Another game against the hated Padres, another loss. This time H.Kuo started the game by dousing the mound and plate in gasoline, lighting a match and up in flames the game went. At one point, we're down 7-2. Turn it off you say? Nah, I have faith in the kids. What happens?
Pierre gets 3 hits and steals 3 bases, we chip at the lead until its 7-6 in the 9th and then the old guys come in a choke it away for good. I feel like if you go back 5 years and look at LA's record vs the Padres, we're about 33-66 but if you look at our record vs the rest of the West, its probably at a good .600 winning percentage.
Why can't we beat em? Its because they bring every Ex-Dodger down there to play for a year or two, milk them for secrets, signs, whatever and then use that info for evil. (To prove my point, they just actually traded FOR Milton Bradley....huh?!?!) How else can you explain it. They are not a better team than us, yet they continue to OWN us. What makes this worse, is I'm married to a family of Padres fans. I think it might be all my fault. Bad karma.
Peavy should no-hit us tonight but we should bounce back and win on Sunday. Place your bets accordingly.
**********UPDATE
I hate to brag but I was pretty spot on with those predictions above!!!
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Anaheim's Bitch
So, 6 games against little brother and only 1 win to show for it. Can we just banish Interleague Play now? The NL just gets its ass kicked every year by the AL and for what? St. Louis which was probably the worst team in the playoffs last year won it all. The novelty has worn off and the scheduling is not balanced.
Observations from this weekend - Lowe looked great. I have never seen him K so many players. Gonzo and Kemp seemed to be dialed in and Nomar is getting hits, just none for extra bases. Baseball Tonight did a little thing on Nomar's swing and showed he is clearly in a funk. He's not using his hips to drive through the ball and he's losing his balance. Hopefully someone on the team saw this and can give him a pointer or two.
Jason Dreifort Schmidt is just a money pit. Something is wrong with the guy. You don't go from working in the mid-90's to barely hitting 87. Yeah he had 4 scoreless innings vs. ANA but if you were there (and I was) he was VERY hittable. Shut it down, cut him open and fix him so that he can pitch next year! Hello, paging Dr. Jobe and Dr. Andrews.
Memo to Pierre and Furcal, you two are NOT power hitters! Your bread and butter is your speed so USE IT! Stop hitting pop-ups in the OF! It should be like in Major League (the Movie) when Willie Mayes Hayes had to do push-ups for every ball hit into the air. These guys need to work the walks, bunt singles, something to get on base.
Put Billingsly in the ROTATION! Schmidt is on the DL so don't you dare Grady, put Tomko or Hendrickson back in the rotation. Chad has been nails all year so let the kid start!
Next up, visiting Toronto (can we leave with Glaus on our team) and Dodgers Florida (TB) so we SHOULD come back 4-2 but who knows what will happen.
Observations from this weekend - Lowe looked great. I have never seen him K so many players. Gonzo and Kemp seemed to be dialed in and Nomar is getting hits, just none for extra bases. Baseball Tonight did a little thing on Nomar's swing and showed he is clearly in a funk. He's not using his hips to drive through the ball and he's losing his balance. Hopefully someone on the team saw this and can give him a pointer or two.
Jason Dreifort Schmidt is just a money pit. Something is wrong with the guy. You don't go from working in the mid-90's to barely hitting 87. Yeah he had 4 scoreless innings vs. ANA but if you were there (and I was) he was VERY hittable. Shut it down, cut him open and fix him so that he can pitch next year! Hello, paging Dr. Jobe and Dr. Andrews.
Memo to Pierre and Furcal, you two are NOT power hitters! Your bread and butter is your speed so USE IT! Stop hitting pop-ups in the OF! It should be like in Major League (the Movie) when Willie Mayes Hayes had to do push-ups for every ball hit into the air. These guys need to work the walks, bunt singles, something to get on base.
Put Billingsly in the ROTATION! Schmidt is on the DL so don't you dare Grady, put Tomko or Hendrickson back in the rotation. Chad has been nails all year so let the kid start!
Next up, visiting Toronto (can we leave with Glaus on our team) and Dodgers Florida (TB) so we SHOULD come back 4-2 but who knows what will happen.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
BACK 2 BACK 2 BACK
In case any of you missed it, the Dodgers just UNLOADED for BACK TO BACK TO BACK Home Runs courtesy of Wilson Betemit, then Matt Kemp and THE PITCHER Hong Kuo!!!!
After Kuo launched his blast, he then proceeded to flip his bat like he was Barry Bonds and had done this 700+ times already. Dude is going to catch one in the ear hole for stunts like that.
LODUCA Noodle arm update - Kemp stole 2nd on him and he AGAIN threw it to Beltran in CF. Nice toss Pauley!!!!
Currently 3-1 boys from SoCal!
After Kuo launched his blast, he then proceeded to flip his bat like he was Barry Bonds and had done this 700+ times already. Dude is going to catch one in the ear hole for stunts like that.
LODUCA Noodle arm update - Kemp stole 2nd on him and he AGAIN threw it to Beltran in CF. Nice toss Pauley!!!!
Currently 3-1 boys from SoCal!
Closed Door Meetings
Don't you just love hearing that your team had to have the famous "closed door, players only meeting?" Jeeez, the guys are supposed to talk to each other any other time during the year? No way! I guess it only happens after losing 5 of 6 and stinking up the NL West for a week.
Did it work? So far it did.
Last night the Booo Crew came out, promptly fell behind 3-0, and were being No-Hit until the big ol bust himself came up, Juan Pierre. Juan worked a beautiful walk and as soon as he got on, I was saying to myself, run him Grady, RUN HIM!!! MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN! Sure enough, Juan takes off for 2nd, followed by Noodle Arm LoDuca throwing the ball into CF. (I think LoDuca is about the only pro with a weaker arm than Pierre. Dave Roberts is close though.) Russell Martin then knocked in Pierre and stole 2nd himself on another poor LoDuca throw. Gonzo doubled in Martin and Ethier picked up Gonzo to tie it at 3-3. Gonzo later doubled again and Big Game James Loney knocked him in for what was the winning run.
Its only one game so lets see how the rest of this week goes but I'd love to see us use our speed to create more opportunities out there. Speed means fastballs for the batters and those can equal big hits. It'll be a tough week with NYM and ANA. The Mets lineup is just so deep and scary and ANA owns us recently. One game at a time......
Did it work? So far it did.
Last night the Booo Crew came out, promptly fell behind 3-0, and were being No-Hit until the big ol bust himself came up, Juan Pierre. Juan worked a beautiful walk and as soon as he got on, I was saying to myself, run him Grady, RUN HIM!!! MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN! Sure enough, Juan takes off for 2nd, followed by Noodle Arm LoDuca throwing the ball into CF. (I think LoDuca is about the only pro with a weaker arm than Pierre. Dave Roberts is close though.) Russell Martin then knocked in Pierre and stole 2nd himself on another poor LoDuca throw. Gonzo doubled in Martin and Ethier picked up Gonzo to tie it at 3-3. Gonzo later doubled again and Big Game James Loney knocked him in for what was the winning run.
Its only one game so lets see how the rest of this week goes but I'd love to see us use our speed to create more opportunities out there. Speed means fastballs for the batters and those can equal big hits. It'll be a tough week with NYM and ANA. The Mets lineup is just so deep and scary and ANA owns us recently. One game at a time......
Friday, June 8, 2007
Ground Zero
3 games, 3 losses, at least two in heart breaking fashion. Where do we go now?
In case any of you missed the debacle last night, LA cruised into the 9th with a comfy 5-1 lead, about to salvage a game in SD and go back to LA only .5 back. That was before Jonathon Broxton and his gas can came to the bonfire. Here's the recap:
Geoff Blum started the winning rally by beating out an infield single to second base. Terrmel Sledge reached on an error by first baseman Garciaparra, who fielded his grounder but had the ball pop out of his glove. Marcus Giles singled to left to load the bases, and Paul McAnulty hit a chopper and outraced Garciaparra to the bag for an infield single that brought in the inning's first run. Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run ground-rule double to right-center, Josh Bard was intentionally walked to reload the bases and Mike Cameron's single to center brought in McAnulty to tie the game. Kevin Kouzmanoff struck out for the first out, bringing up Branyan, who walked on a full-count pitch to score Gonzalez. Broxton faced nine batters, allowing five hits and walking two. Thanks Nomar and thanks Jonathon!!!!!
So now we come home for 3 vs. Toronto, including the GREAT Hollywood Stars game (including the loser from Dawson's Creek, was he ever a star???) and Carne Asada Sunday. Yes folks, you can pay even MORE to the Dodgers to have some cheap ass Mexican grub after the game hopefully served by Tomato Saenz. Its not like he's playing or anything.
What is up with the NL West? SD and AZ are playing out of their minds. Normally having the Dodgers 8 games or so above .500, this early, I'd be STOKED but now we're in 3rd place? Yikes! Here's hoping we can do to Canada this weekend what the Ducks did to Canada in the Cup Finals. America Jr. Sucks!
In case any of you missed the debacle last night, LA cruised into the 9th with a comfy 5-1 lead, about to salvage a game in SD and go back to LA only .5 back. That was before Jonathon Broxton and his gas can came to the bonfire. Here's the recap:
Geoff Blum started the winning rally by beating out an infield single to second base. Terrmel Sledge reached on an error by first baseman Garciaparra, who fielded his grounder but had the ball pop out of his glove. Marcus Giles singled to left to load the bases, and Paul McAnulty hit a chopper and outraced Garciaparra to the bag for an infield single that brought in the inning's first run. Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run ground-rule double to right-center, Josh Bard was intentionally walked to reload the bases and Mike Cameron's single to center brought in McAnulty to tie the game. Kevin Kouzmanoff struck out for the first out, bringing up Branyan, who walked on a full-count pitch to score Gonzalez. Broxton faced nine batters, allowing five hits and walking two. Thanks Nomar and thanks Jonathon!!!!!
So now we come home for 3 vs. Toronto, including the GREAT Hollywood Stars game (including the loser from Dawson's Creek, was he ever a star???) and Carne Asada Sunday. Yes folks, you can pay even MORE to the Dodgers to have some cheap ass Mexican grub after the game hopefully served by Tomato Saenz. Its not like he's playing or anything.
What is up with the NL West? SD and AZ are playing out of their minds. Normally having the Dodgers 8 games or so above .500, this early, I'd be STOKED but now we're in 3rd place? Yikes! Here's hoping we can do to Canada this weekend what the Ducks did to Canada in the Cup Finals. America Jr. Sucks!
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
SD SHOWDOWN
The boys in blue head to SD for 3 games this week against a team we hate in a city we play poorly in. I'm doubting our .5 game lead will last until Friday.
This series does mark the return of the Offseason bust #2, Jason Schmidt, after seemingly no rehab, but I guess we are DESPERATE to not have to use Tomko or Hendrickson again. Who's wife did Billingsly nail? Why can't we wake up and slot him into the rotation over those has-beens/never-was.
We'll be facing Young, Maddux and Peavy which is the best SD has to offer, in their house so this could be ugly. Of course, we beat Young like a red headed step child last time so who knows. It is bad Dodgers karma though to face ex-pitchers so Maddux will probably end up with a line like this on Wed. 7 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 5K and a W......
Rumors are out there that Mark Teixera of TEX might become available for a trade. Could a package of Loney and Billingsly get that done? Would we want to deal with Satan Boras when Mark's contract runs out? What about Nomar? Could he move to 3B? I'd be willing to chance it. This team has less pop than the UCLA Women's Softball team.
This series does mark the return of the Offseason bust #2, Jason Schmidt, after seemingly no rehab, but I guess we are DESPERATE to not have to use Tomko or Hendrickson again. Who's wife did Billingsly nail? Why can't we wake up and slot him into the rotation over those has-beens/never-was.
We'll be facing Young, Maddux and Peavy which is the best SD has to offer, in their house so this could be ugly. Of course, we beat Young like a red headed step child last time so who knows. It is bad Dodgers karma though to face ex-pitchers so Maddux will probably end up with a line like this on Wed. 7 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 5K and a W......
Rumors are out there that Mark Teixera of TEX might become available for a trade. Could a package of Loney and Billingsly get that done? Would we want to deal with Satan Boras when Mark's contract runs out? What about Nomar? Could he move to 3B? I'd be willing to chance it. This team has less pop than the UCLA Women's Softball team.
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