Vicente Padilla (0-1, 14.54) vs. Josh Johnson (0-1, 7.20).
COMMENTS: .500, baby! A strong outing by Billingsley and a stellar one by Kuroda have brought the Dodgers back to sea level, and Padilla can amend for his awful Opening Day start by keeping the Dodgers in today's game.
THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT
- the defense
- Ethier's ankle
- Ausmus to the DL
- any time you see the name ORTIZ in the box score
REASONS TO BELIEVE
- it's early, but Furcal, Martin and DeWitt each have an OBP of .500
- speed on the basepaths (James Loney?)
- Colletti's bench strategy may be paying off: Belliard, GA and Johnson are off to strong starts at the plate
- a win today would give the Dodgers at least a break-even road trip going into Tuesday's home opener
OH, AND
1: Doug Benc/Getty Images
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Furcal 6, Anderson 9, Kemp 8, Manny 7, Loney 3, Blake 5, DeWitt 4, Martin 2, Padilla 1
Ken! Where you been?
Dance Crews? In baseball? What is this, the Inland Empire?
Ken,
See April 1.
I miss Darby. . .Darla. . .Darcy?
And Vma!
Yes, Vma.
I just saw the disturbing cartoon rendition of Dodger stadium. It looks like a Jimmy Buffet concert and where is the Dodger fan with the pistola and the chalk outline of a Giants fan?
Never been a big Seirra Nevada fan...but I purchased a sixer of the Glissade Golden Bock because I was feeling CRAZY!
Paul you crazy!
How is that swill? Rockin the Sam Summer right now with some Peruvian beer to come into play later on.
@Paul:
The Glissade is solid. As good as the Pale.
Dusty and Buck,
Cool, I will give my review later on but first time to change my avatar to saturday night Dodger party mode!
No one touch Paul; he's on fire!
Paul, that satin jacket is unbelievably rad.
That cross up of the normal intro and "Beautiful Day for a Ballgame" did not work out well.
*sigh*
When will baseball occur?
As you can see Orel is in the background diggin it. I didn't let this picture surface during the SOSG elections.
Isn't it a tinsy-bit early to start explaining position in the standings?
Do they have magic numbers out already?
@MLASF-
HAH! I just Tweeted that I did like the intro. To each his/her own IU guess...
^I
Since I am not local I get the Marlins feed. So I am watching a very interesting peace on Dan Uggla.
I have it on mute and listening to the Black Crows. This game will probably be called by my ipod.
The song just didn't mix well with the intro. Too dramatic of images to go with a song so upbeat.
A battle of opening day starters looking for redemption.
I hear ya brother. (re intro)
Raffy's on fire!
Raffy seems spry.
Johnson's throwing smoke out there.
Kemp looks the opposite of Raffy. Sluggish at least. Disinterested almost.
Furcal should just be taking his glove with him.
Dodgers are 0-for-3 with RISP.
Did Vicente just come out of the shower?
Dusty is 2-2 in getting up off the sofa to get beer.
Shit!
Did he touch third?
That's the way to take HanRam out of the game!
Well, resigning V-Pad has not worked out well so far.
Man now raffys beanIng people?
Lucky it's not 2-0 nothing. Coghlan swung on an outside pitch.
Come on Padilla, don't shoot yourself in the foot already.
Yeah I would say it was already time for VPad to hit the showers but it looks like he already has.
He's not fooling anyone with his pitches.
Padilla doesn't have it. None of his pitches are hitting the spots. Two lucky strike outs.
He fooled Ned with his pitches, Dusty.
Uggla is Swedish for owl.
Josh displays his wit and uncanny timing!
Bring back Mini Sirloin Burgers ads!
well, his ERA is going down. I would hope that we could get it below 9.00, however.
Jack changed their fries AGAIN?
The Jack in the Box around the corner is going to packed Friday.
I don't know but Beck's "loser" was on when Padilla was pitching.
Is Jack in the box changing fries again? Good those natural cut ones suck.
I don't know about that, Mr. C. Those 13.50 ERA's are tough to lower.
If an established fast food chain has to change their fries, chances are that their fries are less than desirable. #BadMarketingIdeas
Larry Bowa looks like he was in a drinking contest last night and slept under a park bench.
Chinface single!
@Dusty
That is not outside the realm of possibility.
nice swing by Casey, especially after that heater blew a hole in his bat.
Chin mode gets something started. Although he grimaced after arriving at first. Cue 15 days out with sore hammy.
Nic, I think they already got rid of the natural cut, but didn't publicize it. Now this is yet another change.
The dreaded RiSP
Can the ump take longer to call a ball/strike?
Joe West thinks this ump is a disgrace.
Let's just go ahead and start a Jack in the Box fries blog now. I could also post timely advertising campaign strategy on that blog.
Two Blakes on!
Mr. Heater having a little trouble with his control.
DeWitt is really showing great patience. Power's not his game, so he's got to get on base to counteract the negatives, i.e. the Beane Theory.
Ducks on the pond boys!
That was a very mature, disciplined at bat by DeHitt.
Rancho Battletoadendo
What. The. Hell?
Well that sucked balls.
Was the squeeze on? Blake is a better baserunner than that, so a sign must've been missed.
three on and one out > none on and all out. blech.
Padilla fucking us in both halves of the inning.
Dodgers screw that up and the Dead Kennedys are not happy about it.
Padilla Uber Alles?
I both love and hate Nic's avatar, because it's true.
"Been Caught Stealing" - Jane's Addiction
Hey, Manny makes a catch.
Dusty, they're talking about you on the television!
Apparently I ran Mark Prior's arm into the ground. Had nothing to do with the fact that his arm is made of glass.
Padilla would make a good Dracula.
VPad ERA down to 11.37.
I'm having flashbacks to April of 2008. Hopefully they don't become flashbacks to the rest of that year.
Furcal!!! Someone knock that man in! He is hotter than a pink satin jacket.
GA!
Nice double!
A hit with RISP!
Nice at bat from the bison.
The smashing pumpkins are having flashbacks to 1979.
We have a rally in the making.
Manny's hair is very pippy longstockingish tonight.
Hooray for productive outs!!!!!
Nice sac, Manny. Just what was needed.
Two RISP, two runs. Whaddaya know?
Manny sac!
@Paul
Psychic - Powerless - Another Man's Sac (Butthole Surfers)
@MLASF, that would be the worst giveaway ever
@Nic - Especially with the fertility drugs and all.
Nice Dusty!
Mannywood is enough we don't need a Manny Sac.
CHINFACE DOUBLE
CHINFACE!
Blake!
Conflicting Edits! You know we're doing really well or really bad if that happens.
useful inning, that.
Let's hope Battletoad can hold a lead for once this season.
Hey they are giving out Marlins thundersticks when they play the Nationals.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
BREAKING NEWS: Nelly concert after the game at Sun Life Stadium.
Why would Nelly be there....must be the money.
Ole Miss not Old Miss
That was a loooow throw.
Maybin probably didn't notice that the ball got away until it was too late to try for second.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and posit that Padilla is not very good at fielding.
3-1 Dodgers. I'll take it!
Daft punk is playing in my house my house...well not really but LCD soundsytem is playing.
Come on Padilla just focus on the hitter.
I jsut got this message with an unsuccessful email:
"qmail-spawn unable to create pipe"
That sounds like something from one of them video games Josh likes to play.
I don't know if V-Pad is too focused on the runner or just being himself.
Callback to Slappy Alert.
This is one tight zone.
Jerry Lane is squeezing the pitchers.
The ump is not wanting the Dodgers to delay his delayed calls.
That strike zone is shrinking more than the ice caps. Jeez, man, let's call some strikes and keep the game moving; make 'em swing.
Yeah, ball 4 seemed pretty marginal. 'Course one doesn't get the benefit of the doubt when fighting it
If the ice caps are gone the Artic Monkeys will just be the Monkeys.
I hope the pen enjoyed a light day of work yesterday. V ain't going 8 tonight.
First single of season for JMart. He almost has a season cycle!
Russell's swing is looking very good...I lika da swing.
leadoff runner - check!
V-Pad =/= Hitter
Sorry, not the answer we were looking for.
C'mon, Raffy.
Okay, I'm impressed as hell with you guys who can watch the game, comment on Twitter, comment on SoSG GT, and have time to get a beer.
Clearly, I'm in low A ball.
@SD - I'm also writing some stuff to! Cheers to multitasking!
@Professor-
Not only that, but I'm also GameDaying the Red Sox/Royals game. Earlier I had Masters streaming on internet, too. Finally, keeping track of El Clasico in the futbol world.
#MessiIsSick
@Steve Dittmore
Would it shock you to know I'm working on a side-project concurrently as well?
^Yup, those are the prime offenders for sure
So GA's 1-for-3 with a double. I'll take it.
you guys are on twitter too?
Paul
Yes. @mistercustomer
Some Russian guy has the abbv.
@dustybkrdodgr
@mrlasportsfan
@Dusty - Not the result for El Clasico I was hoping. After going to the match at Bernabeu in Feb., I've been a closet Real fan. Got the little one a black Ronaldo jersey (only one in his size...)
I probably should've taken @mlasf, but it's too late now.
Some call it multitasking. Mrs. Dusty calls it ADD.
@Dusty
Kudos to you. I can't stomach either Real or Barca, despite the fact that incredible football is being played.
@SteveDittmore
creative, huh?
Get back in the closet, Dittmore!
Nice Hogs win today, BTW.
@Mr C ... I'm impressed. I'm fixin (as they say in the south) to finish my taxes tonight as well.
At first glance he was out.
Gameday does not know what to do with the eephus.
MrC-
I'm not a big fan of either side or of Spanish football, but felt I couldn't miss it. I just root for a lot of red cards and winging to the officials so I can taunt those ESP pansies a second time.
A piece of the wall just fell off? Are you serious?
Fucking cookie-cutters.
This place is falling apart (xxx Stadium).
Joe West thinks this stadium is a disgrace to baseball.
I'd like to officially apologize for turning GameDay into a verb in a previous post.
Now that the Metrodome lost the Minnesota Mauers, only two football/baseball stadiums remain: Whatever the hell people call the Marlins' place, and whatever the hell people call Oakland's place. Marlins are leaving soon. When the hell are the A's going to get a new place?
I wouldn't be surprised if Padilla dropped off because of that delay.
God damn shitty falling apart stadium cooled off our pitcher.
"Fuck the Fish"
Eewww, clammy!
shite shite shite
I believe that was the subject of an episode of South Park.
I knew Padilla would drop.
You're kidding. I just got back home. First pitch I see is a 3-run homer.
GODDAMMIT! I KNEW VPad was going to fall apart after that delay.
I so knew that was gonna happen.
Don't get me started again Mr. C
SHIT
k trying to follow you guys on twitter and the game day thread is making my head spin.
I am not fucking happy and I am not clapping my god damned hands.
I didn't even notice Padilla blew the shit out of our lead.
@Paul
Better try harder. You CANNOT miss any of our masterful insight.
There was a delay?
Let's try for the first comeback win of the year, since Wednesday ended in failure.
Fucking right field padding.
So how do you decide if a comment should go on the gameday thread or twitter?
If we say it, it should go on Twitter.
Just sayin'.
Manny with the English!
Totally fair.
That WAS fair. Happy 2500 hit, Manny.
Manny crushed that one.
Awesome that #2500 for one of the best hitters in the game would travel about 20 feet
Manny's 2500th hit may have been his shortest.
@Paul-
Actually I usually dont' comment all that much during the game on Twitter and instead stay in this space. But since it's the weekend and I don't have anything else to do, my masteful insight is bleeding over to the Twitter feed.
Sometimes I post the same thing but I try not to.
So Raffy gets his 1500th hit and Manny gets his 2500th in the same game? Cool.
This whole hidden twitter world is weirder than the my Bencio Del Toro dream last night.
I cannot imagine Casey Blake in high school.
Johnson is going limp.
It's been two hours and we're only halfway through the game. Joe West would be appalled.
I'm going to run that reference into the ground even if it kills me.
Sons on Twitter:
@sosgsosg
Cowboy Joe is about as close to being perpetually pissed off as a human being other than Jeff Kent can be.
It's a good, timely reference, MLASF - run with it.
(No time pun intended)
@Mr.C-
Normally I admire that in a person.
199
Hanley Ramirez trying to look like Manny Ramirez.
Well shit, there was one sporting event I was missing following: LA Galaxy.
Say it with me, Buck
DAMMIT
@MLASFN Wasn't last night a comeback win?
Also, true story, when Blake was in HS in Indianola, Iowa, I was interning for WHO-TV while going to school. I covered one of his basketball games. He was the man in Indianola.
I think yesterday we scored first.
Is Jeff Weaver ever not loose?
VPad running outta gas.
Nevermind, Marlins scored first. You're right, SD.
*running to put on dream weaver on the ipod*
Fresno State in the dog house.
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