Anyway, better to have the left-handed arms in the pen come out of NRIs than to trade something useful for them. As it stands we don't have much in the way of lefties - Beimel, Kuo (if healthy, and never good out of the pen), Miller (I'd love for him to get it together), and Stults on the 40-man. That's it. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if a Martin/Myers type guy sticks in Vegas for emergency callups.

Awesome.

And to drive home the point of bullpen volatility, all five of the above were toast within two years!

I assume Mike Myers was invited because Torre is familiar with him.

It's somewhat the equivalent of showing up as a favor for Mitch and Murray.

he was throwing serious heat back then also, I think mid-90's gas topping out at 96-97MPH.

Anyway, I was going through the Baseball Reference minors database a few weeks ago to see what other future major leaguers passed through the Cal League during those years. I was surprised to find a 23 year old Mike Myers made his pro league debut as a starter for the 1992 San Jose Giants.

He must have had, like, the greatest pickoff move ever. ;)

German TV viewers zapping around the dial at midnight on Jan. 20 got a rare treat on pubcaster ARD -- a live American football game: the NFC championship between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants in freezing-cold Wisconsin.
They also got a chilling glimpse into just how much TV advertising disrupts the flow of the game.

German regs ban pubcasters from airing ads after 8 p.m. So during the time devoted to countless commercial breaks for American TV, ARD showed viewers endless lingering shots of shivering fans and frozen football players standing around looking bored.

It was a view that American viewers, of course, would never get to see -- unless they went to a game.

Sometimes Eurosport would be in English. It showed a lot of snooker.

(Diane) Franklin sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium on June 1, 2004, a nod to her Better Off Dead character's love of "ze Brooklyn Dod-zhers" and her desire to visit their stadium, which she fulfills at the end of the film.

"I want my two dollarrrrssss!"

They must expect Red Sox Nation to invade LA that weekend. And who knows, they might just do that.

I am still expecting something to happen.

Doesn't sound good, does it?

People still around from Tom Martin's last stint in LA:

Josh Rawitch
Vin Scully
Manny Mota (although not in the dugout anymore)

(Though it seems their new GM is much more intelligent about how to go about things...)

Okay, off to brave the rain. Ciao, people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoiFGva_JoY

It's quite something.

http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/337369.html

The man knows how to sell himself, I'll give him that. You can substitute a different verb if you like.

A: No.

Is it really the case that any given NRI is only invited to spring training by one team and one team only? It seems to me that many players would likely be invited by more than one team, yet the media never presents it that way. You never hear, for example, that Player X was invited to spring training by Team A and Team B, and that Player X chose one team over the other. You just hear that one team invited the player.

What gives?

You better be able to measure up. Sharapova is 6'2" and Ivanovic is 6'1".

A: Yes. Maria Sharapova.

vr, Xei

They don't look that tall on TV!

There goes my dream (I'm 5'11-6'0ish)

All at Staples:
1-25-2008 – Friday 6:00 PM
1-25-2008 – Friday 10:00 PM
1-26-2008 – Saturday 1:00 PM
1-26-2008 – Saturday 5:00 PM
1-26-2008 – Saturday 9:00 PM

The guy is a machine. 3 shows on Sat. Is anyone out there crazy enough to go to all three just so they can say they did it?

One media outlet reported that Dye did so out of anger with Williams. Dye, however, said that was not the case.

''I was calling to ask him what happened with Torii,'' Dye said.

Dye and several other Sox players had been involved in trying to lure Hunter, a free-agent outfielder from the Minnesota Twins, to the South Side. The last they'd heard, the five-year, $75 million offer from the Sox was good enough to land Hunter.

The Angels' five-year, $90 million offer changed that.

''I'm not sitting here feeling like Kenny deceived [me and Buehrle] into staying,'' Dye said. ''Guys like a Torii Hunter were going to command outrageous money. The Angels came from nowhere. Torii told me that it was down to the Dodgers and Sox, and [he] was leaning toward us. Then ...''

Williams' Thanksgiving nightmare.

Please go away.

Sincerely,

caseybarker

I hope you get a bunch more. I would love to see you make money on this thing. I am a self-confessed capitalist.

And guess who has a brother who has extra tickets for the Lakers-Cavs game this Sunday at 12:30?

And do you wish to take a stab at whether or not this is the Sunday I have to work?

But I have spent the past 10 minutes deleting all the comments in order to satisfy your opinion of what should be allowed on this site.

This site is a ton of work to run and keep current. It is also one of the best and most intelligent sites on the web concerning the Dodgers (and other subjects). This fact is borne out by the respect it has received from other outlets such as the Dodgers themselves, SI and even Peter Gammons. It is better run and more informative than most pay sites, yet Jon keeps it free with equal access to all. I learn far more from this site than the LA Times which I pay $20 a month for. Given the analysis, humor and thoughtful discussion this site provides Jon should be charging a fee. Therefore, if Jon can make a few bucks off of some political ads during election season to offset the time and energy he puts into this forum I am all for it. Jon, charge away and I hope you get more ads than you have space for.

http://sportsblogs.latimes.com/sports_baseball_dodgers/2008/01/audio-leftovers.html

Wait. Right? That's still cool, isn't it? The Future of the World may depend on it. . .

I hope Jon runs as many ads as he likes to keep that from ever being a consideration.

I echo the feelings expressed at 98 .

You'll have to expect a few expressions of surprise in comments to future posts as well from people who won't have read your statement today. You may get tired repeating yourself, unless you put something similar right above the blog ads.

We're also closed on Sunday if some immovable holiday ends up on Sunday such as Christmas or Independence Day.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/tennis/la-sp-usc26jan26,0,5754515.story

109 - I did expect some reaction. That's why I updated my blog post. Since my message appeared about 12 hours before the blogad did, I figured that would be sufficient.

But again, this is nothing new. I have run ads with political content before. What I wrote up top was a reminder/clarification. And nothing about the rules changed. Don't discuss political views.

It really shouldn't take me saying this a bunch of times for it to register.

Jon, thanks for creating such a great place to talk about the Dodgers. I appreciate your work every day.

This may be true for me on AOL as well as I've never seen an ad at this site and had no idea what anyone was talking about. But I'd welcome anything that would help Jon make a few bucks and keep this site going. My first act upon signing on is to find Dodger Thoughts.

Same here. I never miss a comment. Whenever I sign off I write down the number of the last comment I read and start there the next time I sign on. As a result, I almost never return to the top unless pointed there.

If any of you live in the Santa Clarita Valley and your child learns how to play chess, they will be the better for it only because Jay was involved.