Jon, you're not old enough to remember either!

And good news re the Dbacks game. Not losing a game today would be swell.

However, LaRoche was used as a PH on Sunday and hit into a GIDP.

The Las Vegas 3b until now has been Terry Tiffee and he's stroking the ball just unbelievably. He's 29 years old though. He looked great on Saturday and you can't chalk that up to the Las Vegas air.

I'm going to try to get out to the ballpark on Monday to see the last game with Las Vegas. It's a Noon start. Hopefully LaRoche will be in the starting line-up. Anyway it's $1 hot dog and soda day, so who can pass that up?

For whatever reason, even given several chances they can't come close to replicating their minor league performance at the big league level. He said that LaRoche looks like he is one of those players.

W - 1
L - 2
ERA+ - 80
ERA - 5.27
WHIP - 1.463
SAVES - 9
IP - 13.7
K's 17 (he is still striking out guys though!?!?)
Walks - 7 (not good...)

man I'm telling you, this game can humble you.

I love your comments RedDog but I just don't buy that, sure La Roche looked over matched at times last year (remember Beltre?) but the dude has talent HE JUST NEEDS TO STAY HEALTHY for a year to REALLY SEE WHAT WE HAVE...

I ain't gonna judge La Roche until I see a FULL YEAR OUT OF HIM, but that's just me.

If anybody hears the interview with him and can summarize what he says, I'd love to hear about it.

They have to be filling a niche of some sort. People born without taste buds, perhaps.

Let me close my eyes & try & imagine that... yeah-yeah I see what your saying Brock...

*I'm not going to look for it.

When I saw him swing the bat (Jax.tv a few years ago) I got goose bumps... he has that really nice strong swing (to me it kind of reminds me of Lieberthals swing) I just hope he can string-up a healthy year to see what we really have.

One of the Eric's is really good with that stuff (I think it's Enders) hopefully he reads this & tells us.

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Good to see Greg Miller get his first win of the season for Vegas today, pitching one shutout inning. Orenduff started and pitched really well, 7ip, 1 hit, 8 Ks. Yhency B pitched a scoreless inning with a K, as well.

of course, they are talking about John McCain right now.

Clamato (tomato) juice is good but only on my shrimp cocktails.

I'm getting 70's disco music right now...

His next 600 he OPS'ed 1.045 and for any old schoolers in the crowd hit .358

(Despite anything Buzz Bissinger might say.)

some of us aren't word smiths to call in...

I can't listen right now because my g/f is watching tv, my headphones are in the other room, I have a cat in my lap, and other excuses.

Are you ready to see Clay Kershaw at Chavez Ravine? 800-222-5222!

... If we had Willie Mays in 1950, Ned Colletti would have traded him to the A's for Sam Chapman.

He thinks there's too many teams in baseball.

Asked about the changes in $$/contracts, he told a funny story about coming off a great year, asking for a bunch of dough, but having to admit that he couldn't really promise to put those numbers up again and being glad for the raise he got. Obviously a gloss on the whole set of issues, but graciously said.

--Steve Lyons

Nah, that doesn't sound like Tommy at all...

Because Jon wants Kuo to pitch, he is contradicting his view that pitch counts can be beneficial.

Yes, an homage.

I did, however, get to see one of the funnier recent Simpsons episodes (whatever that's saying). Maybe it's just because I made it to Sundance last year but I thought it was hilarious. "Capturing the Simpsons," Lisa's doc on her family, and Chalmskin Productions, a John C Reilly cameo, plus Jim Jarmusch. No classic, but made me chuckle.

Glad Jon did well, look forward to hearing some of the highlights.

Why does Jon always get to talk about middle relievers?

Like "Mom after you broke the window playing indoor wiffle ball" disappointed.

I've never called in, but it was a chance to talk to Jon Weisman. The Jon Weisman!

Torre said the Dodgers have had the eyes of slumping Andruw Jones examined several times.

"They've checked out OK," Torre said. "We know his problems aren't physical ones and his hitting trouble isn't terminal."

1) Mandatory representation from each team
2) Managers naming their own guys as reserves like- oh I don't know- Mike Stanton.
3) This time it counts.

The first time I called, I was in middle school--I remember I taped the call (on a cassette tape), and brought it in to school the next day, for boasting purposes. My peers were not impressed.

This game is off the hook!

STEVE... LONG TIME LISTENER- FIRST TIME BLOG QUESTIONER... PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY 3-RUN HOMERS ARE RALLY KILLERS.

There are certainly worse sins than exaggeration, but still, what's the point?

(And yes, I like the current rule.)

Was Morris Day OK?

(FJM-references-R-Us)

That hurts, Bob.

Doh!

BTW - Sorry if I asked something that was talked about a lot already.

How about third base?

I think they'd hang up on me, once I started chanting, "ATTICA! ATTICA!"

That is Eric Stephen folks.

I'm the other one!

Philosopher King for...er...philosopher king!

dude you sounded great what are you talking about, I caught the end of your conversation.

My proudest moment was when I called in the Lakers show with Chick Hearn and Chick agreed with me on some point about the team.

Compared to the stuff in ESPN Radio when listening online, tonight was a welcome change.

You guys have got to be kidding about the music. Please tell me you are kidding.

http://vorosmccracken.com/?p=106

This is a fantastic game though. 96 shots on goal which means 94 saves, both keepers are outstanding. It's a shame someone has to lose, but hopefully it's Dallas.

The Orioles hat is awesome. And the Astros 80's jersey is off the charts.

Insane.

It's STILL going!!

The best game (or at least most intriguing one) I ever saw in the NHL was the Semifinal round game between the Flyers and Penguins, 8 years ago, and it went five overtimes!

Keith Primeau shot the game winner a good portion into that 5th overtime.

---aaaaaaaaaand just as I write this the Vs guys say the same thing :)

By the way, the Vs/Tsn guys are right: this is the 8th anniversary of that game to the day:

http://hockey-reference.com/playoffs/NHL_2000.html

Wow, that was almost the winning goal right there.

Can't imagine making that many saves in a soccer game. Or season, even.

The sudden death in hockey is REALLY sudden. Football's isn't all that sudden.

208 Chicago netminder Nikolai Khabibulin used to drink a pot of coffee before a game until the trainer pointed out who ridiculous it was for someone to drink something that dries you out before playing a sport.

I don't think I can stay awake for a 4th OT so I hope the Sharks win it here.

The Bison lives!
Tougher than a robot made of nails. Kinda like a runaway freight train coming into home.

I liked your call because it allowed all to address all the OFers, rather than just Jones.

Now I just use coffee to raise my heart rate and count that as aerobic exercise.

What feels worse? Paying Andruw 16M per year to do what he currently does or paying Gagne 10M annually for his work?

Although he costs less, I think Gagne would probably feel like a worse investment because he is not likely to get better - it's not like he is going to find extra life on his fastball. I WOULD like to think Andruw will just start raking, but each strikeout or GIDP kills my hopes.

If Andruw continues his hitting pattern into June, would our outfield be more productive with Ethier-Pierre-Kemp, then using Jones as a 6th or 7th inning defensive replacement? Mike Cameron has more HRs than him in much fewer at bats.

Torre needs to read the "Hot Hand" chapter of THE BOOK.

Reading makes his job harder.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3382020

I have up to 4 tickets for every game of the Mets series (5/5 - 5/7) available. $7 each, which includes shipping ($5 for ticket $2 for email shipping). Email amurvine at hotmail dot com.

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Mets fans commenting on a couple of Mets blogs are hoping for and in a couple of cases even assuming they'll sweep in LA. I like their gumption! Let's hope it's just crazy arrogant Mets talk.

The Dodgers have 7.

Still, with a rotation that has Jason Marquis in it, its hard to justifty sending Hill down and having Marquis/Dempster/Lieber/Lilly in the rotation.

It'd be equivalent to sending Bills down, and having Park/Loaiza + 2other PVLs stay in.

I hate to keep bringing up Mike Edwards, but remember how good Mike Edwards was in his first 75 plate appearances (.356/.390/.452). Dewitt's line isn't quite as empty, but his lack of power means he's going to be really unproductive if the singles stop falling. He hasn't done enough to keep the better talent from taking the job back.

258 Keep bringing up Mike Edwards, please. If you don't I will.

I knew that stupid nickname of his would come back to bite us.

((Insert terrible pun about forest gumption here if desired))

With the exception of home runs hit in the minors, the career numbers for DeWitt and LaRoche are essentially the same.

This seems to be one of those things that so many are so heavily invested in, they don't really want to acknowledge what the numbers say. And, again, I'll admit to liking DeWitt a bit more, but I'll take either of them at third, if they perform.

Andy last year in Vegas also hit: .309/.399/.589/.988

Blake last year in Jacksonville hit: .281/.306/.466/.772

The difference is power AND patience. And Andy hit for a higher average, too.

He looked healthy, played the entire game and made a couple of good defensive plays, including one in which he charged a slow hit ball and made an off balance throw to get the runner at first.

On his first AB, he struck out swinging at a ball in the dirt. My memory is fuzzy on the rest of his at bats, but I do remember telling my daughter that we'd be seeing him in the majors in a week or two.

Repko hit the ball hard in a couple of at bats, including a home run well over the left center field wall (>405ft).