Positive that the fans will boo Andruw Jones as he whiffs, misses and fans the balls going by at the plate.

Love to be wrong.

People say I am often too literal. They literally regard me as a wet blanket.

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Woo hoo! I just got a screener DVD for John Cusack's War, Inc. I'm stoked. Was looking forward to that one and doesn't come out until the summer. Too bad I'm already on media overload tonight.

I'm with Enders, though. If they put in rides, it might be worth it.

If the city is serious about going Green, then there should be a public transportation element to the development.

How much would a people mover from China Town and the metro rail up the hill to Dodger Stadium cost?

Key point there. I really think the Dodgers & Frank McCourt ESPECIALLY dropped the ball in letting go of Ross Porter IMHO, he had his faults but I really really liked & had emotional ties to him... darn it!!

For example (note: this idea has not been carefully thought out), what if a team like the Dodgers spent $30 million each year to sign all of the good amateur international players? After 5 years or so, the team would have enough talent coming up through the farm system to allow them to cut way back on payroll (hopefully more than $30 million) while still fielding a better team than before.

Does anybody have an idea how you could get a list of top international signees (by bonus) each year for the last 10 years or so? I'd be curious to see how often those players pan out. With the way the FA market is going, I would think that relatively few could pan out and you'd still end up ahead.

http://tiny.cc/G4W4W

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK200609240.shtml

But I guess at some point that ceases to be an excuse and you have to deliver.

Are you friends with Nobody and all those guys?

I tip my cap in total respect to that lad, he did an awesome job...

No, the mayor of Huntington Beach loves them, too. She's working on erasing any signs of actual historicity or construction prior to 1985 in the downtown area, and it's a damned shame. The first building she got removed was the old Jack's Surfboards shop on the corner of PCH and Main, a lovely old building that used to be a brothel (something you wouldn't know until somebody pointed out all the narrow vertical windows placed very near each other, indicating small rooms on the second floor). Jack's Surfboards is still there, of course, but the local color has been scrubbed clean.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080424&content_id=2583216&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la

So remember this the next time Jeopardy! features the category "Obscure Indie Bands' Chance Encounters With Pitchers With Really Long Names."

I'm not surprised they called up a pitcher - the inability (for various reasons) of the starters to go deep into games has been killing the 'pen.

Wade has very good stuff. He impressed me this spring a great deal.

But he may not be up for very long. Brazo might be called up within a couple of weeks max.

I nominate the New Dodger Stadium be located by the Santa Monica pier.

but then, vin's voice saying "it's tiiiiiiiiiime for dodger baseball" . . . it was even more welcome than usual.

I really didn't want to listen to the screamer tonight.

Tiger Stadium, in my opinion, was a great place to watch a game. But the Tigers didn't think so and Tiger Stadium is either heading for the wrecking ball or will fall apart on its own.

Fenway Park is really a dump. Yet it is beloved. Fenway is cramped and has bad views. Wrigley Field isn't quite as cramped, but it has some nasty pedestrian chokepoints.

And Wrigley isn't going anywhere or being modified in any significant sense.

I'm still sad they left Tiger Stadium. That was the most unique park. I miss Lou Whitaker hitting homers off the short upper-deck in right field.

Gawd I wanna visit that stadium bad! once I retire & sell some of the property my dad left me I'm thinking of going to many places chicago being one of them.

I think I saw Wade pitch this spring. That is the entirety of my very insightful analysis on Cory Wade. You're all welcome.

I wonder how many times over the years Vin has uttered the "Girl with the curls" anecdote? Several hundred?

Major League parks I've been to that aren't around anymore, ranked by how much I liked them.

1. Tiger Stadium
2. County Stadium
3. Busch Stadium II
4. Atlanta Fulton County Stadium

Parks which are still around, but not used for baseball

1. Candlestick Park
2. Qualcomm Stadium

I've used my Amazon Visa card enough to have a $25 GC in my hands, and for the first time in my life I'm stuck on what to get at that store.

Old music, new book(s)...the choices, the choices!

Well, he'll snap out of it. DBacks are often tough in the first.

Photos from my Wrigley Field adventure:

http://www.doubledogmusic.com/baseball/cards_vs_cubs/

"Andruw Jones makes the catch... using two hands by the way," says Vin.

It was nicer before it was expanded for the 49ers. I only attended day games there.

On the road? Not quite as good.

So obviously we will see a result that won't stop a-rockin'

So Vin keeps saying the Dodgers have no one now who can back him up at 3rd. Is that true that Hu can't play at all? We know Young can't. Sweeney? Er... Russell?

The Old Guys pitch in!

Nice.

Oh, did you hear that UCLA lost 2 quarterbacks in a span of about 5 minutes at their last practice before the spring scrimmage.

Apparently both Dodger 3Bs and UCLA QBs both need good health plans.

http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/2008/04/need-to-kill-hour-or-ten.html

But even that might not be enough, such as the time that Braves catcher tagged Andy LaRoche, only to have LaRoche called "safe".

Hot 1970s Conspiracy Thrillers

1) The Conversation
2) Night Moves
3) The Parallax View
4) Chinatown

This one's not looking like a pitcher's duel.

Of course, this era only lasts a couple days.

"He OWNS the police!"

Oh, forget it.

They wearing shells and shirts today.

Yeah, I meant movies from the 1970s. "Chinatown" is a bit of a stretch, but it's pretty damn paranoid.

Not just "under" his nose, eh?

"Hold it there, kittycat! Hold it. You a very nosy fella. You know what happens to nosy fellas? Eh? They lose their noses."

(slash! ouch!)

"Next time I cut off the whole thing, feed it to my...goldfish."

Not sure why. They draw from some of the same energy -- the Beatty/Evans axis. Of course one has an auteur at its helm and one has but a decent journeyman.

(If it's not clear enough, I think "Chinatown" is a masterpiece, and "Parallax View" is basically a workmanlike solid 70s thriller.)

Come on, boys in blue, you can rake against this guy! Give Chad some love.