Matt Magill (0-0, 6.92) vs. Mike Minor (5-2, 2.75).
After yesterday's dispiriting loss, and the dispiriting loss the day before that, in what has been a most dispiriting season, we get to today's game, which will almost certainly be another dispiriting loss for the last-place Dodgers that will complete the first-place Barves' dispiriting sweep.
Each team is starting a pitcher with the initials MM, but only Atlanta's MM belongs in the majors right now. Minor is fresh off a win over the gritty Diamondbacks, while the Dodgers have yet to win a game started by Magill. (Sometimes it seems they have yet to win a game started by anyone.)
For the tattered bullpen's sake, let's hope Magill can eat a few innings today, because this road trip continues tomorrow in Milwaukee.
So: crappy team, yet we keep pulling for them. That's dispirit!
UPDATE:
First pitch is expected at 12:15pm PT.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 19, 2013
124 comments:
At least we can lose early and have a LOT of time to drink.
I don't see a corner being turned here, guys. My only solace is that the Gnats were also 7 games out of first after game 41 last year. Of course, they were in second, not last, but still.
Boy, that first place team from last year must feel pretty stupid!
I've got a bad feeling about this.
@Nomo
(drinks)
Surely the baseball gods will let us win game #42, no?
I'm wearing my Jackie t-shirt today to prompt the aforementioned baseball gods.
my spider sense is tingling.
There it is....Neeebs has felt it.
Is too early to start drinking some dis spirits?
@DBT
Official SoSG ruling: No. No it is not.
Dispirited is a perfect theme for todays GT. I am really feeling it. I'm taking care of my mom so I can't even drink to get throgh todays effort :( I'm going to have to take this game straight. If the rain stops.
Hang in there, Karen! It's all part of the process.
We gonna get this one in, weather gods?
Dodgers in a suck delay.
Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers 1m
First pitch is expected at 12:15pm PT.
Watching Matlock,Vinny!
So...Mark Ellis is activated, but they sent down FedEx instead of shooting Cruz into space or just letting Ramon Hernandez disintegrate. I...don't get it.
Damn I had to move back my schedule. Scratch disappointment and crying from 2:15 to 3:45. Thanks rain.
Make that 7 hits, Psycho!!
holy shit! we have a runner on third!
that was pathetic,matty.
A Gone RBI single scores Crawdude.
We have a run and it's only the 1st inning!!
Probably our last run.
Sound familiar?
Strike 'em out, throw 'em out!
Urine strikes out. What's new?
I don't like Psycho's nickname for Punto "The Little Pony". Just doesn't seem like something a man would like to be called.
Magoo strikes out to end the inning.
Rain starting.
Shit.
Captain's Log, star date 5.19.13. Icemaker broken. Can't make margaritas. Not gonna lie...things are bleak at the Killeen house. Hoping for a team win. Otherwise, I can't be responsible for the morale of the crew.
wow,we didn't give up a run in that inning. amazing.
KEMP DOUBLE!!!!
RUNNERS ON THIRD AND SECOND WITH ONE OUT!
OMG!
WE SCORED AGAIN!
*faints*
Are You Ins!!!
2-0 Blue.
@BJ
Make margaritas the old fashioned way since the machine is broken. Get back to the basics!
On two caddies and a beer, Vinny!
@ Dusty: Without ice?? How?
45
@BJ
Check your email for a great recipe I have for making ice. I got it from my grandmother.
Roger that DB
Urine dribbles back into the dugout. I get more disgusted by his fat fetid presence every day.
Just got the Killeen distress signal. Hang in there, guys!
Sittdown, Upton, you little bitch. Stop that staring shit.
BJ be on the lookout for a SoSG-logoed helicopter to drop in some ice for you, packed in dry ice.
KKKKKK
Wow!
I'm beginning to like this Magill kid - right up until the time I'm sure I'll question his very existence when he gives up a grand slam.
Don't wanna speak to soon or jinx it, but Magill is doing well...
Thanks, Orel...watching the sky...
My Ballpark Empire game says we win 10-6 today...
can't we go to the store and buy a bag of ice? or take a huge as cup and fill it with ice at 7-11,yo.
Careful..that bat has rabies.
I think Kemp really has a problem with depth perception.
So he's like Charley Steiner?
Cracking a beer and joining the fun! Kemp with a fly out.
WiFI back in working order.
Let's see, what did I mi--
GODDAMMIT!
Upton gets on to lead off. Heading to the pen now. Start praying.
(calls Ktulu)
Mercy rule?
JP Howell in and the tarp is out.
Lyons says Magill hasn't been "effective" this year.
Gee, it's almost as though the kid wasn't ready to pitch in the majors in the first place, huh, Lyons?
Please let it pour!
Mother Nature is having mercy on us right now.
Go rain!
Yay, alternate program!
Stop showing Dodgers retrospectives. It's despiriting.
Rain, rain, don't go away,
Give us win the easy way!
(despirits)
^ a win
Dodgers can legally win the pennant?
Hope the Dodgers take this down time to scribble on Donny's nuts.
I'm taking advantage of this time to scribble on my own nuts.
Tarp coming off the field, according to the Twitters.
@Paul and @DB
LOL!
(scribbles)
Darn we have to keep playing?
Per Lyons:
"Taking the tarp off now but they say there is about a 10 minute window before more rain..."
We're back...at least momentarily.
*WHEW*
If not foul, that would have gone deep to North Carolina.
If Howell keeps taking this long, the next weather pattern will move in and we'll have a chance.
Rain falling again. All the fans have taken cover.
Two straing foul balls off SVS's foot. He's down.
Why do the baseball gods hate us so???
Pop out. Doesn't look like he's limping much. Might be ok.
Grizzlies got spanked today by Spurs.
Those old guys sure can play.
A one run lead feels like we are losing.
*spanks*
Does our starting lineup as a whole have 14 homeruns?
Got out of a jam. Still a lot of time to fuck this up, though.
Gurrier, Guerra, and League left in the pen.
To my last comment's point.
This is the scary time.
Last time we had a base hit was just after the war. World War I that was. It was a hot summer that season, and the cicadas was out mighty bad. You sees...
it's in the bag
Dee Gordon now batting .191. Weak sauce.
My well honed psychic abilities are telling me this isn't good.
League coming in to close the game for the Braves.
fucking awesome defense right there
thank you,League. Can they have another?
Somewhere out there, Garvey, Cey, Lopes, and Russell are embarrassed at what has become of the Dodgers infield.
Did any League pitch miss a bat?
Game called due to suckiness by Dodgers.
Brandon League will be Atlanta's MVP this season.
It's going to be a cruel summer.
Little League.
Pee Wee League, indeed.
"The offense has slowed for the Dodgers." - Collins
How on fucking earth could it have gotten any slower than it already was?
How in the world can League face his teammates?
We have 3 hits and 3 errors thru eight. That's was 200 million plus gets us.
^ what
E-PJ
I have more faith in my sobriety than in the Dodgers scoring even two runs in this inning.
Awful Kemp.
That was the suckingest ass suckwaddish at bat I've seen in a long time, Kemp, and I've been watching all yours.
our new name: The Los Angeles Limbergers...what's your new name?
a walk; BFD
Dre and Kemp, use to be our Batman and Superman now our Punch and Judy.
It's raining because God is crying
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain.
I like watching the puddles gather rain.
PGTUP
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