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Read my fond farewell to Season 4 of The Office at the Season Pass blog on Variety:
Is there anything in television quite so bittersweet as a richly executed season finale? The satisfying pleasure ... your aching for more ... it's just too much!Once again, "The Office" has left us pining for the next season just as the last one has wrapped. And while Thursday's finale didn't cause the romantic gasp of Jim and Pam's first kiss to conclude season two, or his asking her out for their first date at the end of season three, the episode was special in its own way.
Let's see how "The Office" left each character before heading into summer vacation ...
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John Sickels reviews his ongoing thoughts about the career of former Dodger Edwin Jackson at Minor League Ball.
In his first three at-bats tonight against Toronto, ex-Dodger Jayson Werth hit a three-run homer, a grand slam and a solo homer for Philadelphia. Werth is OPSing .940 on the season as of this writing.
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The Coulda Woulda outfield.
I loved that line.
Hence, I've switched to the fishing analogy.
It's been done in the minors I believe
Mark Bellhorn just broke up Birmingham's perfect game.
Time for the Phils to bat around in the bottom of the 8th then!
I believe I would rather have Werth in left field than Juan Pierre. But then again, our GM is Ned Colletti.
Which I still thought was a mistake.
Ouch, nice way of putting it Enders... :o)
Werth wasn't completely unwanted by the Dodgers. They were just overly cautious.
Actually Mark, the Dodgers just can't hit home runs. There's a difference.
I would be very happy if it started raining here in South Pasadena.
I would like the court to take notice that it's freakin' hot here.
Someone remind me again why Andy LaRoche hasn't been recalled yet?
See 40 . It has to be the problem. Saunders is left handed.
This is Jones fourth game as a DH.
Orange alert.
Yes, he did.
Jones should be out. What a croc.
That's extraordinarily harsh on Jones.
And rather boorish on your part.
But I do get too emotional on these late games. Sorry.
I don't think he knew either. It looked like he was going to loft it, and then decided he needed to put some pace on it, and it led to that.
Muscle memory, folks.
but how about that great stop by Martin? Wow!!!!!!!!
Do you think an 8-run lead is safe in Arlington?
If Andre was slow on the back up perhaps it is only because a play like that is only about 1-1000. I have been watching baseball for a long long time, and have never seen a throw in that situation that bad.
Torre who was a catcher should demand that Bennet be released, pay Piazza something and have him be the back-up. That was the worst throw I have ever seen.
I've seen the K-E2 before. But not one that let the batter go to third.
So if Bennett was DFA'd then May and Bennett could trade places?
Or, Bennett could go to Vero for extended, extended training?
Stand down.
Maintain alert in Denver.
Nice throw Gary.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind finding out whether he would.
So, what's the difference, we'd never see him in a Dodger uniform again anyway, right?
I believe Iccaros said it sometime in Spring training not getting rid of either JP or Ethier would be bad for both of them as well as the Dodgers-tonight looks like a great example of that.
I have a copy of "Nine Inch Osmonds" on CD.
What is going on with the lineup?
Who is Maza? Where is Furcal?
Don't get emotionally attached to Maza.
Stand down.
Just remember "one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch, girl."
Darn, the Angel announcers are making fun of Kuroda as his 2nd and third time through the order are less and less effective. He is arguably our best starter! And now they are trying to decide whether to make fun of Martin or Loney. I hope they get theirs.
Andrew's poster boy, Eric Byrnes, has a home run.
Why do they need two or three freaking announcers? Talk to ME, not your friends in the booth. Painful.
They're 21-19 while the Angels are 24-19.
The Dodgers haven't had any rainouts. They've just had more off days.
No, no it won't be.
With the Angel bullpen we are not done yet.
Well, let's just enjoy the fact that he's starting and hit a dinger and leave the worries and angst about how many starts he will subsequently get for tomorrow, eh? Or at least enjoy it for a few minutes. Or a minute.
Okay, there it is.
Man, poor Hiro's pitched a great game. Some more support behind him and he'd be winning right now.
And oh by the way, yes, I am enjoying the Lakers game tonight so far, thank you.
Did a tree just fall in the forest?
(sigh .... just not my year)
You would need the bases loaded first.
Sciosia is also puzzled.
Compared to the Hiroshima Carp, the Dodgers lineup out there looks like the 1927 Yankees.
Either way, Torre's fault.
Although I believe crucifying Gary Bennett is tonight's recreational event of choice.
It's not so much that Martin isn't capable (though he hasn't looked so good today), but Bennett is a HORRIBLE catcher.
And the more that Martin plays at 3rd, the less a true 3rd baseman plays, and the more Bennett plays. And Martin's value as a hitter is much higher than as a 3rd baseman.
I just feel bad for the guy at this point. At any rate, the experiment will be over tomorrow.
I will also say that of those wild pitches, one might have been stopped by Martin, the other I don't think Johnny Bench would've grabbed.
If Dewit can not play tomorrow, laRoche tomorrow. There is a reason why martin takes shortstop plays in batting practice, but plays catcher when it counts. He can indeed in an emergency play 3rd, but tonight is a classic example of being to clever by half.
Kuroda is pitching his ass off and will lose again, Laroche up I gather Dewitt to the DL
He had no chance to catch Martins throw but half brother Izzy shouldn't have been on 3rd in the 1st place.
Okay, back to the Lakers for a few...
Oh please, come out to the West Valley before complaining about the heat. Christ it is going to be over 100 degrees all frickin weekend in May.
Didn't the ball bounce in front of the plate first? If so, then the ball is judged to be fair by where it went over the bag. I think the umpire thought it was a line drive.
he started to signal only after it crossed the bag ...
thanks in part to a Guillen error in the 7th
It will be interesting if the Spurs experience can win a road game. With Gasol we match up now against the Spurs.
I also don't think Paul has had a good game at Staples. At least he has been sub par compared to his super season against the Clips and the Lakers in the games I've seen this year.
213. Fair enough but my house retains heat like an oven. To make matters worse all the screen got ruined this winter and being my lazy self I didn't have them repaired so no open windows.
Bennett is indeed a member of the Mitchell 89. Which is not nearly as cool as being one of the Oceanic 6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_cooler
Works pretty well here in sunny Colorado.
Okay, to say something positive about that inning... Very nice job by Proctor at the end to get out of that without more damage. That was nice.
I'm including player personnel decison making in the term "play". I'll just pull for my faves until there is a change in the attitude of the management.
Hmmm... I just had an idea.
Pierre is lucky he didn't just hit into a double play.
Okay, this game ain't over yet.
Silverio hits his 1st home run of the year. He's added some bite to the Loons offense since joining them last week.
LAT - I know what you mean. We just got done painting and we threw out all the screens.
Good time for A Jones to do something.
Isn't May on the 40 man? Is he being groomed as the successor to Martin?
I'll bet he can throw the ball with some velocity.
The Lakers are starting to give me heartburn.
6 OFs in ML history had more than 6600 PAs by their age 29 season:
1 Vada Pinson
2 Mel Ott
3 Mickey Mantle
4 Al Kaline
5 Andruw Jones
6 Ken Griffey
Most of these players suffered significant injuries and/or declines in production in
their early 30s
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/MBbR
There is a big difference between the drop off in production of most of those HOF and what Andruw Jones is going through. We'd all take the drop offs of the players you brought up at the age A Jones is.
The Dodgers gave that game away tonight. It should have at least gone into extra innings. The Angels are a team that takes advantage of mistakes and they don't make many. Hopefully, they'll step it up tomorrow.
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