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Kinda. Via The Griddle, you can revisit the crushing finale to the Dodgers' 1962 season, as seen in Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History.
I haven't watched the last couple games, and I won't be watching tonight. Watching this team right now is just too frustrating. Here's hoping the beginning of May brings the return of the Jeff Kent we know, and Furcal we hoped we were getting....
Anyone know if this game available on MLB.com to download?
Q: What do Jeff Kent and I have in common?
A: We both took off most of May.
Maybe it'll be April this year. I'd rather believe that than believe he'll be this bad for the 2 additional full years on his contract.
Oh, and I also hate 1962, despite having been the ripe old age of negative 9.
not necessarily boycotting...I'll still be checking the scores, reading the board etc...i just can't handle watching it right now. It's just too irritating. We're gonna lose, that's the nature of the game...but the way we've lost a lot of these games makes me want to slam my head against the wall...
Furcal, SS
Cruz, LF
Garciaparra, 1B
Drew, RF
Kent, 2B
Repko, CF
Martinez, 3B
Martin, C
Lowe, P
agreed. I just don't want to accept it yet. If we lose like 6-1 then it doesn't bother me because that stuff happens. But when we're up 5-0, 6-0 etc etc and continue to blow these games it's just unreal.
Good luck to Russ Martin tonight, I'm looking forward to seeing how he does. Also, good luck to Colletti for hopefully finding us some bullpen help.
Speaking of, I saw the Sox might be interested in Izzy. Would it be an awful idea to trade him for a prospect and maybe a reliever? I don't like trading for relievers just like the rest, but we sorely need someone who can put some goose eggs on the board...
Agree with your sentiment generally, but something about blowing 5 runs leads like every night kind of demystifies it. The sun keeps coming up.
And I say, it's all right.
Speaking of Lima, WFAN in NY was reporting that he's likely going to start for the Mets on Sunday.
It's not even so much that I want our pitchers to put up nothing but zeros (although that would be great), but rather that they stop putting up those crooked numbers. They seem to be packaging them as warehouse club bundles.
The mets could be a nice trading partner who might be snookered into taking Odalis off of our hands.
Assuming he can show he's healthy, I would think the Dodgers would demand a good deal more than Rauch for Izturis.
Felix Rodriguez is packing as we speak.
well thats good since im not expecting much for izzy. If we can get more then Rauch, then yay.
Day has thrown 105 pitches, he's the third man to bat in the bottom of the seventh, and no one is warming in the pen. Because . . .
And Nick Johnson hasn't made an out yet (2 run HR and 2 BBs). Maybe Bowden'll trade him for Izturis and some good middle relief?
how about Izzy for Church ;)
I've been on the Nick Johnson bandwagon since he was a Yankee. I'd love to have that guy at first every day minus the injury problems.
I keep wondering what we'd be able to get for Odalis. I mean, the guy CAN be a great pitcher but he's just too up and down. Quite frankly, I'd just as soon have Houlton or even Bills in his spot for a fraction of the cost.
Maybe Flanders can pull a fast one and package Izzy and Odalis for something good....highly doubtful though.
And Anderson gets hit by a pitch right square on his kneecap -- ouch ouch ouch. Been down for a while and now he's leaving the field.
Who will have the highest OPS come Game 162?
A) Kent
B) Fur-kel
C) Beltre
D) Izturis
And I vote A too.
I don't think you can download the 1962 playoffs game. In fact, I've never seen any video footage of that game. The game was televised locally by KTTV and they probably just taped over it as was the custom in those days.
Remember that there aren't even any intact tapes of the broadcasts of Super Bowls I and II.
One hopeful sign (though those have been crushed many times recently): R Furcal is 4-for-6 (.667) against Capuano. For what that's worth. Not much...
When was not allowing homeruns ever part of Tracyball?
check www.all-ages.com
its the website for chain reaction, the all ages venue in OC.
http://myspace.com/uniteandconquer
I like it.
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My first gut-wrenching memory as a Dodger fan. I was 9 years-old and 1962 was the year I became a thoroughly emgaged fan. I had the privledge of seeing Koufax's first no-hitter that summer with my grandfather and, I think, that June night will remain one of the top five most memorable events in my life.
When the Giants rallied in the 9th, I still recall coming home from school and sobbing, alone in my room. A janitor at my school had kept me informed of the games' progress all afternoon and I remember riding my bike home thinking the Dodgers would be in the World Series. To find out, when I arrived home, that my world had been turned upside down was true devastation. The four game sweep of the Yankees a year later was so sweet, but only partly made up for the pain of how 1962 ended.
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