Carlos Monasterios (2-0, 1.87) vs. Blake Hawksworth (0-2, 5.14) or P.J. Walters (1-0, 6.23).
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COMMENTS: It's official: When the Dodgers win, the Lakers lose, and vice versa. So the Dodgers have to win tonight in order to take this series, because the Lakers are playing Game 3 tomorrow. Got it? Because it makes perfect sense. With Chris Carpenter starting tomorrow and Adam Wainwright on Wednesday, tonight is the Dodgers' best chance for a win in this series. The Cards, apparently having fifth starter problems of their own, are calling this a "bullpen game," so unless their starter dominates — a possibility, given the Dodgers' tendencies against untested pitchers — don't expect him to stick around. Monasterios, a spot-starter himself, can further enhance his value to the team by keeping the Dodgers in the game. Oh, and isn't Blake Hawksworth a character from "Dynasty"?
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What's a Hawksworth?
Hopefully, about 3 2/3 innings.
Wonder why JMart sits again?
As much as I , to quote MLASF, think that "MONASTERIOUS IS THE FUTURE OF THIS FRANCHISE," I'm admittedly a smidgeon nervous about his facing these Cardinal bats.
And god dammit I want to beat these bastardos.
Wabbit or a habit.
Habit or a rib.
Rabbit or a habit.
Habit or a rib.
MONASTERIOS IS THE FUTURE OF THIS ORGANIZATION
Remember last year, when Torre kept sticking good bats in the 8-hole? We all bitched about it, but dammit, the bottom of the order got hits then.
@ MLASF- you can't be Monoserious?
Torre stuck what, where again?
@dusty
There's nothing unnatural about having some meat in the bottom of the lineup...Wait, that's not so good, either.
4:23 and this thread has already digressed for the worse.
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Good work, guys!
So, is Harper still going to sport that ricockulous eye black in the bigs?
Even Jim Hellwig thinks he looks stupid.
come on Dodgers!
If Harper tries to sport that, he will get a spiked stamp on his first slide into 2B.
Wait, that's eye-black? I just thought he cried a lot, making his mascara run.
Delino, your son was just taken!
I was just about to toss out an Ultimate Warrior gag, only to find Josh beat me to it 20 minutes before it even occurred to me.
Your destrucity is lacking, Mr. C.
With 8th pick of #mlbdraft the #astros select Delino DeShields Jr., 2B, Woodward HS, College Park, Ga.
Apparently there was another earthquake. I didn't feel anything though.
I was just about to ask if anyone else felt that. The earthquake I mean.
Josh? (Josh and I work near each other.)
Pretty good but quick jolt here in the mid-Wilshire area.
Nothing here. Then again, I work hundreds of miles away from you guys.
All level in the Valley.
Halfway to the Dodgers' pick.
I didn't feel any quakes. I was already in the car.
Just reported as 3.7 out of Santa Monica Bay area.
All's well in Redlands, of course I'm all the way out in the BEAUTIFUL Inland Empire
cries
@Neeebs
How was your trip to the Yard? Hadn't heard, or else I missed it in a thread.
Does anyone know yet why JMart is sitting this one out?
@Karen
Torre's pre-game comments re JMart were centered around on him just wanting to give him some good rest going into a long, tough week. So no injury issues as of the latest info. But will check back nearere to gametime to see if there is more or different info.
Got offered Field 19 tix behind the Dodger dugout and had to turn them down.
*weeps*
Safari 5 was just released - woo hoo!
#EarlyAdopter
@Josh
It's not like you have a family that you have to get back t....oh.
Unlike Angelina Jolie, who is an often adopter.
"Too short. Too weak. Too slow."
What I continue to say about Dustin Pedroia.
You know, just to piss him off.
@dusty
Strong result down here in the people's republic. Shook my monitor pretty well.
Poor Dusty. A big player from his native land was just taken by the Cards.
Crappy pick from the Dodgers. McCourt's really pushing fans as far as they can go.
Who'd they pick?
Zach Lee. A high school righty who is also a top quarterback prospect and a commit to LSU for both football and baseball.
So crappy because there is a good chance we'll lose him to LSU?
Better than good. I'm hearing not even $6 million would get him away from LSU.
hot cheerleaders, sponsored binge drinking and easy A's is too good to pass up
Two possibilities here:
1. Dodgers know they don't have a snowball's chance to sign Lee, so they waste their pick and don't lose any money.
2. They already have a deal in place with Lee.
There's a plan here, at least. They didn't just look at where the board stood and decide to take him.
LSU might also be appealing to him because he can try both football and baseball.
The Giants won, the Padres won...
no pressure Dodgers
I'm getting the game on TV, that's good.
I'm getting Vinny, that's better.
There's band rehearsal right next to my room, that's dull.
Furcal leads off with a single, then steals second. Go Dodgers!
by the way:
Epale, everyone!
That was fast.
Epale!
Great start!
(Not sarcastic for once.)
Hey karina!
wonderful. Let the drubbing begin.
Epale!
So far so good.
Monny and Yadier: Separated at birth?
woop! get an early lead? are we allowed to do that?
We're doing well!
Woo hoo! 3 singles, I'll take it.
It's so gratifying to watch someone else's 5th starter implode
"Pop fly single" never sounds good, even if a Dodger hits
Leave it to Manny Anderson to kill the party.
hmm well that's one way to get a guy in from third
I hope Josh sticks with that avi for a while. It's impossible to see that image and not have a chuckle.
Oh, and thanks for nuttin', Manny.
*it
(I ate the pronoun)
well, that DID get us a run...
Not happy with McCourt tonight after that b.s. Draft pick. Throwaway pick. This puts me more firmly in the Fuck McCourt camp than I was before.
looks like Hawksworth is wearing his daddy's ballcap
Manny sucks.
I know Manny had a horrible at-bat, but how come he wasn't credited with an RBI?
GIDP's never result in an RBI.
@karina
At least it was only a little one.
Thanks, Manny and Manny Jr.!
I'm with Mr LASF here. I resist the idea Logan White would approve of this disappointing pick.
Thanks for the support, Mr C :)
Our first look at Matt Holliday since something white and round nailed him in the crotch area.
Ack!
Josh, is your pic a Wooly Willy version of Jamey Carroll?
Fucking shit.
eff you Ludwick
and eff you, mlb.tv
Hey, Dusty's favorite, Randy Winn!
How I loathe him as well.
(1) Epale!
(2) You can't get an RBI on a DP.
(3) Still winning!
Still only 18 pitches.
at least monasterios has been pitch efficient
Chipotle has lowered it's advertising standards, from SOSG to Dodger Stadium
Once you go blog, you don't go back!
bus benches are next
well we cleared the pitcher at least
i'll ask again: is anybody going to the Fernando This Is My Town game? Could I contract somebody to get me the Fernando shirt?
That's it, lads! Lull Hawksworth into a false sense of security, and when the time is right, strike!
@FB It's Carroll's player photo from 70's Night. Vin Scully Is My Homeboy has more of them.
FB, I'd get you one if I could. But I can't go.
Torre with 230 hits in '71. 230!
When is the Fernando game?
Oh no the Felipe Lopez abusive father story again.
wow, monasterios is getting quick outs!
@fb
What game is the Fernando promotion?
I spoke too soon.
I still remember Ryan crying after the Mark Loretta walk off last year.
Why the heck do the Cardinals have a guy with a .599 OPS in front of Pujols?
Oh, it's Sunday. Sorry, not going.
Raffy's arm never ceases to amaze me.
Good play Raffy
31 pitches through 3, not bad at all.
Damn Ryan and his Infinite range.
@FB
I'm going on Sunday and sitting in Fernando Valley.
If they let me buy an extra shirt, I'll get one for you. What size?
Can't guarantee it bc I don't know if the shirts are for sale.
I'd love one of those Kings TIMT shirts.
@David
LaRussa specializes in increasing the amount of entropy in the universe.
Ethier hasn't gone yard in forever, how about now?
lame
F@%&!
Seriously, Andre. C'mon. Get your clutchness back. Now.
Dre is really hitting the ball hard, but often into the opposing players' mitts. But this is a good sign, and he'll put something together soon enough.
Hey all!!!
Wow full house tonight in here.
Are we getting the band back together?!?!
Maybe all of Dre's luck was in his right pinkie.
3-1, alberts going yard here.
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Has blogger always had those broken ampersands, or is that just an iPad thing?
*slaps self*
Focus, man!
@Josh
Want me get you a Pedroia the Destroya t shirt?
He has one and wears it proudly during the off season.
Whew!! my jinx worked.
I don't know if they are going to reschedule, but I'd love to own a "Esta es mi ciudad, Venezuela" shirt.
Unless the shirts were red, because they'd be offensive for most venezuelans living in the area.
Lotta loud outs.
Wow. A lot of quick outs.
monsterious dodging some bird turds.
@Mr C If you talk about typography, you're on focus :)
That is acceptable.
Manny sucks!
Manny is great!
So confused...
Manny...doesn't suck?
Manny hasnt run that far in weeks - he's huffin and puffin!
Get him home!
I haven't run that far all year.
that was tall, blue!
@karina
I do have an (maybe not so) inner typography geek, but I am surprised that I hadn't noticed, since I'm the only one I know that actually writes them that way.
stand a little closer to the plate, willya?
No dp
Belly walks. World Peace obtained.
GET HIM HOME!
DeClutch can!
Come on Joyce, let's do this! I know you can.
Toldja!
Nice 3-1!!!
DeDunker!!
yes! thank you!
DeClutch gave me what I wanted!
SQUEEEEEEEEZE!!!!!!
Squeeze!
C'mon Ellis, home run right here.
One of these days, it'll happen.
yes!!
wow that was close to utter disaster
We can't be stopped.
More runny goodness.
We have more runs than our opponents!
Four times as many!
MONSTERBuntios!
I love my parents and my brothers, then I love squeeze plays!
Sometimes hardboiled sometimes runny.
Hawksworth nearly has Ellis' bunt
Haha, it seems like torre pulls all these things out when he is playing the cards.
like last time with kuo and the two IBB strikeout.
@MLASF
"More runny goodness."
That didn't come out right.
OFFENSE!!!!!!!!!
Raffy!!!!!!
Ellis has 7 hits and 8 RBI's on the year.
Clutch hitter right there, heheh.
Fooooookieeeee.
Eggs come from a chicken not a bunny, dummy.
YES! GR2B
6-1? is that correct? Curly numbers are foreign to me
Open the floodgates!
What's wrong with runny goodness?
Dbags are beating ATL 7-1. What, did Braves start that 7.x ERA reliever or something?
It sounds a little excretory?
Kemp gone fishin'
Kemp putting the K in is name.
Uh, that was ball 4, Kemp.
Would you prefer scorey goodness?
@Mr C quick questions: helvetica or univers? what's your reaction when faced before Comic Sans?
@MR C and LASF - the Fernando game is Sunday vs the Angholes
@Orel - thanks for the thought anyway!
@Dusty - I don't really know how it works. I'll buy a ticket and a beer for somebody in the Baker party if that's the easiest way. I can do paypal, check, coins from the franklin mint, plus eternal indebtedness. I would prefer an XXL but can do XL if I never wash it (which I might not). Let me know if any of that works. And if it's all too much of a pain, I understand that too.
@Mr C final question: does bad kerning bother you?
Ah, ive missed the Winn halfcourt shot story.
Button your shirt, you slob!
It just dawned on me that the Cardinals put out their weak-ass lineup today.
Winn's at bat is destroying Cmon's pitch count.
and theres a walk.
Oh balls.
4 efficient innings partially nullified by that infernal at bat.
dammit
don't give any of those runs back! They got them especially for you!
Curse you, Winn.
Oh this isn't good.
Monster is a bit wild this inning but what monster isn't?
ugh
gotta go five if you want the win, Monny.
This all sets up the triple play.
triple play please.
At least LaRue and Hanksworth are up. Just throw strikes at them.
RAts, I was stuck with iPhone audio for the offensive explosion.
if Beli2 were only four feet taller we would of had a triple play.
wow if that didnt hang up as much, that could have gone for 3
Eh, I'll settle for a double play.
Tiny Dancer DP.
well that was a pleasant turn of events.
2 pitches, 3 outs.
nice work, kid!
Wow, Monny gets 3 outs on 2 pitches!
Good work from Monny!
cmon Dre - get the feeling back!
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