I enjoyed those photos way more than I thought I would. I think part of it was just seeing Kershaw and McDonald again and thinking about all the promise they have.

Look at the smiles on J-Mac and Kershaw's faces.

I wish he pitched for the Dodgers... I saw him throw out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium once, he looked o.k. but he seemed to have a weak arm to be honest.

Taking over an icons job isn't gonna be easy I would imagine.

All Chicago natives and the most important question of course was "Cubs or White Sox?"

http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/prosports/mlb/dodgers/

I can't picture someone as tall as Kobe Bryant playing DB. He would be a lot better as a receiver a la Harold Carmichael.

For me the pro basketball effectively begins the first week of April.

>> Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, who earned $670,000 last year, was guaranteed the largest raise among arbitration players when the Brewers offered $6 million. He requested $8 million. Eleven players were offered at least $3 million salaries by their clubs.

"Shoot, the way this free agent market has played out, you're better off in the arbitration market," says San Diego-based agent John Boggs <<

http://tinyurl.com/9to6so

And Kobe--good athletes tend to think they can hit a baseball---Wrong!

The questions were facetious, but here are the answers:

2008 VORP
Andre Ethier 40.8
Ryan Howard 36.4

2008 WAR
Cody Ross 3.8
Andre Ethier 3.6

I got discs 3-5 in the mail today through GreenCine (apparently 1-2 were unavailable). I tried 3 different local video stores and none had discs 1-2.

Do I need to watch the episodes in sequence, or does it even matter with this show?

I see it like a baseball game, your not gonna understand the entire story line of the game if your coming in the 5th inning...

http://www.am570radio.com/pages/podcasting/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99173117

Steve Phillips and Joe Morgan together. Poor Jon Miller.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2009/01/espn_will_announce_wednesday_t.html

I am going to have Jeremy Bentham visit Ned and tell him that he has to sign Ben Sheets and Manny.

Huh?

http://tinyurl.com/ysjwzw

Thanks for the heads up on that Tripon.

Now that's a severance package.

32 Eric, you don't have to watch 'em all in order (I actually didn't first time) though there are relationship character arcs that happen chronologically that are better to watch straight through. But there are also stand alone episodes. So in short, you don't have to, but it's still better to watch in order.

First discs in series are always most popular. (We're gonna try to get more copies of it soon, though, btw.)

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28 Sniff. I miss Dennis Smith. Broncos haven't had a gamechanging safety since he and then Steve Atwater retired.

Yeah. I'm sure Jamie's got that in her coin purse.

Britney Spears has reportedly landed a $14 million deal to write her autobiography

http://www.billjamesonline.net/ArticleContent.aspx?AID=964&Code=James01002

Better at what? If he means baseball, than Joe Pos might disagree.

http://blogs.pe.com/prosports/mlb/dodgers/

The Dodger post Manny, however? No way are they better than the Royals. James could post all the computer numbers he wants, I have a tough time picking any of their cleanup hitters over Man-Ram.

By the way, the Royals finished 12 games below .500, and for that franchise, that's actually pretty good. Better than that they didn't even finish last.

18. Dodgers (0.495)
19. Royals (0.494)

I don't think you meant exactly that, did you?

Oops, I meant it the other way... No way are the Royals better than the Dodgers.

Coffee time...

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/01/phillies-sign-j.html

And Rick Monday, for the score.

On a completely unrelated note, Ja(y)son Repko is still a Dodger and Ja(y)son Werth went to the Phillies for free.

88 Exactly. The Rays have done many other things right so I won't take that away from them but it certainly helped to be in position to draft guys like Evan Longoria. If the Dodgers completely tanked they'd get the opp to draft a total slugger, too.

Not sure why anyone feels any pain for Repko. He played all last year in a hitters park where career minor leaguers like Lindsey/Tiffe destroyed pitching and he did squat for a 27 year old. It is about production and Repko did little to lay claim to a job in the major leagues. He's 27 years old and posted a 820 OPS while 24 year old Paul posted an 841 OPS. He's totally expendable and why we even bothered offering him arbitration is a mystery. Xavier Paul could easily replace him if we needed the extra outfielder. If he was released he'd be lucky to find a 5th outfielder job with any other team. He is not Jayson Werth or even Cody Ross. He's a hack who plays hard but produces little. Someday he might have a Matt Diaz year if he only saw lefthanders.

Dodger fans looking down their noses at the KC franchise are amusing. During the 70's they went head to head with the Yankees for the best team in the AL. We have barely been the best team in the NL West for two decades even with a payroll that usually outstrips our division rivals by a considerable amount.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/01/dodgers-kent-to.html

This reasoning becomes less compelling when you consider that Ned gave the injured Ja(y)son Schmidt nearly $50 million.

The L.A. times were able to do an interview with Blake DeWitt at the Lakers practice the other day.

I had never considered these issues in relation to each before, but upon doing so, I was even more flabbergasted.

You can hear him at the 14 second mark, and at the 7:55 mark, (if it IS him).

YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRNZeo70P4&feature=related

111 How does one judge this? Word count? Or are we going to go the Figure Skating Route.