Chad Billingsley (5-5, 4.13) vs. Travis Wood (4-4, 5.38).
I'd been saying since the end of our last road trip that this is the homestand that could turn our season. Losing the first two games of this homestand, including using our best gun Clayton Kershaw and not earning a win, does not augur well for our next ten home games.
With Travis on the mound today against our pitcher-turned-slugger Billingsley, we'll either be coming around, or we'll end up like that guy at the end of the video below. Lose this game, and allow the Reds to sweep us at home, and the yolk's definitely on us.
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Ugh. I thought I could get to this game today, but I can't.
(cries)
C'mon, Dodgers! Paul's 10-2 prediction is on the line! (For the next 10 games.)
Hey boys and girls! Are we good at baseball yet?
Well to be a genius you have to risk looking like an idiot.
Math is my only friend now.
Finally ponied up for At Bat 11 so I could listen to this game.
Obviously, I am both a masochist and bad with my money.
The Reds' unis look like knockoffs of the Cubs.
http://digs.by/iqkVaX
I like math!
I like a ten-game winning streak, too!
I like lamp!
I'm laying 10/1 odds against a 10 game winning streak.
Any takers?
I was going to change my avi but I need something good to look at while the Dodgers stink up the joint.
I finally get the chance to watch the Dodgers wear their Royals tribute uniforms.
SpeeDee
Ackbar
Ethier
Kemp
Urine
Thames
1B
Barajas
Bills
Pitcher outhitting batters 5 - 8. Again.
Strike em out throw em out!
Easy come easy go
ETHIER GETS A HIT!
ETHIER GETS A HIT!
Too bad about that CS on Gordon, as Ethier's 2B would have scored Dee
3-0 to Uribe and Juan swings onthe next pitch (foul)
Juan actually takes the walk
Rancho ardiendo!!!
Walk,run. Rancho1Biendo
Marcus Thames walks on six pitches to score!
1-0
Loney up with rancho ardiendo and two out (so he can't GIDP)
Loney look shocked he made contact.
Weak ass flyball. Trade this mutt already.
Loney lines out to right
sad trombone but not altogether unexpected
LOBney
Loney has no trade value.
(cries)
first pitch, leadoff single to Wilson Phillips
There goes the lead.
bills getting whacked here
hope he brought his bat
jeez, chadley
chadley, what the fuck
strikeout...barely
Reds 2, Dodgers 1 after 1.5
where is everybody? surely you guys can't be working?
Bills suffers a power outage, settles for a single.
Dee suffers power increase, hits ball out of infield.
I'm back,Saxy. I was getting my daily fix of online cartoon bear porn.
Went out to lunch.
So...we suck?
Fucking Bills.
this is sad
Holy Shit! WTF Bills! Bases Loaded!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it really makes me sad to hear Vin call this. I feel like we are wasting one of the last few, precious seasons of Vin with this team
I thought Bills was unbeatable in day games
Make it go away!
chad really, really doesn't want us to win this game
PGT Up!
Jesus Murphy.
Dre is going to go on the D.L. after getting hit by that pitch on his shoulder. #putito
We've scored 6 runs or more in a home game only 5 times this season, 5 or more 9 times. 3 of those games came three days in a row vs Florida (8) and Colorado (7,8) at the end of May
This is some shitty team.
Slow pace means longer time with Vin on the radio.
Right, Josh. Eases the pain.
eased until James bats
While I'm fairly certain Gibbons would have been just as bad if he kept him instead of Thames, I think Thames needs to go.
hehe oucho
^ he=we, but actually we, because we are not employed by the team
of course
^ NOT actually we
DAMMIT
That was one hell of a catch by Gomes.
(cries)
IT'S RICK AND CHARLEY TIME.
(cries)
Ohhhhhh...
*Backs out of the room slowly*
How the hell is Scott Rolen good again?
DL-ingsley?
Remember when we used to do this to teams? Me neither
"Rolen goes to third, two gone. Actually, that ends the inning."
PRO-FESSIONAL!
Charley never assumes even a single out on a double play
I don't think Charley can tell his Hawksworth from his Lindblom
Do we have to carry a full roster? Or can we just cut people because they suck? He'll, do we have to bat everyone? We could just bench JLo and take the automatic out.
When was the last time Dre did something?
@DB maybe Mattingly can get him to bat out of order every time through the lineup
our ability to fail never ceases to astound me
Charley just wished a happy birthday to Dusty and Josh!
Hey yeah, he did!
WHY IS FRED "GRANDPA" LEWIS KILLING US?
Urine nearly pissed that ball away.
Surliness level: Off the charts.
@FB re Dre
I think it was Detox released this year on Aftermath.
i am done with this shite
enjoy the day off tomorrow
D FAT HAM ES
If only we'd listened to Simers.
Delino and EK get a shout out from Vin.
When does happy hour start at the SoSG bar?
I want to know who picks the into/outro music for the commercial breaks at KABC (or Dodgers Radio Network). They have pretty good taste.
There's a puzzle tomorrow! That's good.
I'm co-leading a training and won't be able to work on it! That's bad.
@Jason, it's ALWAYS happy hour at the SoSG bar.
all the crowd has to cheer for is gwynn NOT hitting into a double play.
(cries)
No runs, no hits
No runs, no hits
No runs, no hits
I want to get all these Tommy Sketchers ads and edit them together into a giant, meandering Grandpa Simpson-esque tale.
Hey, they're using Guerrier in the way I proposed.
Can we just play all of our games on the Road?
Charley Steiner soooooo mis-called that Kemp not-HR, it was silly.
Steiner Steinered that one, but at least it was a hit and not an out.
We're back in it, baby!
Thames is the suckiest suck that ever sucked.
we're back out of it, baby!
6-2 Reds through seven
loney 0 for 4
meanwhile, rickus mondayus says Loney's stance has finally settled.
0-for-4 sounds pretty settled to me, Rick!
100
2-10!
Rick and Charley have spent the last hour telling us we can look up any game by its boxscore.
PHew...made it just in time.
How's the game going?
Oh.
Maybe I'll just click over to the cat hugging her kitten again
@Josh, are you regretting that At Bat purchase yet?
They might be winning...
And they might have awesome Coney hot dogs at their ballpark...
And cheaper beer...
And their attendance might be better...
And that bar down the road SoSG Sax and I went to which had dozens of undies stapled to the ceiling...
BUT...
Maybe I should move to Cincy.
matt kemp doesn't GIDP!
suck on that, toothpicked ones! (we're still down by 5)
Well, that was a giant ball of suck. I'm going to go take my frustrations out on the equipment in the gym.
@Josh S 3:12p. Seriously. Listening to Rick and Charley talk about the magical powers of the internet made me wonder if either paid their dial-up internet fees this month
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...
Post Game Thread up
Oh yeah, I wrote this one back in the fifth inning
@Jason: Nah, I can still use it to listen to Uecker. That's something.
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