my Dodger mojo thinks other wise ToyCannon believe me

I have no doubt in my mind that Lugo's trying out there. After all, the guy's playing for a contract and just from a money standpoint, it's in his best interest to do well.

Come on Lugo, there's still time to salvage your season!!

2 - My confidence level is solidly in the optimistic middle.

4 - I'm hoping!

Buck/McCarver did the Yankees on Fox yesterday; do we get them today? (shudder)

It looks like the AL games will overlap at 1:05 pm with the Yankees-Tigers on big Fox with the A's-Twins (if necessary) on FX. If a game is on FX, I believe the answers will be allowed to swear.

Good to see everyone else is optimistic. A Kuoriffic game will be nice to watch. I won't bring anyone down with my misgiving. Let's go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about Kuo though.

ps there showing it on big FOX.

God, I have to Gamecast the game until 6, at which time I'll be making a mad dash down to my car to listen on the radio, and then it's straight home to a TV. Hopefully by 6:30. And then it's beer and cigarette time.

As for the game at hand, I'd like to see Lofton get a game (or three) off, but I've not been his biggest fan this year. Lugo, I don't mind so much.

I remain confident though that the Bums will take this series in 4.

Plus, Tom Glavine?!? I'm salivating at the thought...

6 GS, 3-1, .237 BAA, 3.38 ERA, 28K/9BB.

i rather be among DT'ers even though me & maybe 50 years a dodger fan are the craziest.

ps 50YADF i mean it in a good way. :o)

My prediction - Dodgers 4, Mets 1. Kent comes through with a 2-run double and Furcal hits a solo shot.

Try to get that out of your head.

i'm using my own intro, hereos from David Bowie that's right!!

i have it all set up & everything.

I haven't seen The Play ("Two! Two Outs In One!") yet and I'm sick of it.

Go Dodgers!!

I saw it..went into shock...and blacked out till the 7th.

A comment on playing Lugo or Martinez asked if there was a Plan C...

Got it. Toby Hall has played a game or so at 3B! :0)

I could deal with a parrot and a screeching weasel rather than Buck and McCarver.

But honestly? I'm more excited about the bottom half of the inning anyway. GO KUO!

ps Mia Hamm looks as beautiful as ever.

great handle, btw.

and i vow to do everything i can to help make chavez ravine look this tough this weekend!

And I only slept about two hours last night so things are getting very strange overall.

I am now work and obligation free and so Tim, Joe, here I come.

re kuo: now i'm PUMPED. we just really need to get some offense for this young gun.

That would wake people up.

I think mine would be Sloan's "She Says What She Means". I like the riff.

...do they really have to advertise the subway in new york!?!?

i'd go with peace & love by the mexican band zoe i'm not kidding they rock!!

GO DODGERS!!!!

what? that's nothing to crow about then, is it.

i'm thinking next time the Dodgers hit, someting will happen.

ps notice his pitching pattern people!!

Now, if you were getting shut down by Jeff Weaver, that would be pathetic.

I would, but i plan on going to the gym after the game.

Just our luck.

Now you're probably wishing I'll turn it off so the guys will get a hit.

This is not a futbol game.

Just K him...I don't want them getting a sac fly here.

it seems like this team just has awful luck all the time...i thought it changed with the 4 HR game and Nomar's GS...now a wild pitch, swinging bunt, and a bobbled grounder. UGH.

Kuo is not getting the same calls as Glavine

OK, Kuo got a reprieve.

i believe Jon, but i don't believe in Grady.

Now's the time for Nomar and Kent to step up.

I don't blame Lofton for not getting that ball...I blame him for his .000 avg and Grady's insistence on playing him against Glavine whom he can't hit.

Is that Jim Hill :)

"Wake Up," The Arcade Fire.

what kinda luck is that.

Cmon DREW!!!!!!!

It is the offense that could use at least 3 or four parts replaced with youngsters next year.

They keep showing the damn play that lost the moral advantage for last nights game. My kind friends keep trying to tell me it didn't neccesarily lose us the series, but I can tell they are not sure.

Basta!

Cmon martin...tie this one up.

Remember when Grady Little said we don't do that Oakland stuff taking 3-0.

60 pitches after 3 is umm, on the high end.

Grits would probably be a better manager if he didn't do anything.

... They're not going to shut up about it unless the Dodgers win the series.

Two runners being tagged out at home on the same play, the "Brad Penny is a reliever" experiment, swinging at 3-0 pitches ... people aren't going to just pretend that these sort of idiotic blunders just didn't happen.

Lowe
Billingsley
Penny
Kuo
Maddux?

Who else do we run out there?

In other words, was it a hittable pitch for Martin?

answer me this why won't Kuo get the same strike zone that Glavine gets??

Great play by Drew!

DREEEEEEEEEEWWW!!!!!!!!

the big blue dodger in the sky huffed and puffed and blew that ball down.

Great announcing.

Twice, even.

And I delivered.

PHEW! quick inning, i'll take it.

Then there are guys like Thom Brennaman and Charley Steiner.

However, those two long fly balls can be considered a warning sign. Fortunately, bottom three up for the Mets next inning - maybe that'll buy hims some time (if they can avoid those 50-foot hits.)

He would have to be under arrest first by the police. Lynching is the removal by force and by a grop of an individual from police custody.

I actually had a friend who was on jury duty a few years ago and somebody was charged with lynching.

Does Kuo bat with RISP?

Letting Kuo bat here? Interesting.

I remember, you work at the glass house right?

Unfortunately, Lofty is up

It completely boggles my mind that Grady didn't pinch hit for him there, let alone put him on the lineup card in the first place.

But if you never got to see them live, you really missed out. Seeing Tim, the 220lb+ singer, climbing the balcony at the Troubadour wearing a wrestling singlet is a sight I will never forget.

literally and figuratively.

He shouldn't have started tonight in the first place...but to not pinch hit for him there just makes my brain numb.

... You mean the bullpen the Dodgers scored four runs against yesterday?? OK.

i'm quoting Mr Harry Carey, but i feel his quote

Ned's evil plan is coming to fruition

What's the record for furthest home run ever hit?

I never thought Grady was all that bad...but now I'm wavering.

C'mon Tomko!!

Now lets get that run back!

that's the only thing that's keeping me sane, hey did the Dodger have a game recape of some kind, like what do expect from Glavine & so fourth!!???

... Absolutely. The Mets have been all over the Dodgers and lead them only 2-0. This game is long from being over with.

If not, I've got some Jim Beam I'm willing to share.

Too bad the National Day of Resistance wasn't Saturday. That messed up Downtown this evening.

Be acquired by Ned and/or be a former Devil Ray...?

That is to say, if you were wondering what you were going to get with Ned Colletti, here is is.

Kent's brutal sometimes, but I don't think he'd have butchered that one.

The farm system staffs have been replenished in recent years with former Dodgers that learned fundamentals the old fashioned way. Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker was recently bemoaning the lack of fundamental knowledge of Major League players, harkening back to his arrival with the Dodgers from Atlanta, when Dodger instructors taught from executive Al Campanis' book, "The Dodgers' Way to Play Baseball."

"Dusty's absolutely right," said Tom Lasorda, Baker's manager with the Dodgers. "I read that book and taught from it. We all did. Al was a disciple of Branch Rickey, and I was a disciple of Al Campanis. The Dodgers always understood the importance of executing the fundamentals. And I'll tell you what, I'm seeing it time and again with this year's team. They are well-drilled on the fundamentals, the way we were."

He's looked really good in relief

And why are they doing a soccer cheer at a baseball game?

It's that they've consistently been so impotent in every single series. It's just painful.

who hired Honeycutt??

(Also, props to Mark Hendricksen - he really pitched well out of the bullpen again. Now if we'd only had Beimel, too, we'd have three leftys to throw at them this game.)

Still, doesn't matter much if you can't score...

what does that say!

We swing here 3-0

我 又 转 念 ： 见 日 光 之 下 ， 快 跑 的 未必 能 赢 ； 力 战 的 未 必 得 胜 ； 智 慧 的 未 必 得 粮 食 ； 明 哲 的 未 必 得 资 财 ； 灵 巧 的 未 必 得喜 悦 。 所 临 到 众 人 的 是 在 乎 当 时 的 机 会 。

i know, believe me give me time & i can put things in prespective. it's just hard at the moment

This tourney started with 8, it will eventually be down to 1, its rare that you cannot pick out and second guess decisions or plays that doomed the other 7 teams.

I know most if not all of this is just sour grapes and disappointment but I recall a Saturday night two weeks ago where it looked like our playoff chances were down the tubes.

Sure, it may not work out but I think we should tone down the rhetoric a bit.

Jesus wept.

I turned my ghame over shirt inside out and set up shop in the kitchen.

HR!!

cant you picture me sitting nervously by the computer with the slogan already typed out for each betemit at bat with my right index figure anxiously resting on top of the mouse ready to finally beat you to it?

yes, i'm crazy.

How do you figure Lyons?

Okay, somebody else needs to step up. I've done all I can here.

Yeah, I have no idea what Lyons meant there. All that matters about Trachsel's ERA is how well it is against the Dodgers.

Taking the best hitter on the team out of the game seems like a bad idea.

Come on Thom, Sammy's not a kid.

nah.

At least I'm not drinking alone anymore.

Mr. Vic Davalillo.

Based on recent events, I'm surprised Fox has shown any Met players with a "D" after their name...

And yes, I am counting on batting around this inning.

Down 4-1.

1 game down.

We've got them right where we want them!

Time for the Miller-Hiller-Haller hallelujah twist!

"Dodger fans were worried because they won 7 in a row coming in and they were waiting for the other shoe to drop."

Really? Who thinks like that.

Several DT posters have espoused that theory.

Almost.

Finally.

But it's quite clear to me that the Mets are playing exceedingly well, and we aren't. Period, end of story. As such, really all you can do is tip your hat and move on.

Things may change. Maddux for Game 3 is as good a stopper as we have this year. All bets could conceivably be off if Oliver Perez starts a possible game 4.

But right now, we are clearly the inferior team. Look to the future and load up for next year.

sigh come to L.A.! NY that's all i will say!

What? You mean what happens in the real world, and not in my fantasy land?

Oh, yeah, no idea.

ps NY & there little smerk dosen't cut it here in L.A.

Just bring it back to NY, then D-Lowe gets another shot.

2. Many said don't start Saenz because we need his bat in the 9th to pinch hit against Wagner. That backfired.

vr, Xei

If they stun the Mets with a 3-game sweep, that wouldn't surprise me either.

This team is crazy, in every conceivable definition of the word.

Hey, just you watch.

New post up top.

Rose most likely is going to Indiana. Rumors are Gordon may de-commit from Illinois and go to the Hoosiers.

Singler is a floor slappin' Dookie. Bet on it.