Vicente Padilla (1-1, 6.67) vs. Carsten Charles Sabathia (8-3, 3.68).
You may not have heard much about this, but apparently there's another MLB team in New York (besides the Mets). And this lesser-known, fledgling squad is coming by our stadium for a visit this weekend, a fact that the Dodgers marketing team has kept under the radar. But since they don't come out to Dodger Stadium often, they must not be anyone of note, right? Otherwise we might have heard about this somewhere? Maybe?
So game 1 against this club is tonight, and there may be a couple of extra people interested in seeing this other team (they're starting a pitcher named Carsten! How cute!), but frankly I'm finding out about this contest so late that I don't know what to expect. Hopefully this visiting squad at least knows the rules of baseball.
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Great, now I have to read six other game threads featuring the National League's best.
In all seriousness, aside from the marketing fiasco and how badly the Dodgers have played against the AL, I am still looking forward to this.
I thought today was an off-day, so I went to Mr. C's site for the puzzle (at least I can solve his).
When did we add the Yankees to the schedule? They're pretty popular with all the displaced Yorkies, so I figured the Dodgers would have publicized this.
Go figure.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa...
Who are the Yankees?
Finally...the three-hour BevMo saga has ended. I'm locked and loaded.
@Paul
Are you there yet?
Great...now the Rally Monkey keps texting me and asking when we can see each other again.
Avatar change made.
Jeter SS
Jeter CF
Jeter 1B
Jeter 3B
Jeter 2B
Jeter C
Jeter RF
Jeter LF
Jeter P
DB,
What was the final verdict at BevMo!?
@RB
24 oz Pacifico for my warmdown after the booze run
6 pack Firestone DBA
12 pack Dos XX amaber
12 pack Dos XX lager
2 bottles Renwood Petite Sirah
2 bottles Little Penguin Pinot Grigio
6 pack Schweppes tonic water
1 Sioux City Sarsaparilla
^ That should get me through tonight
Damn! That's cuarenta y ocho equises!
Dusty's booze line-up will score more than dem Bums.
Hi guys. Won't be able to check in much, but I am at Dodger Stadium for my first game of the season. Sitting in section 49 Field, first row. Anyone else here?
@Erin
Paul is there, or will be soon.
Hello! Is this thing on?
I made it!!! 5 hours later. Traffic was a jeter.
Lots of Yankees fans. Some of them count as two fans. They like to eat back east.
Mrs Dusty bringing home some BBQ from Ribs USA. Beer cold. Game ready.
Life=good
Nats also winning.
GAARP is bad even in batting practice.
The Yanks have taken the field early basically pissing on our turf.
@Paul
GAARP just can't catch up to those BP "fastballs" any more.
Have I mentioned lately how much I FUCKING HATE THE YANKEES?
Slacks just DFA'd.
Link recalled from Albuquequrqueqrequery.
I highly doubt the yanks can stop our massive wave of momentum that is a one game winning streak.
I actually pity them a little.
Yanks won't know what hit 'em when they run into the buzzsaw that is the June Dodgers.
So Haeger shows moderate improvement and he gets chucked?
Eh, whatever.
everyone root for GAARP to hit a grandslam tonight. maybe it will buy him a ticket to ABQ.
DB,
That's a prodigious shopping trip. What do you mix with sarsaparilla?
Typical Dodgers; get a pitcher healthy, let him start, he pitches well enough to get into the 6th, then release his ass.
Meanwhile, a man named Garret still takes up space at the end of the bench.
It appears we are all of the same mind regarding roster moves.
Can we all agree a play for Cliff Lee should be made? All in favor?
so is this our world series?
they are giving out rally towels at the gate apparently.
Lyons just said it was probably the most anticipated regular-season matchup in Dodgers history.
Eh....
I saw those rally towels on the pre-game opening. Good god. How lame.
I WANT ONE OF THEM.
i have seen like four or five yankees flags on cars today.
I need to carry around post its so i can write them "then get the hell out of LA" notes.
The Dodgers will win the series based off the fact that Joe Girardi has adult braces.
The adult braces factor cannot be underscored enough.
Permission to kill the assholes in Lakers jerseys and Yankees hat.
Joe torre talking about when he was a kid living in New York
"The dodgers were always like the poor kids on the block and the Yankees were always the elite"
My how the tables have turned, oh wait...
Just showed the Campy/Dodgers v Yanks exhibition game at the Coliseum footgage. Always makes me almost numb.
haha, i love all these yankees fans on TV popping their jerseys on the pregame right now.
Just wait till the house fills up and the dodger fans get a few pops in them. Win or lose fans at the ravine know how to give shit.
I don't condone violence, but if there are some asshole Yankees fans trying to stir shit up, the boys in blue in the stands will know how to do their job on them.
A guy with a Ruth jersey was just told he is too good of shape to be the babe and he is like 300 bills. Good times ahead.
i think i need to go to the hospital, hyperbole overdose.
Paul, if you get into any trouble let us know...we know some pipe-hittin' boys. Alternately, Neeebs and RB can present as legal counsel if need be.
I think I need to go to the hospital. Bad pinstripe shirt and tie combination from Lyons. At least wear some fuckin Blue tonight, Lyons! Jeez. Represent!
Flea wearing the Jackie Robinson jersey. STRONG. LA!
I have a feeling I'm going to talk a lot of smack tonight. Pleaes don't judge me for it.
Oh goody, Rosenfail.
Rosenthal on the TV, maybe he will propose the dodgers trade kemp to the yanks midgame.
Doesnt Rosenthal have to get back to the Keebler tree and make some cookies?
Thank god my nephews are talking louder than the TV.
Rosenthal! Bake me some shortbread, bitch!
I don't know haw Manny's past performance against the Yankees is supposed to be relevant.
Two of Padilla's favorite plunking targets in the lineup tonight.
That wasn't meant as a knock on Manny, btw.
Of course not, Josh. I follow ya.
i love tommy.
tommy gave Pau a pep talk?
HA!
It's is on. My legal dream is set.
SD about to win.
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Nothing in the above paragraph should be construed as legal advice, but used by the reader for sheer entertainment value only. Satire, sarcasm, and general "snarkiness" is assumed by the reader.
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They have rivalry renewed merch? Should have known
Hi Ladies and Gents,
and oh yeah SCREW YOU BILLY CRYSTAL
^by alcohol.
My alcohol is assumed at this point as I have a softball game in an hour.
Just had my first Dodger Dog of the season. Photo evidence on my blog.
Good lord, I missed this place.
Yeah, BILLY CRYSTAL CAN CARRY MY JOCK.
If I just had a jock for him to carry. Wait, he's the size of a jockey. That's what I meant to say.
Brooklyn up in dis bish!
http://twitpic.com/1zz26l
I want to see Billy Crystal and Ken Rosenthal fight to the death in a pink steel cage with only old lady purses as weapons. Loser dies, winner gets my boot to his face for being a miniature douche.
Edwin Jackson just threw a no hitter.
but 8 walks, thats kinda tainted in my book.
149 pitches!!!
Gasol throws like a...Spaniard.
I love how many comments we have before the game even starts.
Maybe I've been gone too long, but what the hell is up with playing "I Love LA" before the game? I'm all flustered.
Brilliant opening to the game tonight, narrated by Vinny. As usual, I'm crying like a schoolgirl.
THINK BLUE
THAT was all the hype they needed.
Bless you, Vin.
@erin, new this season. No complaints from me because that song instantly makes me happy.
not enough jeter on that ball up the middle.
If Vin wants to call him Gunderson then so be it.
Me too, Nic. I sang along. I was just confused.
I love the massive applause just for a groundball out from Jeter.
Someone in my section tried for a "Let's Go Yankees" chant. I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I really hate the Yankees.
@ Erin
Since the beginning of the season, before the game they have played this amazing video at the stadium to the tune of I Love LA. It's a great video and as Nic just said, of course it gets our LA blood pumping...but playing it BEFORE the game is in fact weird. Jury's still out...
Prime busting out new camera angles for the occasion.
the left field pavilion will drown out all pro yankee chants.
LFP! LFP! LFP!
Anyone else think that Tex looks like Rachel Maddow?
1-2-3 for VPad
WooHoo!!
hanging out in the shuttle feastful we aren't sitting in the car...so close we can taste the goodness of a dodger dog...but not close enough.
Is that 4 no hitters and 3 perfect games this season?*
Ridiculous.
Betsy! Represent!
Should we call him "vPad" since it's the internet/Apple age?
Can hear "Yankees suck!" chants already.
They do!
Year of the Pitcher (of margaritas)!
@dusty, if you hear a knock at its a man in a turtleneck and mom jeans dont answer it.
Steve is gonna git ya!
Josh said "Year of the Pitcher (of margaritas)!"
That's every year.
wow that was a crappy throw to second.
That was one strange story from VIn re CC's imaginary friend.
Wow was that a crappy at bat by Karina's son.
If Dodgers don't do well this season, it will be the Year of the Bitcher from me.
HA! vin just used the phrase "Owns him"
I hate wahhnkee fans almost as much as angel fans. one last decked out in jeter gear, shes confused as to why we are cheering on the bus.
We love you Manny, we do!
We love you Manny, we do!
We love you Manny, we do!
We love you Manny, we do! Oh Manny we love you!
damn the ravine looks pretty full already.
Manny!
I timed my return nicely!
kemp, i just dont have words anymore.
Epale everyone!
Erin, you're the best, enjoy your very first game!
It's as though Kemp held a bat for the first time. He's just totally lost the plot.
I can't hate the Yankees. I strongly dislike them, hate is a very intense word.
There are decent Yankees fans and my dad is one of them.
Sometimes I think Ethier may be slower than Manny.
Don't be saying nice things about Yankees, Karina!
Feel the hate, feel the hate.
Heard on TV: this a great match, the team from the capital of the world and the team from the second most important city in the US.
cute, right?
Cute if LA is the former and NY the latter.
For the record, we were winning this game at the end of the first inning.
That's right, we were beating the Yankees.
For a split-second there.
The Dodgers have to beat the Yankees to stay three back of the Padres.
Tell me, Baseball Gods, how that sentence makes ANY sense to you.
Dusty, you have to hear my dad talking about the (his) Yankees, the tone of his voice, the look of his eyes.
From a few years now, he's more of a Yankees fan than a baseball fan.
I hate the fact the Yankees have won 11 of their 27 rings against the Dodgers, but I can't hate them.
Admiral Ackbar with all the hustle of a MSB!
VPad works the walk, go Blue!
Oh, make him pay, Raffy!
I like how vPad had a better, more intelligent AB than Kemp.
By like I mean hate.
Some day we'll get you to hate something, Karina. Some day. ;-)
Lakers did the code of conduct. Sweeeeeet.
Last time I was there, DFish did the "This is MY town" DodgerVision thing. I wept.
My room, 5:30 am. My dad opens the door so Coper sleeps a little bit with me.
I woke up, after the "bendición", I tell him that tonight starts the series. He says he was waiting how much time I'd take to mention it.
Then he asks, Sabathia right? yes dad, who starts for the Dodgers? Vicente Padilla, who's Vicente Padilla? (I smile because I don't know if he was joking or not and I wasn't biting that bait).
Then he says sorry but the Dodgers will be swept and I was like no, they won't. Bonding time between father and daughter.
He says who's good in the Dodgers and I give him some scoop. His answer? the Yankees can't lose, they have Derek Jeter.
I told him if he wanted to work at ESPN. He looked confused and applied my same strategy. I won!
My dad is sleeping. PT is too late when he's not drinking.
Hilarious, Karina!
"He says who's good in the Dodgers and I give him some scoop. His answer? the Yankees can't lose, they have Derek Jeter"
This is exactly the typical Yankees fan (no cut to your dad!). "Who else other than the Yankees play professional baseball? Are they any good?"
I'd love to get hammered with your dad, Karina.
Isn't this K proof that absolute beauty exists?
What is A Rod whining about? Lil bish.
Dusty, if you need company for drinking and/or playing Poker, my dad is the man.
He's also the happiest when he's in charge of a barbecue. He's very cool
I bet Erin enjoyed greatly that K.
Way to be, Russ! Now let's make it pay off.
Cano takes one in the ass for the team
You and your father are welcome at my pad any time, Karina. Pasadena, CA only a few minutes from Chavez Ravine. And we have plenty of BBQ/grill space. I'll bet your dad has some great dead cow and pig stylings!
sooner or later one of the yankees are going to plant that balloon padilla throws in the seats.
there's more where that came from, cano!
@Nic
I just made everyone on my patio put on helmets for when someone connects with vPad's eephus pitch. That thing would land right on top of us, I figure.
@dusty, i hope he doesnt spill your beer.
@Nic
You know me better than that, man. This XX is NOT going to be spilled.
I'm diggin' the hell out of this game. Don't ruin my buzz, Dodgers.
We're still not losing! Woo hoo!
i miss the days when kemp wasn't disappointing.
Who thought that, of the three matchups, this one would be the pitchers' duel?
If CC is 290 lbs, I'm 155.
Haha, padilla held onto his bat for quite a while down that baseline.
ohhhhhh now he is throwing to first.
its times like these i miss jeff kent.
KAFUCKA!
god damn we can just not get anything going tonight.
Hit him, vPad!
CC, dont mess with a man who shoots himself in the leg.
I think I can faintly hear the A Rod boos from my patio.
it was nice while it lasted.
vPad responds by throwing at someone in the pavilion.
nice play by kemp, now if only he could hit.
Matty makes a good play!!
Can't wait to see Tron face this lineup in the 7th.
*shudders*
Our batters need to stop swinging for the fences at every pitch. Just put the ball in play, lads!
Yep, E was either hitting the ball to my house or striking out on that one.
Tranqilo, fellas!
Good holy christ, Matt.
setting up CC to hand the game off to mariano pretty much.
Gnats 4 - ReSox 3 in the 6th
Kemp may need to be sent down. Wow. Putrid.
Jackie stealing home eases the pain.
Stick him in the robs, vPad!
Remind me which part of our lineup is not supposed to suck?
once interleague is over the bats will come back. We always slump in june.
i tend to slump in june, too. i'm totally in rhythm with the team, annually.
Pedroia couldn't have saved one of those HRs for the Giants?
Kemp is looking a lot better tracking down balls tonight.
thats something at least.
I would rather listen to a Nancy Bea solo version of G.B.A. Especially if she's on crack.
Dr. Cameron is a Yankee fan!
("Stick him in the robs" is my new favorite phrase.)
I don't give a fuck if you have his family's permission anyoe who still wears 42 is a fuckin idiot.
seeing how we started in the first inning this game has been quite the tease.
Who's Dr. Cameron?
Fuck me in the robs!
when i glance at your avatar MLASF i keep thinking its the Angels logo.
So I hear Edwin Jackson threw a no-hitter. That's great. I still love that guy. He deserves that, for all the shit he went through here in LA and in Tampa Bay, and to throw it against the Rays no less.
belliard pinch hitting?
was GAARP asleep in the clubhouse?
Credit to the hypnotoad, he put together a nice game. Hopefully the bats will bail him out.
Avatar updated. A little less retro, but still.
GAARP is dozing on my futon. Give me a heads up if he's going to be needed to pinch hit and I'll rouse him.
SSSSShhhhhhhhh....
BELLI SUCKS! BELLI SUCKS!
Why can't they hit this mutt
Jennifer Morrison, Dr. Cameron on House, was spotted in the crowd during GBA wearing a Yankees hoodie.
So does the Yankee bullpen suck. Oh wait, I forgot, it's the bullpen created by the heavens with the blessing of Jeter. It's bulletproof.
Oh, that Cameron. I thought it was something else.
But no Chase?
so this is what a team with money looks like.
this is what it sounds like when doves cry.
Otro pinche Belli! mmmnooo
@Nic - I'm looking at a draft summary from today, and I notice the Kings traded their pick to Florida. Who'd we get in exchange?
Livin on a prayer brothers and sisters.
Why couldn't we play with the DH?
manny, manny, manny.
Oh no Manny! Noooooooo!
Kings traded their #19 and #50 something pick to move up and take Derek Forbort a defenseman
Awesome! Could not have played it better myself Manolo.
Yankees fans just climaxed.
Interesting. I was hearing they might flip the pick for Kovalchuk and get immediate help for next season.
Yankees fans just climaxed.
Yankees fans just climaxed.
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