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I am turning pro, and I am hiring an agent. No going back now.
Would you like gloss with that...?
Hey, anyone know anything about this Bennet guy?
Polar opposite. MLB Audio with no sight.
I was 8 when I first "got" sports. That was in 1964. I have a vague memory of the 1963 world series only because my parents went to one of the games (The 1-0 Drysdale win as it happens). My first sports memories in 1964 are the Dodger game I went to (Koufax beats the Cardinals) and the USC-Notre Dame football game (USC comes back in the 2nd half to win over undefeated Irish).
Matt Kemp offered this prediction for what Bennett should expect tonight: "PAIN."
Andrew Miller's first 4 startes, including today.
13.2 26 hits, 19 ER, 9 BB and 15 K, averaging around 23 pitches an inning. At this point, he would need to pitch 21 consectutive innings of scoreless ball to bring his ERA under 5.
As a Miller fantasy owner, I'm eagerly awaiting those 21 scoreless innings.
1st and 2nd with one out as Ethier lines out the other way to left.
Well, congratulations. I hope you get shown the money, as the kids say.
C'mon Lonestar!
No nickname Loney is up with sacked filled and one out. 2-2 count.
Feh.
I couldn't believe how much Eric Karros was slagging on Kemp in the pregame show, running video of baserunning blunders, cases where he hit the ball to short with a man on 1st/2nd, etc. In all my years of following baseball, I've never seen anything so ... incredible. I mean, really, they don't notice that Pierre can't get the ball to the infield -- no, they pick on Kemp?
When you're a kid, even the team hazes you.
It flies in the face of all logic.
The Dodgers should follow the blue print of the Indians and Rays and lock up Kemp, Loney and Ethier sooner rather than later.
Andruw, Nomar and Lowe in the top of the 2nd.
Keeps the inning alive with a single off the pitcher, for Furcal.
Way to go, Derek.
Another month of this from Andruw, and I think we may have a new nickname there.
I just saw where Bennett just pitched two days ago (28 pitches), now he has at 39 pitches for tonight so I think he only has 2 more innings if the Dodgers can work the count.
Does that mean the Tomahawk Chop is, at this moment, a Gregorian chant?
Know the bad play for Kent extended the inning.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA200705200.shtml
He wasn't bad, but every ground ball the Angels hit had eyes.
Tell ya what, if the Dodgers can't score at least 2 off this Bennett guy, they don't deserve to win this one anyway.
Any reason they showed Juan Pierre in the dugout 5 different times there?
Makes me glad I still don't have sound on mine.
120 From afar, Pierre, veteran guy, .300 hitter, probably never gives them attitude when interviewed, has that speed quality that seems attractive.
Rob, my first experience with the pregame show was last weekend, and Karros was all over the Pierre bandwagon then too. I like the idea of a pregame show, but I think they can do better than Karros and Gary Miller (and no I don't mean Kennedy & Lyons).
After 3, 2-0 Braves.
Yellow?
Just trying to help you out.
Upon further review, I might give Wright an Orange Alert.
But I haven't received a reply telegram from Theif River Falls, MN yet.
Bennett has probably one more inning then the Atlanta bullpen.
http://tinyurl.com/5nqffc
Torre has used the hit and run a lot this year. The problem is you can't hit and run with a guy who cant hit.
Darn, I was just about to say that Lowe had really settled down since that rough inning.
In that case David Wright is this:
http://tinyurl.com/5cl33k
Yhency Brazoban
Past tense.
Raffy continues to rake.
C'mon Bison!
http://tinyurl.com/6xyxh8
Or Danys "In play, run-scoring play" Baez...?
He had Tommy John. He should be back mid-year. Their closer, Rafeal Soriano, and their good set up man Pete Moylan are also hurt.
Btw, I know this has been said many times before, but the Tomahawk Chop is literally the dumbest sight in all of sports. An utter embarrassment. Makes me even more riled up to lose to this stupid team.
In 51 ABs, he has 9 XBHs already.
Lowe's still not keeping the ball down enough. Waist-high sinkers are generally not good pitches.
The Braves just put Glavine on the DL and said Chuck James will start tomorrow, according to Monday.
tuesday. Kuo deinitely isnt the guy id want throwing in a game on what is supposed to be his side day.
I actually don't mind this at all. In fact, this was one of the things I was harping about a lot last year.
I think its a good move. He was going to throw anyways, and he's better than most of our middle relievers so why not just let him throw where it counts?
I just worry about his arm. With a guy like Lowe, i like it. He never has arm trouble, has an easy delivery, and doesnt rely on velocity. For Kuo, his history just screams caution, and i dont think you want to put any extra stress on the arm.
Pretty dumb move by the Dodgers to have Kuo throw in a 5-0 game. I'd want as less stress as possible on Kuo's arm.
Kemp's walk is the only good thing out of tonight's game.
Of course less than stellar pitchers can have steller outings.
Or at least that's what happened if you were watching on Gameday.
No.
should say don't swing through
Jeff DaVanon once had three straight 2-HR games in 2003 for the Angels.
8 years is the biggest gap. Cal Ripken was MVP in 1983 and 1991.
Robin Yount was MVP in 1982 and 1989.
Willie Mays went 11 years in between awards in 1954 & 1965. Bonds and Ripken have an 8 year gap.
It is not Webb vs. Young.
It is Haren vs. Maddux.
Instead the Dodgers could have started stockpiling third basemen like they were going to be the only food to eat after the inevitable nuclear disaster.
Note to Dodger fans who booed Shawn Green on the DBacks and Mets.
I was just kidding about eating third basemen after a nuclear disaster too.
Gary Bennett might be a better idea.
Both games were announced by Al Michaels.
>>Dodgers third baseman Andy LaRoche appears on track to return in early to mid-May.
LaRoche will leave Sunday for Vero Beach, Fla., and a two-day stint in extended spring training. He said the tentative plan is for him to test his surgically repaired right thumb by getting about 18 at-bats in two loosely structured games there, then begin a minor-league rehabilitation assignment at Double-A Jacksonville, probably on Wednesday. He is slated to begin playing third base on his second day there.
Rehab assignments for position players are limited to 20 days, suggesting LaRoche will return no later than sometime on a six-game trip to Milwaukee and Anaheim beginning May 13.<<
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