What's sadder is that the Dodgers have more control of their future than I do.

My hope is that I will but right now I'm much closer to Andruw Jone's OPS than Raffy Furcal's.

I have loved the Dodgers for as long as I can remember, but I can live without the World Series if I must. I've had too many blessings in the last twenty years to be bitter.

But still I will hope. For this year. Always.

The Dodgers have won two World Series in my lifetime. I can't say I felt overwhelmingly much better after the wins than before them.

I try to avoid the highs and lows of life and just stop to write down the catcher's interference calls.

What happened in 1993...?

Luckily BAM was not around back then, it might have caused Bob to never embrace the e-mail machine.

...however, that doesn't pay very well. I just had a kid, and while we don't know the future, a second kid would -- eventually -- be a nice thing. I want only the best for my kids and that includes education.

So I'm not going to retire for a long, long time. We are looking at at least 25 years and probably more like 30 or 35 unless something very unexpected happens.

So will the Dodgers win a championship by 2038? Good lord, I hope so. If not, it will be a pile of bad luck.

Of course, if the Dodgers don't win a World Series and all the above does happen, it won't be a total loss. Then again, I believe the Dodgers will win a World Series before all of the above comes to fruition, since the lives of my children will hopefully be quite long, and the time before the boys in blue win it all will hopefully be quite short.

So I'll settle for a new job. I hope it happens before October.

(For posterity, this is not remotely what I want most in life; just saying funny things on the internet.)

What I want most in life right now is to own a home, something large enough to roam around and host parties. What I'd really want is a soulmate, but I'm too tepid to take the plunge into dating. Too many bad stories of broken hearts have steered me away. The Dodgers will win a World Series well after any of this happens.

Besides that, I'd settle for a Lakers Championship, or two, or three...

I'd like to check out Safeco, Petco, and the A's Coliseum too, but those are easy to do so I don't think too much about it.

All I wanted was one kid to be totally wrecked by that scene. Days like this make teaching worthwhile, you know?

Of course that only applies to that one area. I have many goals achieved and yet to achieve.

It won't, however, be cute, like the Cubs' futility. Dodger futility is celebrated around the country.

Unfortunately, no one ever thought it would be cool to have actual participants speak about events that had shaped the country in the last 25-30 years when I was learning this stuff.

Tony Abreu is accompanying the team on this road trip and will continue working out before the Dodgers decides he is ready for a Minor League rehab assignment.

I have to get through the Civil Rights era by May 15th, as annual testing begins then. So damn the torpedoes, I'll be in overdrive for the next three weeks. And I have to do review from Jamestown to the '60's while I teach new stuff.

Brutal

1. a certain girl to leave the desert and join me on the coast;
2. finish and publish a novel.

There's a fifty percent chance on one happening before October, and I'd say a 15% chance of both happening before October. So, I'd say the Dodgers are on the clock.

Without a second thought.

that said, Sven did make some astute purchases last time around and if you can add another Elano or two and tighten the ship at the back, you could jump into the top 4.

>> Sunday's victory was made possible, in part, because of a brief conversation Torre had with Loney at the start of the week. After Loney hit into a double play in the Arizona series while looking like he was trying to swing for the fences, Torre called his first baseman into his office. <<

http://origin.presstelegram.com/sports/ci_9079177

Someone write the script.

I talk about Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, or Scwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.

Man I hope at least my kids will get to see the Dodgers win a World Series...

Actually this kid read the entirety of "The American Pageant" twice before the test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bussard#The_Polywell

I was going to fill in the blanks on what happens if he's wrong, but the "else" part is too obvious.

I saw it on C-Span.

I think I'm your age, Jon -- born on 1/9/1968. Nixon's birthday. Lovely.

My longest and most intense relationship (seven years) just ended last year. She's now seeing a guy ten years younger than me. I'm doing lots of soul-searching. Guess who's having more fun.

I'm an old Red Sox fan from the Fisk-Lynn-Hobson era, but I've always been an inveterate Dodger fan as well. Heck, I named my cat "Dodger" back in 1977 or so. I remember watching all those decidedly intense World Series games on my (awful) black-and-white TV in my room when I was just a pup.

I watched the 1988 World Series in the main lounge of my college girlfriend's dorm. Some of her housemates were none too happy that I had shanghaied the television (especially because I didn't go to her school).

It was still worth it.

FADE IN

SUPERFAN, dressed entirely in DODGER BLUE stares inconsolably at the television.

JOE BUCK (VO, on television)
It is high and deep! Gone! The Giants win the pennant, and the Dodgers' long march into irrelevance continues! The San Francisco Giants, for the third time in the past fifteen years, have decimated the Dodgers' playoff chances, and will now return to the World Series to face the Tampa Bay Rays!

SUPERFAN
I think I'll violate rule one. Rule one violation.

He shuts off the television.

SUPERFAN (cont'd)
(turning to wife)
You know who I blame for this?

SUPERFAN'S WIFE
(heard this 1000 times)
DodgerThoughts poster KG16?

SUPERFAN
DodgerThoughts poster KG16. Sure, he got the girl. I'm sure he's somewhere on the coast, living very happily, writing his novels and living with that girl that he always wanted. But what about the rest of us? Why did KG16 refuse to think of the rest of us?

SUPERFAN'S WIFE
You know, you have a pretty good life, too.

SUPERFAN
All I wanted was for the Dodgers to win.

Superfan's wife looks up at him, incredulously.

SUPERFAN (cont'd)
I think he needs to pay.

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KG16 NEEDS TO PAY

Meanwhile, the Dodgers will tread water with Ned as GM.

Better yet, Jim Healy.

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2005/02/saturday_in_the_1.php

That was a good laugh.

Did you spot it? OK, I'll point it out...

Joe Buck would never say something like "long march into irrelevance."

If that was you, I find it strange that you would doom the rest of us to a lifetime of Dodger irrelevance when you are so quick to hand out marriage proposals.

Bob will likely find amusement in the fact that one of said assignments is editing an article by Roger Kahn about the grand old days of New York baseball. I'm going to assume that one passes muster with the irony committee.

Tell them that it's the smell of victory and move on.

He's waiting for Tom Hanks to capture the humanity of Hamilton whenever the powers that be decide to appropriately salute the man mostly known today for being on the $10 bill.

No comment

60 - Man, I think someone really got to Bob. Like, horse head on the bedpillow stuff.

So what? Hamilton understood, like most rational human beings before Andrew Jackson, that the majority of people are dumb. They need a ruling class.

"Your people, sir, is a great beast."

Now it's raining again.

I'm sensing a suspended game here.

I thought it was pretty obvious that Hamilton in the John Adams movie was being portrayed as a Rove-ian figure for the amusement of the contemporary audience.

http://tinyurl.com/5jwwea

I suspect their press isn't as good because they were never president.

yet they get the least amount of play as founders

Really? They're both in the top 5, wouldn't you say?

The Democrats have the Jefferson Jackson dinner. The Federalists got nuthin'.

Why not have the old bowl system (more or less) and then take the two best teams after the bowls?

And no, a play off isn't going to happen... nor will it work.

76 - the Federalists have a society now, though there are probably more Anti-federalists in the society than there are Federalists.

Obviously the Dodgers won't win before that, but before they threepeat again? Outlook not so good, I'm just looking for a series win.

I used American Pageant in my AP US class in...2005? I think it was. I read one chapter out of the book, damn good teacher

I've seen it about 10 times, and I can only recall one specific instance of foul language. So I'd say you're probably OK.

If you show it to your class, you should enable the pop-up text. The DVD has a feature where, while the movie is playing, subtitles come up which explain the philosophical background behind each scene.

Super perfundo on the early eve of your day.

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/18326504.html

It won't happen again.

Or will it be irrelevant, like the White Sox?

I suspect each of the current 30 teams to win the World Series before the Big West has football again.

http://tinyurl.com/6o5328