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$10,000,000 Derek Lowe
$9,500,000 Brad Penny
$7,000,000 Esteban Loaiza
*$500,000 Chad Billingsley
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$500,000 Chan Ho Park
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$13,000,000 Rafael Furcal
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$500,000 Russell Martin
*$400,000 James Loney
*$400,000 Matt Kemp
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$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

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*$400,000 Tony Abreu
*$390,000 Andy LaRoche
Total: $12,790,000

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$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
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It's Always Something
2007-08-24 23:28
by Jon Weisman

Brett Tomko "pitched early in the season with a back stress reaction." (Ken Gurnick, MLB.com)

David Wells "threw a light side session, saying later it was the first time he had thrown off a mound since being designated for assignment by San Diego on Aug. 9." (Tony Jackson, Daily News)

Update: A couple days when it was really bad, I didn't think I was going to be able to pitch, but I got put out there," Tomko said. (Diamond Leung, Press-Enterprise)

And this:

Trainer Stan Conte confirmed the back issue, but neither he nor Manager Grady Little believed it to be serious enough to warrant a disabled list stint.

"We never heard of anything that would be bad enough to keep him from pitching," Little said. "Everyone has ailments."

Update 2: From the press notes:

Dodger first baseman James Loney currently owns the largest differential between home and road slugging since 1957 among all players with a minimum of 225 plate appearances. Loney is slugging .280 at Dodger Stadium and .702 away from Chavez Ravine, a difference of .445. The next closest player on the list in Glenn Davis, who slugged .724 on the road in 1990 and just .349 at the Astrodome, good for a difference of .375.

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2007-08-24 23:39:08
1.   Bob Timmermann
He looked fine here:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/439448811_abfda5e7a8.jpg
2007-08-24 23:43:24
2.   Bob Timmermann
Free baseball in Detroit!
2007-08-24 23:51:59
3.   LAT
What? No warning for the NPUT impaired.

453. LAT
445. It's okay to hate things. I mean. . .

A few of us went for drinks tonight after work and somehow we got on the subject of "if you won the lottery, at least $25M, would you have an entourage." Two people were emphatic that they would pay people to leave them alone. I was one of them. I agree its okay to hate things.

Legal disclaimer: This post has been spell checked out of respect (read, fear) for anyone over 6'6" or over.

2007-08-24 23:52:33
4.   jet
I know I'm way too late here with a Manny Mota memory, but I remember attending a game at Dodger Stadium with my Dad, around 1970, or maybe a year or two later, where Manny Mota and Willie Davis BOTH hit inside the park homeruns. Each was a groundball pulled down the line. It was a see-saw game with lots of lead changes, with the Pirates's Al Oliver making a great catch in center to save the game for the Bucs. The score was 8 to 7. (Al Oliver I believed finished his career with the Dodgers -- but that was much later.) Sorry for browsing so late -- or early -- but that was one of Mota's career highlights.
2007-08-24 23:56:16
5.   Bob Timmermann
Fortunately the Dodgers traded Oliver to Toronto where he could finish his career as a DH.
2007-08-25 00:05:25
6.   LAT
Baseball will be very boring 100 years from now when they clone Magglio Ordóñez and every team has 9 of him.
2007-08-25 00:19:59
7.   Bob Timmermann
I will not go to bed until the Yankees-Tigers game is over!
2007-08-25 00:32:30
8.   Bob Timmermann
I guess I can go to bed.

But if you check your morning paper, I'll tell you the end.

New York at Detroit, night

2007-08-25 06:19:40
9.   Ken Noe
From Tony Jackson: "Tomko, who also pitched in San Francisco while Colletti was the Giants' assistant GM, was optimistic about landing with another club.``Ned and I have a pretty tight relationship,'' Tomko said."

I wonder how many ex-Giants we still have on the team because of such a "tight relationship" with the GM. Does anyone know?

2007-08-25 06:43:36
10.   Suffering Bruin
It's nice to know that Tomko is a real man who can pitch quietly in pain. Last thing you need is a complainer.

And it's nice to know Wells has been keeping in shape.

Yes, sarcasm intended.

(sigh)

It ain't fun being this bitter. I'm going for a walk.

2007-08-25 07:36:41
11.   PlayTwo
The signing of Wells but not a draft pick with a golden arm by a team that has already sold over 3.5M tickets seems crazy. When you live in the penthouse you don't bring the Magnavox with you. Well, off to soccer. I'll see if these two-a-days have helped these 7-year-olds.
2007-08-25 08:14:41
12.   Sam DC
LAT -- somewhere in the David Wells post from thursday night (8/23) I put a long shpiel on the Nats for you.
2007-08-25 08:21:31
13.   Jon Weisman
Steve Henson Dodger story:

http://tinyurl.com/2ed8yg

2007-08-25 08:38:35
14.   Ricardo
Will Russell get a day off today? It´s tough to bench him with Stults and Wells scheduled to pitch.
2007-08-25 08:55:31
15.   Lexinthedena
13- Sounds like it was pretty akward....

I don't know how much energy I have left to complain about the front office...

I just hope to be entertained for the rest of the season....

2007-08-25 08:55:31
16.   Lexinthedena
13- Sounds like it was pretty akward....

I don't know how much energy I have left to complain about the front office...

I just hope to be entertained for the rest of the season....

2007-08-25 09:12:22
17.   Vishal
[13 ] oh, david wells "feels sexy". that changes everything. maybe he can let olmedo in on the secret too while he's at it.
2007-08-25 09:15:54
18.   adamclyde
well, last night I extended my Dodgers Shea Stadium record to 2 for 8. I was at Kuo's great game last year, but I seem to always be at Penny's losses at Shea (though, they seem to always be losses at shea).

Alas, for the good of the Dodgers, I think I'll just going to stop going to games when they come into town. You all can thank me later.

2007-08-25 09:31:25
19.   Telemachos
You know, it was a really nice gesture for the Dodgers to keep Tomko on the roster to guarantee him his max pension. He pitched lousy for us, but at the end of the day, that was a classy thing for Ned and the gang to do.
2007-08-25 09:37:33
20.   Greg Brock
So Brett Tomko was in pain when he took the mound. Nice to see he had something in common with Dodger fans.

/rimshot

2007-08-25 09:49:23
21.   Marty
This Tomko quote proves to me he's delusional:

It just got out of whack. It's just get back to the basics and pitching like I did last year or the year before.

He thinks he pitched well last year.

2007-08-25 10:17:38
22.   GoBears
19. Yeah, well... If they decided to DFA him, and then postponed it for a day or two, that's fine. But if they decided to dump him weeks ago and then put it off to get him past this date, then that's terrible management. And while the implication of the story is the former, the latter is not impossible.

Add to that that there is no way Tomko is done pitching. He'll find another gig somewhere, and would have gotten past 10 yrs in any case, so really, I don't see why anyone is to be congratulated here.

They should have dumped him in Spring Training, or last year. Failing that, they should have dumped him as soon as they realized that error. Rewarding him financially because he's Colletti's pal and Little likes his intangibles is the worst sort of anti-productive patronage.

2007-08-25 10:21:10
23.   Eric Enders
Pinch hitting Ramon Martinez for James Loney was the last straw for me with this wretched team. I'm done. Now I'm just waiting for the big crash and burn so hopefully everybody will get fired and we can start all over again.

But of course, I'm just a Nintendo manager. In the real world, Ramon Martinez is a much, much better hitter than James Loney.

2007-08-25 10:23:53
24.   Telemachos
22 Well, yeah, Tomko shouldn't have been on the team at this point. But since the Dodgers took so long to determine whether or not to DFA him, the fact that they basically let him stay on the roster an extra couple days is a good, decent gesture.

I'd rather think about that than the latest Lucille II/Loney issue.

2007-08-25 10:32:15
25.   Greg Brock
23 Come to the Nats. If you can overlook Bowden, it's a nice little club. I've been a fan for dozens of hours. It's great!
2007-08-25 10:35:12
26.   Icaros
I will wipe the floor with Grady Little's brain chunks in a game of RBI Baseball.
2007-08-25 10:37:59
27.   GoBears
24. If the extra couple days was really just a couple days, sure. But we really don't know when they decided to cut him loose, and whether that extra couple days might have been an extra couple weeks or more.
2007-08-25 10:38:56
28.   Icaros
Wait, I think I just plagiarized Moe Szyslak after one of Bart's prank calls.
2007-08-25 10:38:58
29.   Andrew Shimmin
22- There's a third option. The mustache might have kept Tomko around till his pension vested just to really rub it in Tony Abreu's face.
2007-08-25 10:42:36
30.   Icaros
Andrew, whose number are you getting on your new D-Backs jersey?
2007-08-25 10:43:31
31.   Greg Brock
26 Give me California and I will dominate all comers.

Reggie Jackson + Mike Witt= Victory!

2007-08-25 10:45:08
32.   Icaros
31

I will no-hit you with Bret Saberhagen of the AL Stars. You literally cannot touch his sidearm action.

2007-08-25 10:46:25
33.   gpellamjr
23 That sounds remarkably like what I said last night. If you don't watch out, you're going to get me angry again. And we can have that. Bob is personally offended by my anger. He also likes to point out my flaws. What a jerk.
2007-08-25 10:46:40
34.   Eric Enders
I thought we had long since established that RBI 2 was better than RBI 1. Especially the AL All-Stars.
2007-08-25 10:46:54
35.   Icaros
And why does George Brett bat right-handed in that game?
2007-08-25 10:47:03
36.   Greg Brock
32 All-Star teams are out.

Half the fun of RBI is trying to hit with guys like Kevin Bass.

2007-08-25 10:47:12
37.   jasonungar07
Well instead of watching the dodger game today I am gonna go see "The Nanny" instead.

Nah, just kidding...

2007-08-25 10:48:18
38.   Eric Enders
36 And the other half the fun is having a team so good Bo Jackson has to bat leadoff.
2007-08-25 10:48:42
39.   Icaros
34

I think the RBI 2 gameplay is terrible. It's all about the little fat white guys playing on the astroturf field after it has apparently been raining all day.

2007-08-25 10:50:09
40.   Icaros
36

Okay, I'll choose Detroit. That lineup mashes.

2007-08-25 10:50:19
41.   Greg Brock
38 All-Star games are more conducive to high scoring games. Team games are more conducive to drinking games.

Advantage: Team games

2007-08-25 10:50:20
42.   Marty
Too bad you kids aren't old enough to remember the torture that was Electric Baseball.
2007-08-25 10:50:26
43.   Andrew Shimmin
30- Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
2007-08-25 10:52:33
44.   Icaros
43

Funny, Disco Stu is actually who I picture when reading your comments.

2007-08-25 10:53:14
45.   jasonungar07
I am bummed that my instinct's were so right on Coletti. I know I never gave him a chance really from day 1 but I think I am right. He is a used car saleman type who really is in over his head. The last straw for me was long ago, trading Edwin Jackson for junk...the rest has been as painful (Guzman for junk, Wilson for junk and the whole off season worth of junk brought into to play over Loney, Either and Kemp)
2007-08-25 10:53:20
46.   D4P
Half the fun of RBI is trying to hit with guys like Kevin Bass

I liked causing havoc on the basepaths with the Cardinals and the Coleman-Smith-Herr trifecta at the top of the lineup. Just slap a little tapper to shortstop for a single, steal second, and eventually score. Or try for the ever popular bunt-HR that rolls to the wall.

2007-08-25 10:54:45
47.   Eric Enders
The Mets are in kind of a Tomko situation with Shawn Green. They need to activate Endy Chavez from the DL, and Green is basically the only candidate to get cut. So they can either jump the gun and release Green now, or limp around for six days until rosters expand.
2007-08-25 10:55:13
48.   Icaros
46

Then Jack Clark is next to hit one out of the universe.

2007-08-25 10:56:19
49.   Greg Brock
RBI and the Original Tecmo Bowl were the absolute peak of sports video games. Throw in Mike Tyson's Punchout and it's no contest.

007 373 5963. From memory.

2007-08-25 10:57:09
50.   D4P
48
Yep. Followed by McGee to wreak more havoc.
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2007-08-25 10:57:50
51.   Eric Enders
My favorite gambit was always the bait-and-switch throwing error. When the first baseman had the ball, I'd have him run toward second. Then I'd have him throw the ball to first where nobody was covering, and it would roll to the wall. My brother always got greedy and tried to score but most of the time I ended up retrieving it and throwing him out.
2007-08-25 10:58:34
52.   D4P
I was disappointed by Mike Tyson's Punchout, as I wanted it to be just like the arcade version. I preferred being a transparent normal-sized green-lined guy over a stupid little munchkin jumping up and down guy.
2007-08-25 10:59:04
53.   Eric Enders
I liked the munchkin guy. He looked like Frank Whaley.
2007-08-25 10:59:51
54.   Icaros
49

Completely agree.

51

Sometimes the ball would get stuck in the stands and couldn't be retrieved. Ever happen to you?

2007-08-25 10:59:56
55.   Greg Brock
52 An attack on Little Mac is not cool. He's like the David Eckstein in all of us.
2007-08-25 11:01:20
56.   D4P
51
I used to throw the ball away just for fun after recording an out. I also routinely took extra bases, e.g.: With a runner on second, if I hit a single, I would send the lead runner home to draw a throw, then send the hitter up to 2B and the lead runner back to 3B. The computer would never throw to 2B out of fear of the lead runner scoring.
2007-08-25 11:01:39
57.   Icaros
Remember the later copies of original Tecmo Bowl where Eric Dickerson was removed from the Colts, but his skills were transferred to his back up?
2007-08-25 11:02:47
58.   D4P
Sometimes the ball would get stuck in the stands and couldn't be retrieved. Ever happen to you?

Yeah, then your guy would just run in place up against the way and you couldn't get the ball. The best thing was when the computer would try to throw the ball to the infield but the ball would bounce off the wall and get stuck.

2007-08-25 11:03:31
59.   Greg Brock
57 We used to keep notebooks full of rushing stats for Bo Jackson. Receive the kickoff, run back to the one, and rip off 99 yard TD's.

Our single game record was somewhere around 1200 yards. Bo was a god.

2007-08-25 11:04:50
60.   Eric Enders
There was also a trick with throwing the ball into the outfield. If you had your second baseman run toward third and then throw it back toward second, if you waited until exactly the right moment to throw, the ball would go straight to the right fielder and you could deke the runner into trying to advance.
2007-08-25 11:05:12
61.   Icaros
By the way, I bowled a 203 on a blind date last night. Just letting everybody know.
2007-08-25 11:05:54
62.   D4P
59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBvOxicz-0

2007-08-25 11:07:48
63.   Andrew Shimmin
I never had RBI Baseball, just plain old Baseball. Once I figured out that it was possible to advance on any rundown, it sort of ruined it. Every single was a home run. When I put the game in, I'd promise myself I wasn't going to cheat, this time. But I always did.
2007-08-25 11:08:15
64.   D4P
61
Was the bowling score the best part of the date...?
2007-08-25 11:08:26
65.   Lexinthedena
49- Punchout was the greates game of all time....

Loved watching the German's handelbar twitch after Little Mac dotted him up....

Gotta love a game full of ethnic stereotypes....

2007-08-25 11:08:28
66.   gpellamjr
56 Stupid Grady Little. Why doesn't he ever try that?
2007-08-25 11:10:06
67.   Bluebleeder87
Bo was a god.

nah, he was just good at what he did.

2007-08-25 11:10:30
68.   Lexinthedena
I'm gonna git you sucka is on Comedy Central...
2007-08-25 11:10:47
69.   Icaros
64

It was actually a good time all around. I'd never been on a blind date before.

p.s. No, she wasn't blind.

2007-08-25 11:11:01
70.   Eric Enders
Today's lineup*

Pierre CF
Martinez 2B
Furcal SS
Saenz 3B
Gonzalez LF
Hillenbrand 1B
Lieberthal C
Ethier RF
Stults P

2007-08-25 11:11:34
71.   Eric Enders
(* = not really today's lineup)
2007-08-25 11:12:01
72.   Icaros
Gotta love a game full of ethnic stereotypes....

Don't forget the disappearing middle-eastern guy wearing a turbin.

2007-08-25 11:12:51
73.   Bluebleeder87
65

Hey Lex, is your show on saturday mornings as well, or do you work on new sketches on the weekends?

2007-08-25 11:13:09
74.   Greg Brock
70 Could this be the worst lineup of the year? Not complaining, because we're not making the playoffs and that's okay. I'm just wondering.
2007-08-25 11:13:21
75.   Lexinthedena
72- Believe he was Indian...
2007-08-25 11:13:42
76.   Greg Brock
71 Jerk
2007-08-25 11:14:10
77.   D4P
It was actually a good time all around. I'd never been on a blind date before

Was she of the certain ethnicity in question...? Are you going to see her again...?

2007-08-25 11:14:52
78.   Greg Brock
Great Tiger was a Sikh.
2007-08-25 11:15:33
79.   Lexinthedena
73-We'll be finishing up the recordings for the next show on Sunday.....we air the 1st Friday of the month and that's it...Work on Sketches whenever I get a good idea...sometimes I'm feelin' it, sometimes I can't think of anything....
2007-08-25 11:16:30
80.   Bluebleeder87
I wouldn't be to surprised if Grady didn't pencil in Ethier today (bad game & all)
2007-08-25 11:16:47
81.   Andrew Shimmin
Blades of Glory was pretty good, too. Not Tecmo Bowl good, but as good as MTPO.
2007-08-25 11:17:12
82.   Lexinthedena
Dane Cook get's to make out with jessica Alba...I really need to figure out a way to be less talented....
2007-08-25 11:17:17
83.   Andrew Shimmin
Blades of Steel.
2007-08-25 11:17:20
84.   Linkmeister
Hey, Brock, I've done one of the items on your "If I were a millionaire" list already. When I was nine we moved from Monterey south to Palos Verdes, specifically 1510 Palos Verdes Drive, which was 1950s-built military housing, believe it or not.
2007-08-25 11:18:22
85.   Icaros
77

1) Half that and half white...hard to go wrong there.

2) Yes, I believe so.

2007-08-25 11:20:04
86.   Icaros
Geography is my achilles heel. India is not considered Middle East?
2007-08-25 11:21:03
87.   Lexinthedena
"He O.G'd!"
2007-08-25 11:21:22
88.   Greg Brock
84 Did you go To PVHS, RHHS, or Miraleste?
2007-08-25 11:26:39
89.   Greg Brock
86 Persia or Afghanistan is generally the cutting off point. India is South Asia.
2007-08-25 11:26:52
90.   D4P
85
Exciting stuff.
2007-08-25 11:28:36
91.   Linkmeister
88 I was nine. I went to 259th St. Elementary in (I think) Lomita. Any of you natives are welcome to correct me if my location for that school seems wrong.
2007-08-25 11:28:38
92.   Icaros
89

Okay, so Pakistan is also out?

2007-08-25 11:29:07
93.   Icaros
90

We'll see.

2007-08-25 11:30:45
94.   Marty
Be sure to introduce her to the drunk girls in your apartment.
2007-08-25 11:31:45
95.   Greg Brock
92 Okay, so Pakistan is also out?

It would be if India had anything to say about it. But yeah, Pakistan is South Asia.

Bangladesh can be whatever it wants.

2007-08-25 11:32:05
96.   Bluebleeder87
82

I saw him at the laughfactory a while back, his shtick is way to choreographed for my taste at least that's the impression that I got.

2007-08-25 11:32:47
97.   Lexinthedena
92- Some consider Pakistan a cutting point....but I believe most Pakistani's consider themselves South Asian...at least in America....
2007-08-25 11:32:55
98.   Icaros
94

They aren't here anymore. Underdog and D4P can attest.

2007-08-25 11:33:59
99.   Icaros
95 and 97

Thanks.

2007-08-25 11:36:09
100.   Lexinthedena
99- The feature story in the latest National Geographic is about Pakistan....
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2007-08-25 11:42:03
101.   berkowit28
There seems to be a communication problem between the team and Josh (who I think remained in LA) at ItD today. Isn't there a game starting in little over an hour? No lineup posted yet. Nor Tony Jackson either (maybe he's not awake yet). Or maybe FOX has managed to get a total news blackout until their broadcast starts at 12:30...
2007-08-25 11:43:57
102.   Icaros
I swear I've learned more from four years of DT than I did in all of my school years. And I have a Masters!
2007-08-25 11:45:59
103.   Bluebleeder87
101

I was wondering the same thing Berkowit28 maybe it's just a collective GLITCH of some kind, I'm sure by 12:00PM or so we'll have something.

2007-08-25 11:51:59
104.   Eric Enders
Why all the anxiety about the lineup? You know it's going to suck anyway.

See, this will be my mood for the rest of the season. I'm sure you all can hardly wait. Fun times ahead.

2007-08-25 11:55:26
105.   D4P
104
Welcome aboard.
2007-08-25 12:01:02
106.   Bluebleeder87
104

Stutltsy will take us to the promised land Enders don't sweat it, he has good #'s against the Mets small sample size but still...

2007-08-25 12:01:22
107.   twerp
61. "By the way, I bowled a 203 on a blind date last night."

I bet that was painful for her. :)
2007-08-25 12:02:18
108.   Greg Brock
104
It's all right to cry
Crying gets the sad out of you
It's all right to cry
It might make you feel better

Raindrops from your eyes
Washing all the mad out of you
Raindrops from your eyes
It's gonna make you feel better

2007-08-25 12:06:00
109.   Icaros
107

Nice. Being away from teaching has made me lose a step.

2007-08-25 12:08:04
110.   Icaros
Personally, I'm excited about the new Eric Enders attitude.

But I'm one of those who really misses Steve.

2007-08-25 12:08:19
111.   regfairfield
Lineup

Furcal SS
Pierre CF
Ethier RF
Kent 2B
Gonzalez LF
Martin C
Loney 1B
Hillenbrand 3B
Stults P

2007-08-25 12:13:05
112.   Dodgers49
13. http://tinyurl.com/2ed8yg

>> The Dodgers kept Tomko on the roster through Thursday, allowing him to reach 10 years of major league service time and guaranteeing him the maximum pension. <<

Contrast this with how considerate the GM was of Tony Abreu.

2007-08-25 12:13:05
113.   Dodgers49
13. http://tinyurl.com/2ed8yg

>> The Dodgers kept Tomko on the roster through Thursday, allowing him to reach 10 years of major league service time and guaranteeing him the maximum pension. <<

Contrast this with how considerate the GM was of Tony Abreu.

2007-08-25 12:14:35
114.   Bluebleeder87
109

I have to admit it's pretty refreshing hearing a moody Eric Enders.

2007-08-25 12:14:52
115.   Greg Brock
113 Abreu isn't old enough to matter.
2007-08-25 12:15:13
116.   Marty
Stupid Kemp. Only went 2-4 yesterday. Benc