Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
Hiroki Kuroda (8-8, 3.48) vs. Clayton Richard (7-5, 3.57).
 |  |
COMMENTS: If you combined Clayton Kershaw and J.R. Richard, would you get Clayton Richard? I hope not, because that would be one bad mofo of a pitcher. Anyhoo, of the Dodgers' remaining 62 games, 12 are against the Padres. That's almost a 20 percent chance of Friarly activity during any given Dodgers game. But we're 5-1 against the Pads so far this season, so let the streak continue!
photo by Darryl Norenberg/WireImage.com
4/3 vs. SF (W, 5-4): Sax
4/15 vs. WSH (L, 4-6): Dusty, Orel, Sax
5/6 vs. MIA (W, 6-3): AC, Sax
5/16 vs. CIN (L, 2-7): AC, Sax
6/12 vs. TEX (L, 2-3): Sax
7/5 vs. MIL (W, 8-5): Sax
7/21 vs. BOS (W, 9-6): Sax
7/24 vs. SF (L, 3-8): Sax
8/24 vs. TB (L, 8-9 (10)): Sax
8/29 vs. BAL (W, 6-3): Orel, Sax
9/9 vs. CHC (L, 4-10): Sax
10/5 NLDS G1 vs. SD (W, 7-5): Sax
10/6 NLDS G2 vs. SD (L, 2-10): Orel, Sax
10/25 WS G1 vs. NYY (W, 6-3 (10)): Sax
178 comments:
I still prefer the Yellow-and-Brown edition Pods. Those had *class*.
...To the old 'Stros, that is.
It's cliched now but I like that retro Astros jersey. If I was a 'stros fan I'd wear that one to games.
And whenever I was near rainbows.
@Sax - Then you'd be a double rainbow. Whoa! Double rainbow!
If you were a 'Stros fan, you'd also prefer the team from that era.
On another note:
Here we go!
Is someone monitoring GLB for their imminent meltdown when Dick Enberg says something positive about a Dodger?
@rbnlaw
Yeah, watching the Dodgers play the Nolan Ryan era Astros was like getting beaten to death with a traffic cone.
What is GLB? I asked yesterday but I don't know if I checked back for an answer.
I liked it better when the giants were unable to score runs.
Gaslampball.com
Padres blog
@MR. F
GLB is Gas Lamp Ball. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy...except for at McCovey Chronicles.
Jonah Keri heartlessly reminds us that Denis Martinez' perfect game was 19 years ago today via Twitter.
(jinxed)
Mr F, I did reply to to you on GLB yesterday, albeit late
giants rolling over dead fish, 7-2
Going off the grid again shortly...bring us a win, boys!
Hell the JR Richard Astros were death to the Dodgers. Watching those games from the Astrodome was painful.
Imagine, the NL West had the Dodgers, Braves, Astros, Reds, and Giants. So many teams to hate.
No wonder the Pods were a consistent doormat. At one point Tommy made his famous, "They're only renting the space at the top" statement about the Pods when they found themselves in 1st. Of course, I think that was 1984 and a guy named Garvey was their 1st baseman.
RT @jaysonst: #Royals have agreed to trade Scott Podsednik to the #Dodgers for 2 minor leaguers. More to come on ESPN.com #trades
does that mean GA will be hitting the bricks shortly?
Torre said he expects XP to stay with the big league club for the remainder of the year and Reed should be back soon.
unless we are trading manny to the Hiroshima Carp for Stults.
It either means a DFA for GAARP or a demotion for XP.
Smart money says demotion, but my heart wants that DFA.
i think even Torre is starting to admit GA is done, he is using him less and less unless he absolutely has to.
The WAG section at the Ravine just got an upgrade.
Lucas May and Elisaul Pimintel.
Why sacrifice catching depth?
Trading a catcher for an aging bat.
Where have I heard this before?
Say goodbye to Lucas May and Pimentel
Thanks everybody.
Our catching depth is pretty much at the kiddie pool level as it is. Oh well.
I guess we are all stuck with martin.
well i guess i have to go read trueblueLA and watch the pandemonium ensue.
I don't think the club cared all that much for May.
Lucas May has never really got the whole catching thing down anyways. Probably has a future as a DH.
Sooner or later we are going to have to stop trading away/converting our catchers.
Lucas Meh?
Sometimes, you gotta spend prospects. Podsednik isn't really my idea of an impact move.
MSTI already complaining.
Unless he collides with GA on his way out the door, that is.
it's OK, we'll just sign Jason Varitek in the offseason
Most people are pissed at Pimentel.
MSTI would be pissed at anything. He's one of those guys who thinks anybody in the system can eventually become Albert Pujols or Cliff Lee.
@NicJ
Already?
Isn't Pimentel in like A ball or something?
Beastmode 2.0?
Podsednik's Palace will be replacing Mannywood.
Man you guys are in rare form already tonight. This should be a good one.
For the record, J.R. Richard scared the hell out of me when I was but a wee lad. Dude was a wicked pitcher.
Not that he pitched TO me; he was just really god damned formidable. And I think he was all speeded out, too, which was even scarier.
Chad Moriyama also hates the deal. Him and MSTI both hate it? What's next, Amar'e Stoudemire announces that he's Jewish?
Scotty Pods trading in the KC Royal blue for the slightly different (But obviously way more awesome in every way possible) LA Dodger blue.
Rafael Furcal, SS
Jamey Carroll, LF
Andre Ethier, RF
Matt Kemp, CF
Casey Blake, 3B
James Loney, 1B
Russell Martin, C
Blake DeWitt, 2B
Hiroki Kuroda, P
Blake DeWitt mojo is gone.
I came into baseball right when JR was leaving it. The only thing I knew about him was when announcers would reminisce about him during the Nolan Ryan/Mike Scott days. It seemed like he was from back in the 60s or something. I pictured him as some huge, flamethrowing good'ol boy from Texas. I didn't realize he was black until I read the Josh Wilker Cardboard Gods book
Dylan H said the dodgers received no cash in the trade. See we aint poor.
McCourt is making it rain bitches!!!
this probably means that Pods will be starting LF next year.
Pods will just be what Juan Pierre was always meant to be, only cheaper and better at getting on base. He can back up Furcal, get steals, etc. It could even work out in the long term, so I like it.
Plus, I remember when he played for Colorado and he'd always be getting on base and stealing in the first inning and it would piss me off. I'd like to see him do that for us.
Also, he doesn't go to SF. Huge plus. Welcome to L frikkin' A, Pods!
Shit is definitely on.
On the sofa, Vinny!
I might do some Tweeter baiting tonight...get bellyaching Dodgers bloggers/Twitterers even more fired up about the Pods/May/Pimentel trade. Tee hee...they're so easy to wind up.
i <3 Jamey Carroll!
But i hate double plays :(
@Dusty - Just say Casey Blake was worth acquiring. That's like lying down naked in front of a pack of wolves.
Exactly MLASF.
One time - and I SWEAR this is true - they were bellyaching about Casey Blake and his fielding at the EXACT moment he made a crack play at 3B to save two runs recently. The juxtaposition of their whining and the play on the field was quite enjoyable.
Rox lost again tonight.
Gnats found a way to win.
DPs. Why did it have to be DPs?
Weird that the tape looped. What actually happened in the second?
Offense?
Hiro better be careful here, our offense is limited to a maximum of two runs.
That's good!
Just need to retire Hairston the Non-Junior.
Coincidentally my sister works at a barber shop right across from petco park and she cut chase headly's hair today.
She declined my offer of $100 to shave an LA symbol in his head.
haha, dodgers really breaking out the beanballs lately.
just wait until padilla pitches tomorrow.
WTH is up with the sound?
Today's prime ticket broadcast appears to be running off the power of the dodgers bats.
wow, its amazing how fast the rox fell out of the race.
Nice pitch!
@NicJ
I offered your sister $500 to stab him in the neck.
you look at the middle to back half of this padres lineup and it amazing how they win any games at all.
What a truly awesome pitching staff they have.
haha, very nice DB.
i guess she was invited to sit in the owners box. Im trying to get her to wear some LA gear. Or a baltimore hat, haha.
Old timey radio night on PT.
bullshit. How come we get the warnings before we get even and the other team is always allowed to get their revenge.
Richard has been terrible in July with and ERA over 7.00.
Funny, i cant even tell.
smallballfail
wooo hoo!
AAAAHHHHHH YEAH!
WHERE'S YOUR MSB NOW SAN DIEGO!
OFFENSE!
Carroll and his intangibles just fucked shit up.
dre and his god damn infield popflys.
Geez, What are you swinging at Beard?
BOOOOOOOOO!
Nice inning for Kuroda.
According to Jayson Stark, the Dodgers are now focusing on Ted Lilly or Paul Maholm. If those are the two options, I will punch dozens of walls if it's not Lilly.
I still wish we could get a dude who can kill the ball (consistently). Maybe by August 31st.
I love that Vin says "curly fries" like he has no idea what they are.
Maholm blows.
im still waiting to get on a hot streak.
maybe manny has just been saving all his energy for the last two months.
@ Nicj
I tell myself that everyday when
I say "Fucking Manny".
Richard's best outing in over a month.
We have been seeing a lot of these games lately.
Fuck Man! this is depressing as hell.
Pitchers are throwing their hearts out and we can't score more runs.
Good try Rafa
you know there are only 3 other teams with a worse BA than us since the allstar break?
Colorado is one of them.
we have also scored the fewest runs since the ASB.
Did the strike zone suddenly shrink to the size of an apple or something?
He's gonna walk him
Hold the line Kuroda
This doesn't bode well.
Damn
Now Breezy is warming up
Well we're screwed.
Damnation.
It sucks that if we give up more than one run it's like an automatic loss these days
why did kemp even take his bat up there?
currently the weakest offense in baseball against the best pen in baseball.
yay!!
tomorrow is going to be a tough game going up against Latos.
Is it possible to have negative runs?
flying farts...SIGH, damnation
Weak ass shit
I don't know what it is about Latos. Even his name pisses me off.
Kemp is one of three Dodgers with a hit today.
Paul Maholm sounds like a guy who charges me to do my taxes. I don't want this little fucker and I don't want to give anything up for him. I'd rather just have a shitty 5th starter and then get to bitch about it instead of getting him then inevitably having to bitch about it.
Don't take up for Kemp when I'm pissed off at him.
OOOHHH NNOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I'll make it up to you DB. You can engage MOKM in an argument with me.
Heh. Funny MLASF. I'd rather dry hump Paul Maholm than argue with those stat-lickers.
Has George Sherrill figured it out or anything yet?
Hate to say it but them was some nice curves to Gwynn
Mr C. with an anti-Latos bias.
Oh wait.
Say, those two Pod runs were impressive, weren't they? How the fuck is this team in first by this many games?
BTW, vodka mixes well with Diet Mt. Dew. Have I mentioned this before?
Sherrill's starting to turn around at least.
Well fuck me.
Now we're officially screwed.
Armpit alert!
Damn. It. All.
Jack Bauer up in the bully; Pods up with the runs.
Speaking of which, I see Dre feels better.
Throw the ball down the middle of the plate. Now why did I not think of that.
Thanx Weaver. Asshole
Trashner warming up. Weaver ineffective. Sherrill is Sherrill. Kuo unavailable. Can't hit for shit.
Looking for a wall to punch.
Where's that Vaseline? The pits re chaffed.
Sherrill was actually pretty good, considering one of his two outs was a sacrifice bunt.
Fuck that was a meatball.
Now it's probably over.
Just looking at Torre gets me pissed off
Just looking at the bullpen gets me pissed off.
I can't believe I'm saying this but Torre should have left Sherrill in.
We said earlier the shit was on. Boy were we right. Shit's on the mound. And in the batter's box.
I'll agree about Sherrill. Martin told him to hide the ball more, and he's seems to be back to almost normal. It's too soon to tell, but he might be back.
God knows they need him.
Shit's All Over The Place
I'm ready for the Taschner experiment to end.
@Mr C
Can you share a new profanity with us for this occasion?
Why not pitch jansen against Gonzo and see what the kid can do in this situation
So we forgt how to throw strikes? Greeaat.
WTF!
What is the purpose of Taschner, anyway? Other that fucking up, I mean.
Has Trashner thrown a strike yet?
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
The Fucking Pod Rays
The Fucking Pod Rays, who.
Exactly. Now quit pitching like some gutless wonder.
Wow. This Trashner can't get an out thing would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing.
Wait, he just did. I jinxed his run of balls!
I have a bad feeling about this.
Almost put my fist through the T.V.
Still might
This is not going well. Not at all.
But the vodka is going well.
@dusty
We're ɸucked.
Goddammit, what the hell happened?
I want to bail but I hate not finishing things no matter how painful.
Call me a masochist
Pods would've had that.
Our relief pitching happened,Saxy
And our offense is what did not happen
@sax
Basically, everyone who can proficiently get outs pitched yesterday.
We can't bail, Spanky. We have to endure. What else we gone do, mope around the house?
Sherrill has been the best pitcher out of the pen tonight.
These are some goooood drugs.
Curl up in bed and shudder all night
OK, I'm done now.
ɸuck this with a rusty trowel.
I want to kill Kill KILL now!
It's cliché, but tomorrow's a must-win.
Vin called the Podsednik deal a good one. That is the final word bloggers and blogettes.
Vin has spoken. Thus it is.
The offense blows.
Was a good game till the "relief" came in.
But I don't know Peeps? The offense is atrocious and one person is not gonna make a difference if nobody else is hitting.
Kemp and Ethier are selfishly swinging for the fences. Everyone needs to calm down, play small ball to get the groove back, and manufacture those runs. That's a way to get out of the funk. That, or PEDs.
Colletti interview (taped) seemed like his gramma just died. Sounded and looked just whupped.
We need 1 more solid bullpen guy. Then it can be Kuo/Broxton and New Guy*/Jansen every other day. We can't get by with Awesome and Pile of Shit every other day.
*I'd accept "New Guy" being Belisario if he has his head on right.
Back to hearing about how A-Rod is still on 599 HRs. I've been rooting for a bad slump so he has a tough time, but now maybe I want him to do it so ECMB writers will shut the f up.
I'd be much happier if I could just accept that they're a mediocre team once-and-for-all ins tread of riding the terrible to great to terrible roller coaster.
Where are the bats?!?!
Chuy hates the Yankees, too.
That was "instead", for the record.
@MLASF
My Twitters is screwed up. Somehow not subscribed to your feed so I missed the stat-licker idiocy. Looks like good clean fun.
That guy gets loony when someone like MLASF challenges his viewpoints.
That guy has never in his life been wrong. That's why he's some schlub in a basement and not a GM. His schtick is old.
Post a Comment