Ashley who bounced around the majors for a few years.

Dodgers on KCal 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Garc%C3%ADa

The Landon Donovan of 2002 is back! I had a hunch the minute the Galaxy signed Beckham, that Donovan would have an amazing year in an effort to not be out shined. We'll see, but he is clearly the best guy on the pitch today.

I'm not sure if the curve was Karim Garcia's problem or not.

I'm frankly also not convinced it's Kemp's problem either. "Can't hit the curveball" tends to be used as a sort of catchall criticism for a young player whose hitting is not polished enough for the majors. Often it has little to do with actual curveballs. I think in Kemp's case, it's more plate discipline. We certainly saw him hit a couple of curveballs a long way last June.

Is there any really appreciable difference between Hendrickson and an NRI like Aaron Sele? Every team has a ton of guys that could be in the mix for fifth starter, and Hendrickson isn't all that much better than any of them.

Schmidt has been a lot better since I got snarky, so maybe that is the lucky charm.

You heard it here first folks, I'm calling Hendrickson + Loney for Elijah Dukes before April is over...

And they play in a real big pitcher's park which is a good spot for a pitcher trying to re-establish himself.

Sam DC, any thoughts on 39 and what Omar Minaya did to your team?

Our starting five at Las Vegas will be significantly better than their major league rotation.

46 Manager Acta has said many times that Church is his starting left fielder. But he's had a slow Spring and both Chris Snelling and prospect Kory Casto (who both play left) have been hitting well. No hit gloveman Nook Logan has been slotted into center, but he just went down with an injury so it's likely that Church will be Opening Day started in center with Snelling in right.

Also today, Travis Lee asked the team for his unconditional release, and Dmitri Young was named starting firstbaseman. Although they may try Kasto there in an effort to get him at bats (he came up as a third basemen but they moved him to the OF when Ryan Zimmerman arrived).

45 Here's my approach to that subject: Before My Time!

I've been trying to figure out if I should try and start some message board arguments by pushing for the Nationals to pick up Hee-Seop Choi to fill the void at first.

But I think the sun has set on that being fun.

on the flight over to LA, Snelling's plane would crash and kill snelling and everyone on it.

thats what happens when you combine the dodgers injury issues with snellings injury issues.

and on the 90th day or so he will find someone who tried to kill him locked up in a random room.

then he will become befuddled.

No thanks.

and they win!

What else can one do to win a job?

He's excellent.

The Loney and Billingsley situations almost make me want to quit watching.

Nomar with Betemit once-or-twice-a-week (vs. RHP) at 3B.

Bigbie in LF.

Gonzalez greeting fans at the gate and helping old ladies to the restroom.

They are all apart of Cerberus.

Can Abreu play OF btw? Since we do need another RH bat. I feel like if Repko is gonna be out as long as it sounds, Kemp should get next look based on being RH.

"Hong-Chih Kuo will rest his sore shoulder two to three weeks before he resumes throwing.//
Kuo is going to miss at least the first month of the season, and he may not see the majors again until June. It really could be for the best, though. There was hardly any chance that he was going to last 200 innings, and shutting him down now increases the likelihood that he'll be healthy come September"

Is he really out that long, or is it TBD? Sounds a little like conjecture on their part but maybe he is out longer than I thought.

Nats don't have a lot to trade with. If Ray King or Dmitri Young play well in the first half, I expect the team would try and flip them for "prospects" in July.

Maybe Colletti would take Nook Logan as a wheelsy backup for Juan Pierre?

Btw, speaking of silly rumors, this one sounds particularly farfetched:
http://tinyurl.com/2cdmmt

Willis to the Dodgers, in a deal including Kemp? Why would they want to trade to acquire more starting pitching, and lose more OF depth? Ridiculous.

Yippee.