figuratively speaking, of course.

Valentin is still suffering from a HBP in Vegas and is day-to-day

SS Izzy
3B Robles
CF Bradley
2B Kent
RF Ledee
1B Choi
LF Valentin
C Navarro
P Weaver

vs

CF Redman
3B Sanchez
LF Bay
RF Mackowiak
1B Ward
C Doumit
2B Castillo
SS Wilson
P Snell

2B Carroll
SS Guzman
1B Johnson
3B Baerga
CF Church
RF Cepicky
LF Blanco
C Bennett
P Loaiza

So what you are saying with all your hard work doing these great analyses the past few days, is that we suck.

Tell us something we don't already know.

vr
Howard

It is our pitching, plain and simple. We are still scoring 4+ runs a game. Decent, not even good or great, pitching, and we probably have another 8-10 wins.

IMHO

He makes no mention of the fact we have far better alternatives on the bench.

Is Saenz injured?

As for the Neyer piece, Fearing Blue talked to Rob in Toronto at length about the piece and he can probably fill us in on it when he gets back to his home du jour.

He's in the process of moving.

I don't know if I want to see Felipe Alou improvise in this department.

Thanks for the explanation of "Rogers Centre," Bob.

Ten more seconds added to the Fire Jim Tracy Clock.

Fearing Blue and I sat in section 535, row 21 for Saturday's game.

Let's just say that it was a good thing Randy Johnson is really tall because it was hard to make out many other players from that height. Those seats were really high. Possibly even higher than the seats in red section at Dodger Stadium.

BUNTS FOR EVERYBODY!

Peavy drove in a run for the Pads, 1-0

No home runs yet. Is this "smart ball"?

So on the drive in, Rick Monday said Ian Snell was born Ian Oquendo, but changed his name to Snell when he got married.

Why would the Oquendo family of Delaware be naming their son Ian?

But these people are from Delaware!

Is Delaware part of the United States? Does it really exist? Can anyone send me definitve physical proof that there is a state of Delaware? I think it's all made up.

On Gamecast, Choi's two-run single is not in bold letters but all other run scoring plays are.

Hmmm....

Seriously, I don't know how to do this but it looks cool...

6-0 after three. The only suspense is, "Will Weaver toss a perfecto?" and "Will the Madres lose?"

Yankee starter Al Leiter has given up just three hits, but has thrown nearly the same number of pitches.

1. football (11 votes)
2. soccer (8 votes)
3. basketball (7 votes)
4. NASCAR (1 vote)
5. Baseball (1 vote)

Haven't the Sheiks gone winless for 2-3 years? I covered that team once. I felt so sorry for them.

I ask because a buddy wants to know how much I charge.

When he's not getting on base, he's getting the productive out.

Brian Cooper.

Born in Hollywood in 1974. Went to high school in Glendora and then pitched for USC.

DVD=immortality

Seriously, I'm too lazy to look up Wiki with four windows open, Basie providing music and my first time on DT in a month. So I'll ask this: is reggaeton worth listening to? I've never heard of it.

"Reggaeton songs cover topics ranging from the realities of street life to personal misunderstandings, gangs, love, and dancing.

It is a very popular choice of music in parties and is usually danced by members of the opposite sex grinding "doggie style"."

The best 52-game stretches of any LA Dodger team is 38-14, which the Dodgers did in 1974 and 1985.

Their best 52-game streaks to end a season were 33-19 in 1976, 1965, and 1978.

The worst 52-game streak to finish the season was 17-35 in 1992.

So if the Dodgers went 38-14 to finish the year, they would be 87-75. A 33-19 finish would get them to 82-80.

Al Leiter went 5 2/3 innings and gave up no runs today. And threw 102 pitches.

McGwire's homer was given up by the immortal Jamie Arnold.

Glasses? Check.
Librarian? Check.
SABR Convention? Check.

YET ANOTHER DT SCOUTING EXCURSION

All we need is a cause...

I wanted to fight that guy! But it was hot, so I forgot about it.

110 You will be seriously missed. I think you and Julian had more in common than you and I did. 'Cuz he also enjoys Canada. :)

I'll try to make it, but it will probably require a lot of driving.

Right, Jim?

Jason Phillips would have caught that liner.

Would that every game could be like this one...

If I'm hungry, I'll stroll into one of the concession stands and grill myself a Dodger Dog.

If I get thirsty, I'll pour myself a souvenier-cup full of beer.

I can sit wherever I want, and I'll be shown on Diamondvision in between every inning, since I'm the only fan in attendance.

I can't wait for 2025!

I'm a walking, talking, posting jinx.

That's the spirit!

Should I continue?

Game from the past:

The Sandy Koufax time machine lands on the year 1957 with the Dodgers in their last year in Brooklyn for a match up with the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field. Sandy is on the mound on June 4th to face Dick Drott in an evening game.

Brooklyn took an early lead in the first thanks to the wildness of Drott and a bases loaded double by Roy Campanella to drive home two runs. The Dodgers scored their final run of the evening in the fifth when Gil Hodges homered to give Sandy a seven run lead.

Showing the ability that would make him a star in Los Angeles, Sandy took a no-hitter into the sixth inning. The no-hitter and shutout were ended with one swing of the bat in the sixth when Bob Speake drilled a two run homerun over the right field wall. Later, in the eighth inning, Ernie Banks hit a three run homerun against Sandy to cut the lead to two runs. With two out in the eighth, Clem Labine replaced Sandy to get the last four outs of the ballgame, preserving a 7-5 Dodger victory.

Thanks to old time radio collectors who have preserved historic baseball broadcasts for all of us, to retrosheet, Bob Timmermann and Jon

Stan from Tacoma

Yay!

Yeesh.

Rueter was put on the DL today. I'm sure this will greatly affect the NL West pennant race.

In light of the Schmoll world theme, should the Dodgers get a reliever's cart that looks like the ones at Disneyland? (Whatever happened to those carts teams used to have, anyway?)

Do they really think that Tony Clark will be this productive for two more years?

"No word right now," Tracy explained. "Because it's rehab, it's not baseball-related activity, and that's the way it was earlier in the year when we would not say a whole lot with regard to Bako or somebody like that."

This was an injury update on both Werth and Drew, and it really wasn't specific who Tracy was talking about, but I think it was Drew. Doesn't sound too reassuring

hello?

Tracy.

Every time. Robinson's personnel choices and strategies are even more bizarre than Tracy's and Robinson is a distinctly unpleasant individual.

576 (or so) to go!

Stan from Tacoma

Since we won today and Tracy didn't make too many strange moves, number of posts were pretty low.

A familiar refrain

The Dodgers have an owner. We may not like the owner. We may not think he is well-capitalized. But the Dodgers have an owner.

The Nationals are still a welfare case. There were lots of Washington area people wearing Nationals caps in Toronto for the SABR convention. There were a sizeable number of Expo fans, both from Toronto and Quebec. I wonder if they even talked to those people.

As an aside, there was one woman who gave a presentation on the use of the Dodgers for advertising in Brooklyn. She eventually worked in a gratuitous chance for people to boo the name of Walter O'Malley. One guy cheered. I had to be quiet since I was the moderator and tried to look neutral.

http://tinyurl.com/8fahw

DT gets a shout-out, and the Phillips at 1B idea is severaly taken to task by Henson via quotes from Jon and BPro.

I doubt Choi is popular with the group of writers who get their letters to the Times Sports Section published.

Meanwhile the Cubs are falling 6 games out of the wild card, with a lot of teams ahead of them. Yet the Cubs think they have a shot at the playoffs. We need to have an intervention with those people and tell them about Acceptance.

It makes life easier.

But everyonce and a while, something happens that reminds them of the past when things were still good. They hang in their for just a few more days, weeks, whatever even though they still know moving on is for the best.

In other words, acceptance is for the best, but it's hard to do.

The article confirms what many of us have been saying all along; Tracy doesn't play Choi because Choi doesn't look like a baseball player.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050807/483/pagp10308072131

(Sorry, no earthly clue how to link on here)

He's listed at 176 lbs, 52 lighter than thebaseballcube.com claims, but it's the same birthdate. He batted .333/.394/.595 this year with 25 homers and 97 RBIs, and he's only 30. I know he was a bust for us, but he had a nice season in the Atlantic League and now for the Mexican League