Hiroki Kuroda (2-1, 3.48) vs. Brandon "Palm" Beachy (0-1, 5.19).
Today's game definitely sounds like a travel postcard (and not just because ol' Sax here spent the last four days relaxing at a picturesque beach resort). Welcome to Los Angeles, home of hot (Jerry) Sands and (Brandon) Beachy environs! These two newbies should be the story tonight at the Ravine, what with Sands Storm Mania sweeping the dunes of Dodgertown, and Beachy having broken into the Braves' starting rotation just under a month ago.
And did we mention Beachy was born in Kokomo (Indiana), a similarly-named city to a dangerously catchy Beach Boys song from a thoroughly forgettable Tom Cruise movie? So I guess the question is, will the Dodgers repeat their offensive performance of last night: get there fast, and then they'll take it slow?
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1 – 200 of 246 Newer› Newest»Carroll SS
Blake 3B
Ethier LF
Kemp CF
Uribe 2B
Loney 1B
Sands LF
Ellis C
Kuroda P
Come on pretty mama!
^ meaning Josh
Fun fact: My pops was also born in Kokomo, IN.
Fun fact II: Neeebs' mom has been to Kokomo on multiple occasions.
Fun Fact III: there is a small winery in Sonoma named Kokomo Winery because the owner is from Kokomo IN. Very good wines and generous pours when tasting.
I have also been to Kokomo on multiple occasions...
Coincidence?
Mo Kokomo talk, please!
Jose Bautista badge in the house, baby! (Toronto Blue Jays; HR)
Jose Bautista: Not from Kokomo.
Has any iPad owner/MLB At Bat user/badge collector noticed that the badge functionality isn't present on the iPad? I've only been able to use it online on my computer.
Or am I missing something?
I realize the way I asked my question narrows the possible audience down to about one person, maybe two.
Neeebs' mom: no beard
Chuck Berry: Parked way out on the Kokomo.
Epale everyone!
Wassail!
Dusty,
No badges on MLB At Bat, for sure. All those that I have so far have been on straight-up Gameday.
The iPad also doesn't have the multiple active window capability to handle industrial-scale badge hoarding.
Epale, karina!
Thx Mr C. I'll stop my futile scrolling around, closing and re-opening, secret setting hunting, etc. on this issue. Won't stop whining about it though,
BTW, you people who have multiple tabs open to hoard badges are just dirty rotten cheaters. You're only cheating yourself!
(opens more tabs)
@Dusty
Not even tabbed browsing can save you. They don't register unless it's in an open tab and not minimized.
*makes sure 15 tiny gameday windows are all open*
commute time!
No, I meant I was running up more bar tabs.
Drinks on Dusty!
(Oh, and John Buck just popped up in my badge trophy case (FLA, double).)
See you guys on the other side!
FLEECE BLANKET NIGHT btw (Dusty, I expect that you're there already)
my son just hit a double *sighs*
Wife is a teacher on spring break so she is still down in LA, she just text me a pic of the blanket, I am so jealous!
but then he made his best 2010 Matt Kemp baserunning blunder...
Wotcher, everybody!
Nice avatar, MRLASC.
Alas, I'm not attending tonight's game, Sax.
Wotcherpale, Mr F!
@CVF, can you email us the pic?
Tried to read the line up to my boy as a bedtime story but he just wanted to eat the paper and then soiled himself.
@Paul
Everyone's a critic.
I'm concerned that Barajas' off-days keep falling on Kuroda's starts, considering how well they work together.
Have you guys seen this?
http://tinyurl.com/4l6725f
Yes, it's technically Rebecca Black, but I promise it's hilarious.
The streak lives.
Oh Erin, you talk like Rebecca Black is a bad thing around here!
Yay,Dre!!
Hi Everyone!
Urine you suck
Piss on Urine.
I'm stuck watching the Braves feed.
He bats!! Shhhhhh. Don't look at him.
James you're driving me nuts
Okay who looked at him!! It isn't your fault Jerry!
Why do I want some chicken now?
Come on Sax! I like his swing-at-the-first-pitch-going-for-a-homerun-to-dig-yourself-out-of-a-slump-in-one-fell-swoop approach. That's what wins ball games!
Kuroda saw four times as many pitches as Loney and hit the ball much better.
Don Sutton still sports the curl.
At least we've got Beachy at 46 pitches through two innings
We'll have Beachy France capitulating soon enough.
61 pitches through 3 innings for Beachy.
At least Andre's out makes it more likely that they will pitch to Kemp next inning.
For the record:
On the sofa now, VInny!
The dry-humping line forms to the left.
Uggla is wearing his little league jersey.
*steps to the left*
4th ining means no more vin to listen to on my gameday.
That's cool that he was also on the Braves in little league.
I think Uggla is gonna try to sell me a gym membership.
Badges update:
Barajas isn't playing
Thames isn't playing
Dre is not going to steal a base
Not much of a chance to pick anything up.
These southern commercials are always interesting. I don't know what a Brandsmart is but they sell a lot of junk.
This pitcher is kinda beachy.
Shit, a ten-run HR would have been nice there from Kemp
Uribe really depresses me.
Mrs Dusty is beachin that I forgot to clean out the cat litter box.
Wait Urine pisses me off. Loney depresses me.
Jeez, what a shitty inning
My Sox/A's tickets for tomorrow were four bucks a pop. Which means more beer money!!
JERRY SANDS WILL BE OUR SAVIOR.
@Paul
Don't tell Party Pooper Sax. He'll be on the horn with A's management in a jiffy, talking them into raising beer prices.
Hell, he probably made a long, passionate plea for it on his blog in the time I've been typing this.
Freddy Freeman was created by Stan Lee.
The A's even have a bar accessible to get this....everyone!
Of course the rest of the stadium is a concrete tomb for turds.
But they have a bar!! I'm sold.
You had me at bar, Paul.
You lost me at turd, though.
But then you reeled me back in at bar.
The shittiness continues into this inning.
Hiro is the man who will fight for our honor.
Hey, way to go Dodgers!!!
Sax is ignoring my taunts. *broods*
@Josh what are his superhero powers?
Jer-ry, Jer-ry!!!
Jer-ry, Jer-ry!!!
Jer-ry, Jer-ry!!!
The legend of Jerry Sands grows!
Which one of you broke Jerry!?!
Dammit
Well that didn't work.
I'm ready for Dusty's hate. Told you yesterday, Prado is good at baseball.
Ummm Sands is scaring me a bit.
That was close.
Karina, we really need to separate out an acknowledgment that he may be good at baseball from the fact that we hateHateHATE that fucking bastard.
While I'm annoyed that someone hit a home run against Kuroda, I'm pleased that it's at least Prado, who I have on a fantasy team.
Don't make me come over there, Mr. F!
Oh no, the wrath of Dusty!
Nice play fancy beard!
105 pitches and still going strong. That is one tough son of a Beachy.
Carroll and Blake, combined 0-for-6
Combined with Urine and FJL, 0-for-10
Did we ever figure out whether we sucked or we blew?
Bring in Flat Breezy now please!!!!
That HR, on the other hand, has absolutely no silver lining for anybody.
Fuck
Me
Kuroda should probably come out now...
If Kuroda comes out, we'll all support him. We don't care whether he's into men or wome....oh, wait. Not what you meant.
*dry humps patricito*
But we don't care!
Also, Erin Hawksworth's brother is pitching.
WE BLOW!
How 'bout an out, Hot Sister?
Hawksworth ain't shown me shit.
For everything you aren't with the bat, you are with the glove, FJL!
the royal talent is there,definitely
Who is playing GBA?
GBA on lame cool jazz sax
(cries)
Lame cool jazz sax is better than the vast majority of GBA's, if you ask me.
Who's playing? J Marts dad
Did we knock this lil Beach out yet?
@Mr. F
Could I ask you to remove that extraneous apostrophe while I'm at it?
...At wha't?
At asking you if lame cool jazz sax is better than the vast majority of GBAs.
What are they blurring out in that Southwest ad? A cartoon bear penis?
I want to say "I'll take it" re: Urine's hit. But I almost won't even take it.
Did someone say cartoon bear porn?
Can't believe that Urine's average is going to go up because of dumb luck.
NOW IS THE TIME
Come on kid. Connect
NO PRESSURE
SOME OTHER TIME WILL BE THE TIME
Um...
I'll take it?
I'll definitely take that Sandman RBI!
Urine scored from second?
@MLASC
Is that a "DAMMIT!" for me, or were those two posts separate enough in tone and content?
@Karina
No, Urine was on third.
WE WANT SHERRILL
Put in Flat Breezy now!!!
@Dusty - I'm not sure...
DAMMIT!
whoa, this is the time!
@Dusty sorry, I read bad at Gameday.It would have surprised me a LOT
We need a ruling here, people. See above.
For the record, my most recent "DAMMIT!" was for seconding Josh's Sherrill comment.
@Karina
It would have surprised Urine a lot, too!
It's time, Thames!
Spank: Screaming ground ball down the line at third, smothered by Chipper. Long throw BARELY got Sands at first.
C'mon Thames, show Simers what you can do.
Just a taste of what I have been listening to, when Sands was up Chip Carey said "a strike out would be nice". Go home and cheer you idiot!
That was a great at bat Thames.
Shitassfuck
KILL HIM WITH YOUR HEAT VISION, JAMEY
I could have had 9 pints and been blindfolded and had better cuts than did Thames. PATHETIC. Made GAARP look stellar.
I was calling for breezy @8:59. I got dibs.
That was a strike???
@Paul
DAMMIT!
Rancho beardiendo
Come on, Casey Beckham, it's your time.
Bases juiced for the Beard.
Thanks,josh. makes sense since loney ended up on second
I think Jamey is more dangerous than Fancy beard right now.
Come on Casey!!
Well, shit.
SHITASSFUCK
Pic your beard Casey!!
For Fernie V:
Like that fuckin ball, Casey!
Well we got one more run than I thought with Urine and Loney leading off that inning.
Skinny Bone Jones!
MacDougal our new shaggy?
McDougal: Weaver Lite
DAMMIT!!!!
Like his build suggest, he has trouble finding plates.
^ suggests
Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson.
Johnnie bravo is up.
At least two of those pitches were strikes.
OMG A STRIKE
MikeMac is getting jobbed at the plate.
Spanky,your mom just showed up on Facebook.
And I'm not making a mother joke. I mean she really did.
THIS IS A REALLY SHITTY STRIKE ZONE.
Or Gameday is really shitty. Something's shitty.
This is not good.
Umpire' zone is all fucked.
Nice play Urine!!!
Urine with the glove.
Okay Shaggy Dos let's get this guy.
Okay we have some momentum.
MikeMac gets out of the jam.
(doesn't stop believin')
cc: Karina
Last season i had Commenting on the GT's and Watching Gameday in control.This season I'm fucked.I was also drinking way more last season.
@Dusty Dre and Bison is not a lousy way to start an inning...don't stop believing!
@Spank
You need to step up the drinking, young man.
Now everybody shows up?!
Well, uh, I can see why they brought this guy in instead of Fat Breezy.
Urine on deck? Again? How many friggin' time s do we have to see him? He just keeps popping up like a Brad Penny.
This is looking dire.
Uribe hates worms!!!
Why does Thor need an official vehicle?
I hope Jansen can get right.
Watch Sax trying to snipe 200...
Thanks for the encouragement Dusty.
*slams a beer*
I think we could replace Urine with pitchers all the time. Bet pitchers are more likely to get walks...
We need to start a 200 gambit,conflict the edits or some kind of shit
We could replace Urine with an orange traffic cone, Karina.
199
DAMMIT
200
Can I hear a DAMMIT!, Paul?
Double Dammit!!!
Jansen was lights out last season. Now it seems as if he's pitching in the dark.
This isn't a hitter's park, right?
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