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Nothing like arriving at work and having some scoreboard watching waiting for you.
Andre Ethier before Jon wrote him up at SI.com: .338/.383/.545
After: .259/.341/.346
The slugging percentage almost worse than the OBP is a nifty Brett Butleresque trick.
2 - It's been pitched before - it's good except for the fact that people complain about the mispronounciation of the first letter in Kuo's name.
I have the cover of ESPN The Magazine with Gagne on it from August '04 on my bulletin board at work, it needs to be replaced but I'm not holding my breath waiting for the Dodgers to be on the cover of a major magazine.
Four pitch first inning for Harang.
Today's lineup
Furcal, SS
Lofton, CF
Nomar, 1B
Drew, RF
Kent, 2B
Betemit, 3B
Anderson, LF
Martin, C
Kuo, P
Wonder if Ethier will play tomorrow when they face David Wells?
Your reply regarding Piazza taking Torres to the woodshed, well that was 1993 and the Giants were fighting for a pennant, Dodgers were not. I was referring to when we have something at stake and was thinking more about 1982(Joe Morgan) and 1991(Will Clark & Co.) dashing our dreams up in their crib. That is what I meant by saying we don't want to go into the final weekend up there having to win more than 1 game.
24 et al - While the Giants have obviously been our villains, I don't see the point of assuming that because they've hurt us a few times this century means that they will do so again in 2006. Have we forgotten 2004? Any team can knock the Dodgers out, and any team can be a springboard.
1993 when we had nothing to play for then payback was kind of sweet for all the pain they have inflicted on us over the last 50+ years if you include those painful playoff losses in '51 and '62.
A little side note, when I got married in 1986, I got married on Sat. October 4. If it was the 3rd, I would have arranged it for a week later. October 3 is a dark day for the Dodgers. Oct. 4, 1955 is when they won their first world series. It is fitting a Dodger fan would get married on a glorious day then a dark day. Getting married on the 3rd would have probably doomed the marriage.:)
Is it so hard to admit that the Dodgers have beaten the Giants with the season on the line, fair and square?
They're starting the clock right after a change of possession and that's shortening the game.
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