Shawn Green! He's gone. GOOD!

Last night's game, IMO, featured the two best-looking uniforms in baseball. Much as it pains me to admit it, the Giants' home uniforms are the most attractive ones in MLB. And I think the Dodgers' road jersey is a close second.

I wonder if fans at the BOB will do the same.

R.

I should say so. I've never been a fan of the purple-teal color combo a-la~ Hornets. Purple stripes just doesn't work for me.

Dodgers' Uni is classic! Especially, now that the road uniform no longer has player names on the back.

But since I can't bring myself to actually say the words... the Giants have uniforms that don't look terrible. That's as far as I can go.

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Today's fact of Choi, SB's favorite player, 2005:

A message to our hero, in his native tongue no less...

³ÊÀÇ ´«ÀÇ °¡±îÀÌ¿¡ ÀÖÀ» °æ¿ìÀÇ °ø¿¡ Áøµ¿ÇÏ´Â Á¤Áö!

Oh, well they are both pitching in the major leagues. Do I think we can win this game? Well that would be an easy answer if the question was not so difficult. Do I look forward to seeing Shawn Green? Yes, I miss his swing-and-miss pirouette in the batter's box.

Speaking of the Angels, my wife thinks the new red uniforms are a real step down from the old blue and red.

And, SB, I had no idea Choi was a dolphin! (Marlin, yes. Dolphin, no. ;)

They're not terrible. That's it. Blog rule: no one ever gets to the use the word fetching and Giants in the same sentence. Let me be the last offender and let future offenders be subjected to spam mail from the "I love Barry" club. Thas is all.

It's supposed to say in Korean, "Please stop swinging at the ball when it's around your eyes!"

Or am I missing something else?

Anybody want to guess at Dessens season ERA? I'll say 8.45

Maybe it's a browser problem, but that doesn't look like Korean to me.

According to , the message should be:
너의 눈의 주위에 공에 때 it's 진동하는 제발 정 지 !

"Blog rule: no one ever gets to the use the word fetching and Giants in the same sentence."

Let me try: "When the Giants visit Dodger Stadium, their relief pitchers will end up fetching many gopherballs hit into their bullpen by L.A. batters." That work?

I sort thought it should be, "Why work for a company . . . when you can work for The Company."

"Interesting. I've never thought the Giants uniforms to be particularly fetching. And not just because they're worn by the enemy..."

The enemy always has cool uniforms.

Soviets...
Cobra Command...
Any Super Villain...

C'mon... you knew that.

Hold the fort...Shawn Green just grinned on live T.V.!

izturis, SS
repko, LF
drew, RF
kent, 1B
bradley, CF
saenz, 3B
perez, 2B
phillips, C
pitcher

comments?

주위에 공에 때.

Drew K's in his first at-bat. Still hasn't started to hit.

One dinger in three games...Are we ready for a flurry?

How does Saenz look on defense? Especially compared to Valentin?

It was a bomb...hit the wall at 433 feet.

I saw Greenie with the DBacks on an ESPN2 game. He had an RBI single past the 2nd basemen. Then he grounded out to 2nd.

He wouldn't be bad here in LF or perhaps first if Choi really does end up sucking (of course I still hope he'll be good)...

Who's with me on this one? Seriously, who?

(I hope I spelled his name right!)

After watching seemingly countless ex-Dodgers, from Jeff Leonard to Candy Maldonado to Orel Hershiser to Tom Goodwin, have success against LA for SF over the years, it's nice to experience the same thing.

Also, I can never forget Kent's hands around Barry's throat in the dugout years back. He was meant to play for this team.

Part of it is that I have the problem of blaming the player when he's overrated. Kent,esp. during his MVP year, has long been overrated. Kinda like Jeter. Both very good players, but not as good as the hype, so I resent it. When Kent won that MVP, and didn't seem ashamed of it (despite not being the best player on his own team), resentment turned to hate. Totally irrational, I know. But that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

saenz HR probably didnt nearly match the distance of tracy's, kent base clearing double, now saenz HR, things looking good

You also forgot ex-Dodger Dusty Baker when he managing all those teams. Does anyone know what the Dodger did to Dusty to make him dislike the Dodgers so much? I remember reading an article and he alluded to some incident which caused him to dislike the Dodgers after he left LA.

It is true you have to give Kent points for actually standing up to Bonds unlike the rest of the Giants, including their management. It just still seems so wierd seeing him in a Dodger uniform.

For all those worried about Drew, just remember that he has been a consistent performed in his career and he will get his averages in BA, HR, and RBI so we are due for good production from him.

HR ties the game....

Well, remember that Gagne, Alvarez, Carrara, and Penny are all injured. With Dessens now starting, that means 4 RP slots for guys further down the depth chart.

Like what, Albert? I imagine one is the IBB to Gonzo. And I did say to my wife at the time "this seems like a bad idea," but then I generally think IBBs are a bad idea. And nearly every manager in the league would have done the same thing. So what did Tracy do that he'll actually get criticized for?

NOW who's with me?

God, I hope Bill Plaschke's watching.

Uh-oh...who's going to close this thing?

how many times did the dodgers face a loss on one strike this inning?? wow

Valentin!! (And I thought Choi should've led off the inning instead of Saenz but I ain't complainin' now!)

Any update on when Gagne might return?

We were Team Lazarus today, folks. Great, great win.

that made me laugh out loud, the irony

Anyway, great win. Way to go Blue!

Hee-Seop is in hot soup.

The Dodgers had a great win but who led off the inning? Saenz. Against a righthanded closer. Now I grant you he hit a homer in his previous AB but let's turn the tables. Let's say Choi starts the game against a righty, goes one for three like Saenz and his last AB was a dong. Ninth inning, lefthanded closer on the hill... you think Choi bats? He does not.

Tonight was a great win for the Dodgers. It was, I fear, an ominous night for Hee-Seop Choi unless he starts playing real well, real soon.

# 130.  by ryu
1) Hong Kong
2) 3.80
3) 8-7 Dodgers
4) No.

2005-04-08 09:14:34
# 299.  by dagwich
1. Durham, NC (originally from LA)
2. This might be the dudester's career year: I say around 3.50
3. Dodgers win 8-7 tonight (Hey, I just won the office NCAA pool so I feel good about my picks)
4. I had no idea.

Yes we're 4 games into the season and he's only had 8 ABs, but the Valentin signing is looking better every game...

Is it just me or has Izzy's defense been a little subpar to start the year? I can't really put my finger on anything in particular - it just doesn't feel like he's playing as well in the field as last year. Thoughts?

So, have I driven this joke far enough into the ground? No? Okay, I'll continue with it then.

Forgive me if the above missed any irony with which your post was intended. I figured I'd react anyway, just in case Plashke is watching.

Long season.

I'll just appreciate today's game, thank you. A classic.

As for clubhouse chemistry, Tracy's done a wonderful job managing the disparate personalities and building one solid fighting unit. Winning has nothing to do with it. Uh-huh....sure...

We need to have Gagne back and maybe scale back to 11 pitchers.

I agree 100%, though with all the usual caveats about sample size and trusting your eyes. Izturis has looked a step slow in the field and has made several routine plays look awkward. Hopefully it's just a bad stretch.

He does look much bigger than last year. In general, bulking up harms your defense. Still, I'm keeping an open mind on Izzy... jury is still very much out.

WRT the NCAA: Here in the Triangle (UNC, Duke, and NC State, with Wake Forest pretty close by) we take our NCAA bball VERY seriously. I watch a lot of ACC but not much other bball (still no cable/dish). UNC without a doubt had the most 1st round NBA players (the key to my "system") and I saw enough of them to know that coach Roy had the chops to get it done. Illinois, in my opinion, just didn't have the talent, but they certainly had "heart and soul". We saw who won...and, in some ways it is analagous to Depo's approach. Use available resourses to get the talent and coaching, wins will happen, and enough "heart" and "chemistry" will develop. In spite of McCants, that is exactly what happened with the Heels this year.

I should say that one year my wife started filling out a NCAA bracket and assumed that the higher number seed meant the team was better. I told her part way through that, no , a #1 seed is better than #16, etc. But she was the only one to correctly pick a #15 beating a #2 that year, and briefly led the pool. I've never heard the end of it.