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Happy Father's Day to my kids, without whom, this would be just another ordinary day. And to my dad. And to all of you dads.
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Today's game:
Happy Father's Day to all to whom the appellation applies.
Ever notice how there are hardly any decent cards for stepfathers? In fact, there are hardly any decent cards for fathers, for that matter. Especially dads who don't golf or fish.
Anyway... talk t o y'all later!
Tiger one back, oops sorry golf talk.
Just a typical warm day. There does seem to be a slight breeze, but the number of times I can think of the wind blowing out at Dodger Stadium with any noticeable effect is about ... zero.
Don't cry. He's won before.
I would assume it's bluetahoe. I haven't done anything to him per se, other than alert others to his (likely) presence around here.
Oh and now he is back tied for first.
"Why will you not wear the wristbands?"
The good, 1 out of 10 times he hits the ball, its a homer.
The bad, getting him to hit the ball with any consistency.
In
The
Clubhouse
On the radio, I heard Charlie Steiner give the scores of the Padres, DBacks, and Giants game as "Games of interest in the NL West."
And Vin Scully just gave scores for the same three teams.
Poor Colorado... The Rockies are just 4 1/2 out and have a better record than the Giants.
Yeah. People generally don't seem to realize that the Rockies have made up a lot of ground recently, and actually have a winning record.
He's awake and warming up.
1 win. 5 Losses.
But do you think the Dodgers record against the Angels is an indicator of how the 2007 season will end or could it just be a case of the Angels being, how shall I put this, better?
Carl Pettersson has posted +13.
good question. but im not sure. are the mets better than the dodgers?
Ford did have a nice day at the plate, though - 2 for 3 with a double, a run scored, and 4 RBI.
Lew Ford was in center as Torii Hunter had left the game after getting hit by a pitch.
The Twins led 9-4 going to the 8th and Rincon coughed up three in the 8th and Nathan gave up 2 in the 9th.
Wow is Kemp fast for a big man.
The Halos real weakness is still in the middle of the order. 5th place hitter is Shea Hillenbrand? Cleanup--Rob Quinlan?
Its at least good to see Russ get two days off in a row before the 20games/20days stretch coming up.
Remember, you heard it from me first.
What is Shea Hillenbrand doing in that lineup though? Or even his presence on the roster?
Although, if you give Danys Baez a 3 year deal, you might be dumb enough to put Mora at 3rd.
Mora does play 3rd. Freddie Bynum was at short today as Tejada was the DH.
But will the Orioles fire Perlozzo?
Mazzone has said that he is only staying in coaching because he's friends with Perlozzo.
Would you expect Mazzone to work with Davey Johnson? That would be a disaster.
cabreras career avg vs. dodgers?
See, Vishal even updated it!
And what exactly would Gagne have done that Saito hasn't and at a much lower cost?
Gagne-9th, Saito-8th, Broxton-7th.
At an extremely high cost for an almost insignificant marginal gain.
Not unless Steiner/Monday's audio went out.
Take off Tomko/Hendrickson.
Add Gagne.
Dodgers save money and have a better relief pitcher in the pen.
Seems like a win-win.
Martin, Furcal, Gonzalez, Kent and Ethier hit much better against lefties. Surprsingly Nomar is near the Mendoza line against lefties, Pierre also does not do well.
Against righthanders, when Juan Pierre is your top batter and Betemit is your top OPS guy, you are going to struggle. Gonzalez does okay.
So they are going to have to pick it up against righties if they are going to suceed this year.
I don't think it's clear-cut in either direction, but I definitely endorsed Gagne this offseason as someone with the upside worth taking a risk on, as opposed to Hendrickson's low upside, and you can't say the 2007 numbers don't support that.
Gagne wouldn't have been a big pickup, unless Flanders had given him Nomar's or Pierre's money, instead of giving it to them. Though, most of that marginal improvement could have been realized by giving me Nomar's or Pierre's money. So, there's that.
The Boras thing is another issue.
And I think he needs more vowels.
Would I like to him now instead of some guys on the team, sure but signing him would have been questioned from the moment it was done and at the money he wanted, picking up Tsao, Seanez and even seeing how Brazoban came back from his injury was cheaper and certainly so far probably as effective as signing Gagne would have been for the team so far.
This one is going to be bad.
56,000 on the nose three straight days.
One hell of an expensive play. Is the base of the wall padded?
the walls fault.
That probably won't change.
put some of it on tomko too for continuing to throw batting practice.
I cannot believe we are going to lose Loney to this.
Probably not. Cabrera has probably secured himself a playoff at worst.
They cut his pant leg off, he's smiling and they cart is coming.
BTW, aren't we out of outfielders now? Abreu maybe in RF?
eh...
Betemit in right.
Let's take the best young fielding 1st baseman in baseball, and put him in a position for which he is completely unprepared. Then, let's take a total non-factor washout shortstop and continue to play him at first. We'll sell jerseys, but calamity will ensue.
Who is with me!
Um, ok.
Did Loney?
Right Field Wall: That's right. I've killed women and Kemps. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, James Loney.
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