Carlos Monasterios (3-4, 3.54) vs. Kyle Kendrick (8-7, 4.64).
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COMMENTS: CARLOS MONASTERIOS IS THE FUTURE OF THIS ORGANIZATION, Mr. LA Sports Fan likes to trumpet, but what is Monasterios' true future with the Dodgers? The club has juggled him between the bullpen and starting rotation all season — more out of necessity than indecision. Yet modern baseball thinking suggests that players, especially young pitchers, thrive in defined roles. Monasterios has done everything asked of him as a rookie; will the Dodgers give him some definition in 2011?
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 309 of 309Sax, you have to BELIEVE! you know you want them to win this game!
I'm having a flashback here...
@karen thank you very much :)
Ruiz. Drive the dagger deep and twist leaving me no doubt that i should change the channel.
Or strike out so i can laugh at you.
Wuh-oh.
OH: "I can't tell when he's intentionally walking someone."
@ Sax
Yes Mr C and I up in dis bish.
Brox, you can do this. Go Blue!
I hate Ruiz so much i dont even listen to Panama by Van Halen anymore.
Never seen a middle relief guy have his own intro song.
He he throw strikes bitch.
OMG WHO SAW THAT COMING OMG
CHOOOOOOOCH.
Of course, in play (runs)
He is a bitch!!!!
so fightins should be here any second, right?
I hate Carlos Ruiz
I hate Shane Victorino
I still believe in Jonathan Broxton.
Just not against the Phillies.
@NicJ no way, Ruiz is not going to spoil Ruben Blades for me.
booooooooooooo
why cant their team plane just go into a mountain?
Or the Yankees.
Get Home and get to watch Brox give up 2 runs. Nice fricken welcome home gift. Grrrrrrrr!!!!
So how many people are going to say Broxton still can't do it in big games? Or does this not count as a big game?
And sometimes the Padres. Oh and the Giants.
i said this last year, and I think it still is true: I hate the Phillies more than I hate the Giants. When the Phillies return to sucking in a couple of years I won't care about them, but for now, I hope Dusty and Mr C firebomb the Philly team bus on their way home
Other than handedness i can barely tell Broxton and Sherrill apart. It's like the last part of Animal Farm.
George Orwell doesn't agree, Dusty
Oh yeah Red Sox too.
But he is my man agaisnt the AL All-Star.
pigs are naturally lefties, it's the dominant gene for them
I'm so sick of Philadelphia. That team by far is more douchey than the Giants. The Giants haven't put up a semblance of a fight since 2004. They are an afterthought. The Phils, they keep punching us and kicking us in the balls every year now.
I am a lefty.
I like bacon.
Dusty and I have agreed that George Sherrill shall henchforth be Snowball.
As in "Snowball's chance in hell we win this game"
Four runs bad, two runs better.
Mr C I don't agree, why does he get to be Snowball :(?
We are gonna need a bigger boat.
@Dusty: did Mr C bring along his snub dodecahedron?
(this is not a sexual innuendo even though it sounds like it could be as such)
He should be a minor and almost useless character,Mr C
Nicely played Nic. Hearty laugh from Loge.
@karina
The Animal Farm metaphor doesn't hold up except for the fact that Trotsky also had a funny beard. I just wanted the "snowball's chance" pun.
If it's not a sexual innuendo I don't want to hear about it, Sax.
@Sax
Actually, I never took that damn paper globe out of my car, so it is present to witness this embarassment.
@Mr C so you're getting all Napoleon on me
So Philly's backup Catcher is only 5 homeruns behind our starting First baseman?
@Paul he might, but King James is awesome
Mr C, did you build a dodecahedron to solve the puzzle?
this kid's had enough. gnite everybody
*goes to bed back in the barn*
@karina
Jeff Kent is Napoleon, without a doubt.
I am sure he is an awesome guy.
Dylan with the attendance jokes again.
Manny is our Mollie
*sniff*
I like Eric Stephen' jokes on Twitter tonight. Thing is I don't know if to laugh or to cry:
example: Phillies catchers FTW tonight
Ken Levine: I have un-friended Manny Ramirez.
Well DUH.
Why don't they just bean someone?
Its crazy how the media just completely turned on manny for minimal reasons.
They never said shit about GA being old and useless.
OK Dodgers, let's win this game this inning!
good start: Bison, King, Barba
Giants up 5-2, so we may actually need to drop this game
im rooting for a loss. officially in screw the giants mode.
@karina
Yeah, all three of the übernerds did eventually, I think. (Build the snub dodecahedron, I mean)
Smart ABs Kemp and Loney. Our future is bright.
i wonder if we can still convert Loney back to a pitcher
If anything, they said the opposite about GA. "He's such a heads-up player, he's a veteran, he doesn't make mistakes on the basepaths..."
Well no shit, Sherlock, he doesn't make mistakes on the basepaths because he's never ON the basepaths to begin with.
I'd wish I could see your dodecahedrons.
It ain't over 'till it's over
I just want to see some mofos plunked.
NicJ who are we converting to play first base?
unless the Dodgers sign Victor Martinez
Don't we all, Dusty, don't we all.
Dont know, but seeing how loney was never fully converted to a hitter im sure we can find someone.
Clearly Kenley Jansen's future is at the plate.
Don't blow it, Blowtel.
My new word today: mofos
because I decided to stay ignorant of whatever you meant with beaver and moose knuckle earlier
Heh. Beaver.
@NicJ that hurts
he's on a mid-end of the season rough patch, but he can hit
I am proud of you, Karina.
Listen, loney is a nice guy but he has pretty much plateaued as a hitter it seems.
his numbers have been the same for three seasons now.
i will admit that loney's shortcomings become a little more glaring with kemp and dre struggling.
@Mr F thank you, why?
Re Karina's new word for the day
It's like Sesame Street here, except with cuss words.
For choosing to stay ignorant about such matters!
@NicJ if you think about it, he's been the best and most constant hitter of the season and he doesn't have anyone to protect him. He can't make miracles
Seeing beaver and dodecahedrons on the same day is too much for one person, Karina.
@Mr F ignorance is a bliss and I suspect I can live without those alternate meanings.
It helped when Loney was getting meaningless statistics like batting average and RBIs though.
@Dusty Baker I knew dodecahedron, it's a polygon of twelve faces, building and drawing geometry is not that hard.
@Karina, yes i know, but his lack of power at his position leaves him open to a lot of criticism if he cant keep his average up.
If he was hitting .310-.295 i wouldnt be saying anything.
@Mr LASF he won't collect RBIs while no one is on the basepaths.
sigh
@NicJ at one moment, his average was on that range.I don't know, I don't watch much Dodgers games, but maybe he's not seeing good pitches.
plus his walk rate is falling and his K rate is rising.
300!
yeah it was, he has fell of a cliff since the ASB and has big a big part of why the dodgers have gone in the tank since then.
not totally blaming him everyone has gone in the tank.
@NicJ it's been a collective effort to find new and incredible ways to underperform
well you would think since the whole lineup sucks and it is well known he has little power he would see plenty of fastballs.
Pitchers tend to test you if you have no power.
go Blue! win this game!
It would help if he was getting hits too.
just to put it in perspective. Helton is having one of the worse offensive years in his career and is only .006 OPS points behind Loney.
allright NicJ and Mr LASF, King James sucks.
I'm just try to find positives :(
Loney's batting .217 this month. That's just not getting it done. I don't care if people aren't getting on base in front of you, you have to perform better than that.
You sure are feisty tonight Karina. I for one like it.
We're still here to the bitter end. Two more outs. Sigh...
I'm not trying to say Loney sucks.
...
Well, actually I am, but just for the second half of the season. The first half, he was fine. You have to hold players' feet to the fire, not let them off the hook because of some supposed awesomeness (cough, suck it up and blast Kemp, Moriyama, cough).
at least we're making Lidge throw a lot of pitches each at bat.
yeah, i'm digging for nuggets here.
Gibbons is still batting .375
im not trying to beat up on you Karina.
The team as a whole is pretty awful this year but there are glaring pieces that need to improve. Dre and Matt have proven they can. Loney hasnt proven a whole lot yet.
We can still take the series tomorrow! It's not much, but it'll do.
FREE JAMES LONEY
FIREWORKS BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Sure, there are fireworks off the field, but on the field, I'd compare it more to landmines.
Drive safe boys!!
look now sax just wants to give loney away for free.
PGT up. Believe me, this one was queued...about ten days ago.
I know you don't want to make me feel down.
At least we can pull for a win series tomorrow, like Mr LASF said
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