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With Spring Training approaching, we're going to take our first extended look at the 2008 Dodgers this week. But to kick things off, I'm pleased to say that you can once again buy Dodger Thoughts shirts.
The main design is on the front; the site URL is on the back. You can click on the images to see them in larger size. Your 100-percent cotton options are:
Deadline to order is Saturday, February 16, 2008. No refunds or exchanges. The deadline will help shirts get delivered by Opening Day.
Purchasing instructions:
1) Follow the above link.
2) Choose which T-shirt style you want to purchase.
3) Click on "Add to Shopping Cart."
4) Insert quantity of shirts you want under the size you want. (Design will come with the shirt automatically.)
5) Click "Update cart."
6) If you want to buy an additional shirt style, repeat steps 2-5.
7) When done choosing shirts, click "Submit shopping cart."
8) After entering your name and address, you will have the opportunity to pay via either Paypal or credit card by clicking the Paypal link.
9) Important: Make sure your Paypal mailing address is up to date.
Leave any questions in the comments - and thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/242pdt
I usually wear Large or XL in most shirts and I found the large to be a little tight (bought both sizes last time). I would go with the larger size. The size difference between the two isn't that great where you would swim in the larger size.
Anyway, I'm liking the idea of the gray shirt.
5 , 7 , 8 Thank You.
I am in the middle of purchasing one of each color (white and blue), but the site has slowed down dramaticaly!
Jon, should I wait a little longer for the grey to appear at the store?
I hope to run into many of these shirts in Vero, will be there March 8th - 11th.
If there's still no consensus (or more opinions are needed), I'll try out my shirt when I get home and see.
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/cheapestees-store_1987_20011681
Chest measurements (inches):
S (18), M (20), L (22), XL (24) and so on...
You should plan on spending the whole day there. I went to the caravan last year and some people got there before noon. You'd be surprised how many people come out for these events.
LF — Juan Pierre, Dodgers
http://tinyurl.com/2lxf4y
Not sure how reliable it is, but it sounds legit.
cheeky, but i like it. i'll try to get an order together with the coworkers pronto. Blue or Grey...hmmm...maybe both.
But I did enjoy his line: "Seriously, props to the Giants, without whom this column might not have been possible."
Vizquel always seemed to play well against us so I also was surprised to see him listed.
but it is pointless to talk about becuase if pierre plays he'll be hitting 1st or 2nd i'm sure
Cargill, Pierre is not an above-average 8th hitter.
NL #8 spot 2007: .255/.325/.379 (.703 OPS)
Pierre 2007: .293/.331/.353(.684 OPS)
all i was trying to say is if you kill pierre for being the worst LF in baseball which he is, i'm just saying if you compare every teams #8 hitter i have to believe pierre would be high on that list that's all.
but like a said don't think we should get into a big discussion about this since he won't hit 8th anyway
http://tinyurl.com/2oeuen
Yes and yes. I just realized. Sorry for the lack of due diligence.
:(
That said, I doubt I'd pick Crosby as the absolute worst. Offensively, John McDonald is the worst SS in the majors, but he might be the best defensively. Tony Pena is a really terrible hitter, but I don't know much about his defense.
http://tinyurl.com/3a6m2x
http://tinyurl.com/2e7pm5
You can find the typo if you read all the way to the end...
Who dips a chip for 3 seconds?
1. Have Vin do a couple of games like the old days, innings 1-2, 4-6, 8-9, and switch off extra-innings if necessary.
2. Helmet Weekend.
3. Cool a Coos.
4. Old-Timers Day.
5. Have a real stars at Hollywood Stars Night.
"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup at a deli."
I hate it when people mention Cool A Coos when I'm working. Now I have a hunger gnawing at me that will not be sated until I eat some chocolate, followed by a cookie, then ice cream and finally another cookie.
My plan for restructuring MLB (which will never happen) is as follows:
1) Expand to 32 teams
2) Each league has four 4-team divisions
3) Keep interleague play, but rotate divisions every year (no more natural rivals)
4) Each team plays the following schedule:
22 games vs. each division foe (3 other teams, 66 games total)
6 games vs. each league foe outside division (12 other teams, 72 games total)
6 games vs. interleague foes, rotating so that you face each division every 3rd year (4 other teams, 24 games total)
People who don't even follow baseball are geeked up over the event. Since they are trying to raise money for ThinkCure they should have held the primo tickets back and sold them on Stubhub. That is going to be the future anyway. Why should teams sell tickets and then watch scalpers collect the premium when with todays technology they can be collecting the premium themselves?
I think it is the Coliseum. The few people I have spoken to about that game talked about the Coliseum and not the Red Sox.
My friend already got tickets and I may try to find a way to get down there.
I don't have a ticket yet, I am pretty sure I can find one by gameday.
Biggest upset of the week?
Giants win or Lakers getting Gasol for Kwame Brown?
I know which answer I would give.
BTW, it is scary how excited I am for Signing Day on Wednesday.
I'm not much of a Memphis fan.
Brett, meet Jerry Doggett. Jerry Doggett, say hi to Brett.
I think the old trade off was Vin 1-3 & 7-9 on TV, and Ross Porter innings 4-6. They would do the opposite shift on the radio.
I always loved, "and Ross will be along in a minute..."
I was hoping no one noticed that. I came back to the comments after that hour and tried to refresh but it did the post data thing, so it posted my original post one more time. I was very proud
For me, the Gasol trade was such a ridiculously great surprise. I heard it first -- sort of -- from Stephen A. Smith of all people, who mentioned "the Lakers got rid of Kwame" cavalierly as he went to break.
I was just elated to rid the team of Kwame! Then, I noticed a text message from my friend detailing the trade, and I went into a transaction euphoria that I haven't felt (for the Lakers) since the summer of 1996.
It would probably be easier to just add them to the AL. Unless Milwaukee wants to move back or something! :)
Because it's really hard to talk for three hours straight.
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Switching works when there is a singular beloved figure to be shared (Scully). Switching allowed Vin to be heard on both the TV & radio.
Of course, the same thing is accomplished now via the simulcast of innings 1-3.
The Laker trade only because it is about as one-sided a trade can be for a team who is just missing one key ingredient. If Jerry West was still GM of Memphis, I would expect all sorts of shouts of favoritism to be emanating from their competitors.
Any of you basketball fans ever hear of WoW (wages of wins) or WinScore?
Dodgers
Padres
Giants
D-Backs
NL Central
Cubs
Cardinals
Brewers
Rockies
NL East
Reds
Pirates
Phillies
Mets
NL South
Nats
Astros
Braves
Marlins
No
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Boston-NY-Baltimore-Toronto
Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago-Minnesota
Tampa Bay-Texas-Kansas City-Add
Oakland-Los Angeles of Anaheim-Seattle-Add
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Las Vegas and New Orleans?
Let's assume 99 and 104 actually happen...
2010 playoff predictions!
ALDS: Cleveland over Boston
ALDS: Tampa Bay over Angels
NLDS: Dodgers over Braves
NLDS: Brewers over Mets
ALCS: Tampa Bay over Cleveland
NLCS: Dodgers over Brewers
WS: Tampa Bay over Dodgers
You read it here first. And since we're completely making up the fact that Tampa Bay will be in its own division by 2010, you also read it here last.
New Orleans, of course, has its own set of problems right now.
The two best places for expansion right now are probably (a) New Jersey which the Yankees would never allow, and (b) Somewhere like New Braunfels, TX, halfway between San Antonio and Austin.
Portland, Salt Lake City... would they be able to support a team?
What if MLB put its money where its mouth is WRT a foreign sports franchise? What about playing MLB games in, say, Japan?
It's a crazy idea that's fraught with many obvious problems. But it also has many advantages... and talk about a market being able to support a team!
How would you go about building MLB in Japan? Is such a thing even possible?
The problem with going to all-auction ticket sales is that they will have a serious problem if the team stinks. Ticket sales will be too low. The current way at least gives them an accurate idea of projected revenue. 2005 would have got ugly for Frank in the second half.
Las Vegas is still one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., so it would seem like a good place to put a team if you built an indoor or retractable roof stadium. Of course it would probably lead to one of those "can't bet on the locals" ordinances, so the local bookies would hate it.
Here's a couple Lakers related articles (Kobe/Bynum/Shaq) from the same guy which you may have read already, in chronological order:
http://tinyurl.com/yof8de
http://tinyurl.com/2dznd6
http://tinyurl.com/yq89o7
I only read the first one and didn't realize there were follow-ups. The first one was my introduction to the term, and that's pretty much where I am right now.
You couldn't have a team play in Japan and then play in North America half the time. The travel would wreck the team.
Eventually, MLB will just buy out NPB and make it a colony of sorts.
*Once the little political issues are ironed out.
Looking forward to wearing my Dodger Thoughts "T" at the Stadium this summer.
That said, they'll probably still eventually get greedy and try to expand. But I don't see the point right now.
And it's funny how it's only the pitching that would supposedly get diluted.
For some reason, every time I hear dilution talk, I can't help but think of George C. Scott ranting about protecting our precious bodily fluids.
Referring to the thread from about a month ago...
Underdog : Crotchety :: Penarol : ????
If it was not for the huge influx of hispanic players, and to a lesser extent asian players, MLB might only have enough quality players to field 24 teams.
People talk about football and basketball, but let's be honest -- they have very little effect. The number of people in the world who are good enough to make the "majors" in more than one sport can probably be counted on one hand. Michael Jordan and John Elway couldn't hack it in baseball, and neither could most other NBA or NFL players, even with years of training.
The population pool from which MLB players are drawn has (according to a Baseball Prospectus study) increased from 125 million in 1940 to 690 million today. BP also developed something they call "League Difficulty Rating," which can be used to assess the quality of play in each league over time. According to this metric, the level of competion is about 120% better than it was in 1876, and about 40% better than it was in the 1940s.
Frankly, the idea that the MLB talent level would dip greatly if another couple of teams were added is preposterous. The quality of play would revert back maybe to the levels of the late 1990s. And even then, it would bounce back within a year or two.
http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2008/02/welcome-to-the.html
Jason Bateman has been pretty open about an AD movie and I do not think he would bring up the fact that something looks like it will get done if other cast members were not available.
Or they could just bring the show back, like they did with Family Guy.
Btw, did anyone see Charlie Brown steal my coke bottle yesterday?
Saito
Broxton
Beimel
Proctor
Seanez
Only one spot left if they go with 11 pitchers.
Waste of money, but really not much of an issue.
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