Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur

You seem to have lost some weight since that photo...

Really? Not that I'm aware of.

The guy who lost all the weight is behind my right shoulder. And no, it isn't Marty.

After a wretched start of the day, 7 runs through five and Summerteeth on at a coffee shop sure does wonders.

I hear books are wonderful things.

Nomah shows some power though.

The Dodgers are doing the opposite of what the D-Backs did last year.

I think the Dodgers might have too many lovable players.

But, uh, Dodgers? Can you stop scoring now? Two more runs and it's like the groundhog seeing his shadow or red skies in the morning.

I'm still conflicted/in transition? I still like BA but it's definitely not the same.

Take solace that Comcast is no better. Cable companies have the upper-hand. They don't care.

He's gonna make us go to the 'pen in the 6th.

Oops, I accidentally un-muted the game and caught some of Thom Brenneman. It burns, it burns!

Just what the doctor ordered. Well done, Brad. Now we can stick a fork in him in much happier circumstances.

Unfortunately, when you need tech support, you get India.

South Pas also has helpful and friendly Post Office clerks.

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in Pleasantville.

About 2 weeks ago I was over there meeting with friends & you were not kidding about antique shops Bob, It's like a totally different world out there, very very pleasant experience.

Have we in the last few years picked up a guy on the cheap after a bad season or two and had him bounce back on our club?

Maddux was on a half-season slump...

I'm jealous that you actually get Pasadena from Pasadena, Bob.

They aren't!

Hooray!

I may have to take six days off without pay. That beats the alternative of taking 365 days off without pay.

http://tinyurl.com/4o9wsv

both good lines.

In 1987, Griffey was selected with the first overall pick of that year's amateur draft by the Seattle Mariners based on his tremendous potential. One scout said of Griffey, "If you thought Barry Bonds was interesting, wait until you see this kid." In January of 1988, Griffey attempted suicide by swallowing 277 aspirin. He ended up in the intensive care unit at Providence Hospital in Mount Airy, Ohio. Griffey was overwhelmed by racial slurs directed at him as well as a tenuous relationship with his father. He rebounded the next year as a big leaguer in top contention for the A.L. Rookie of the Year award, but was thwarted when he slipped in the shower and broke a bone in his right hand in late July, 1989. Griffey finished 3rd in voting, and the award went to Baltimore reliever Gregg Olson instead.

In his eleven seasons with Seattle (spanning from 1989 to 1999) Griffey established himself as one of the most prolific and exciting players of the era, racking up 1,752 hits, 398 home runs, 1,152 RBIs and 167 stolen bases. He led the American League in home runs four seasons (1994, 1997, 1998 and 1999), was voted the A.L. MVP in 1997, and maintained a .297 batting average.

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wow, that kind of JUMPS OUT AT YOU! I didn't realize it, I've always thought Ken Griffey Jr. was happy go lucky, I'm seriously speechless after reading that. I'm guessing MLB kept that hush-hush.

2 DP's in 2 innings for Chan Ho.

I'd like to see Torre start to narrow in on a lineup as he starts to see things work. I can understand tinkering and what not, and read today's LAT comments, but if he watching, taking notes, and seeing certain things that are/aren't working, you'd like him to be checking them off the list.

I finished the Beith book just now (186 pages, quick read). If you're looking for scholarly analysis of the reserve clause argument he lost, you won't find it here, but you do get a picture of Flood as human being.

80 Yah, not discussed very often, but it's definitely a low point in his personal timeline. In fact, the Ken Griffey Jr. Timeline on SI.com adds this to that story:

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What price stardom? Racial slurs hurled at him by Bellingham teenagers and disagreements with his father prompt 18-year old Griffey to swallow over 200 aspirin in a suicide attempt. His stomach is pumped and he is placed in intensive care. "It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there," Griffey told The Seattle Times when he revealed the story in 1992. "I got depressed. I got angry. I didn't want to live." <<

I don't blame ya. It sounds dubious, if you had't heard it before.

He has no saves in his career apparently.

We win!

Momentum builder!!!

Yeah, but he got them off of fastballs, WE KNOW HE CAN HIT FASTBALLS El Lay Dave.

When I picked up the tickets on Sunday before the game, I discovered that they were in a luxury suite with free food and drinks.

It was the greatest loss of my life. I didn't care one bit that the Nuggets got killed.

Sorry, 111 reminded me. That's game 2

I've got 5 HRs tonight (Adrian Gonzalez, Utley, Furcal, Garret Atkins, and Berkman) and the two guys who haven't gone yard are a combined 5-7 with 2 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R, BB, HP, KO.

Penny also got the QS and the W for me.

This week is locked up (mixed H2H league).

The last Dodger to record a three or more inning save and yield more than one run was Dave Stewart on 10/2/1982, who went four and allowed two.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN200404090.shtml