Clayton Kershaw (13-10, 2.91) Carlos Monasterios (3-5, 4.09) vs. Jhoulys Chacin (9-10, 3.28)
tell it's
winter
from the
size of
the lump in
my throat
got a lump in my throat
rusted wheel, planted still
rusted wheel, can't move on
It's winter, all right. And we are indeed planted still, finishing out our last four games with meaningless impact on the postseason races. Although I might be interested in Colorado for some skiing in a couple of months, the only thing I want to see today, before we get the hell out of Denver, is the Dodgers making their way toward a .500 record. Aim for excellence, Boys in Blue!
147 comments:
Torre said the Minotaur is shut down for the year.
. . .and the GT is late. No more mid-week drinking at the SOSG World Headquarters.
Just change the thread to Monataur.
Oeltjen LF
Theriot 2B
Loney 1B
Kemp CF
Mitchell 3B
Johnson RF
Ellis C
Hu SS(le and Flo)
Monasterios P
corrected
Without midweek drinking, what would we have to look forward to? Certainly not the games!
Your 2010 Dodgers: Excellence in mediocrity.
Commitment to Existence
current drink: Trader Joe's organic 1% milkfat lowfat yogurt wildberry probiotic smoothie (vitamin D added, high in calcium)
Wait, now Kershaw is un-shut-down and pitching Friday. Kuroda is done.
I would be confused if I cared.
Current drink: a significant quantity of coffee.
I can see Torre running around the clubhouse yelling, "Okay, SOMEBODY is getting shutdown here! Who's it gonna be?"
@rbnlaw: late posting of today's GT is all my fault. I put "9 PM" instead of "9 AM".
Picked the wrong time to stop sniffing glue.
Currently drinking water.
Six cups a day, baby! (which is six more than Adrian Beltre)
Just finished drink: Venti Starbucks Doubleshot on ice, which is essentially 5 shots of espresso, ice, and syrup, shaken like mad with a splash of milk.
I CAN SEE THROUGH TIME.
hello everyone!
cracking into my third coca cola of the day
In a weird way, I'm hoping for the Padres to go into Friday's series three games back. The Padres will have the pressure of having to sweep four games (3, plus 1-game-playoff) and the Giants will have the pressure of only needing to win one game. If I remember 2002 correctly, Frisco has a bit of a problem with that.
shut them all down, except the kids, and let Monstercheerios go more than 4 innings today
@Fred's Brim: shit, why not let Monasterios play all nine positions, too?
At the same time.
Finished a shitload of coffee. Cracking into a berry flavored Propel and a small Cobb salad.
Gotta watch the figure, dontchaknow.
Carlos Gonzalez has 34 home runs. He's pretty good at baseball.
Matt Kemp fucks up yet another play in the field, leading to a Tulo triple.
Kemp, get your head in the game.
What do you have against midweek drinking, RBN?
*orders another Sam Adams Octoberfest from Mayflower Hotel bar*
Tulo scores on a sac. Great.
@Orel
That is wussiest drink I have ever heard of. Go back to San Francisco!
I just looked at the BA for the guys in the lineup today. I should not have done so.
Epale everyone!
I didn't know this was a day game. So, this is a Venezuelan match-up!
this conversation about what you're drinking now is hilarious.
I'm about to finish my first large bottle of water of the day.
Epale, Karina!
Sorry I am behind but what is the background on your avatar?
Walk on home!
Oh No! It's Kemp
(cries)
We have the same amount of runs as our opponent!
In play, run(s)!!!
DAMN! I brought the mojo
Dusty, last Sunday was election day here.We elected members of the congress.
It's was an achievement for me,because it was the first time in years that I was finally allowed to vote, hence my tinted pinky in the avatar.
Well, I guess Kemp made up for it a bit.
WHAAAAAAAT?
I have homework to do and this game is not helping!
@Josh S 10:02a: love the hustle and flow reference. Hat tip.
@Dusty: love the midweek, midday drinking.
@Rick Monday: love the union jobs
Guys, can you show some emotion? Bison hit a GRAND SLAM!
More like homerdor, amirite?
karina, I think my complete shock was showing some emotion.
Seriously, though. It feels good to stomp on someone else's dreams for once.
Matt Kemp is pretty good at baseball. I say we keep him.
He does seem to be more at ease now that they're out of it. I just hope that means good things for next year.
@rbnlaw I second the motion.Let's keep Bison and bring Beltre back. I could negotiate my son not coming back :_( (though I'm gonna needinsane amounts of chocolate to overcome that loss)
A girl can dream. right?
I'm a big NO on Beltre, unless Ned can somehow swing a 1-year deal. He only plays like a monster in contract years.
Epale y'all
Took a quick peek away from work to see that we have a nice little lead.
Beverage choice, freshly brewed iced tea with lime and a little sweet-n-low.
SI has Beltre going to the Lost Angels of Buena Park along with Carl Crawford.
Crazy talk, I tells ye.
I don't think JMart's going anywhere, karina. Just a gut feeling.
The Angels already have Scioscia, why they don't keep their hands way from my revered Dodgers players?
"Hu, swinging away, takes a strike."
I'm gonna miss ripping on you this offseason, Charley.
^away
@Josh that's why I want to believe too
Hu-Sac Flai!
Another run and another reason to make party.
cmon Monster, you can get through this inning!
Mrs Dusty and MDIL would say not to disrespect their hometown of Buena Park by being associated with Angels, RBN!
It's amazing how well we can play now that we know we suck.
@Karina re your avatar
AWESOME. That tinted pinky is strong, especially because it is Blue.
Fight the power!
Damn, I go to lunch and somebody slips me the salami?! Well, at least it was for the good guys.
@Sax
It's really more late mid-day drinking on my part, since I'm in the Eastern time zone right now.
slippery salami? is that what spanky is nakedly running around with today?
OK kid - one more out
Sounds like an interesting lunch you had, Mr C.
Nice job minimizing the damage, boyos!
nice work, kid!
Aaach I can't even look at Theriot's stupid overrated face
pile'em on!
@Dusty FIGHT the power, indeed. I voted for a political prisoner for Congress and he got elected with 72% of the votes. He's still in jail, but they'll have to free him soon.
Also, government made frauds here and there, the opposition fought and now we have 69 members in the Congress. My state voted 13 members of the opposition out of the possible 16.
Is it true King James just hit another HR?
Karina
Loney singled to drive in Oeltjen.
just a short single for The King
@Mr Customer: I echo Dusty in shuddering to think about your lunch experience.
Is the Blue Oyster Club open for lunch?
I mean, it's okay if it is, I'm totally cool with that and everything.
Thx for that re-cap, karina. I tried to pay attention to the election but have been on travel for...forever, so couldn't give it enough time to understand what went down.
Karina, we would be foolish to hope for > 10 KJL HRs.
Insta Poll:
Could Russ Mitchell suck any more, offensively?
a) No
b) No
c) All of the above
@Sax and Dusty
I meant the home run, of course. Geez, get your minds out of the gutter, ya pervos!
Jeezus! Monday is taking twenty years to explain that the majors are different from the minors.
Helton looks exactly like Spanky's brother in-law.
BEAN THE MOFO!
Did someone say salami?
why don't you like your brother-in-law, spanky? does he steal your steel reserve? does he take your fish out on naked runs?
I want to say that listening to Steiner and Monday is like listening to a really uninteresting podcast, but even podcasters remember they have an audience that they have to entertain and convey clear information to.
No win for monosterios
Spanky, your brother-in-law has a dead woodland creature on his face?
This is kinda a key atbat
@Sax - You do realize we're four games under .500? Nothing's really "key" anymore.
Monasterios couldn't have done that?
Troncoso, you suck.
Eh, still a lead, I guess.
@MLASF: I WANT .500 DAMMIT.
ugh Tronny
I really like you, but you are hard to watch :(
Well god damn. I leave to write one press release and we've given up most of the lead. At least no one slipped me their salami.
boo-urns.
quick, somebody check their balls.
By "leave" I meant order another beer, go to the bathroom, and look at a separate tab in my browser. never went far.
Can't wait to go blow a huge chunk of money on an outrageously good ITA dinner and have a lobbyist pay for it.
The day is still young Dusty. And I'm holding.
Tron at the bat. Playing to lose.
Time to go. Off to play the indentured servant. I need Allred's number.
The name "Dodgers" has been removed from the "good union job" spot and replaced with "the home team." Curious.
ok I am off to eat the best pizza of all times. Let's finish off this win, at the very least to pad the stats against Eric Collins
I am not sure when MLB at batfor thronging started allowing multitasking with safari and the audio feed...but I like it!!!
Thronging?
Is that what Mr C did at lunch?
Let's try that again:
I'm not sure when MLB at bat for the iPhone started allowing multitasking with safari and the audiofeed... But I like it!
Damn, my iPhone typing is so poor, you'd think someone slipped me the salami.
Steiner is so condescending about the Caesar's Palace seventh inning back-to-back HR contest, that Caesar's should ask for its money back. Steiner mocks the plausibility of such a ridiculous event with this Dodger squad.
Note to self:
Think twice before accepting lunch invitation from Mr. C.
Real pitchers' duel we got here, eh?
So. I leave to get some work done and
a) Monny doesn't win
b) Tron sucks
c) the images of Mr C at lunch keep getting worse and worse
I'm betting that Mr. C now has a string of women wanting lunch dates with him.
These "strategic" bullpen moves are even more pointless now.
I hope JMart doesn't pull this crap on Saturday.
@MB
so we're set for Tuesday, then?
(I keed, I don't want Spanky to beat me to death with a halibut in a jealous rage)
Tie game and a Karina fangirl squeal coming up here.
@Meaniebreanie how do you know he didn't have already a girl as a lunch date?
Huh. Color me impressed.
@Mr C and Spanky has a sharktopus,too
@Josh is it wrong to be a CarGo fan?
Nothing wrong at all, k. I just like to tease you about it.
Mr C - I was just saying...
Spank has proved his love for me. He is unmarried and claims to be faithful. How can I forsake that?
@Karina
You're right, I don't know. Based on the comments it sure didn't sound that way.
Just noted Flat Breezy's picture on GameDay. He looks friggin' anorexic! When was that taken, his sr year in high school? Or is he on meth?
Sherrill struck out CarGo last night too.
@Josh just wanted to make sure it was just teasing.
Dusty,
OMG, I can't believe you said that. I looked at Breezy's picture and thought the same thing. Great minds think alike.
Rancho Ardiendo of the very bad kind.
We skated by on that one.
Weaver gets us out of the based-loaded jam... To the eighth!
@mb
Hey, I never said I wasn't, but I couldn't do my Dodger hermano wrong like that.
Mr. C - actually I'm very flattered. The day you guys stop trying is the day I think I will cry/die.
HCK Shuts it down.
Uhhh...who's pitching the ninth?
It's a mystery.
I. AM. PUMPKIN MAN!
Oh, dear lord, it's belly.
Is Helton's beard technically considered a varmint?
We are not winning this game if Belly stays on the mound.
Run traded for an out. HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS.
Meaniebreanie:
(cries)
Dammit, we are going to lose this game in the ninth...
WE MAKE SWEEPY (and sometimes weepy) PARTY!
Holy shit I am wrong!
3 to go for .500!!!
The impossible dream of a .500 season lives!
we make party!
Whew, that one was close.
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
The lyrics might not match but the title does.
Saxy,
No need for tears. There is always a special place in my heart for you.
Gary Moore: I still got the Blues for you.
sweeping post-game thread up.
stay thirsty my friends.
If you sweep a team that's out of contention, and it really doesn't matter, does it make a sound in the forest?
Ah yes. What more can I say about my love. Trust is a beautiful thing.
@ Mr.C
I've got my eye on you buddy. HaHa
The Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Sweeps
HATE YOU RUSS MITCHELL.HATE YOU
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