The Curtice family sent a bottle of champagne to Walt Harris.

your in Colorado BH?

What! It says so right in the article!

I think it's cool also to watch Martin (the athlete) show of his abilities at a different position's but he's an ALL-STAR catcher playing out of position what IF he gets hurt? I know I wouldn't be to pleased.

Final score:
Stanford 21
UCLA 19

Shut up, kid!

This looks like a short term move until La Roche is ready, but it improves the flexiblity of the team long term knowing Russ can do this. My main complaint would be that we're essenially trading Dewitt for Bennett in the lineup.

Andruw Jones makes roughly $50,000 a day.

They don't call it the hot corner for nothing Imperabo.

And this was something that was done early in their careers.

I'll be watching how LaRoche does in the next few weeks, if his power picks up and Dewitt should struggle, I think a move could be made.

It was a mean lucky shot...

Martin would lose a ton of value if he was a 20 home run hitting mediocre third baseman.

Seriously, it's sad.

Whitney Houston says otherwise.

Now will I have paper in my class or printer cartridges? Who knows. We are the brokest of the broke.

Although I am not sure if you think Andruw Jones should feel some sense of shame for getting paid a very large salary.

If a crackhead falls in an alley and no one's there to...

I tend to feel that Loaiza has been very lucky thus far. It's gotta be only a matter of time before he starts getting rocked consistently.

The Dodgers go 149-13, because Torre brilliantly moved Martin to 3B.

I remember a drama teacher I was working with and some of the students were making fun of Whitney. The guy in all seriousness said, "C'mon! She's talented, she's done wonderful work and yeah, she uses a little crack every now and again..."

He couldn't understand why we all burst out laughing.

That reminds me, you guys think K/Gou will pitching tonight if Loaiza falters.

I didn't realize we had teachers on board. Good to hear my fellow dodger fans also share my experiences in the classroom too.

I teach second grade in downtown LA.

But at least we were entertained.

The Dodgers, they be rolling...

I had him when the Dodgers scored their four runs, but not in the bottom half of that inning or since.

I have fifteen...ten, ten Commandments!

When you coming up here?

(crickets)

Okay, I'll try another one later.

You know, for accounting purposes.

5 or 6?

Cool.

You have to add more spice to it like Vinnie just did.

NADA!

Single to short left, out at home.

Repeat the above sentence two more times.

single, picked off.
single, picked off
single
single
single

.... Now, if any other ball was put in play and an out was recorded would that be a fielders choice and thus, no official hit?

I have Dish & it is periodically blacking out but not enough were I'd be PO'ed or anything.

Right, the official scorer must rule that the play would have resulted in a hit if the ball had not touched the runner.

so I guess it is six. Thanks.

Although, we did not account for this in the bet.

Bill Barnes, Master Strategist!

Also, watching that beanball replay, Bennett is asking to get hit on his throwing hand on every play.

An SF is not an official AB so the Grand Slam Cycle is still alive.

Unless Bob says otherwise. :-)

But bhsportsguy has the scenario that I believe is correct.

Ned?

Kuo is also an improvement.

Mr. Timmerman, I enjoy your work. WIth that said you have just presented a puzzle that will haunt the inner recesses of mind until I manage to solve it.

7!

Sounds good to me.

for a minute there I was gonna get upset but then I read "as a pitcher"... ;o)

I hope he gets Munson'ed.

This is getting sad.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Well 6-3 in about 3 minutes. I'm losing my optimism.

His balance is completely off. It's a simple case of his WHOLE weight pulling towards third.

I can't imagine they haven't gone back and looked at film and tried to correct something.

Maybe he should pull a Bobby Rayburn and wear his old Atlanta jersey underneath.

I explained that she should think of this experience as though she were sitting in the stands. She can't remember the last live game she attended, though, so that's not helping much.

Remember: Andruw Jones will make roughly $50,000 a day over the course of his contract.

Jones must have hit a lot home runs in 2005-2006 to left because all he does is try and pull everything.

He had that brief period where he just took those pitches and then when he got some walks but apparently that has stopped for a while.

The only thing left for him to do is to crowd the plate and force pitchers to work the inside of the plate.

And I'm sure in batting practice, he goes with the pitch and hits the ball to right but he probably feels he needs to homer on every at bat so he overswings and finds himself in bad counts.

before replying, look at those 12 rules at the bottom right.....

Jones seems to fare better in his last at bat or two then he does in his first couple of at bats. Anyone got stats on that? (I can't bear to look at any Andruw Jones stats.)

Oh and since it was asked, Loiaza needs about a 6 run cushion. Oh wait, he basically had that. 8 runs?

Er, not really.

Holliday greets him rudely. Told you, 8 runs would make me feel safer.

When's Schmidt back? When's The Minotaur comin'?

It's usually been Delwyn Young doing it.

Please make it stop. Please make it stop.

I hope it's the K one.

Other things I don't like:

1. second game in a row with Pierre.

2. second game in a row with martin at 3B.

I don't understand any of these choices.

Baseball players get paid a lot, we get it.

Sigh. I'm gonna stop watching this game. The good stuff all happened when I was not watching, the bad stuff when I was. It's all my fault!

Propane.

I don't want to bring Kershaw up yet.

Loaiza was throwing PEAKING AT 84MPH K/Gou would look like he was throwing 97mph the way Loaiza was throwing but yet he asks for off-speed stuff. not good, oh well.

The Rockies were due to break out at some point. You had to figure Loiaza would be one candidate to help them. Hopefully that was it for awhile.

I think it was a slider or curve & the Rockies hitter just nailed it. I've been wrong on pitch selection (thinking it was one pitch & then realizing it was another) but I think it really was a curve of some kind.

I think I actually defended Bennett once. Not sure what got over me, but I did! Of course I was the founding member of the Free Mike Lieberthal Society, but then the Dodgers misunderstood what I was asking for.

Uh oh, De La Rosa's settled down.

I hear you BH, like Marty says "Lo que sera sera"...

Being on a 7 game win streak is great.

Losing a 6-0 lead isnt.

P.S. I am not a bad person.

I won't say it.

I don't think Loiaza pitching is beyond criticism, I'm glad they took him out. But there were reasons why Kuo wasn't starting too. I saw him burn 30+ pitches and walk in a batter in the first inning, in Cincinnati he blew up in the 4th.

Probably neither is the answer in the long run, all you want is for the combo to get to the 7th.

I have no idea who the Sky Sox are.

I totally hear your point BH but if I had any say in it watching K/Gou for a few years now I'd definitely have him throw his heater first & for most specially knowing how slow Loaiza was throwing.

and wow as I type that James smacks one out thata baby Lonestar!

He's put up some gaudy RBI totals at Coors in his brief career.

Your bullpen is sponsored by Arco.

It ain't fun to be a manager.

The Bottomley/Whiten Watch Force is located in Creve Couer, Missouri.

It's like he can't see the game he's calling. Sure, maybe the play was a little confusing (I don't have it on TV), but I've heard Steiner get home run calls wrong before.

LOL'ed it's weird but stuff like that makes me kind of like him even more.

I sense a trend...

1) He's gotta work in the advertising. Vin does not--and should--have to do this.

2) He works with a color commentator. It's a different world working in someone else's commentary. Not better, not necessarily worse--just different.

3) He's being compared to Vin Scully.

All that being said (I love talking about baseball broadcasting), his performance has been very uneven since he came to the Dodgers.

1) He's gotta work in the advertising. Vin does not--and should not--have to do this.

But his daily show on XM is a thing of beauty. I really enjoy how he talks with as Charlie would call them, "Fellow Ink Stained..."

LaRoche was scheduled to play tonight in Louisana but he was replaced before he had his first at bat in the second. He did start in the field and participated in a pick off play that ended at 3B.

But, that throw back to the mound is still painful..

To or from?

http://tinyurl.com/6qfplj

In my wildest dreams, UCLA plays in the 2010 Rose Bowl because USC is off playing in the BCS game.

Allegedly.

So LaRoche is no longer on the 25-man roster.

My point is that LaRoche went out of the Vegas game going on right now after he played in the field in the first inning.

(And as I say that he gets thrown out at the plate. Nevertheless.)

Gary Bennett is in danger of getting meaningful poll numbers. He's kind of like Mike Gravel.

Gravel/Bennett in 08!

In their first 30 games of 2008, the Dodgers have scored 10 or more runs 6 times.

I won't feel safe at Coors until we are done.

I don't think I've seen six hits from Andruw all year.

Bennett spiked the milk with ipecac.

--

Re: G Bennett, that's actually one of the things I liked about him was that he came clean on the steroids thing when a lot of other people were basically still lying about it. Of course, I kinda felt like that whole thing was a bit of a witch hunt, while still feel like he did the wrong thing in the first place taking PEDs, but at least he came clean. Could he throw the ball back to the mound when he was taking PEDs?

This scoring runs thing, it's fun! Keep it up, Blue.

Treading even plays right into his hands Chase!

And like myself and others said tonight, LaRoche was pulled from tonight's game in Texas and I'm trying to figure out why.

Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but his approach at the plate seems to be more sound.

The Dodgers offense sure is clicking.

Yooww, Kemp doubles, and from one angle I thought he was Martin, but here comes Martin now. This pitcher must be in trouble.

The Golden God continues to get it done.

Too bad.

we would have loved a granny but the way he's been struggling at least he hit it hard some where

At least he's had a few non-granny-like swings today.

452 12 runs ain't good enough for ya? ;-)

Were do you get the 411 from?

Torre was non-committal whether Martin would see regular action at third base when opponents start a left-hander, but said Martin will return behind the plate Sunday (when second baseman Jeff Kent will not start) and stay there through Tuesday, getting Wednesday off completely followed by Thursday's team day off.

As for Martin, any other positions he's got in mind?

"I'd love to be a shortstop," he said.

Catchers get hurt very easily. Ned loves is depth so it's doubtful it was a fair or not situation. He simply thought Navarro was expendable and was willing to give up a good young catcher for garbage.

I saw him man the position he's got game believe me.

He's got veteran bragging rights bro that's all there is to it.

the just wanna tees us bro, I'm on to them...

At least tonight.

The Yankees in 1978 and 1998.

Just sayin'.

Another great win for the Dodgers!

#7 Loney is the Player of the Game!

In 1997, Walker hit 49 homers and had a 20/29 home/road split.

You know what, believe it or not, winning streaks like this can make the team real believe...

I'm just sayin'

But why does the Rockies absence of having a Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds on the roster means that the park is a joke? Philadelphia has a bandbox and there hasn't been a 60-home run season there. Same thing with Cincinnati.

For the most part, players don't hit 60 home runs in a season.

Bats do.

I've had that happen a few years ago, it's kind of weird, why didn't you turn on you're radio?

That could be a schedule that would work for the mystic pitcher as well.

so in other words, we STILL know nothing yet...

Meanwhile ...

DeJon Watson visits Great Lakes.

http://www.mlive.com/saginawnews/sports/index.ssf/2008/05/dodgers_director_dejon_watson.html

Man regrows finger using powdered pig bladder

http://tinyurl.com/4bq7xx

18-12 -.- Chicago
17-13 1.0 Los Angeles
15-13 2.0 New York
16-14 2.0 Milwaukee
16-14 2.0 Florida
15-16 3.5 Houston
14-15 3.5 Atlanta

and then I found a used copy of Wages of Fear today too, at Amoeba, so today has been a good day overall if you add the Dodgers to the pile.

I just hope LaRoche is okay. (Why do I feel like I've typed that before and will type it again?)

I'm Spartacus!

Here we go.

Two hurricanes before each game.

Not that Kuo had a large number of wins prior to tonight.

{Barricading front door in anticipation of armed men showing up for my daring to question the Bob/D4P tandem} :)

http://tinyurl.com/6o4m5j

...or we're waaaaaay too busy celebrating our victory over Canada and their referees!

Damn, teenagers with their music and baggy pants.

We had the full broadcast on HD, but not on regular FS Prime Ticket.

It meant that I had to pay attention at all times, just as though I were in the stands, rather than read or prepare lamb chops and glance up when Vinnie said something interesting.

I really hope somebody gets to ask McCourt about the best decision he's ever made as owner of the Dodgers. That would be a hoot.

I was stoked we got him knowing the risks. I'd hate to give up on him but in over 900abs now were looking pretty, pretty....bad. Fat jokes aside, it seems it is more mental than physical.

Man, I forgot what an epic running time Spartacus has.

Whew.

But at least, 313 minutes later, Spartacus is finally dead. I think.

https://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/740691.html

But I think McCourt's answer would be:
1. Stadium and Fan Experience improvements, including all new seats, revised parking procedures, expansion of concessions and facilities (a 3-year plan 2008-2010), and the recently announced new improvements by 2012.
2. Hiring of Ned and Joe (maybe not in that order.)
3. Franchise returning to putting their own players on the field while still being competitive in free agent market.

The only way you find out if teams disagree with any of their moves is when they get rid of that player, manager or GM.

Is Mark Cuban going to admit that the Jason Kidd deal was a bad one, no, Avery Johnson gets canned because he could not make it work.

In a strange way, despite what fans think, I don't think the money those players make is ever an issue, maybe thats wrong but I think as long as it fits within their budget, they figure its the costs of competing.

"The guys we have now are playing well," manager Joe Torre said. "DeWitt has done a nice job. It's best for LaRoche to play more baseball and get it going a little and play every day."

Apparently 4 games in AAA counts more than his whole career.