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.
Chad Billingsley (9-5, 3.78) vs. Kevin Correia (7-7, 5.06).
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COMMENTS: What have we here? The Dodgers in position for a series win against the (barely) first-place Padres? Bills has a tough act to follow — Vicente's Padilla's two-hit CG shutout of the Padres. But heck, if the Dodgers score another nine runs, Bills may not even have to no-hit the Padres for 6 2/3 innings. Let's find out if the bats are back.
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
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Theriot
Ethier
Loney
Kemp
Blake
Carroll
Ellis
Billingsley
Annnd...I completely forgot we had a thread for this.
Let's do this.
Lemme guess, Theriot is at second again?
Theriot is a better shortstop than Carroll and Carroll is better 2B-man than Theriot, yet Torre keeps on trotting them out at each others positions.
There's always next year. (the more I give up, the more they win)
J-Mac update:
through 6 innings, 8 K's, 4 hits, 1 walk on 89 pitches.
But the veteran presence of Dotel was totally worth it.
No doubt!
I don't think McDonald will go the way of LaRoche, Young, or Abreu.
Epale everyone!
of course the bats will show up, even Ellis', Pods' and Riot's.
Wearing my Russell Martin/Karina's son t-shirt now out of respect for the service JMart gave us over the years. It wasn't as much as we wanted or as long as we had hoped, but it's not nothing.
Evening, everybody!
What a pleasant evening it is, good sir!
Indeed, it is, but not half as good as you all deserve! I'm having buyer's remorse on the "good employee vs. night at The Ravine" decision
@Dusty I'm gonna miss my son.Remember when Will Ferrel gave him the moniker "Speed Limit" because of his number. Good times.
Are you both at the Ravine?
I ended up not going, Mr. C. No takers and I was whupped from a long day of meetings.
Hence:
On the sofa, Vinny!
@dusty
Me too, on both counts. The point where I was pondering the guy with the man-dals was barely halftime.
The meetings werre the kind I had to be "on" and filtered, so that takes a lot out of a brother.
@karina
I really should have gone, but I didn't. I think I'll go to one of the two (or both) weekend games.
That's a tall order, Dusty.
After the second hour, I really start fixating on whqf would be the most disruptive and inappropriate thing that I could say or do.
^what
The problem is that I start fixating on that as soon as I get to the meeting.
And these happened to be with White House officials, so I had to be on extra good behavior.
@Mr C
The Baker clan will be at Saturday's game.
I want to do Sunday, too...but we also have RENT tickets for the Hollywood Bowl later that SUnday night.
If Theriot singled, can we say his bat showed up?
Hey Peeps!
What's the Haps?
Almost
an early lead of some sort would be nice.
Quit catching the balls the hit deep into the outfield! That's not fair.
Lots of good contact, not so great results.
I hate you Ludwick.
Beards fly ball was carrying out
i hate it when a great defensive stop doesnt actually get an out, ruins it.
Looked Good,Admiral
the fact that we need this game badly, bills has been aswesome lately, and Correia sucks really worries me. It always feels like the dodgers are setting me up.
Carroll just a bit off this inning.
By 2013 the POD RAYS will field a team of only Hairston's
I'm still baffled by how the Padres traded Scotty Hairston to Oakland mid-season, then traded for him back.
Siddown!
Sick, Chad. Sick.
And Shuddup
siéntate hairston!
Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen
Shall we shoot for three
Fuck.
I need a new jersey. Any suggestions?
@Paul - Buy a classic jersey. Like Ronbinson or Koufax or Fernando. Don't risk something on any of the younguns.
@Paul
Jeff Reboulet.
Steve Howe?
@ Paul
That works for me
Darren Dreifort
Or an Xavier Paul jersey.
damn, the DP turn beats the shift.
Mike Marshall the right fielder
Pedro Martinez?
Shannon Brown signed with the Lakers
I don't know that I could stomach wearing anything on the Dreifort / Carlos Perez / Jason Schmidt level of payroll death, even for irony. I consider Greg Brock to be the dividing line in what is acceptable.
Karina with the left hook to the chin
god damn it i saw this coming.
We need some of last nights offense.
Dem Bums are back
Piss.
well they just matched our normal run output.
I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU LUDWICK. WITH MY OWN BARE HANDS.
Come on, thighmaster, get it together.
why did everyone have to make such a big deal about the scoreless streak?
I can't wait for Bill Plaschke's article tomorrow about how Bills lacks balls.
So, uh, yeah.
Shit.
I ain't gonna worry about two runs, but any more, I'll be sweating it.
Settle yourself down bills
@ MLASF
You know he is writing it as we speak
The Brad Penny jersey has to be pretty shitty. Therre are others who were worse/bigger busts, but he's such an a-hole and badmouthed us and played for the enemy.
Actually I think Brad Penny does have a big bust.
OH FOR THE LOVE OF JACKIE JUST GET SOME FUCKER OUT
It figures that Chad doesn't do anything half-assed.
@Paul
Trenton is a fine choice. As is Princeton. Perhaps Hackensack?
You did say New Jersey, right?
that might do it.
I can imagine the one-line paragraphs now:
"The Dodgers needed a win
All Billingsley could muster was more disappointment...."
Mother Q. Fucker.
Man up now, Dodger bats...man up.
@NicJ let's blame Steiner and Giants fans.
More unacceptable jersey purchase; Bobby Bonilla or Odalis Perez?
i will wait to see if we answer back with any runs in this inning before giving up hope.
Hackensack Bull Monte Brewster jersey
What about a game-worn, but unwashed, Padilla jersey?
No love for Newark?
@Mr C how about a Juan Marichal shirt?
How about Delwyn Young? Andy LaRoche? Tony Abreu?
alright, alright i give in. Im officially in the "Shut the fuck up and stop whining Moriyama and MSTI" club.
@Josh ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
@Nic - I can only imagine what MOKM is saying now
because I stopped following him.
GOOD LORD RYAN THERIOT HAS OUR ONLY TWO HITS
Vin really likes repeating that Theriot "goes the other way."
Hmmmmmm...
le Francia gets a hit
im starting to wonder if they actually like the dodgers or if they just like to complain about them.
and this is coming from a guy who likes to complain about the dodgers.
Yeah, I need to pull the trigger on cutting MOKM. MSTI is at least witty from time to time.
Oh, Marischal is a good one. I stand that he historically looked the most out-of-place as a Dodger. Niedenfeuer would also be a poor choice.
I think I would accept Bevacqua, though.
The line that broke the camel's back was "Kuo didn't strike out a batter. Dude sucks."
I just thought, why? Why? Why do you really need to say that?
@Mr LASF why? it was top entertaintment (at least for me) when you owned him.
Moriyama has the old internet disease "Everybodyiswrongitis".
SHITTY HAIRCUT ALERT: Emma Watson. Good lord, Hermione, what did you do to yourself?
[Cue all the females to chime in and say how cute it is]
I always find it hard to believe that Kuo warming up can ruin a whole game for someone.
I don't follow Moriyama because it was enough when you replied to him.
It's either him bitching about Colletti, remarking that sub-par players will eventually become Dodgers, or sarcastically pointing out how everyone is wrong about Bills' lack of heart, Kemp's lack of focus, etc.
Those guys use Twitter as a GT, essentially. Not good use of tech.
It works on her, DB.
Oh, and Carlos Santana.
WE FUCKING GET IT, SANTANA'S A BEAST, FUCKING SHUT UP ABOUT IT
@Dusty Baker that girl is so pretty she can get away wuth whatever she likes.
Meanwhile, at MOKM headquarters...
That's the capper: whining that Broxton may be having a side session in the pen during a blowout game. That's not a catastrophe, but he thinks it is.
If dude was so baseball brilliant, wouldn't he be a GM and not Tweeting from his parents' basement?
Shite. Almost got that, James.
That was a homerun in the first inning
Don't you take their side on that pixie haircut, Josh. Get my back!
way to not make him pay.
Cue it up, Spanky.
No dice. Let's have Good Chad back this inning.
@Mr C ;)
My favorite MOKM quote (from the exchange MLASF and I had with him over his Loney comments):
"I establish reality."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
we need to get our runs in now. The bullpen isnt going to give up any.
What those MSTOKM guys need to do is switch to decaf and get laid.
The pixie cut is hot in general. I cannot lie.
See also: the girl in the iPhone 4 commercial.
They can handle the decaf part, but not sure about the rest.
dammit
we needed at least a run that inning
@josh, dont laugh, you promised you wouldnt laugh.
@Dusty Baker I think you don't like short hair on women.Thing is your tolerance to those haircuts is lower than most men.
Besides, she had his hair sort of shoulder-length for his role of Hermione, so it's pretty natural she changed his hair when she was done filming.
we need to win this game, a series split is a win for the padres.
I don't mind short haircuts as long as they work. Her's doesn't really work.
when the fuck did this become the "Sons of Vidal Sassoon" blog?
Quick survey: how about Winona Ryder hair in the late nineties?
As always, we're going to have to agree to disagree re that hideous 6-year-old pixie haircut Watson got that made her go from hot to stand-in at an Auschwitz documentary film shoot.
Yesterday we were talking about mimosa's. How can any tangent catch you off guard?
I'm gonna check this haircut shit you alls talking bout. Be back with a style blog
Sorry, Nic.
Feel that my voice isn't being heard in the great pixie cut debate. Sorry, gotta side with Josh on this one DB.
Then again, we've previously established that I am a wino and a deviant. Grain of salt and all.
A Spanky Style blog would actually probably be pretty funny.
Well i expect alcohol talk from you drunkards. The haircut talk threw me off.
Switching gears here, then. Beer status: Sam Adams Pale Ale.
I'm going back to baseball.
YOU SUCK, BEARD
Had to search her haircut and she looks incredibly gorgeous.
I like it a lot (I had a similar cut a few years ago, when I stopped being a redhead)
She got a cranberrie do like that zombie chic
@Karina
'90s Winona is acceptable, though her permanent rock-star-accessory status was somewhat annoying.
i guess the offense didn't wake up.
Capri pants? Si o No?
Can't believe you'd leave me high and dry, Mr C. Go on with your predict-a-chick from Minority Report lookin' girlfriend, then.
Shite, we're making Correia look competent.
I think the last two wins have me extra pissed at this effort.
I love it when Vin chastises himself out loud and calls himself Scully.
Jerry Dogget name drop. Fuck Yeah Vinny
I was ashamed to do so, Dusty. Predict-a-chick is pretty funny stuff, tho.
Torrealba is a sonovabitch. He's like a B-list Carlos Ruiz in sonovabitchery
@fb
In the comfort of your own home, whatever floats your boat.
@Fred's Brim that question doesn't have a yes or no answer. It's an essay.
I won't say more because the rest can get Moriyama on me.
oh hell, dont remind me of that bastard ruiz.
That reminds me: we still haven't seen the Phillies once this year. Fuckitall.
What are the odds we used up all our runs for the rest of week last night
"sonovabitchery"
Oh, yeah!
Yeah, I'm thinking the Theriot RBI double and Dre homer would be better suited for this game.
@Spank they are saving the offense for the Pods bullpen.
@MR C: my capris are for around town, culottes are for around the house
@ FB
You go girl with your bad self
Chad is battling tonight. For some reason I am not mad about how he's pitching. He's too wild for my usual tastes, but he's getting around it
*snaps*
was that KJ-74 warming up?
this feels like a shutout.
Having never met FB, I can only picture him wearing capris, and with El Toro's face, slapping is own ass ans snapping. CANNOT get this picture out of my mind.
PODS GETS ON BASE WE CANNOT WASTE THIS
@Nic I am feeling the same way. Unless Mujica comes in again. And I agree with you about a split: that'd be a loss in my book too
Do your thing JFL.
a homerun would be nice right now.
Oh, its Loney. Nevermind.
crap, Correia out of the game.
You had your chance dodgers.
I will have a lot to live up to if I ever make it out there
Hooray, we've hit the Pods' pen!
Waitaminute...
we need to get something here
Tonight is the night I had to learn about culottes.
Crap.
thats the game.
Damn Dude
Fack.
IF my son is gone and Bison, Dre and King doesn't live up to the expections. what's the point?
I think I know hoe empty nest syndrome feels like
of course we lose on the worst day possible.
agent oranje time.
@karina - they are so light and airy, you feel like you've got a sea breeze blowing up your bloomers!
Hey, Kenley Jansen does exist. How about that.
Fred's Brim: were you the one who went to a Flaming Lips concert?how awesome was it?
Thanks for the suggestions all. Even the one that would give me ringworm.
Flaming menudo won't fit.
How about "R. Montalban"?
Zebu, Zeeeebu
IS JANSEN THE FUTURE OF THIS ORGANIZATION?
Jansen is the anti-tron. We never see him.
please take the mic off the Padres dugout
pads are getting 45 foot singles and the dodgers are making 395 foot outs.
For the record if a lady can pull off the short hair she is pretty hot.
@Karina
You might want to join a support group or perhaps hang out with late middle age women whose last child recently moved out so you can get together for lunch, drink chardonnay, and whine about your lives.
Oh, not you, too Paul!
@Dusty Baker not yet, I'm on denial
@fb/karina
I fancy myself as something of a sans-culottiste
vin agrees the season is done if we lose tonight.
@karina yes! I had seen them a few times before at festivals and the shows were always awesome, confetti, balloons, people in inflated costumes, but I was always at the back. This time I vowed to get up front and into the mix and I was really glad I did. Wayne Coyne got in his clear inflated ball and rolled into the crowd and right over me!
siéntate Gonzales!
You got hamsterball-rolled, FB?
Were you wearing capris? Please tell me you were.
@Paul which one would givr you ringworm?
I can't believe no one said Andruw Jones
@dusty
Eating/drinking/whining
Is that all that different that what we usually do here?
Will Jansen be in AAA or the big club to start next season?
@Karina
the used Padilla one.
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