Saturday night
Another night off for Raffy, whose back is still bugging him when he runs. Saito also went home again, as he’s still pretty sick. That leaves the lineup at:
Pierre, LF
DeWitt, 3B
Kemp, RF
Kent, 2B
Martin, C
Loney, 1B
Jones, CF
Hu, SS
Billingsley, P
Joe would like to give Kent tomorrow off, if he can. Perhaps he can watch Jason Schmidt thrown an inning in Lancaster.
Inside the Dodgers 
poor andre =*(
FU, Torre!
I don’t mind seeing the kid up in the 2-hole, but the rest sucks. Looks like we’ll need a lot of production from numbers two through six.
Bear – don’t hold back, its not good to keep it bottled up inside.! LMAO
Please come back soon Ferk.
LOL!!
Rider up!!!
I hear the thundering hooves of one of the four dead horsemen of the apocalypse…
Go get ’em bear!!!
The treatment of Ethier is awful, horrible, Torre-able. FREE ANDRE.
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At the risk of redundancy, as several of us have argued previously, with the offensive drop from Furcal to Hu, LA needs the offensive boost from Ethier, not Pierre. Martin can lead off for a couple days, as well also suggested earlier.
I cannot argue with any of the sentiments….Money matters, production does not….4 rbi for 18 mil in 36 games…thats impressive…Andre could not produce like that, that is why he is sitting…he is too productive!!!
I do not have an issue with Pierre, he is actually getting on base and stealing bases, Jones the only thing he hits is the buffet!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER…PLAY ETHIER
Does anyone know where I can get a “FREE ANDRE” t-shirt?
You should have them made and post them on this site and and we all will buy one….you will rich!!!
Don’t forget, for every Pierre and Jones you buy, you get a FREE ANDRE!!!
This better be the last time a team ever gives 38 million to a hitter coming off a season in which they hit under .230!!
Totally sucks for Ethier!
This Furcal injury is starting to worry me. First they said he’d be back last night, now tonight, I wouldn’t be shocked if he goes on the DL.
C’mon Billz, stop the bleeding!!
Joe is losing it. I thought he said that Pierre is a bench player? Didn’t he say a while back that Kemp, Ethier and Jones were the starters? More easy outs in the lineup, and then he’ll wonder why they don’t win. Just priceless!
We need some innings from our starters. Bills needs to be more economical with his pitches. And RUNS,RUNS,RUNS!!! No Bad Chad tonight.
All day long I said to myself, “I really don’t expect Ethier to be in the line up, tonight”.
Then I said,”If I’m right I’m going to forget all about him and when he’s in the lineup I will be very happy for him.”
You notice nobody even mentions it.
I tell you another thing, Hu could never replace Raffy.
With that said, we just better gets some hitting and take advantage of the D’Backs who have just comeback to earth.
LET’S GO BILZ!!!
It’s time we start an all out campaign to get Ethier in the batting order each and every night. How in the hell can Torre let the guy sit on the bench night after night, who led the team in HR’S and average in ST and can’t see that he would be a better fit than Pierre.
This totally sucks. Ethier should be a big part of the future of this team and he sits night after night.
We need a dp to end this before it gets started.
Wacthimng Billingsley pitch, win or lose, is excruciating.
Here we go again. I’m sick of the opposition getting runs in the first inning.
BAD CHAD’S BAAACK!!!
yup
March 30, 2008 LOS ANGELES – “Andre Ethier won the Dodgers’ starting left-field job from veteran Juan Pierre and will start Opening Day vs. the Giants on Monday, Los Angeles manager Joe Torre announced Sunday…. Torre said Pierre would start the season as a bench player pinch-hitting, pinch-running and being available to spell a starter.” LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! Where is your integrity, Joe???
Rats!!!
I suppose I’ll be going to bed early tonight in Illinois. Sick of our pitching allowing so many early runs and then we don’t have the horses to get back into the game. We need some long balls hit tonight.
You can complain about the lineup every day of your life but if we don’t get solid starting pitching we will not win no matter who we throw out there to bat. This actually is a serious issue and should be treated as such.
And the beat(ing) goes on.
Ever feel like you’ve been run over by a street car?!
What happened? they were so alive a week ago? Could Furcal’s influence been that deep? We have so much talent but now they all look dead… i wanted Kemp to break that bat… i want some fire when if they are struggling.
I think we’re witnessing a slow motion train wreck
Actually it is going very fast.
Maybe Bowa needs to trash the clubhouse buffet. That’ll stir Andruw up.
I think we’re witnessing the piano that Ned put together and hired Torre to play the tune on.
Also doesn’t help when the starting pitchers implode night after night.
Uggggggggggggggggggggggh!!!
Anybody wonder what Honeycutt is doing about this pitching fiasco, when we were supposed to have such a strong starting four. And Alex is absolutely right – we’re not going anywhere without much better pitching than we’ve shown so far.
Get Kuo up, Billz is meat.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
It looks like the Dodgers are back to their Jekyll & Hyde streaky ways.
Too bad Ethier can’t pitch. LOL
Kuo gets to be our Everyday Eddie. No offense could overcome this sorry starting pitching.
Holy Crap…………….A runner on first
I think that Bills needs a reality check – like going back to AAA for a while. I seem to remember that in spring Training he was trying to add a pitch or two, and I think he’s still working on it in the regular season instead of throwing his fastball with authority that got him into the starter position in the first place. Let’s turn over one of the starting spots to Wade and see what he can do. Might as well give Meloan a shot too, and then of course Kershaw.
Rider Up…
Tub Butt must have left a half eaten Jelly Roll in the dugout and wanted to get back to it.
Yea, Druw! Keep swinging – sooner or later even a blind man’s bound to hit one. What a big money piece of crap.
So many dead horses.
So little time…
We win 8 in a row and gain 4 games on the Dback’s and now were’ headed the other way. Luckily the Dbacks are losing too.
Where’s Dru’s head. Up his fat A**..
He’s stinking up the whole stadium.
Finally, a hit…
Just got in – WHAT IS UP WITH THIS LINE UP!!!
I CAN’T BELIEVE ETHIER IS NOT IN THE LINEUP !
Does Vin know why Andre Ethier is not playing?
He even said Pierre has cooled off batting 2 for 14.
What the hell!!!!
It sounds like Scully wants to say what a load of crap that Ethier is on the bench When Pierre is 2 for his last 11 ab’s but knows he can’t say it.
Remember that so much of baseball is mental. Team chemistry. Both good hitting and good pitching feed on each other. Some players are more affected by it than others. But if the current management decisions are so frustrating to the fans, it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out that it may also be affecting some of the players and ultimately the team’s performance. I don’t see how the current climate is very conducive to top performance.
Excuse me, 2 for last 15
We sure know how to make opposing pitchers look like superstars, who haven’t been worth a crap till they face us.
I am with you redfox, it’s becoming a team chemistry issue, somewhat similar to the end of last year.
Is it possible Torre is showing management that he can’t win with this line-up? Just a thought – I am trying not to believe he is this stupid.
It’s hard to tell how Bilz is pitching, good or bad, by looking at him.
I’m sure we all can see the Dodgers are either hot or cold there seems to be no in between.
Vin just described the Dodgers as being mystified by the Astro’s pitcher. Maybe they are just pissed off on how andre is getting screwed – just kidding
I am still baffled by this whole situation.
dnelson, I also wondered if Torre is trying to make a point to managment. It would be the opposite of when Tracy refused to play Choi – maybe Torre is playing Jones and Pierre until Colletti finally admits they are horrible and gets off his back.
Either that, or they are trying to sit Ethier until he finally starts complaining. Then they will get Plaschke to write an article about what a bad presence he is in the clubhouse, and Colletti will use that as an excuse to trade him.
No team can look good down so early night after night after night. Players are trying to hit a five-run homers. No small ball, no patience. Joe had a nice thing going…then he benches Ethier…then Raffy gets dinged and he compounds the situation with his brain-dead thinking that only little Juan can lead off.
As Scully said, We missed the good pitchers of the teams we’ve played so far. Otherwise, we might be 8 to 10 games behind.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!!
As redfox quoted, “Torre said Pierre would START the season as a bench player”
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Apparently enough games got played by the time the Dodgers got to Colorado that they were no longer STARTING the season.
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How does Ethier lose his job putting up this line:
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.291 / .376/ .447/ .823, 113 OPS+
A Tale Of Two Dodger Teams
It looks like, at least Bilz will get through his 6.
Ofcourse if he doesn’t revert to the way he started or Torre PH’s for him.
Nice Job James!!
The power is sitting on the bench Vin.
JOSH RAWITCH –
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Vin has said a couple times that Hu is more comfortable at 2B, that it has always been that way, and such things for a couple nights now. Would you please gently have someone point out to Vin that Hu has been **** throughout his minor league career and scouts consider him an excellent fielder at SS, major-league quality.
Damn, can’t Jones make contact with the ball. Whar’s wrong with his eyesight, or is he just pulling his head. Nobody could miss the ball as much as he does.
Jones, you stink……But you got lucky……….
A break, let’s crawl back in this game!!!!
LOL! That **** was “a shortstop” but with the SS abbreviation. (Maybe I typoed and dropped the space.)
We wanted Ethier We want Ethier.
Dear Mr. Steinbrenner,
I see where the Yankees are struggling. You must miss Joe. He’s the guy that got you all those rings, remember? Anyway, how about a swap? We give you back your old Joe and you give us your new Joe, you know, Girarde. We kind of wanted him first anyway. Besides, your old Joe will bring Mattingly back with him and that’s who you want for the future, isn’t it? And to sweeten the deal, we’ll give you our Ned for your Brain (you’re thinking of blowing him out soon, aren’t you?) and we’ll throw in Pierre, too, just because.
Mr, Steinbrenner, you’re a man of action and impulse. I know we can count on you. Thanks for your time. Please get back to us soon.
Sincerely,
Dodger Fans
Well, we squandered a golden opportunity there.
UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Come on Joe, this is bullsh**, Pierre stinks. Get Ethier in there. At least he has some power. Runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs and we can’t fu**ing score. This is bull. I’ve had it. I’m going to bed.
That was good, not!!!
Pierre’s aveage has now gone under Andre’s, can we switch now, please!
We also give you Loaiza a hof pitcher hahahaha and you guy need some SP’s hahahaha for your Chamberlain good deal.
Sorry kahliforni, but the Yankees are too busy offering Colletti LaTroy Hawkins for Andre Ethier right now.
WTF Pierre isn’t our worst problem is that fat Jones still in the lineup.
I thought Torre was going to try to push Bilz through the 6th inning like does, often.
Even with the 96 pitches.
He probably would’ve if that PH siituation didn’t pop up.
Anybody surprised that Hu, Sweeney and Pierre couldn’t bring a run in from thrid with nobody out? Sweeney has only 1 RBI, but Torre insists on giving him every premium pinch-hitting opportunity. What a waste! Isn’t Ethier worth at least a chance pinch hitting when some runs are in the offing? Don’t even answer that. Torre could manage the Yankees when he had the biggest payroll in the majors and a GM who knew how to use it some of the time. With Ned he’s got zilch, and he’s no magician, and probably not even a great manager any more.
Nice jump by JP on that ball.
You have Ethier and DY both on the bench but use Sweeney as the pinch hitter? What’s up with that?
c’mon messagebear, Sweeney is a PROVEN, VETERAN, PROFESSIONAL HITTER. 😉
You know he not going to used those 2 early just yet so stop complaining.
Dodgers remind me right now of the team we saw the first two weeks of the season. That’s bad for wins and losses but great for this blog. I much prefer our collective hate crimes than all the optimism of the last couple weeks. To further quote the movie Network that someone offered up a while back, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore…” Or something like that.
Vinny must be re-thinking his retirement plans. Why hang on for this front office mess?
Or to quote Cheswick in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, “I WANT SOMETHING DONE!!!”
I live up in nor-cal. Has Torre been asked directly why he is not playing Ethier? I guess I am asking about live interviews versus print. I am able to read what is being said, but I was wondering if he has done any live interviews on the subject down in LA. However, even the print articles are only about why he is playing Jones and Pierre and not about why he is not playing Andre.
The Dodgers only hope, a change of pitchers, next inning, if Sampson doesn’t continue, which doesn’t seem likely.
Something telling me he’s in Torre doghouse or is Ned decision.
STRIKEOUT NUMBER TWO!!
KUO & PARK should be our #1 & 2 starters.
Congrats to Maddux on finally getting his 350 wins.
Well I guess it wasn’t the pitcher.
Any pitcher could do it.
YES MADDUX 350
I wonder if Jones will score in the 9th and break the shutout.
Maybe we’ll score a run in the 9th again to avoid the shutout.
Oh that would be pretty hard since he be the 6th hitter up.
Bummer of a game. We laid another egg.
You got to hand it to our bullpen, in good & bad times.
Yep, bullpen is the only thing working right now.
Chan ho Park pitched another 3 good inning.
So win or lose there is some hope.
Beimel continues his mastery.
Our starters have to come around & our offense has to fined it again.
2 runs in 27 innings
Seems like old times.
Thanks to the Cubs for keeping us in the hunt today.
Back to the drawing board.
Ups and downs of any season, but we do have a great excuse. Our best player is hurt. But, the pitching. This starting pitching needs to turn it around.
Kent our fearless leader is flying under the Pierre, Jones radar. He’s been stinking it up also.
We just have to take it in stride
Don’t get frustrated and don’t lose hope.
This team is like the weather.
They have to find the in between and be more consistent.
Instead of these hot & cold streaks, which seemed to be going on for years.
Alex – yes, Furcal is our best player (especially this season). But if we had the chemistry going, the rest of the team would be sucking it up and winning for Furcal. Hard to have that chemistry when management is sitting one of the best players – Ethier. Don’t know if that effects the pitching, but the pitching really sucks right now. Is it contagious? Will Kuroda suck tomorrow?
Gotta salvage a game out of this series tomorrow.
Good point, jhall. Kent is 0 for 17 over the past five games.
To repeat Kahliforni,
PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER, PLAY ETHIER and if you have forgotten his name, his name is ANDRE ETHIER
Bats Left, Throws Left
19 runs
30 Hits
7 Doubles
3 Home runs
15 RBIs
OBP .376
SLG .447
Ave 291
BB 13
So 16
SB 2
This is just offense and that’s not bringing up his few diving catches and outfield assists. I hope there is reasoning behind this madness because right now, the other two outfielders are not matching up. As for Matt Kemp, I feel for him too having to put up being out there with those two.
5 Zip Houston: another testimonial to Torre’s managerial skills. Ethier doesn’t even make an appearance in the game. Young is wasting away on the bench. But it is important that we let the veterans get their swings in.
24-2 outscored in last 3 games.
Pierre leadoff. 2 walks.
thanks it was important that thatwas playing. With Hu playing, we might have had too much power in the lineup. As Alex says, not that it would have mattered. If baseball was a computer game and we could have played Ethier in place of Juan Pierre and Andruw Jones at the same time we still would have gotten killed.
like that was what he did in 3 games, walked 2 times. thats it. way to get things going. doubtful the ball even left the infield which i guess is a good thing. yawn. were a .500 team. i’d say we need to do something but the things that our management would do to do something would be worse than just hangin on and hoping that things just work out.
Should be obvious by now that Pierre is no lead-off hitter. But then, its should be obvious that a team with little power to begin with isn’t going to score much with one of its power guys sitting on the bench night after night.
Torre’s managerial skills have gone beyond the incredulous and have solidly set foot into the realm of the insane. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised since he’s a vet’s manager. Sweeney PH over Ethier in a situation where you could get back into the game is a classic example of both points.
(Note to Frank – if you’re committing to the youth movement, you’ve got to play them. You don’t hire an ex-Giant to run the team, and you don’t hire a vet’s manager to manage.)
As far as I’m concerned, Frank needs to clean house. That means firing that idiot Colletti, firing “HOF” manager Torre (isn’t it obvious that anyone can manage when you constantly have the best players money can buy?, which obviously leaves Frank out.) DFA Jones, Pierre, Sweeney, and Nomore. Hold onto Kent and Lowe long enough to get something for them at the trade deadline, do your homework and hire an ex-Dodger to be your manager, hire a tandem GM in White and Ng, and USE THE “R” WORD.
This team has absolutely NO DIRECTION. Another classic example – You’re going to hire Girardi who’s a kids manager, then when you can’t land him, you do a 180 and hire a vet’s manager, but you’ve still got the same young players. Colletti’s built a team that’s always going to hover +/- 10 games of .500. It can’t do anything else. It doesn’t commit to playing the youth. It doesn’t commit to playing viable vets. Is it getting younger or is it getting older? Nobody knows because one day its one thing and the next day its something else.
Until Frank gets a clue that his house is in disarray, it’ll continue to be the SOS.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY everyone!!!
I don’t know if most of you guys have seen this written by T.J.Simers
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Struggling center fielder dismisses jeers from Dodger Stadium crowd, saying ‘you play for the team, you don’t play for the fans.’
May 11, 2008
Since offering to go on a diet with Andruw Jones and getting nowhere with him, I’ve lost 14 pounds, so I checked in with the Tubbo on Saturday night to see how he was doing on his own.
“Have you lost anything?”
“I don’t care,” he said.
I shook my head in disbelief, and he said, “I don’t care what you think.”
“Do you care what anyone thinks?”
“I don’t care,” Jones said.
Saturday night the fans in Dodger Stadium booed Jones’ name when the starting lineup was announced. “Don’t you care that the fans in Dodger Stadium have turned on you?”
“No,” he said. “That’s their problem.”
I suggested that it’s not human for someone not to be bothered by booing fans in their own stadium, and he stuck out his tongue and made some noise.
“How do I write that down?” I said.
All together now: “I don’t care,” he said.
Without the fans, I said, there’s no reason for you to be here in Los Angeles playing baseball and no way you’re getting paid $36 million over the next two years.
“I don’t care,” he said. “You play for the team, you don’t play for the fans. The fans never played the game. They don’t know.”
tried to tell him he was taking the wrong approach with the fans here by saying really dumb things and reporting to work fat.
“Don’t you understand why people are upset with you? You sign a big contract and report to spring training out of shape. . . .”
“I disagree with you,” Jones said.
So I checked in with Joe Torre, and he said, “I think he could have been in better shape.”
I reminded Jones that I had lost 14 pounds and even had eaten a doughnut with the 7-Eleven Kid, and how does it look when the team’s center fielder has a bigger belly than the columnist writing about the team?
“Look at your belly hanging out of your shirt,” Jones said. “You’re probably going to die tomorrow.”
Both a Tubbo and clueless, which really isn’t a very good combination for the player with the highest annual salary in Dodgers history.
“unless I’m wrong, I sincerely believe the fans are the ones who ultimately pay Jones salary. Without the fans, he would be a less than average baseball player with no place to play or make 18 mil a year….
I sincerely believe Torre should sit (I don’t care) Jones and (punchless) Pierre for the next 10 games and play Ethier in left, Kemp in center and Young in right and see what this combination can do. It certainly won’t do any worse than we’re doing now.
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Play Ethier——Kemp—–Young
Andruw should be lambasted by Torre/Ned/Frank for those comments if true…If I were the owner and how impoetant I say the fans are, I would have him in my office and read him the riot act…You fat so and so, you do not play for the fans, without them you would be making .18 cents a month on some Carribean island. You will apologize or I will send you to a Fat Farm!!!!
Bench Andruw, he does not care that is the issue…if I get out, so what 36 mil baby I still get it! I know he is a competitor and I am sure that he is getting torn up by tis, but you should know as a 12 yr vet not to say the fans do not matter…..
Dodgers fans run his pillsbury A….. out of town!!!!!
All bets are off…
Jones – another symptom of the Colletti Dodgers.
Cure the disease and the symptoms will go away…
I was wondering about last nights game , why would Torre send up Sweeny with his 120 AVG. when he has Ethier on the bench hitting close to 300 with 3 home runs and 15 RBIs. The only thing that even makes a little sense is that for some reason, unbeknownst to me Dodger management is PO’d at Ethier for something, and this is their way of punishing him. What they don’t realize is that it’s affecting the team and it’s fans. Sweeney should be released along with certain other unproductive players just as the Pads did with Edmonds. At least then it would show that management will not tolerate bad performance from anybody. I know it won’t happen because all Frank and his people care about is how much money they can make, and not if their team wins or loses
Fat Andruw – the Dodger garbage of the year.
Colletti – Dodger garbage of the decade.
The smell and our prospects would be so much better without them both.
DODGER FAN’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
When in the course of Dodger events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the ties with management which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to their indignation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all players are NOT created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain superior talents, that among these are power, defense and the pursuit of a championship. — That to secure these rights, Blogs are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Blog created, — That whenever any form of tyranny becomes destructive to this team, it is the Right of the People to confront and attack it, and to demand new management, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Production and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that managements long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that fans are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and mistakes, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to question such management, and to provide new Answers for their team’s future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of this youth movement; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Management. The history of the present GM of Dodgers is a history of repeated blunders and miscalculations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over this team and fans. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
1.) The waste of millions of dollars on worthless Free Agents
2.) The contunual blocking of younger, stronger, better players.
3.) The constant addition of useless veterans.
4.) The consistant playing of inferior players.
5.) The inane prattle and lip service of management regarding said younger better players.
We, therefore, the fans of the Dodgers, in General, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Frank of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Blogs, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Fans are, and of Right ought to be Free of Ned Colletti, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Frank Crown, and that all fanatacism connection between them and the State of current namagement, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Bloggers, they have full Power to levy verbal War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Common Sense practices, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Bloggers may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Support, our Empathy, and our sacred Writings.
GIVE US LOGAN OR GIVE US NG!!!
Where do we sign enchanted?
Enchanted very well done, next time in laymans term, so us ordinary folk can understand! LOL…I am with you.
Hey enchanted, if it was only that easy to resolve this situation…
Frank doesn’t like bad press right?…
Maybe Simers or Jackson or somebody (we know it won’t be Plaschke) will pick up on fan sentiment and start to air it regularly.
GIVE US ANDRE OR GIVE US DY!!!
Laroche hit his 3rd home run yesterday. Time to bring him up.
Lucas May hit his 7th yesterday. He would be a much better relief catcher than what we have now. He has 6 more than our Tubbo, AJ.
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Let the kids play, hell they can’t do any worse than the vets now.
I was trying to get some positive information out of all this mess, so I always go fishing for stats. Eventhough Ethier hasn’t played for too many games now, he still remains in the top 5 in all Dodger batting categories, except for one (RBIs).
Pierre is in one (1st in stolen bases) and Jones is one (5th in runs)
So, eventhough Ethier is sitting on the bench, he is still beating the crap out of our other two “so-called” starting outfileders, and they have a long way to go to get there.
Absolutely terrific E!!!
I’ll sign!!!
Honest opinion? If Pepe Frias and the Staypuft Marshmallow Man are back in the line-up today and Ethier is on the bench, when the D’s take the field to start the game the stadium crowd needs to pick-up the chant AN-DRE AN-DRE. At least he’ll know he has fan support. Might also be a little embarrassing for management, not that they care.
JOSH:
Is there any way that next time you have ned answering questions that you could have him address what Andrew Jones told the Times about not caring about the fans. The fans are mighty frustrated that we have 2 very talented young outfielders and 2 overpaid veteran outfielders that are underperforming and taking valuable playing time from the talented ones who deserve the playing time.
Aside from Ned, does Frank or anyone else on the team care to address Jones’ comments.
Thank you,
I like the names enchanted. I think the chant for andre needs to be done every time Jones and Pierre come up to bat.
Torre, spoke with Triple-A third baseman Andy LaRoche on Thursday, telling him, “Nomar is coming back and Blake is playing well, but it’s 162 games so just make sure you keep working as hard as you can.”
This cracks me up…keep working your tail and produce, why? so he can stay in AAA and be the MVP….The younger players are going to get demotivated, if you are overpaid and you do not produce you play, underpaid (not that any of them are) and produce you sit….where is the motivation, the rainbow with the pot of gold…this is insane….
Martinloneykemp and leefink can lead the charge on the chants. I also meant to say in addition to intros for the starting lineup. I think it needs to be done as often as possible. Also, if Andre is in the lineup, it needs to be done for DY.
Isn’t it ironic, those opposed to the Blogger Declaration of Independence who are loyal to Frank and Ned, are the TORRE’S.
I agree cosmow. We need to hear from Ned in answer to the fans question as to why the management does not attempt to put the best team on the field. We as fans want to win. Lets also address our pitching problems.
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Maybe it would be much better to bring up Kershaw and a couple more pitchers and let them start games and let Lowe and Penny and our struggling pitchers relieve.
That’s really perceptive, jhall – the TORRE’S. Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
Here’s a quote from the Riverside Press-Enterprise:
“Yet every time Andruw Jones, his sickly .174 batting average and his bloated two-year, $36.2 million contract are booed at Dodger Stadium, a portion of those boos are almost certainly directed at the general manager’s box.”
I think that is also very perceptive on the writer’s part, and sooner or later it ought to have some impact on McCourt – I don’t think he will like being LA’s laughing stock, but he deserves it.
Channel 5 News at 10:00 with Hal Fishman and Larry McCormick…
Frank McCourt finds Dodgers fans revolting.
(And yes, you can read that both ways.)
Instead of insulting his weight just ask him, 52 times this year you came up with Runners on and got 4 hits so far and 27 times all u needed to do was get a hit to score a run and u have succeeded so far 1 time, does that help the teamates?
Questions for Ned, why doesn’t management recognize that they have to put their best team on the field to win games. Why are they keeping under productive over paid players when other teams would have already released them? What does Ethier have to do to play everyday?
“I just don’t believe he can’t hit any more,” Torre said.
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Two talent evaluators aren’t so sure. Neither one was authorized by his club to speak publicly about Jones.
“I don’t see anything that would make him better than a fourth outfielder,” an American League evaluator said.
His bat speed has slowed, the evaluators said, a trend that generally does not reverse itself unless an injury explains the decline. Of course, his bat would look quicker with a flurry of home runs.
In 2005-06, Jones ranked fifth in the National League in slugging percentage, at .553. In 2007-08, he ranks 80th, at .389.
He strikes out as never before, and he struggles even when he makes contact. In 2005-06, when Jones put a fastball in play, he hit .363, according to STATS LLC. In 2007-08, that average is .305.
“If I were the opposing team, I’d throw him nothing but fastballs until he proves he can hit them,” an NL evaluator said.
That evaluator said he clocked Jones — while beating out an infield hit — at 4.7 seconds to first base.
“That’s what a catcher runs,” he said.
And, although the Dodgers trumpet defense, the evaluators independently made the same observation about Jones: He used to play notoriously shallow, daring anyone to hit balls over his head, knowing he could race back and catch them. Now he plays deep, so balls drop in front of him.
Two statistical measures — zone rating and range factor — suggest Jones ranks as an average center fielder.
Jones weighed 210 pounds during his glory years with the Braves. He weighed 248 this spring, so perhaps the decline in speed and range can be reversed.
“I’m not saying he’s not overweight,” Torre said.
They should send AJ to a fat farm and put him on the DL till he loses 38 pounds and then to AAA for rehab.
going back to our question and answers w/Ned..you can hire me for 105k with benefits and i’ll be your research and stats guy. lol
New thread with lineup – Ethier and Young are in (Young at 2nd base)
To bring up an issue Jungar has so aptly pointed out many times:
2008 Dodgers payroll: $ 118,188,536
2008 Dodgers payroll playing Jones, Nomore and JP: $ 118,189,536
2008 Dodgers payroll playing Ethier, DY and DeWitt: $ 118,189,536
Wouldn’t it behoove management therefore to play the best players regardless of individual salary? If on the otherhand management can look you in the eye and with a straight face declare that AJ, NG and JP are the better players, then there’s something so fundamentally wrong with this regime as to be irreparable.