He had 80 hits all season. 5 were doubles and 2 were triples.

Time to go be avuncular again.

Furcal deserves a lot of credit for those walks since he can't hit a lick. I doubt they're pitching around him to get to Lofton (who is hot) and Drew.

Bold prediction: Furcal will get an extra base hit today.

Slowly Nomar will turn the winter cynics much like Repko did.

After watching JD last night I came to the conclusion that it has been 32 years since I've seen a player with that kind of plate discipline play for the Dodgers. If he can duplicate what the Toy Cannon did in 1974 I'll be a happy fan.

"This guy has been very productive every time we put him in the game," manager Grady Little said about Repko. "It's hard to ignore what he brings to the team. We're going to start getting him in there a little bit more."

Do Southern Californians really not barbecue year-round?

Brewers just lambasted Carlos Zambrano. Fielder coming on faster then I imagined, more then making up for the slow start by Weeks. With Ben Sheets back they are still my Wild Card pick.

Whether or not he's an upgrade is a seperate issue.

and it all falls apart for Chan Ho...

smush hits a three then steals ball off Nash during the inbound play and kobe makes an acrobatic lay up off the backboard at a really wierd angle.

WWSH

That said, where was Nash's sign for a time out?

Oh, and Carter is awful.

Nevermind.

At some point, you've got to put Carter in so that he can get some confidence back. A 5-0 game in the 9th inning seems to me like a reasonable time to do so. I don't blame Grady, I just blame Lance for stinking it up again.

Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti has just sold relief pitcher Lance Carter's contract to the Hanshin Tigers. Jesse Orosco will take his place on the 25 man roster. Jayson Werth was transerred to the 1000 day disabled list.

Is this payback?

Seriously, just leave Osoria in there for the long save...

Oh and Carter blows.

If we're not going to use him, we should just DFA him. It doesn't make sense to be carrying dead weight on the roster.

I agree about Osoria; he looked solid. Still, if you're going to bring Carter into any situation, this would be it. I think Little is going to learn from this (and Carter's recent appearances), and I have to suspect Carter's days are numbered.

Good thing we got him some work.

I guess the issue with me is thinking that Lance Carter was worthy of being on the roster in the first place. And especially after what we've seen of him in spring training and now in games. It's not like he's a young guy like Osoria. Carter is what he is, which is a pretty bad pitcher. And he might just have cost the Dodgers a game today.

Which seems to be the argument...

I`m a Baez owner...that *

a) The dog is a joy.
b) He swallowed a lego a few months back which clogged him to teh point where he couldn't hold down food. The vet took x-rays to confirm he had, in fact, swallowed a toy and that he would probably digest said toy in a couple of hours.

The vet than took a Tahitian vacation.

c) Did I say he was a joy? And thanks again for asking...

I'm fantasy-managing like Grady Little!

Just checking.

Nut. April is a terrible month in fantasy baseball. Sometimes you pick up over-achievers for underachievers. You gotta stick with you're guns for awhile. I learned all about that last year.

Maybe, if we had someone with an amazing arm, we could have held the runner who went from second to third, but even then it's not likely.

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Dodgers baseball.. meh.

228. One crappy team loosing to another crappy team because of a terrible reliever(s) is not a disaster. These things happen to mediocre teams. Like the great Meat Loaf said, "two out of three ain't bad", or something like that.

Proof that saves are truly meaningless.

Actually, since you'd figure he'd have more save opps. this year than he ever has, maybe he'll set his own personal best for blow saves. So, that'll be something.

It seemed at the time that game was much more important than this one. Like Langhorne said. Two mediocre teams, both playing badly, and you get games like this.

If Nash doesnt want to get tied up, dribble around the middle of the floor. Not the corners.

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I dont think he cares.

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the first play at the end of regulation, the steal by Smush, wasnt a foul at all.
No it wasn't, but on the play Walton was grabbing James Jones. No call, Smush gets a steal. Maybe the ref didn't see it, fine.

The second play in overtime, by Walton, was a foul but Luke was in the way and the ref couldnt see him slap Nash's arm.
This play was inexcusable. The ref had a clear view, Walton is grabbing and hacking Nash. While Nash is getting abused by Walton, he realizes that he's not going to get a call, so he verbally calls a timeout with a referee very close by. The game was fixed. The NBA wants a Lakers/Clippers series. I wouldn't be surprised if the Lakers make the Finals. I'm having flashbacks of game 7 against the Kings where the refs (and the NBA) decided that they wanted the Lakers to win.

I kill me.

One could have conceivably made him come unglued. Of course, if you are in junior high, shouldnt you be more concerned with school, friends, and recreational sports rather than MLB baseball?

Dont kids these days have anything to do?

If it was, the refs did a very poor job of fixing it. And the foul on Walton....That foul occurred before the ball was even inbounded. You hardly ever see that call made (away from the ball, on an inbounds, with .7 left).

The calls might have been bad, but Phoenix still blew the game. Its similar to Arizona blowing that game against Illinois. Sure, Illinois hacked and hacked and hacked, to get back into it. But Arizona still should have won.

If the Lakers do play the Clippers, I think the Lakers will win. But Phoenix might still come back and take this series. You never know.

But I dont think today's game was fixed.

Its the sabermetrics vs old mainstream media type baseball or whatever you want to call it.
People hate the other people that are more informed then them.
Alot of people on dodgers.com board hate me.

Assuming Carter does get DFA'ed (or perhaps DL'ed), which at this point seems pretty likely, I'd like to see Ned bring up Broxton or Houlton. But, it wouldn't surprise me to see him bring up Sele to use as a long reliever. His statistics aren't too shabby for pitching in Las Vegas, though small sample sizes certainly apply.

oldbear- I'll get back to you later on the Lakers when Jon cleans up this mess.

Thanks Jon.