When is it safe to talk about Lost?

House is lame. Nothing good happened tonight.

Not yet! Some of us were watching the game.

It'll be up on iTunes by tomorrow evening, so anybody who cares will probably have it by then.

Speaking of Lost, how about that Dodgers bullpen? It's more like a soap opera, actually - who will be gone next? I vote Sele comes up, Osoria goes down, OP goes to the bullpen or alternates with Sele as long reliever. And Seo's obviously pitching a lot better but the problem with him is he can't work deep into games, which is what the Dodgers desperately need now.

But I'm gonna watch some Lost now, take my mind of the depression that is the Dodgers record right now, and try think good thoughts starting tomorrow. When I was a kid these were the kinds of weeks for the Dodgers where I would actually cry I cared so much. Thank God I've matured since then.

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But there's no use arguing. We clearly have different tastes.

Too much Jeeves & Wooster, I suppose. That, and the fact that I find his accent laughable.

Ah, there's a possibility that we're both wrong. My friend Shahms says he notices the accent every time. But that might just be because I shouted, "Oh my god, it's Wooster!", and then changed the channel to "Veronica Mars" the first time either of us saw the show.

Wavering accent aside, I think Hugh Laurie is the bomb in just about anything. I just don't much care for procedural doctor shows.

I don't believe you.

Anyway, I could still cyber-beat you up.

Mike Piazza was up four times tonight, and booed (fairly loudly) four times tonight. I was shocked and appalled.

I think Odalis will come around to being the crummy but passable SP he's been, while not hurt. I think Kent will come around to be most of what he has been. It's possible they've both collapsed entirely, but that's got to be very unlikely.

I've been watching the catchers alot lately. It's disappointing. For instance did anyone notice on the squeeze last night, that had Navarro been back at the plate, Seo would have likely gotten the out? (Not clear because the umpire might or might not have been in the way of the throw, which he was in the play, but had Navarro been back further he might have been out of the way).

Also, both Alomar and Navarro seem sort of twitchy behind the plate-- as opposed to say Piazza, Pudge, or even Miller. Just wondering if anyone has any other observations/thoughts on that.

Man, I'm just in a foul mood today.

so anyway, i saw some of you were mentioning it last night; i went to the syracuse skychiefs vs. pawtucket red sox game last night. playing were former 2 dodger first basemen, hee seop choi and jason phillips. hee seop had 2 hits, but ended up striking out 3 times. twice looking, i think, and at least one of those on a full count. he had 6 at-bats and in every single one he took the first pitch for a called strike, so he was starting out behind in the count all night.

jason phillips was, well, jason phillips, and naturally he sucked. had an error from not being able to catch the ball, struck out a couple of times swinging at crap, and had an 0-fer. i did get to see him stick out his chest running out a grounder, though. that brought me back.

pawsox won 6-5 in 12 innings. other interesting/familiar names in the game: adam stern, craig hansen, and dustin pedroia, and major league veterans enrique wilson and ben weber.

i was hoping to get an interview with hee seop, but apparently he doesn't really do any, and i had no credentials anyway. he did sign some baseballs and such for people though.

Uh, never?

Pending the approval of the Toaster World Council.

Yes, it will be like that movie. Minus Natalie Portman.

If I remember it correctly -- or, rather, if my eyes weren't fooling me -- he crushed the thing to left. There was never any doubt about it, of course... it was extraordinarily high and deep. Then it bounced once on the roof of the pavilion and into the parking lot.

Again, if I'm remembering correctly, they said at the time that it was the fourth ball hit out of the Stadium -- Stargell had done it and Piazza had done it twice.

"One of our regular readers, Manny, from Japan, was wondering our take on the worst trade in Blue Jays history. His own view is that J.P. Ricciardi's shipping of relief pitcher Paul Quantrill and shortstop Cesar Izturis to the Los Angeles Dodgers for starting pitcher Luke Prokopec and minor-league hurler Chad Ricketts is the worst swap.

Hard to disagree with him, since the Dodgers offered the Jays a choice between Prokopec and Eric Gagne, who went on to have some of the best seasons by a closer in major league history. Quantrill had a couple of more years of effective relief, while Izturis became a Gold Glove shortstop — something the Jays have badly lacked.

Prokopec didn't even last half a season with the Jays and was awful before injuries ended his career. The best that can be said about Ricketts was that he was from Waterloo, Ont., but he never made it beyond Triple-A with the Jays and was traded to Colorado for the equivalent of some batting helmets in 2004." [go to the site for the rest]

Toronto doesn't have a really bad history of making trades and they were able to fleece the Yankees out of Fred McGriff for Dale Murray.

The did get rid of John Olerud in exchange for Robert Person.

$12,000?

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I think it was '94 or '95, but don't think it was our playoff series against the Reds.

57 - Anybody of note get sent out in any of the numerous Roberto Alomar or Rickey Henderson transactions? David Cone?

I know that the show's producer Shonda Rhimes is a black female and she has the prerogative to create characters as she pleases. But it's just not realistic to have 0 Asian American male interns/doctors on that show and 3 Black doctors when:

1. The show is set in Seattle, which has a high Asian population.
2. The show is set in the medical field, where there is a high Asian representation.

I've seen a few episodes where there was an Asian male on the show and each time, the portrayal was negative and stereotypical:

1. The translator for the Japanese female eating champion -- he ignores the doctors' advice and tells her that her condition is ok, threatening her life. He later apologizes when the white guy Alex scolds him.
2. The Hmong father who refuses to let his daughter receive treatment for a life-threatening condition unless she undergoes a traditional ritual. The daughter is saved again by a white guy when Patrick Dempsey's character flies in a Hmong shaman by helicopter.
3. The boyfriend of the gay bartender at the bar across the street is Asian.

The absence of Asian males on that show also says a lot.
1. The Asian girl in the wheelchair who wants Alex, the white guy, to kiss her for her first kiss.
2. When Sandra Oh's mother comes to visit, her Asian father is noticeably missing. Of course, it's because the mother got divorced and remarried a white guy.

I don't think I'm arguing nonsensically for Asian male representation -- like saying there should be more Asians on the Jamie Foxx show. People criticized Friends for not having more people of color (at least until Aisha Tyler came on) but it's perfectly reasonable for a group of white friends to only hang out with white friends. For GA, this is Seattle and the medical field we're talking about. The relative absence and poor portrayal of Asian men on that show is a big flaw and needs to be addressed.

He was traded later in the season to the Yankees for three guys who never did anything.

Pretty impressive that they don't have any/many regrets on trades made during that period. The two WS-titles aren't too shabby either.

Hardest hit ball I've ever seen hit was Manny Ramierez in Fenway. He swung, and by the time you had a chance to look up and see where it went, it was already over the Monster. Actually landed on the Pike (as opposed to bouncing off the roof of the Cask & Flagon). Easily 550 ft.

Not that I care, but just for the sake of argument, where are the Jews? Is Alex supposed to be Jewish?

In any case, Shonda Rhimes has said she

But do you know where O.J. Simpson's girlfriend is?

63 - Um....Bob, didn't the Jays trade some punk 2B prospect to the Mets for Cone in '92?