Furcal = NL MVP

Is there any question at this point that Furcal is/should be the front runner for the NL MVP award? With him leading off, the Dodgers rattled off 12 wins in 15 games, then Furcal goes out and LA drops 5 of our next 6. His .366 average is extremely missed!

To compound the problem, Brad Peso thinks it post All Star break already and has begun his annual choke job. Hey Penny, its only May! You owe us two more good to great months, lets go! We just can't buy any luck right now. Kuroda throws a 1 hitter and we're cruising, only to have Broxton make like Seanez and give up 12 runs on Mother's Day in a come from ahead loss. Lowe looks like crap but Billingsly is finally starting to pitch well. Can we just get it all rolling at the same time?

Now to Andruw Jones...this hurts me. I'm a big fan and always have been of Jones. I liked his game, liked his attitude, liked his love of Hooters and the Gold Club and liked our signing of him. Is it working? HECK NO! He's batting .170 with 1 dong and 5 RBIs. Joey Votto had like 5 RBIs in ONE GAME. Who? Exactly! Joey freaking Votto! Yet one of the 5 highest paid players in baseball cannot hit water falling out of a boat? Give me a break. You can't cut him, you can't really send him to the minors, but maybe we should just bench his ass for a solid week, make him get back to basics (and for gods sake, hit a treadmill Tubbo) and see if we can salvage this like SF did with Zito (so far). He's just killing us.

Mike Piazza used to have the perfect "quitters swing" for pitches he had no chance at and at bats he didn't want to be up for. It was a one handed choke job, pirouette followed by a walk back to the dugout. Why is this important? Because this is how Andruw ends ALMOST every at bat. He just swings at anything and looks so terrible. To his credit though, he did work Gagne for a walk last night only to have Juan Pierre pop up a first pitch with 2 on, down by 2, to end the game. Thanks you dick!

Anyway, we're back to .500 while AZ is surging again. I really thought this team was going to take a step foward but it looks impossible without Furcal. Hence the MVP status. Get well soon Rafy!!!