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 (3-4, 3.69) vs. Jason Hammel (3-4, 3.20).
It's Dollar Dodger Dog Day at Dodger Stadium, and if that's not amazing enough, how about the Dodgers' surprising shocking series win over the second-place Marlins? Today the once-hot Rockies come into town, having been cooled off to under .500 by a series loss to the Cardinals. Do the Dodgers have a little momentum, or is this just an anomaly in a season of failure? Time to find out.
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
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We have all the momentum here. We are rolling to victory today.
Are there any beer specials at the yard today, Sax?
Furcal SS
Carroll 2B
Ethier RF
Kemp CF
Gibbons LF
Loney 1B
Barajas C
Miles 3B
Billingsley P
If you buy an $8 beer and a Dodger Dog, you can pretend the beer was half-price.
Buy two dogs and the beer is freeeeee!
@Dusty 2.27p: Yes, if you go to any Dodgers concession stand and say that you are SoSG Dusty Baker, they'll either give you a discount...or commit you to a mental institution.
I have a feeling Dusty is going to be psyched when the Dodgers announce $1 beer day.
Me, I'd just be psyched for a win.
@Orel, etc:
Just emailed that Vinny transcript. Let me know when you get it ok.
How about I go wearing my SoSG ID intern badge and say, "Don't you know who I am?!?"
I think that would get me Don Newcombe holding me while Josh Rawitch kicked me in the nads.
Honoring our armed forces and drinking beer on the patio, Vinny!
Apparently by myself.
*does the electric slide out the GT*
BTW: Props to World Series winner with the Dodgers, Roy Gleason.
Even Spanky won't hang out with me. How far I've fallen. (cries into can of Steel Reserve)
It's tiiiiiiiiime for Dodger baseball!
^That's my Karina-required positive statement for the day.
Huge throw from Kemp to Pack of Cards to erase Karina's second son at the plate. Way to start the game!
Im here DB. Sporadically at least.
In Rod we trust!
I was about to start crying, Neeebs.
Fuck off Gonzalez. I'm tired of your catching fly balls. I'll give you some balls to catch.
Pick him up, E.
Or not. I meant Kemp.
Alas, 0-0 after1
Got it, Dusty! Thanks a ton!
Looks like we're seeing the ball pretty good, though. I think we have some runs in us today.
@Karina-can I use that for tomorrow's positive thought of the day?
No problem, Orel.
Which is not what my prom date said.
Unfortunately, it looks like the opposing team is also seeing the ball well.
How long until we start hearing about shadows?
Take a seat Ty
Take a seat vowel-dude
This situation is very tightropey.
Take a seat Hammels
Ta da!
Bills ends up striking out the side. Hopefully that was his tightropey inning.
I hate our caps less than I hate those worn by the Rockies.
Oh Shit! I lost my grilling tongs in the shadows!
JLo HR over the RF pavilion right here.
I'll take it.
Does Loney get fined for that hit?
Nice one, Spank.
Come on, Tarjetas!
45
Come on Rod.
Dodgers are all foully tonight.
I see the old offense is back.
Screw you, too, Dexter. I mean, your name is Dexter.
Dexter's a cool name.
A kid who used to burp into my milk when I was but a wee lad in school had the name of Dexter. Hence, I do not think it is a cool name.
Chadley flirting with disaster again.
Or at least danger.
That's a great story you transcribed, Dusty. It'll go up tomorrow morning.
@Orel
Yeah I thought it was funny, too. Vin seemed to have so much fun telling it. And it involved Durocher, and it took place at the Coliseum. Just a lot of neat history there. I had to look up the umpire's name to make sure I had it right.
Bills helping himself out.
So much for getting the pitcher out of the way. Bills gets a single!
I even found a picture of Conlan and Durocher!
The starting pitcher has a better average than four of the position players in the lineup.
(cries)
That's great, Orel! Very cool.
Rancho ardiendo!
A lot of really close pitches here.
Ethier delivers! 2-0 Dodgers!
Rancho payoff! I'm lovin' it. Help these ducks off the pond now, Matty!
Quit throwing to first, culero!
Interesting that we got the exact same net result on that dropped ball that we would have had on a sac fly.
Culero! Lmao.
Kemp's slide was so smooth it looked like he was on wheels.
Dusty's dander is up.
JLo!!! 4-0 Dodgers.
Still mad at you, holmes.
Another 4-pack
Dander Factor: 8
Beer status: gin
That's not his dander.
Someone's messing with Vin's equalizer.
Pitcher's best friend!
Small ball doesn't mean small balls.
Ah Wiggy... how could you.
I've always had a special place for that guy, mostly cause he looks like he could have been on the 1919 White Sox
Tell that to Craig Counsell, DelinO.
epale everyone!
I'm pleased to know we're winning!
Epale, Karina!
CarGo with a Kempian grab.
Don't read any of the previous GT, Karina. I've been really rude toward your second son, among others. Thought the coast was clear.
The game is going surprisingly well. This is when the Serling-esque twist occurs, right? Kemp's banished to the cornfield or something?
well Dusty, it makes me happy you're on a positive roll tonight :)
Where's the shoulder gnome, K?
Nice throw by Iannetta.
Why didn't they start the NBA Finals today?
Today's trivia question:
Which U.S. Navy veteran of the D-Day invasion has won more World Series (10) than any player ever?
(cue MLASC's answer, after having feverishly Googled for it)
Unbreakable's on. A reminder of what M Night was.
* weeps
Nice play by Loney to get the force at second on a squibber.
"Unbreakable" feels like the first half of a really good movie.
The first third, to be real.
3X for Wide Eyes!
Love our little MSB.
I don't recognize these Dodgers.
Apodaca
The NBA Finals were scheduled for either tomorrow or Thursday, depending on the lengths of the two series. Because both went to only five games, they could start the Finals tomorrow.
I assume they did not schedule tonight to begin the Finals due to decreased holiday ratings.
Yeah, NBA. Cause no one is sitting around the house gathered with tons of family and friends craving some sports to watch on Memorial Day late afternoon or anything.
Thanks, MLASC. I would think viewership would go up on a holiday, but I guess that's why I'm not a television programmer.
Amirite, Dusty?
Tressel article at SI: whoa
trivia answer: Yogi Berra
I want my Sugar Bowl win!
Memorial Day weekend is a big travel weekend, so the logic is that people are coming home and not watching television.
LONEY HOME HOMER!
How many people really travel far and wide, though, on MD weekend? Mostly people just go visit friends and family and grill out and shit. Generally, a telly with an important sports game would be cause to gather round and therefore generate ratings.
This seems like another 1956 understanding of social habits that doesn't have any remote modern context. thanks, Nielsen!
Ladies and gentlemen, Loney has left the Yard!
What are the chances of my getting a Loney HR badge? Wow!
The Dodgers puzzle me. They are not playing like crap.
Nephew reset the cable box and I missed the Loney homer. Did it actually happen?
@Orel - I hope Tressel's sweaters continue to coach
Give that nephew the heave-ho, Josh!
The sweater-vests are impressive.
@Josh
We weren't there, so there's no way to confirm it wasn't camera trickery or black magic.
WHO'S YOUR KING?
Even Miles gave it a ride.
Why are the Colorado patriotic caps red? That makes zero sense.
7-1.
I called this win.
@Orel: His intentions were good. He was trying to unplug the fan so Luke wouldn't slice his fingers off.
I have chills. Thanks, Vin.
@Karina - Matt Kemp. He has 12 of those.
what did Vin say, Orel?
Loney, 3-for-3 with 3 RBI
that's it, he regained his royal status, so he's King James again.
Tough love, man. Luke's gotta learn things the hard way sometimes.
He gets a reprieve for now, Josh.
"WHO'S YOUR KING?"
Heh.
@Karina: He recited the poem "In Flanders Fields."
I love the difference between Orel's and my posts at 7:07 re Luke.
@Orel <3
strangely, I didn't have a King James badge, I won't forget I got his badge with a home HR
re: Tressel
"Most of the young players who attended it would never play college football, but a few were top prospects whom Ohio State was recruiting. At the end of camp, attendees bought tickets to a raffle with prizes such as cleats and a jersey. According to his fellow assistant, Tressel rigged the raffle so that the elite prospects won -- a potential violation of NCAA rules. Says the former colleague, who asked not to be identified because he still has ties to the Ohio State community, "In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That's Jim Tressel."
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1NtN5dBou"
Is it possible the Dodgers have had enough with this losing shit?
@Josh it is
it is indeed possible
ask again later
outlook hazy
My outlook is hazy, too.
White Bread badge!!!
Another Loney homer?
*faints*
Mo Badges
Mo Badges
Mo Badges
Another LA Times piece on decline of the team:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-sp-dodger-fans-20110531,0,7509135,full.story
Jerry Sands single badge!
Return of the old Elbert.
Jerry Sands badge, ladies and gentlemen!
Badge #126
did they really just yank Elbert after two batters?
What's up with that?
Does Mattingly know who we've got in our bullpen?!?!
"The great baseball portraitist Roger Kahn, whose writing about the Dodger glory days in the '50s has made him an unofficial team historian, once said that, 'In a perfect world, the Dodgers would've stayed in Brooklyn and Los Angeles would have gotten the Mets.' "
@Orel
(cries)
Whitey-er is pitching.
@Orel no way
(wipes brow in relief)
marlins getting pounded 15-4 to the snakes
Broxton will close this do....
(weeps)
Did they cut off $1 Dodger Dogs after the sixth inning because the stadium looks empty.
Video of Vin's poetry recital posted on the main page. Enjoy it before it gets taken down.
The reason why the Mets aren't in L.A. is because O'Malley said FUCK YOU to then Mayor of New York La Guardia. Hence,Doyers in L.A.
no lead is safe at dodger stadium
if you're playing the dodgers
that's all she wrote!
dodgers WIN
(makes party)
PGTUP!
Loney needs to bring it for a whole season at least to get King status.
we make party!
I'm getting drunk
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