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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)*
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* 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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Martin batting 5th is a little surprising, I'm glad Grady is starting to like D.Young more & more.
They have the same melody for one of their fight songs, but different lyrics and they are played at slightly different tempos.
Bob spends lots of time at the library + Bob knows everything...
Bob = Kim Peek
Sigh.
No worse than #5 now.
How common is it for refs to blow a Field Goal call?
On the other hand...Go Beavers!
He wants Dorrell fired.
UCLA is going to need a losing record for that to happen.
Lose.
Hope.
No way we have a winning record.
John and friends will get to see the Grand Mashal of the Rose Parade and star of the Cooking Network in action.
Oh, my. 14-0 Beavers. BUMMER.
I knew that was coming.
That depends upon what Colorado does the next two days.
Yes.
But it represents something much larger, at least to me.
Front office executives change jobs a lot. Managers change jobs. Players change jobs.
Their loyalty is to whomever signs their checks. Which may sound mercenary, but it certainly helps give the game a veneer of respectability.
Oh yeah, I said UCLA should just get rid of the football program.
It's less about loyalty and more about philosophy. I like the idea of San Diego's ostensible philosophy (and small payroll) making the playoffs, while Sabean/Colletti and their large payrolls don't.
I mean, shouldn't this idea make a lot of us happy (given that the Dodgers aren't going to make the playoffs)?
The D-Backs have the same philosophy.
Then I guess I'm happy the D-Backs made the P-Offs too.
Your questions should be answered here:
http://tinyurl.com/ynmfw4
As long as the Yankees/Red Sox play against either Padres/Dbax then the right philosophy will have won out IMO.
The Yankees deserve to win because they use their funds to bring in the very best of the best players they can get. The Red Sox got Bill James/Epstein.
Dbax/Padres have the sabermetric thing going.
As long as it isnt a Cubs/Angels World Series, October baseball should be entertaining.
The Giants/Dodgers finishing in 4th/5th place is enough of a statement to McCourt that payroll allocation needs to be better if the Dodgers are to compete in the future. That would include giving Colletti the ax.
The Dodgers have to finish with a worse record than the Brewers. If the two teams finish tied for 15th best record, the tiebreaker to determine who is 15 and who is 16 is 2006 record.
The whole idea of rooting for a team because it was built the "right" way is one of the least interesting ways of choosing your favorite teams.
Just root for the team you like.
It's a sporting event. It's not some abstract intellectual exercise.
Too bad they had to lose your first game. Did you make the trek across the Autzen footbridge over the Willamette? And is that US flag still up in the tree?
I liked Home Depo as well it's to bad McCourt gave him the boot prematurely. I really felt he built a pretty good team in '05 of course the injuries happened & it all went down hill after that.
I think the idea is that if you weren't all that good in 2006 and weren't all that good in 2007, you need help.
The Cubs will be on the road Wednesday.
Oregon State's QB has thrown 11 interceptions on the year now.
I have no logical reasons for picking my rooting interests.
I'd love Cubs-Angels. I'm sick of Boston and NYY. Phillies would be fun, since they haven't been there since 1980. Cleveland too would be fun for similar reasons. Mets, okay only if Glavine could win another WS game. D-Backs/Padres, eh.
I agree, though I do wish the heavyweight division had more talent.
I do not really hate the D-Backs, but I know I will in the future as we battle them every year.
Autzen is a great place to watch a football game
Mac Court is great too. Be sure to go this year before they tear it down, and build another Nike Dome.
So, where are you living? How is school?
The NL playoff ship is headed for a rocky reef.
So, it's hard to ignore in every sport.
In the last 14 days:
BA .465
OPB . 595
OPS 1.276