Clayton Kershaw (2-2, 3.96) vs. Kevin Correia (4-2, 3.97).
COMMENTS: (with apologies to Roald Dahl)
Chapter 15: The Petco Park
"Isn't it wonderful! whispered Clayton. "Hasn't it got a wonderful, processed food smell, Grandpa?"
"It is a beautiful field," said Grandpa Joe Torre, grinning with delight. "This being our first trip to Petco Park this year, it is a pretty beautiful--and cavernous--ballpark in which to pitch."
Suddenly, the air was filled with screams of excitement. The screams came from Hiroki Salt. He was pointing frantically to the other side of the ballpark. "Look! Look over there!" he screamed (strangely, in English; work with me here). "What is it? He's moving! He's walking! It's a little person! It's a little man! Down there in the shadow of the Western Metal Supply building!"
Everybody stopped taking batting practice, and stared at the infield.
"He's right, Grandpa Joe Torre!" cried Clayton. "It is a little man! Can you see him?
"I see him, Clayton!" said Grandpa Joe Torre excitedly. And now everyone started shouting at once.
"What is he doing?" said Augustus Broxton.
"Where does he come from?" said Violet Billingsley.
"But he can't be a real Padre," Clayton said.
"Of course he's a real Padre," Mr. Petco answered. "He's an Oompa-Loompa. But in my park, we like to call him The MSB."
Eckstein photo: Donald Miralle/Getty Images North America. And by the way, that's a toothpick he's holding.
151 comments:
Martin 2
Kemp 8
Ethier 9
Ramirez 7
Loney 3
Blake 5
DeWitt 4
Carroll 6
Kershaw 1
Dusty w/ the lineup from the scene. True man on the street, and a man of the people.
I'd like to send a shoutout to Mr Tanqueray for inventing such a delicous treat.
And a shoutout to my GT peeps whose humour I'm missing through my intermittent wireless access.
Let's Go Blue!
And Mrs Dusty and Mrs Dusty in Law send a special shout out to Sax for the Willie Wonka reference. They were born on the same day that movie came out and hold the movie close as one of their favorites.
@dusty
Bad connectivity? Crimes against humanity, I tell ya!
Bases juiced for 'Stros. 2 out, 3-2 count to Kaz Matsui.
And Matsui flies out. Damn.
. . .and Chelsea with the double?
Poor, poor, Pompey. Game effort, though.
I still can' t believe we won a game in which Ramon Ortiz started.
Here's some explanation, Sax.
bottle of laphroaig and a sixer of San Adams long shot brews. Could go out after the game but might not have the need or energy to.
LOUD NOISES!!!
*enthusiastic applause for Steve Sax*
Epale, everyone!
You can link to a specific point in a YouTube video? Where the hell have I been?
Oh, that's right. Here.
Thx for always saying exactly what I was about to say, Josh.
Eckstein photo shown actual size.
It's a god damned sea of fucking Blue here at Petco. Petco - where the Dodgers go.
Can I get a rousing chorus of the MSB song? Preferably the Josh-penned parody?
Bob Schaefer states that Andre Ethier hurt himself during BP.
I penned a parody?
(Note: I can barely remember this morning.)
Sons, your dad's on Think Blue TV.
Andre out Anderson in....my intuition to by scotch strikes again.
GAARP starting?
This is a loss.
Buy not by or bye. Bye Andre get that finger in some ice.
Ethier has a hurt pinky. He is now officially L.A. sports royalty.
Can it be? Pods having a night where they are honouring neither the military, nor the police, nor the military police.
I don't think I made that up, Josh. Didn't you post a little MSB parody recently?
Oh yeah! I think I just changed "bunch of cowboys" to "2nd baseman".
Dusty's right there, Vinny!
Anderson is playing for a hurt Andre? at least the guy on the mound is used to minimal run support.
I just got to me seats in left field. Manny updates to those who want 'em!
great AB's guys.
there goes the no hitter
For accuracy:
Martin 2
Kemp 8
Ramirez 7
Loney 3
Anderson 9
Blake 5
DeWitt 4
Carroll 6
Kershaw 1
It really is unfair that MSB has no strike zone.
there goes the shutout.
DeWitt should have thrown to first first.
beat LA starts early today.
halfheartedly
claytons got a pretty nice PO move.
LONEY!!!
LONEY!!!
killedit!!
Gameday wasn't working and now all i see is Loney, in play (runs) at the first pitch.
Someone tells me if Gameday is not playing with my feelings
King James HR @Petco
!!!!!!!
SMHGA
kershaw looks quite mortal today, for now.
Mortal, I can live with from time to time. Meltdown is less fun.
Cheering for the strikeout is quite audible. San Diego has been invaded by Dodger fans, it seems.
I think San Diego is the only stadium where the beat LA chant doesn't happen organically. They flash it on te big screen with a cartoon Padre leading the way every single time the Padres get a freakin runner on base.
Very lame.
Paul - yeah that was the impression i was left with my first time there.
Inferiority complex.
Ackbar with a laser bean shot. Well I made it to the outfield.
KKKK
Vin said "Bobba Fett."
Kershaw at 52 pitches through three.
Clay looking like he got it out of his system
looks like kershaw took his ambrosia after the first inning and it took a little while to kick in.
The boo-birds for Manny are so 2009.
@Nicj
Demi-godlike, at the very least.
Is this "Chant 'Beat LA' at random intervals" night?
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Has it really been that long since Phil Nevin was with San Diego?
I'll chip in on the Field of Dreams.
Those Pod Ray fans are sooo original.
What's so surprising about the Reds? They usually start strong, then wilt in the heat of mid-summer; just like the Rangers.
. . .and Corriea throws it away. Blake to second. . .one out.
now the padres know annoying an MSB can be.
Jamey Carroll RBI! You heard me. 2-1 Dodgers
Admiral Ackbar with the RBI single!!
Who needs Foorcal?
Time for the lousy single, J. Mart.
Martin RBI! 3-1 Dodgers
Whee!
YAY!
"You know the opposing pitcher is eating your lunch."
Time to punch him right in the ovaries.
. . .and that'll do it.
Darren Balsley
Time for Corriea to go back to his home on Whore Island.
Things I love about this world:
Scoring runs with two outs. Sweeter than brownies with ice cream
@Paul 6:10:
I've been to Big Phone 3 times to see the Dodgers. I can tell you "Beat LA" is not organic at all. The Jints put it on the beer cups, on the score board, and, for all I know, in the garlic fries.
Inferiority complex is 100% spot on.
"A fistful of deuces." Kind of a new Vin-ism.
Dammit, karina.
I haven't had dessert, but I'm also not done drinking. How dare you reference brownies and ice cream.
Although the daughter did make a nice batch of cornbread. . .
It always makes me giggle when they give Vin technobabble-heavy copy to read. It just doesn't seem to match up.
claytons plan is to break all their bats.
KKKKKK
Swear to god they just had this lame-ass between inning contest here at Petco whereby they showed a little league picture of some kid and someone from crowd had to guess which current Padre it was. One of choices was MSB. I of course jumped up and yelled "It's Eckstein and it's actual size!" Mrs Dusty gave me the stinkeye but it was worth it.
@Dusty, LOL!
You're doing God's work, Dusty.
Cornbread. Ain't nothin wrong with that.
Well Rbnlaw, most of the time i talk about it, but i don't really eat it, rarely i indulge. It could have been worse, like brownies, ice cream AND arequipe.
Cornbread is delicious, though if you aren't done with drinking...do you know that "drunk doesn't eat sweets" (borracho no come dulce)
whats wrong with manny?
DB,
You ain't lyin. I love cornbread; especially homemade.
. . .and the daughter who made it is only 16. Did it from scratch.
Time for another beer.
@Dusty way to represent!
@Rbnlaw your daughter rocks!
@karina,
Now part of my screen name. I love it!
@karina,
She's the one who goes to St. Anthony HS.
I love it when Katina makes pronouncements like that.
^ Karina
I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!!!
Wow...
WHA?!?!
GAARP just punched his season pass.
Who was that dude batting for Anderson?
. . .whaa?
Graceful move by Salazar
Dammit. Nicked Nic on that one.
And at the end of the play, one former Angel couldn't throw out the other former Angel.
ill call it an assist, RBN.
Didn't catch the story about Corriea's brother. What was that about?
Don't want the good folks at Gaslamp Baseball thinking were a bunch of heartless mooks (that woould be the bunch at the MCC)
I can't overestimate how many Los Doyers fans are here. That last run came in and literally half the stadium stood up and cheered.
I'm growing bolder with my clever zingers now. More stinkeye, though.
Yankees series being hawked on the screen crawl.
*eye roll*
This game is delicious, but it is filling.
Word on the street is that Ethier's going to the DL while XP gets called up.
@rb
Freak accident. He was supposed to go on bereavement, but opted to stay and pitch the game anyway.
@MLASF
Say it ain't so, E!
Thanks for the info Mr. C.
Condolences to Mr. Correia.
I think he did beat the throw, but damn!
the shift wins!
Aside from that homer yesterday, Adrian Gonzalez has been a big sack of fail in this series.
OK, NL. You have 15 days to go nuts on the leaderboard. THEN DRE'S COMING FOR YOU, BITCHES!
Going to a bar. Be back in a while.
Cool shot of the bullpen all standing together.
@Rbnlaw @Dusty Baker
you make me feel like Robin Williams in Good Morning America.
I think it is a very popular saying in Latin America. It is in Venezuela
Whirly Beard!
Tim Brown from yahoo says we should trade manny for cliff lee.
manny is lookin' old tonight.
I'd make that trade in a heartbeat.
@Mr LASF what trade?
who wouldnt? well besides the M's
@Karina - the one Nic was referring to.
I think the M's might consider it. After all, Manny wouldn't have to play the field, and they have a pretty solid pitching surplus.
Kemp can't hit without Manny and now Manny can't hit without Ethier.
eh, i think the M's could get more for Lee than just manny. they'd probably want more.
yeah, i would be a little to worried about the last time we didnt have manny and the offense sunk like a stone for a few weeks.
besides dre*
Maybe we include Antonio Perez?
haha, we might have to find him first.
Man this team is rolling.
Can we play the nl west for the rest of the year?
It is Our division after all.
Sorry Nic J, i only read "Manny is looking old"
@Mr LASF i agree with you 100%
If we had to add others to the trade, we wouldn't have to break the bank at least.
@7:01
I never count the Giants in anything. They are dead to me well they were never alive to be dead.
I have been to phone park plenty times and I guess the difference is the sound system blaring beat la is significantly louder than the actual chants at petco.
So thus I think while well fertilized the Giants are organic Douche bags.
Oops forgot the @Rbn at 7:01.
Blake Deground out up.
No way in hell Broxton goes tomorrow.
Damn it Blake doesn't get the concept of the anti jinx.
Yeah Brox will be shut down tomorrow. Might be Kuo and Belly?
Reed Johnson. Wears one batting glove.
"Eckstein, in some ways, looks like he fell out of Broxton's pocket." —Vin
Furless ewok up.
One more out and we party!
We win! Take that, NL West!
Huh, that was quick.
The magic continues!
W00t!
Papa wants a SWEEP.
Loved the guys with the This Is My Town fleece blanket...in San Diego!
@Steve Sax I saw that blanket on last night's game.
@Mr Customer agree, i want a sweep, just for luck!
Mr LA SF 4:27p: thanks. I had forgotten that; gotta go back and rent anchorman again
Dude with the blanket was a few rows in front of me. I took a couple pics of him, in fact. He was classy. *eye roll*
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