Clayton Kershaw (1-0, 3.13) vs. Brian Burres (0-1, 9.31).
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Other notes on tonight's game (from Sax):
- The Dodgers have given up 122 runs this year, 15th in the NL--with the worst team being tonight's opponent, Pittsburgh. Bring your fleece blanket, as you may be there for a while.
- Tonight is Dodgertown, USC night. First 20K fans get a Trojan-red USC hat (this looks so wrong); those spending $45 to sit out in the right field lower reserve boondocks also get a free Dodgertown/USC t-shirt and an all-inclusive themed menu (centered around pastrami sandwiches), in addition to Dodger Dogs, nachos, popcorn and soft drinks.
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Lineup, since I think Dusty's still away on bizness:
Martin C
Anderson LF
Kemp CF
Ethier RF
Blake 3B
Loney 1B
Carroll SS
DeWitt 2B
Kershaw P
I do like USC and pastrami.
Ahhh...fresh avatar for a new series.
I just walked in the door; back from DC. I was itching to get over to the GT and start whipping some shit up!
I think I have a lot to catch up on.
JMart leading off?
To put a finer point on it, I took the FLyaway bus LAX>Union Station then Gold Line to Pas then a walk home, all so that I could get home sooner than the Super Shuttle would have taken me, and thus join the GT more quickly.
Damn. Now I feel bad. Sorry, homey.
I'll catch you up, Dusty.
We suck.
OK, you're caught up.
Game thread on. I'll be in and out as there's vry important architecting to be done.
Good news, everyone!
The Braves lost again, meaning the Dodgers, for the moment, are not the worst team in the NL.
C'Mon is getting the start on Saturday. Get your tickets now, MLASF!
Maybe Monasterios is the future of the organization. He gets the start on Saturday.
Thanks for that excellent, thorough recap, Josh!
With the Braves news, I gues it's "We don't entirely suck the worst, at least for the moment."
WTF up with Ned? I got a frantic call late last night (Eastern time) from Mrs. Dusty and her sis...they were fuming at Ned. I read some quotes and can't remotely understand what he was thinking, or am I missing something?
I have tickets for Saturday. COuld shape up to be a shitfeast, but I'm anxious to see C'Mon.
Ned's diarrhea of the mouth is going to cost us Matt's services when his deal is up. It's fine to think Kemp's been sub-par lately, but you don't SAY IT ON THE RADIO, especially in as nasty a tone as he used.
OK sure, he was asked about Kemp's baserunning and defense. Fine. If you have to answer the question, you say, "It's not where we want it to be and I'm sure it's not where he wants it to be, but I know he'll improve." Boom. Done. Crisis averted.
Wasn't Ned a PR guy before doing GM work. Shouldnt he know this shit?
Accuscore is brilliant. But can it predict the mystery that is the human heart.
@MLSF - I pose the question to thee. (others can answer too) Best pastrami in Los Angeles?
Langer's comes correct on the pastrami.
Hard to argue with Cantor's pastrami in my book.
x2 for Langers.
xxLangers
Live from Fresneck: Grizzlies (Giants) vs Rivercats (A's). One dollar beer night.
Wind gusts of 29 mpp and freakin cold. Giants fans heartthrob teen beat crush prospect Buster (Steve) Posey in the lineup hitting a cool .346.
I am telling him no need to strech on a cold night tonight.
Tecate light kegs are rolling in. Oh joy. Maybe I will pay $8 for a "premium beer" instead.
I will be the one fan booing every player who comes up to the plate, anyone who pitches and both mascots.
I work mere blocks from Langer's and I've always wanted to try them, but MAN do their prices scare me off.
I like Oinkster's pastrami sammitches.
anytime I see Carroll and Anderson both in the lineup a little part of me dies.
(I am hoping for a reverse jinx here.)
Great report, Paul! Particularly liked this:
"I will be the one fan booing every player who comes up to the plate, anyone who pitches and both mascots."
Carry on!
Tecate Light? I didn't even know they made such a thing. Didn't want to know.
Another thing about Langer's: I think they have the best fountain Diet Coke of anywhere in the city. Bottomles, too.
I also vote for Langer's. The fact that they almost went bankrupt and recovered (largely from a new Metro stop, I believe) to be on solid footing today.
MONASTERIOS IS STARTING SATURDAY?
JAL:KFJHFALKFHAHFLKHASDFAF
the mavs are going down in flames.
For me, one of the best pastrami sandwiches I had was at Jeff Suppan's restaurant. Living in the Valley, I frequent it often. He might not be able to pitch, but he sure knows how to make a pastrami sandwich.
@Mr LA SF: please tell me his restaurant had a Suppan Sandwich special. He couldn't have missed that one, right down the middle.
Haha, Coop on dodgers live is pissing lyons off.
Steve Lyons' hair vs. the wind. Wind wins!
@Sax: Meatball sandwich, natch.
"He might not be able to pitch, but he sure knows how to make a pastrami sandwich."
Heh..nice line, MLASF.
kemp seems to have taken Ned's douchebaggery well.
please dont leave us Kemp!
"It's about baseball...it's about people..." Torre, sounding like the diner owner from Muppets Take Manhattan while giving his take on Ned-gate.
Nic,
I was just thinking of the Kemp issue. You know Bison and his agent are not going to forget those comments come contract time. Coletti needs to watch his public statements. Idiot. If he'd kept it private, things might have been much different.
yeah thats what im fearing. Hopefully we have new owners/GM by the time kemp hits FA and they will throw a ton of money his way, which he may or may not be able to catch.
Let's exterminate these Pie Rats.
I'm actually interested in Scullys opinion on the Kemp/Colletti debacle.
Mmmmmmm. Pie rats.
let's play a good game tonight
just what we needed - more wind
It's so good to have Vinny calling the game
the wind seems to be pushing clayton out of the strikezone.
Hey, Manny's not at Best Buy!
15 pitches, no outs.
Good start. We have them right where we want them - no outs, two men on.
as if on cue, the garbage rolls in.
There are more bags blowing around the infield than any scene in American Beauty.
uhoh it's Jones
maybe our luck is changing
wow Clayton dials it up to 95 to get Jones
my lord
I see the strategy.Walk 2 Strikeout 2.
Maybe Ned was right.
Gold Glove, bitches!
Uhhhh..
Not sure how to react to that.
So...do we still suck?
Poor timing for that error.
the phonelines at dodgertalk are already lighting up.
Maybe it has to do with Rihanna. Maybe she thinks guys who field like Adam Dunn are sexy.
triple? what?
Clayton on pace to pitch 3+ innings.
Jeez that was a long half inning
Damn it Matt, we can't have people thinking Ned is smart!
A homerun will make up for that error,Kemp. NO pressure
why can't we finish off an inning anymore? It seems like we give up so many 2-out runs, and so many are the first runs of the inning. we have a chance to get out of an inning by just getting an out but we can't do it right now
the scorekeeper has been very kind to matty. Only one official error this year.
Knowing the common trend, I'm going to predict that Burres has the game of his life tonight.
Good eye Anderson
That was the crappiest swing at the crappiest pitch.
and he didn't run it out
that was the weakest half inning of baseball i have ever witnessed.
I still think he's fighting with Rhianna
Epale, everyone!
Show'em Bison...in the next at bat
Colletti has won the crowd tonight.
We cannot catch any kind of break right now.
Hi karina!
Why can't someone make our starting pitcher look like Cy Young reincarnate one of these days.
Hello Fred's Brim!
I was down near you about a month ago. The missus and I went down to Ecuador for a week
4 K's for CK
better inning, but 47 pitches already.
Karina, you're sure social tonight between this GT and Twitter. You are just social media queen.
That makes Josh a social media princess.
Take that, Cedeño (still mad at him)
This Kingsford charcoal ad sounds like it was written by a 5-year-old.
how far down is rock bottom?
would getting no-hit by Brian Burres be rock bottom?
"That makes Josh a social media princess"
Hey! I still don't have a Tumbr!
1-2-3 for Clayton
@Fred's Brim rock bottom is IF they end last in the division and it's an irreversible trend
@Fred's Brim hope you had a great time with the Mrs. FB
@Dusty Baker hahahaha but i'm more than a princess than a queen, anytime!
@Josh S i do have a tumblr
See? I don't even know how to spell Tumblr!
@Josh S hahahahahaha, by any chance, do you have myspace?
100
Carroll took 7 pitches, they'll explode Burres soon
Someone else has sucky defense besides us
I apologize for all the Chavez ranting in Spanish at Twitter. I'm very sorry but it's a way to ventilate frustration
Russell you can do it.
Geez what next
If we don't get a run my fist is going through a wall.
I'm starting to think were snakebite.
Russell's teammate-murdering skills are below average.
Dang, Clayton was safe at second. Would have been a double play anyways.
A karina sighting. Hola
@MLASF et al
Re: pastrami. I will forever be an east coast snob when it comes to food that can bring you one step closer to the grave. But Langer's has my vote too. They're right near Good Samaritan hospital (where Mini Delino was born). So as my wife went through a few days of rapid post-childbirth weight loss, I did the opposite at Langer's. To quote Homer, I even "invented a meal between breakfast and brunch"
RE: Jeff Suppan restaurant. He's the reason the Mets lost against the Cards in the NLCS (and the Mets general suckiness didn't help.) So if I go to his restaurant, it would have to involve at least one upper decker.
@Mr LASF at the current rate, you won't have any walls in a couple of weeks.
It's a good thing I keep plenty of walls.
Hola Neeebs!
@Nic J i don't get your new avatar
I need to have you over to my house to watch a couple of dodger games MLASF. Im remodeling and i need to knock a couple of walls out.
I will require a sandwich for my efforts, Nic. And maybe a cola.
@karina, its a dodgers hat with a B and H sewn onto the sides of the LA logo.
BLAH, the brand of baseball the dodgers have been playing.
I'm so thoroughly disgusted I've changed my name mid-game.
We fans need to create some mojo for the dodgers somehow. Nothing too physical cause I'm a lazy ass.
after watching GA's first two at bats i think we know why its so windy at dodger stadium.
HEY! some GOOD baserunning.
If we don't score a run my name will happen.
@Mr Fist Going Through a Wall i hope your change of nick results in good mojo for the Dodgers
@Nic J love it!
We should demand the return of The Beard. It's just not the same and it doesn't feel right.
RANCHO ARDIENDO!
I don't think Carroll is scaring anyone.
Actual photo of MLASF/MFGTaW's house
That's the last time I let Harvey Levin into my house.
bLAh?
I used to put my glove in the dryer.
Holy crap! Is that really why he's named Lastings?!
nice snag by Jmart
thank you wind.
I'm new to this accuscore stuff. It's midway through the game, and we're still 73% favorites?
OK.
@rbnlaw Have faith
Ah, karina. My little ray of Venezuelan sunshine.
We've needed your mojo.
Runners in scoring position last 3 innings. We must cash in. . .NOW!
Why is there an add to buy padre tickets from padre.com underneath the accuscore ?
Vin not afraid to bust himself.
Not getting anything this inning either. Was Saturday the last time we had a lead?
quit being such an ass.
something has to change
Unbelievable.
@rbnlaw i know it;s my fault :(
Well, I guess Accuscore doesn't update in real time.
Oh, and HI KARINA!
Epale, Orel!!!!!!
Clayton through six, lots of pitches though
If Matty fields that "triple" cleanly in the first, he only gives up 1 run
Why don't they hit when Kershaw pitches well?. His only flaw tonight was giving up a couple of walks.
Another hard luck loss for a pitcher. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Manny factor for the offense. You'd think everyone would be pointing that out.
the writers dont like manny anymore. they wont give him any credit.
I think they showed something earlier that we are 1-8 without him in the lineup though. With like a .240 BA.
Raffy got a PRP injection? Doesn't sound like he will be back anytime soon.
same exact thing carroll did last thing with runners on.
Our offense has no hope if we're counting on Jamey Carroll to deliver in clutch situations.
Why must this madness continue?
AARGH
Carroll has an LOB of 5. 5! In three freaking at-bats!
Im guessing clayton in staying in till he walks someone or gives up a hit.
Kershaw pitching in the 7th? it's still April
nice catch dewitt. Odog would be proud, maybe.
It's still a close game but CK will leave soon and "The Nightmare" are going to give up many runs.
Walked the MF'n pitcher.
Why is Torre leaving Kershaw in for so long?
Tron in to let the runner at first score.
@NicJ He was at 117 pitches, I don't really blame him.
Vin said a funny about Tron
That inherited runner better not score, I'm rooting for Kershaw's ERA almost as much as this team.
It was the bottom half of the lineup, maybe he was hoping he could get three quick outs and still try and get him the win. He forgot Clayton likes to walk pitchers though.
gggrraaaaaagmmmff
whew!
"Tron Arm-achy", coming this Summer to a theater near you.
Hey guys, what dis I miss?
Oh.
Jmart has gone back to pulling the ball.
This really isn't going well.
Mr. Joe Torre
No matter what, don't start Carroll tomorrow.
Very respectfully
The Dodgers fanbase
@karina, with raffy hurt we dont have anyone else.
Unless Hu or Green is called up, but they hit worse.
I think that's the closest karina's ever gotten to negativity.
@Sax: The game sucks, but there have been some gem comments in the GT.
Maybe Torre decides to start DeWitt at short and let Belliard play second.
Maybe we can sign Eckstein. He always plays short.
Kuo just shaved 16.20 off his ERA
@Josh S well, he's had the key at-bats tonight and the only at-bat when he showed patience wasn't relevant.
This team has more funk than Sly and all of the family Stone combined.
Ned might have Kemp start at SS, he thinks his game is short.
Well, Kemp does have a gun...
GA must never hit 2nd again.
Coming up: Anderso, Kemp, Ethier. They can do it
I think I prefer Reed Johnson to GA.
@MLASF, have him stay away from padilla then.
Dodgers bats haven't showed up so far, but the wits of the SoSG bar population are on fire!
Some new fella warming. Jonathan...Broxton?
@nic
I think you meant not bat second, as GA ain't hitting anywhere, second or otherwise.
Broxton? Never heard of him.
If the Dodgers lose this game, I'm going to put my fist through Mr. LASF's wall.
@Josh, lol.
In completely unrelated news, Dirk Nowitzki might opt out of his contract and join the greatest free agent class in the history of the universe.
This game is really depressing.
what's the chant in the background? Yankees Suck?
200
Paging Mr Herman, Mr Herman you have a telephone call at the front desk...
Your ear, not your rear, Pee Wee!
FA's mean nothing to me when the lakers have no payroll flexibility.
Maybe he can join his German friend and sign with the Clippers. Then get deported before his first game when he makes the drive through AZ.
I hope Young Panda GIDP
Three more outs to see if we really suck beyond belief.
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