Clayton Kershaw (11-7, 2.89) vs. Josh Johnson (7-10, 3.73)
Yes, there have been some crazy baseball shenanigans going down in the last 24 hours, but do you know what else is crazy? Walking on the damn moon, that's what. I'm momentarily shedding my usual cocoon of snark to wish you godspeed, Mr. Armstrong. Sports are fun, but you were a hero and an inspiration, in the non-trivial sense.
As for the baseball part of this GT equation, you know all the excruciatingly documented details. All that remains is to go out and win games, and we look to be equipped to do just that. There's not much else to say. It's time for action, people.
You may now resume snark.
Image: NASA, bishes.
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Victorino
MEllis
Kemp
Gonzalez
Ramirez
Ethier
Cruz
AJEllis
Kershaw
I'm sorry. I'm going to have to repeat myself. Wow.
Victorino
MEllis
Kemp
Gonzalez
Ramirez
Ethier
Cruz
AJEllis
Kershaw
I said wow too
Um, that's a pretty damn good lineup.
Giant steps are what you take,... when McCourt is finally out and Stan Kasten starts calling some real gamechanging shots like signing Adrian Gonzalez
(sorry, Sting)
Won't be much of conversationalist with the family tonight. I'll just be repeating the lineup over and over again.
Molly Knight @molly_knight
Dodger players sort of floating around and like, fist bump & nodding at each other in the clubhouse. I would say they are pleased.
(resumes snark)
That's some hard-hitting reporting from Knight.
To Neil Armstrong and Sting!
Over under for hits between Kemp/Adrian/Hanley/Ethier? Remember Josh Johnson is pitching.
I'll set it at...6.
More evidence the LAT is fading into irrelevance (except Dylan Hernandez, and I'd even say Bill Shaikin):
This is how the LAT recognizes Armstrong's passing. Yeah, because I really want to know what Mandy Moore, The Rock, and Olivia Munn tweeted about Armstrong's death.
(though I confess I clicked on it to view the photo of Olivia Munn. Man, she is hot.)
@DB 3:30p: Molly Knight always was observant with the nods and fist bumps.
WHY CAN'T THEY PLAY THE GAME RIGHT NOW
Olivia Munnto
Just to be clear, I'm pro-Shaikin.
I guess that makes me anti-Movin.
Josh Beckett will wear number 30.
Nick Punto 7
Just to be clear, I'm pro-Munn
Can't Punto take #5?
Please?!
To Neil Armstrong and Jackie Gleason.
I really hope someone has the foresight (and talent) to construct a Magic statue outside the stadium. Hell, someone with a decent truck can just drag the one from Staples up the hill.
Sweet Jeebus, 2 hours still until the game?
Angel Pagan 0-4 today. Culero.
@Dusty, there's always beer
Beer. It's what's for breakfast.
@Sax
I was JUST thinking the same thing!
Beer status: Dos Equis
Surly status: 0
You read that right.
cc: RBN
DB: You say culero, but in Chile they say, Culiao.
Holy shit, the radio commercials on the Braves' feed are scarier than ankylosing spondylitis. Child identity theft? What the hell is wrong with this mass-shooting-predisposed, politician-rape-legitimizing society?
Giants lose! Giants lose!
Let's capitalize on the misfortune of others.
@Neeebs
What would it be Gangnam style?
Hey everyone!!
What did i miss?
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Oppagangnam style!
Nothing to see here, Nic.
Hey Nic, can you revert to your old skool goober on a scooter avatar for awhile? I really miss that one.
Ankylosing spondylitis!
I'm fuckin bustin out the Oppagangnam style moves later on after a few more beers.
I wonder what Ankylosing spondylitis style would be? We should invent a dance.
Shelley Smith on sports center said there was a good sized line at the box office today.
Hopefully the place is filled up tonight.
During the postseason people on fangraphs were going on about Five Guys being better than In N Out and i finally got to try it……….no way!
Five guys is pretty good, Not a fan of the french fries though.
Five guys reminds me of a really good homemade burger.
In the bay area this weekend. Lots of mumbles and grumbles.
Fuck Five Guys. I know I'm a shameless homer for SoCal, but...I just don't get the appeal of FG. Kinda of like Krispy Kreme - it seems like more of a culinary meme than it is based on how good it is compared to other offerings.
Krispy Kreme was always the white trash shitty low class donuts in the south when I was growing up. All the other donut shops, incl independent ones and the chains, were all viewed as better. Then KK just blew up for some reason.
ps- I've got the potential to blow up a Winchell's
cc: Ice Cube
Why am I still surly? I never feel good about big changes like this. A part of me prefers to win or lose with the guys you got, especially in baseball, where the season's the thing. I am going to need some time with this one
So was James Loney officially free'd?
He was indeed, Nic.
Yeah, I really wouldn't class in-n-out and five guys as having the same market niche.
@Sax: Olivia Munn has a topless scene in Magic Mike...you can google just the scene though.
The Vicster scratched from tonight's lineup. Gotta save that back for the free agent market.
Breaking News!!! Snooki is in labor. As if we didn't have enough blockbuster news today
100 comments before game time?
Beer Status: Long Hammer IPA
TAG JAMES LONEY AND RELEASE HIM INTO THE WILD
Eric Stephen @truebluela
Dodgers place Chad Billingsley on the DL, option Alex Castellanos
beer status: Fat Tire
How hard will it be for Snooki to drop a pup out of that droopy-ass vag?
Castellanos and SVS will have to lead the Topes to the Pac League championship.
Surly status zero, Dusty?
Ned on Dodgers Live now.
@Orel
It's the booze plus the trade. It won't last long.
of course the first thing Lyons brings up is how Nick Punto will help the team.
I can't believe we didn't ship Lyons to Boston. #douchemode
Bills to DL.
imagine next year when we have Dee and CC at the top of the lineup.
If they ever get on base that will be a relay race.
Colletti showing no remorse for losing Loney.
I wonder what Padres fans are thinking now.
@Orel
Padres fans don't think.
Revised lineup:
Ellis 2B
Cruz 3B
Kemp CF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Ethier RF
Rivera LF
Ellis C
Kershaw P
i actually went on a few padres blogs yesterday and there was little mention of it.
Adrian Gonzalez to the Dodgers, the O'Malley family buying the Padres. They must be a little conflicted right now.
When someone else is talking, Steve Lyons always has this look on his face that he is just waiting for his chance to talk and doesn't give a crap about what anyone else is saying
You nailed it, GLG. Exactly.
Adrian gets a standing O while warming up.
Nobody wants Cruz's autograph?
Apparently Martin Van Buren is starting for us tonight.
I've spent a good amount of time in Boston and they have about the worst fundamental racism as any place I have been. Crawford got racial slurs yelled at him by a cop while playing a HOME game at one of Red Sox minor league teams. He is going to be much more comfortable here and A-Gone had to have been regretting his decision to resign there as well.
@Orel
It's weird to think John Jay isn't playing in this game, too.
Totally true, GLG. Boston is light years behind even some traditional southern racist strongholds.
Glad Jackie Robinson didn't give a fuck about racial slurs.
I love Focused Clayton.
I love beer.
Leadoff double. Great.
Leadoff double. This team sucks - blow it up!
DAMMIT!
There's that Gold Glove!
yay!
Kersh just made Reyes look like a child on that first pitch.
Marlins 1, Dodgers 0
5 consecutive games w runs allowed in the first inning.
Cochito leather!
Leather chaps!
That's so freaking annoying. At least I'm becoming less fearful that the offense will be completely shut down, for some reason or other.
Boom
One lead-off double deserves another.
Mellis double! We'll see Gonzalez this inning...probably!
Tie game!
1-1
Cruuuuuuuuuz!
And there we go.
First and third for A Gon to go to work.
John Buck's catcher's mask is hideous
Three batters, no outs.
I can live with that.
Run(s)!
Holy crap what an entry.
"So, make way. A roll of drums and a blare of bugles. Coming up with runners at first and third, and a standing welcome-to-Dodger-Stadium ovation for Adrian Gonzalez." —Vin
"So, make way. A roll of drums and a blare of bugles. Coming up with runners at first and third, and a standing welcome-to-Dodger-Stadium ovation for Adrian Gonzalez." —Vin
I may have just wet myself.
OMFG
Holy Fuckers.
I can't believe that actually just happened.
I'm behind because I watched Gonzalez's homer a couple times.
So I am about 5 minutes behind the live telecast due to phone calls and as Adrian came up I got a txt message and thought, how cool would it be if he his first at bat was a home run. Hot damn!
RELEASE HANLEY
When's the last time we hit a 3-run HR?
When's the last time our 1B hit a 3-run HR?
35 pitches so far for Johnson in the inning.
We're halfway to your hits prediction in the first 1/3 of an inning, Orel!
So, this is working out so far, yeah?
That DelinO post...huh. Hmmmm. *scratches head*
26 minutes into the game. We're still in the first.
MayI just say that this is completely unlike what I thought this season was going to be like 6 months ago?
Vintage DelinO.
Sweet baby Jesus, going from the Raiders announcers to Vinny is like going from Kindergarten to the Ivy League.
45 pitches for Johnson.
Adrian Gonzalez is swavory.
Gonzalez has set the bar rather high.
AGone has a swavory swing
Most posts ever in the first inning? Its a shame there nothing else special about todays game (and that was a pity strike)
Giancarlo'd
Has that ball landed yet?
TRADE FOR STANTON
Kersh really giving up long balls early these days.
What a weird ass game.
What a weird ass season.
What a weird ass
MEllis HR!
What is this, Coors Field?
Showtime must have been thrilled to do a full season covering a last place team
@Delino
Alas, years of wearing his wallet on the left side only have left Mark horribly disfigured.
Oh yeah, we have Kemp.
I AM WEEPINGS WITH JOY
Who is this team???
Johnsons got good stuff tonight
Just 'cause I wanna...
Victorino
MEllis
Kemp
Gonzalez
Ramirez
Ethier
Cruz
AJEllis
Kershaw
*Pinches self*
Gonzalez looks like a nintendo Mii
One measley run? Blow it up.
Kersh not up to his last start's standards. I will, however, gladly accept a win anyway.
When is Beckett schedule to pitch?
I thought we were back to dominate Kersh. Make up your mind, Clay!
@Cliff
Monday
Back to the avatar that won the Stanley Cup. Crow T. Robot.
Gracias, Dusty.
There's a shut-out inning. It's not turtles all the way down, I guess.
Dre 8 for his last 8.
Johnson out of a stretch. Heh.
Love the hustle to get to second by Ethier
Meanwhile, the mothership is showing every pitch of Clemens' independent league exhibition start. Like we want to see a 50 year old pitching to kids or has-been's with no club affiliation
ESPN is broadcasting a Texas penal league game?
@GLG
But enough about Jamie Moyer.
Texas penile league.
@Jason: Espn3 has the live game and Sportscenter is doing live look ins
Good to see Rivera still sucks. All is right in the world.
So, should that run count if it didn't come on a homerun?
Okay, back to watch the rest of the game! A first baseman that hits home runs?! Who woulda thunk it?
Damn the Giants schedule is easy from here on out. At least the last series is here.
20 batters in 3 innings. Yeah, ok…
Mary Hart and Mary Hart's legs in the 1st row behind the plate.
Johnson isn't fooling anyone tonight
89 pitches through 3 is bad. Very bad.
Stanton is human after all.
Where was that pitch, Blue?
2-2 count for A Gone. You don't have to hit a HR every time up, holmes.
Hahahaha! You strike out Gonzalez and you still have to face Ramirez and Ethier!
Chasing pitches, A Gon. I know you're nervous and want to impress.
And that's exactly it, Cliff!
It's k.
I shudder to think what Kemp could do with a full, healthy year in this lineup.
@Stubbs did you really comment on DelinO's post? Or was that someone spoofing your handle?
Clay may be getting some his swagger going again.
It was me, all the way!
For once, I'm looking forward to the trip to Colorado.
I'm quite excited about this lineup.
Beckett in Denver does make me slightly nervous, but then we have a bit more firepower this time through,
(fires up the Cargo hate)
DRE DAY!
HOLY SHIT, DRE!
We're settin' records, bishes!
Ethier is ON FIRE
Well then... I like this lineup.
This line-up is nuts. We got four guys who can hit #3 no problem.
That's a tie for the record with the Penguin, I believe.
Even Riveira doesn't suck in this line-up!
Hits for everybody!
echo $LAST_COMMENT;
Ethier is a triple short of the cycle.
If Dre gets the cycle tonight, I'll run Spank's fish down the middle of downtown Seattle, naked.
I just cycled a triple in my shorts.
MDIL: Can't wait to watch that episode of GRIMM we have Tivo'd.
Dusty: We already watched Josh Johnson pitch, what could be more grim?
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