Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
Jon Garland (8-11, 4.29) vs. Billy Buckner (2-5, 8.63).
COMMENTS: Tonight, the former D'back and current Dodger goes against the current D'back with a former Dodger's name. And really, if the Dodgers can't beat a pitcher with a 1.770 WHIP, then it's going to be a long September indeed. If the Dodgers don't get the split, I'm going bananas.
4/3 vs. SF (W, 5-4): Sax
4/15 vs. WSH (L, 4-6): Dusty, Orel, Sax
5/6 vs. MIA (W, 6-3): AC, Sax
5/16 vs. CIN (L, 2-7): AC, Sax
6/12 vs. TEX (L, 2-3): Sax
7/5 vs. MIL (W, 8-5): Sax
7/21 vs. BOS (W, 9-6): Sax
7/24 vs. SF (L, 3-8): Sax
8/24 vs. TB (L, 8-9 (10)): Sax
8/29 vs. BAL (W, 6-3): Orel, Sax
9/9 vs. CHC (L, 4-10): Sax
10/5 NLDS G1 vs. SD (W, 7-5): Sax
10/6 NLDS G2 vs. SD (L, 2-10): Orel, Sax
10/25 WS G1 vs. NYY (W, 6-3 (10)): Sax
109 comments:
And yet regardless of what the offense does, the pitching (and somehow Billingsley) will get blamed if we don't win tonight.
Keep in mind that he only has two wins, just two.
Oh, one of them was against us?
Uhhhh....
Go Dodgers!!!!
Buckner that is.
I liked Buckner better when he was an outfielder.
And Los Dodgers better win tonight because I finished my book.
A long September, and there's reason to believe that this year will be better than the last!
The last time this team won 4 in a row was Manny Slam.
I begining to think the Dodgers subsequent acts of making such a big deal of one game in the middle of the season against a bad team have now cursed the Dodgers and Manny.
We're the Dodgers, Paul. We don't believe in curses. That's an East/Mid-Coast thing.
@Eric Stephen
Counting Crows! That's a ride in the "Wayback Machine"
Mr. C: Not even close to being as far back as "The Minstrel in the Gallery." I'm surprised a Minstrel like yourself didn't know that.
*Mid-West
That was way too random.
MLSF
okay then the glorifying of Manny Slam might just be bad karma.
@Eric Stephen
I had to laugh at myself just now, since nearly every reference I draw is older than that album. The gist was that I hadn't listened to it in a while.
@Neeebs
See above.
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends
KK has a great point. Bills let up a 2-run jack, but the other two runs were the result of some opportunistic seeing-eye ground balls and shaky fielding.
The offense is, as they say, mired.
@Neeebs,
...Lord knows I love me a Jethro Tull flute solo, though.
Furcal SS
Kemp CF
Ethier RF
Manny LF
Blake 3B
Loney 1B
Belliard 2B
Martin C
Garland P
Jints and Phils tied at one in the 6th.
I'd like to revise and extend my previous remark:
Phils now lead 2-1.
@Paul that's Green Day's "Wake me up when September ends" from "American Idiot"
@Neeebs it's awesome how you can reference Baroque music and Counting Crows.
Mrs Dusty just told me that there is a new Green Day musical that will be playing in San Francisco when we're up there next month. I damn sure want to check that out!
Alright, Super Strength Gagne is in effect for tonight's game...let's do this boys!
That is correct Kiddo!
Dusty
i think when you post the lineup you should just leave the lead off spot blank or insert a non sequitur. Wait is Furcal leading off already one?
Gagne's Lucky HGH
@ Paul
Or maybe they can just start the game with one out and the 2 spot up to bat.
Brad Lidge does not want to winthis game
upton out of the game? we better win this game.
who the hell is that douche yelling?
Furcal grounds out. Alert the media.
maybe we should have traded for buckner.
Has Jon Gatland gotten the memo yet that he isn't playing for the Dbags anymore?
@Eric Stephen, great Counting Crows reference. When I think whiny lead vocalists, I think Adam Duritz.
Believe in me, cause I believe in anything
and I wanna be someone who believes
At least the Giants and Rox both lost.
At least loney still has his glove.
looks like we're off to a great start...
I can't hang, but would like to wish everybody a good game tonight. I am tired of this sub-500 play, to the point it makes me angry. I hope the team show up tonight with that same attitude and punishes Arizona for just showing up on the same field.
Didn't Loney just have that same play a couple of days ago, except his throw didn't allow the tag at second? Nice job, FJL.
i know dodger fans are frustrated, but i dont think booing manny is going to help the situation.
Martin and furcal have been bad all year and nobody boo's them.
No no-hitter for Buckner!
mini manny comes up clutch again!
hooray for errors!
I'm against any booing when you support a team. It lacks logic, instead of stimulating them for a better performance, people insult the players, lower their self-esteem and it doesn't change whatever happened on the field.
Besides, aren't they fans of the game? if people make mistakes when playing the game as a video game, you don't have to be a genius to realize human beings would suck at one point or another, specially on the big stage of professional sports.
James Loney scored from second with a single!. He isn't that slow, afterwards :)
Le sigh
Drew HR, Culebras 2, Dodgers 1
Garland! You. Are. A. Dodger. WTF? HR to Drew???
to be fair sax, his play is fitting right in with how we have been playing.
@karina 7:51p: yeah, but if I screw up on a videogame, I just hit "reset".
I agree with you that FJL showed good speed to score on the BelliYard single.
Too bad we're losing again.
Why Andre?
@Steve Sax You're right,but booing is not the answer anyway.
I have an awful headache and the Dodgers are not helping me.
damn, manny got all of that one.
Offense, clap clap
Offense, clap clap
Game tied. Tell me the crowd frenzied enough about the Manny's HR.
haha, everyone gets a hug from manny when he hits one out.
yeah, the place went nuts.
My buddy Sue just got a Manny hug!
hey look at loney with the productive out.
i know this is off of billy buckner, but this feels great.
and martin pulls it into a DP, some things never change.
lets keep it going next inning though
This game is too fast.
Whaddideye miss?
nice slide by loney.
i forgot Russ already used his one hit for the game earlier. Oh well, one run with the bases loaded and 1 out is progress.
Russ already used his kill shot, so to speak?
gotta call it, i was just going over that at practice today.
Loney and martin take a lap.
It Rhymes with Mulva.
@Nic - Delores?
there wasnt a decent hitting shortstop we could have made a trade for?
Damn Juan Pierre for being left-handed so we cant at least try him out there.
then again, can he really throw any worse with his right?
Beto Duran just sent a Tweet saying something to the effect of newspapers not being dead and that several different LA Times sports writers are there at the game tonight, incl. Plaschke. I Tweeted back "Plaschke = douche" so hopefully that message gets out there in the Twittersphere.
@db, im sure there is more than one of that exact same message floating around the twitterverse
NicJ, I'm sure you're right. Just want to promulgate this message far and near, by all means necessary.
by all means, dusty.
Rusty Ryal goes to sleep by falling down on his face
4-2! Nice.
Gotta get back to my dinner...
Nice, Paul!
I like your Boutique, by the way.
id like at least one more run.
i guess two will have to do.
a 1-2-3 inning would be great right now.
Pressure is on, Brox.
On behalf of Karina, I believe in you.
On behalf of me, don't fuck up, pin head!
guess not.
One away
Two away
I'd like a pony.
All Brox's pitches so far have ranged 96-99. None over, none less.
We win!
Tau dau!
Done and done. +1 game on both Rox and Giants.
How did Garland look? I missed the whole game
ground ball machine
lead off hit and walk right after lead to a run. and gave up a solo HR, but he was solid otherwise
GLG:
Shaky at the beginning (understandable, given...) but he hung tough ("But he hung tough? Naw, Buddy bauled out!") and ate up a ton of innings for us, as was most needed. Wasn't Cy Young, but solid. Glad to have him, and glad the crowd gave him his props as he left the game.
Went 97 pitches.
Thanks Dusty
Happy Gagne is back after the Dodgers win
was anyone watching the oregon boise st game right now?
Are those Lucky Glasses in your pocket or are you just happy to win, Gagne?
Naw, what happened, NicJ?
haha, one of the guys from oregon sucker punched a boise st player. Right on the chn it looked like he dazed him. Its hilarious they keep replaying it in slowmo.
I applaud that brilliant nickname. D'bags indeed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Glass Joe!"
the dude sort of deserved it, he clearly said something to him.
dang, i'll see that later
finally, bochy admitted that yes, he used to doctor the radar gun when brad penny started against his clubs. He claims it’s the only pitcher he’d do that against, knowing penny turns and catches a glance after every pitch.
“yeah, i guess word got out,” bochy said with a sly grin. “the funny thing is, i said, `take 5 mph off to mess with his head.’ and he was throwing 94. I said again, `take 5 off.’ they said, `we are.’ “
i heard he also does that with the clubhouse scale when Doughval gets on it.
Just saw that sucka punch. I'm sure that Smurf St. dude was talkin some smack, and it was a funny situation when viewed on Sportscenter. But damn, Boise, are you really gonna let some knicklehead come in to your house and let someone do that to your boy? That's YOUR house (Smurfy as it may be)! You shoulda cold swarmed.
Timmah: Wash your fuckin hair already, man. College is over.
Lalala, la la lala, lalala, la la lala.
(Banana Splits' Theme Song)
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