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From this one workout, Gagne appeared to be throwing more comfortably than at any time last year.
This, the best news of the young season comes to us from Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com:
All winter, Eric Gagne has told the Dodgers his elbow is healing nicely.
On Thursday, he showed them.
With wife Valerie and top catching prospect and Canadian countryman Russell Martin in tow, Gagne stopped by Dodger Stadium for an arranged bullpen session for the benefit of his new manager, Grady Little.
Breaking through the din of construction workers continuing the stadium seat replacement was the popping of Gagne fastballs into Martin's new mitt. Gagne made 40 pitches, using fastballs, changeups and a couple of cutters. He pitched out of the windup and the stretch, with Little standing on an adjacent mound in the bullpen.
Anything that doesn't involve Gagne altering his mechanics to compensate for pain and injury constitutes a better report than we had a year ago.
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Not exactly safe at home? This Tony Jackson Daily News article reports that Viren Moret, the business representative for the Service Employees International Union Local 1877, argues that the Dodgers have not provided a "safe working environment" for their security officers, "because there now is only one officer guarding the entire stadium property between midnight and 5 a.m."
Dodgers spokesperson Camille Johnston disputed a different concern of Moret's, but it's unclear what the team response to the security discussion is.
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Be hopeful that there will be no work stoppage in major league baseball when the current labor agreement expires in December, believes David Pinto of Baseball Musings.
"If there were going to be trouble this time around, you'd already hear owner or players complaining," Pinto writes. "The players seem happy with their situation, the owners (for the most part) seem happy with their situation, and the two sides showed they can work cooperatively by opening the CBA to change drug testing. No one is trying to destroy free agency or arbitration. No one wants to destroy revenue sharing, although the union will try to modify how it works.
Pinto links to an Associated Press article recapping some lunchtime quotes from baseball union chief Don Fehr, most notably that "... the overall atmosphere of the sport is such that there are a lot of reasons that people on the outside should be optimistic about our chances of reaching an agreement."
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Jeff Kent has gotten financing! Rich Lederer of Baseball Analysts e-mailed this San Antonio Business Journal report that "Kent Powersports LP, a local motorcycle dealership owned by Major League Baseball star Jeff Kent, received $6.3 million in financing to expand its two locations in San Antonio."
The dealership groups owns Yamaha of San Antonio, the largest-volume selling Yamaha dealership in Texas, and 35 North Honda in New Braunfels, which sells motorcycles, ATVs, scooters and watercraft. ...
"This deal allows us to take advantage of a growing market," says Kent, who plays second base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. "The funding from GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance is helping us grow our business."
Such a clean, simple story - and yet I'm sure there's a punch line in there, somewhere ...
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The Fox finale of Arrested Development airs opposite the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies tonight.
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Maybe I read Tristram Shandy too young. But with the improbable movie version being released in Los Angeles today - and inspiring a "giddy crush" from Carina Chocano of the Times - here is a trip back to some Dodger/Shandy Thoughts from March 2004 - "The Tristram Shandy Nightmare."
I was about a 3.5 student in my four years in college. That number would have been higher if not for 18th-Century Victorian Literature. (2006 note: I later found I remembered the name of the class wrong, but no matter.)Update: Rickey Henderson will be a special instructor for the Mets during part of Spring Training, according to MLB.com, but still hasn't committed to ending his own playing career.That class was to me what the 2004 season is about to be to the Dodgers.
You understand this intuitively, but we might as state it for the record. The Dodgers are living the nightmare: arriving woefully unprepared for their final exam, desperate for a burst of divine energy. Or at least an easy test.
I lived that nightmare once, just a few months after the Dodgers' last World Series title.
I declared English as my major early in my sophomore year, but by the end I switched to American Studies. I switched because although there were some classes in English that I completely adored, there were others that offered me no love. The trigger was a class on literary theory, taught by Shirley Brice Heath, that at the time held less interest to me than 10 weeks of traffic school.
American Studies was a flexible major that fit in basically any subject at the university as long as America was somewhere in the title. "Sport in American Life" was one of them, and in fact, I never took a class I didn't like in that major. But afraid of becoming too culturally ethnocentric, I would continue to venture outside the box for electives. Which led me, in my senior year, to 18th-Century Victorian Literature.
More than 15 years have passed, but my memories of the class are these: 1) one boring 800-page book after another like Tom Jones, of which I would read about 100 pages before giving up, 2) my least favorite book of all time, Tristram Shandy, which I did manage to finish because it was so mesmerizingly dreadful, and 3) resignation and defeat as I would do the Stanford Daily crossword puzzle in class while my well-intentioned professor lectured, on those days that I could force myself to attend.
To translate this into relevancy, my 18th-Century Victorian Literature classroom experience was as satisfying as the 2003-04 Dodger offseason.
Finals approached, and I had holes in my knowledge of 18th-Century Victorian Literature as gaping as the Dodgers' offensive holes at first base, second base, shortstop, and if Adrian Beltre doesn't heal on schedule, third base. I went over my meager notes and borrowed those of classmates, but little penetrated. My brain wanted Vladimir Guerrero, but all it got was Olmedo Saenz.
I sat down in a classroom on a March day not unlike today, and hoped for the best.
The exam had two parts. Part 1, worth 50 percent of the test, was a list of short excerpts from the texts we (were supposed to have) read, excerpts you had to identify and contextualize. I only recognized half of them, and gave answers of dubious worth to the rest.
That meant I had about a 15 or 20 out of 50 going into the second half of the exam, the essay. If I scored perfectly on that section, I might reach a 70, or about a C-.
I saw the essay question, and I knew that wasn't going to happen.
At that time, Stanford did not give students Fs. Rather, if you didn't earn at least a C- in the class, you simply got no credit - no units. It was as if you didn't take the class at all. Many people, with grade-point averages and grad-school applications on their minds, actually preferred getting no credit than getting a C- or a C+ or whatever, and would drop a class during the final exam by not turning it in (or by turning in a piece of paper that said, "I drop this class.").
Much of my time writing my essay that day was spent deliberating whether I should turn in my test or not. I had about a B in the class going into the final, so even if I flunked the exam, I probably had a good-enough flunk - an F+, so to speak - to earn a C- for the quarter. Did I want that on my otherwise A-/B+ record?
The Dodgers don't have this choice. The Dodgers have a 2004 season ahead of them, and as much as some might like them to, they can't just drop the class. They're going to have to live with their failure to prepare, a failure born partly of nature and partly of nurture, and just hope for the best. Hope that the season isn't as hard as it looks, hope that it somehow caters to their strengths, hope that they aren't as unprepared as they seem, hope that they can suddenly grow smarter in the final moments.
And ultimately, learn from it all and do better next time.
I didn't drop 18th-Century Victorian Literature. I turned in my exam. Even in the doomed reality of the moment, I wanted the record to show that I took the class. I didn't go through all that tedium and low self-esteem to end up with no testimony of it. Better to finish poorly than not finish at all.
D on the final, C+ in the class.
Postscript: Three years later, I found myself in a graduate school program - in English. And I found myself taking literary theory. And I found on the syllabus a book written by a most vaguely familiar name. Shirley Brice Heath. I looked at her bio, and she had taught at Stanford. And then it clicked. Ah, we meet again, my enemy.
Actually, I don't want to give the wrong impression: She was a very nice person and certainly worlds smarter than me. But it was amusing, as her book was lionized in grad school class discussions, for me to chirp up and say, "Shirley Brice Heath was the reason I abandoned English as a major."
No regrets. You don't have to follow the conventional path to be happy. But your alternative had better be good. I do hope that Paul DePodesta finds the path away from the A's rewarding, and that he doesn't regret switching majors.
Henderson, now 47 and less than 2 1/2 years removed from his last Major League appearance, still isn't ready to retire. But he said Thursday he has reached a point where he wants to "give back to the game" and "help the young kids."
"I felt I have a lot to give back," he said. But he also said he is in good shape and "willing to do that" if some club asks him to audition.
Which part is more ridiculous? Kent taking less pay because the bike business is so good, or my wife EVER letting me buy a motorcycle?
1. That econ classes were significantly easier than English classes (i.e. assignments comprised of workable problems vs. tons of reading and writing), and
2. That I had always (without knowing it) thought like an economist, and that economics was my "true" calling, and
3. That I wanted to be an econ professor.
So, I officially dropped my English major and became an econ major with a minor in political science. After about 2 days' worth of econ and poli sci classes, I realized that I wasn't prepared for the level of econ classes I had signed up for and officially dropped the poli sci minor, re-added the English major, and became an English and econ major. By that time, my schedule was pretty messed up, and I ended up taking 4 English classes that semester (which, BTW, I don't recommend). I calculated my average workload at 200 pages of reading a day and 2 papers to write per week.
There are 4 episodes on tonight, from 8:00 to 10:00. I think that makes a total of 13 episodes...
4 - So how does the story end? Are you an econ professor, or are you in your eighth year of undergraduate study?
The "Tristram Shandy" novel was really that bad, huh? I was thinking about reading it but I haven't... Because, you know, I'm lazy.
I did, however, see the movie, and enjoyed it enormously. But A.) it's not for all tastes, and B.) it seems to have very little to do with the novel that inspired it.
The story has yet to end. I got a masters in city planning, worked as a planner for a while, and am now getting a Ph.D. in city planning, with the intention of being a city planning professor. Hopefully (for my wife's sake) I don't change my mind again...actually, it's probably better for my own safety if I don't...
I took no literature classes in college. I was a history major and sometimes had novels on the reading lists for classes, but you read them in a different way.
I was told by not one, but two different history professors at UCLA that I should not try graduate work in history because I didn't "have it" and I didn't write well enough. I still got my degree in history.
9 - Like I (sort of) said, it would be interesting for me to revisit the novel 17 years later and see if I had the same reaction.
Upside down? Under water? With your eyes closed?
Hence, you read "The Grapes of Wrath" during a class on 20th Century U.S. history, it's not a big stretch to figure out how it works.
You read "The Big Sleep" and you can slot it into its place in L.A. history.
...and crashes. Oh, sorry, was that out loud?
Ugh.
But Leon Powe was pretty awesome.
And of course, Raymond Chandler is without peer. The famous opening paragraph of "Red Wind":
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.
I'll put that up against 18th Century Victorian literature any day of the week.
I was spent at the end of it. Especially after Wazzu had scored 2 points 9 minutes into the game.
I know when the Santa Anas kick in, I usually knife 3-5 people per day.
28 - It was amazing how hard it was to convince people in grad school the value of novelists who were born after James Joyce.
I want to know how you can read 18th Century Victorian literature.
Check that: 18th Century literature, minus the Victorian.
I briefly watched some of the Today show and they were interviewing one of the planners of the Olympic ceremonies tonight. The man, who was right out of Central Casting for a European artist, said, "We will be showing how Torino is the center of fashion in the world today."
I am so glad I won't be watching that. I picture weird fashions and maybe some dwarves and possibly a white horse. Along with the dynamic energy of Bob Costas and Brian Williams.
We could work on hypnotizing you so think you are a chicken during the whole thing.
Ca-ca-ca! Ca-ca-ca!
Among other things, we had to call every country's mission to get biographical information about their flagbearer. One of us actually chose the flagbearer for Namibia because they hadn't gotten around to naming one yet - Frankie Fredericks.
My personal favorite moments were 1) finding out which country had traveled the longest to get to Barcelona (I want to say it was the Ivory Coast, but I'm not 100 percent sure of the memory), 2) calling Williamsport, PA from Barcelona to find out how many international Little League World Series veterans were in the '92 Olympics, 3) stumbling with my dormant high school and college French to talk to some countries, and 4) being able to shout out, "I've got Iran on Line 1."
Ca-ca-ca! Ca-ca-ca!
That's not even a bird
I would think it would have to be a country like New Zealand or some other country out in the Pacific.
But I don't know what sort of connecting flights you have to take from Yamoussoukro to get to Barcelona.
No she teaches at a college in the Midwest. I won't say which one since it's small and you could pick her out pretty easy among the faculty.
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1992 was around the time Ivory Coast was trying to get everyone to call them Cote D'Ivoire. It seemed to work for a while, but the whole English-speaking world has started backsliding into Ivory Coast.
Whatever, it's a long flight. I once survived a non-stop from London to LA (13 hours), and I think I needed a six-pack after I got off the plane just to let my tongue know it was still functional.
http://tinyurl.com/dqdq9
I'm not entirely sure that's the one I was thinking of earlier.
Ex-boss of mine from Boston.
That was typical CAL last night. They led the whole way, and squeaked it out, but it shouldn't have been that close. Thank goodness Powe pick last night to become a good free throw shooter.
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
The Glass Key
I just finished reading "Cannery Row" which a friend of mine gave me as a way of saying, "dont forget about your California roots buddy." Im sure most of you well-read folk have read it, but the thing that struck me was how it gave me this feeling that I was reading a Hunter S. Thompson book, except not in the first person. I kept picturing Thomson reading it and saying to himself, "Damn, if I could make up stories as funny as this, throw in some truisms, and put it in the first person, I got myself a writing career."
Good things happen when your standards are low, I guess.
58 - I also read Cannery Row during a time away from California. I always thought the movie version of Cannery Row, with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger, was underrated.
59 - Yeah, a lot needed to fall into place. Remember, that was immediately after the missed Guerrero signing, among other things.
63 - Yeah!
It just happened. Not like me to take any perverse joy in reminding Jon about it. Oh wait, maybe I just did. Aw, he'll never remember it was me, GoBears, who would say such a thing. Nah. No harm done, I'm sure.
As for Victoria's Secret, well, Jon was the one who brought it up and pointed it out, much to his credit. Now, I've never been mistaken about anything in my life of course, but if I had made such a goof, I doubt I'd be willing to remind people about it a couple of years later. Our kidding Jon about it is just a way of showing how pleased we are to know that our hero is human after all. Even if he did go to Stanford.
when i graduated from college in '92 i decided to read "the classics", figuring that any book that has cliffs notes would be considered a classic. i don't know how many i have read in the past 14 or so years, but there are still quite a few on my list.
lately i have been reading several books within the same themes - "treasure island", "kidnapped", "moby dick", "billy budd" made up a recent nautical spurt. then i read some jane austen back to back and realized that "pride & prejudice" and "sense & sensibility" are really the same book. now i am just about done with "paradise lost", with dante's divine comedy waiting in the wings.
about the only non-fiction i have read in the last few years has been "moneyball" and "the best of dodger thoughts".
I like Faulkner, but my brother is insane about him. I don't think there's a work of Faulkner's that my brother hasn't read five times.
Back to living authors ... there was a debate about this a couple months ago, but Updike's "Rabbit, Run" is still my favorite modern novel. McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" might be my favorite novel of the past 20 years.
My junior honors English teacher in high school (23 years ago?) LOVED Faulkner and made us read every darn thing the guy ever wrote. Thank goodness there were no email or blogs back then, because we'd have had to read WF's cyberspace musings as well (and yes, I get the irony of saying so in this context, but then no one is assigned to read this). And here's the thing - as far as I could tell, Faulkner had exactly one theme that ran through every single thing he wrote. The Decline of the Old South. Yeah, I get it. I think that every one should read something by Faulkner, but I pity you if you read a lot of it. "Sound and Fury was particularly horrible." My favorite was "As I Lay Dying," because it was all the same stuff, but in a shorter, and much less self-indulgent, package. And his short stories, as is often the case, were better than his novels.
Now, Hemingway and Steinbeck? Yeah, dem's good stuff!
Jane Austen I've only come to know through the recent Hollywood obsession with remaking BBC versions of her books. And that can't possibly be a good thing from a critical perspective.
Melville was another guy for whom I could never understand the hype. Hawthorne, who wrote at the same time, was infinitely more interesting to me. Heck the first half of Moby Dick is half-plagiarized (so I'm told) from a whaling manual. Whether that's ethical or not, how interesting could it be?
But then literary criticism is like movie reviews - there's no accounting for taste.
I understand allegory better now than I did then, but I've always felt that Mr. Faulkner had enough fans and he or his shade wouldn't miss me.
No discussion of LA Noir fiction is complete without mention of Walter Mosley. Hopefully, the real life Pellicano case has the potential to be as wild as anything that Ellroy concocted in his books.
What's the big deal about Tom Jones. Sure he's getting up there, but I saw him in Vegas last year and the ladies still throw their underwear!
I'll be in Vegas this weekend. I'm going to put a small bet on the Dodgers to win division/LCS/WS. I should get good odds.
After all, the works that are hailed as Raymond Chandler's greatest started out as "pulp fiction", including the memorable passage from Red Wind cited in comment 28.
Besides the movie version of "Devil in a Blue Dress" helped unleash the formidable talents of a young Don Cheadle on the cinematic world, so it DID serve a purpose.
http://tinyurl.com/e23jh
As for baseball, Beltran Perez has signed with the Nationals.
Speaking of topics nobody has any interest in...unless it's Jim Bowden being tarred and feathered.
I know no one can compare to Eric Milton going to the Reds, but aside from the Angels, ESPN Insider has the Reds as Jeff Weaver's next likely destination.
Kurt Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse Five"
Robert Heinlien "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Isacc Asimov "Foundation Series"
are some of my favorite books. Easy reading.
No, I have all 3 in my bookshelf but everytime I pull them out to read something in me puts them back, and there they sit.
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Asimov was one of a kind. Bet he was a huge sabermetric fan.
http://tinyurl.com/3m757
I said P.J. O'Rourke.
I'm an engineer and I love books, just a different kind than others here I'd assume. I don't care that every single Philip K Dick book is basically the same, I'll read 'em all.
Was Jack Handy your second choice?
http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Archive2006/060210.html#
NL West Standings
Standings
Team W L GB Streak
PD Dodgers 23 13 _ Won 1
DBacks 21 15 2 Won 1
Giants 18 18 5 Lost 2
NC Dodgers 18 18 5 Won 2
Padres 15 21 8 Lost 1
Rockies 13 23 10 Won 1
PD Dodgers vs Rockies
Pitching Matchup Results
O.Perez vs B.Kim PD Dodgers win 5-3
Game summary: J.Cruz had a single and three doubles, and H.Choi pitched in with a single and two walks. .
D.Houlton vs S.Kim Rockies win 4-3, 12inn.
Game summary: G.Atkins hit a HR and drove in all four Rockies runs. .
B.Penny vs J.Jennings PD Dodgers win 2-1
Game summary: The Dodgers outhit the Rockies 5-4. M.Bradley hit a solo HR in the first inning and J.Drew had two hits.
The Enemies List, though, was crap. It's a funny idea, but not for a book. TEL is the middle reliever of his collected works.
http://tinyurl.com/bk3lx
Baseball books recommended or mentioned by Dodger Thoughts readers (April 21, 2005)
note -- some of these were liked, some were loathed, search the April 21 game thread for more info
Voices of the Game
Moneyball
Boys of Summer
I Never Had it Made
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
Baseball Before We Knew It
National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer
Game Time
The Last Great Season
Rampersand's Jackie Robinson: A Biography
A Whole Different Ball Game
Stolen Season
Willie's Time (warning Giants-related)
Nice Guys Finish Last
Bums
Nine Innings
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
The Great American Novel
The Natural
True Blue
The Glory of Their Times
My 30 Years in Dodger Blue
Prophet of the Sandlots (spoiler alert -- if you read the thread on this there's a surprise ending giveaway)
Walter Mosely (both Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones series)
Neveda Barr (each murder in a different natioal park)
John Strayley (sp?)-- morbid hard boiled Alaskan PI
Carl Hiassen--funny S. Florida stuff. Really funny.
Neil Gaiman --fantasy writer but has a couple of great murder stories ("American Gods")
featuring some supernatural characters.
John Burdett - Featuring half Thai, half American detective, in Bangkok.
There are others but those are some writers we look for.
My favorite serious writers are probably Phillip Roth and Graham Greene.
Mr. Uecker's book was titled "Catcher in the Wry."
My client WILL NOT be seeing you in court.
Thank you,
Lionel G. Hutz
"The Chocolate War" won the American Library Association crown in 2004 for "Most Frequently Challenged Book" with 547 libraries facing objections to it.
Of the top ten on the list, I have read a grand total of zero:
http://tinyurl.com/cyhts
Although "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" shows up on this a lot, but it didn't make it in 2004.
The 2005 list should be out soon.
http://firegradylittle.blogspot.com/2006/02/enemies-list.html
Sweet. I just bookmarked your blog. Will you be updating it periodically?
PS: Does being an "enemy" also mean being "dead to me"?
But Steve's list is Nixonian in length!
The Sandy Koufax kind or the Celine Dion kind?
That's all Bowden could get for a serviceable (OK, sorta somewhat serviceable) major league ballplayer?
I'd put that on the Griddle, but the two people here would care about that are:
1) the person who wrote 140
2) Bad Altitude
Why is Washington the only team making transactions now?
Looks like Rob Neyer has an Insider piece up on the Dodgers' farm.
Unfortunately, I'm an Outsider.
Basically, he thinks most of the good players are still a year away.
My case is rested.
As I recall, the guy was a September callup last year and was jerked around awfully by Robinson.
IP 89.1
ERA 2.73
h9 5.86
k9 10.40
hr9 0.51
w9 3.13
whip 1.00
k:bb 3.32
I'm no expert, but isn't it common for the better hitters to have been called up to higher levels by the second half of the season? It'd be interesting to know if Billingsley was facing the same hitters in the 2nd half of the season that he faced in the 1st, or if many of the better hitters were gone.
Not that I advocate that kind of thing
I didn't think Vitale ever went west of the Appalachians.
Go figure.
Hard to believe that a WCC team could be considered an underachiever.
Welcome back, Steve. Welcome back, indeed. :)
As per 131, 132, Steve is "retired" and FGL is just a tease.
If Martin has a nice year in Vegas, project out to 2007. Do we have two young catchers or does one of them have to go? This may be going back some years but the last time the Dodgers had 2 catchers around the same age was with Fergueson and Yeager and while Fergie did spend some time in the outfield, the Dodgers also had other catchers around too, (I believe Grote was there at some point)
In Mr. Ned's mind, the Alomar/Borders dynamic duo makes Navarro expendable.
There was some interest in a Points H2H Fantasy League I believe a couple days ago...I should be setting one up with some friends of mine so if there's enough interest from some posters and you aren't gonna ditch us in the middle of the league when JD Drew and Billy Wagner go down with injuries even though you were sure they would stay healthy...I'll post the info here
Although I think stats are a very important part of the game (come back Ross Porter wherever you are), to me the human element is just as important.
I like Grady because he doesn't take himself too seriously (the anti-Jim Tracy). For example, the following paragraph from the article:
"Once I manage one game for the L.A. Dodgers, people are going to quit asking me about Pedro," he said, skipping a beat before the punch line. "They are going to start asking about what I screwed up in the game tonight."
I know that a lot of you are concerned about Ned's "speed and defense" theories but being old enough to have witnessed Maury Wills' entire Dodger career, I remember how much excitement he brought to the ballpark.
Yes, I admit it, I like speed, hustle and scrappy ballplayers and I think there is a place on this year's Dodger team for Repko (although it should be as the 25th guy on the roster).
As I said, it's probably my age (59) that leads me to these strange beliefs, but I look forward to replacing last year's pompous manager with a folksy one and waiting to see what Furcal and Lofton at the top of the order does to today's starting pitchers, most of whom have a very hard time keeping runners on base.
Mind you, I would rather see Choi at first and Nomar in left. I wouldn't mind another power hitter and/or good starter arriving before opening day, I was very sorry to see DePo go, but I'm ready to see what the Ned and Grady Show brings us. Pitchers and catchers report next week, ST is upon us, optimism is in the air, and we haven't lost even one game yet. I think we can win it all! OK, let's amend that to "I think we can win our division."
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