Haunted hotels...

AWESOME LINE-UP. Thank you, Grady.

Ethier should be LF.

Haha. I beat you to it today Jon. No. I will not say I want the Dodgers to win the World Series in 2007 because I don’t want them too. I want the Dodgers to crash and burn. I hate the Dodgers for what they did to me by firing Paul DePodesta. I was so happy in 2005. I used to post at http://www.dodgers.cc all the time as BluetotheExtreme. I even used to refer the Dodgers as ‘we’ on that site. As if I and the Dodgers were one.
I don’t do that anymore. The only reason I follow the Dodgers is to root for failure and talk smack to the real Dodger fans on various forums (until I get banned) when the team is struggling. When the team is playing well I stay hidden in my iggy bin.

Still want to thank you Jon for not banning me. You’re the only one. Glad to know I have a home at your forum. Thanks again man. Your regulars, I know, appreciate my insight. Like when I tell them Saito’s K/BB ratio, or inform them that Werth is the Phillies starting outfielder, or praise someone’s patience, when I say, “wow that was ugly”.

Take care Jon. And forget about the $1000. It’s not happening friend.

Yeah...Jayson Werth is in the Phillies starting lineup batting .244!!! He's so great!! **rolls eyes**

According to that article about the haunted hotel there in Tampa it appears that one of the main setup men (Scott Williamson) for Grady Little in the '03 playoffs in Boston was seeing ghosts in a hotel earlier in the year. That's comforting to know.

By the way Joey P., how about your good friend JD Drew? Here's his numbers compared to Ethier's.

AB H HR RBI AVG OB% SLG%

Drew 210 51 6 30 .243.346 .386

Ethier 210 57 6 29.271 .323 .419

Very nice work there--- thats nice to see...

Man that is a really good lineup right there! Tampa Bay also has a solid lineup and are capable of putting up a lot of runs. Gotta start off strong with Lowe on the hill. If you look at the pitching matchup a lot of people would say this is a gimmie. But, that's why you play the game. Nothing is for sure in this game. And Tampa Bay can flat out hit. The Pads have to deal with Matsuzaka and the Red Sox in probably the most interesting series of the weekend right up there with the Yankees and Giants. Good stuff this weekend.

Go Dodgers!

Vote for Martin!

I'm not worried about Drew. He's a stud. He'll have the numbers by the end of the season.

And like i posted over at DodgerBlues as ArubanPolice...if the Padres avoid injuries they'll win the division by 5-7 games. (I dare not post such a thing on dodgerthoughts. I'm kind of cowardly ya know. I want them guys to think I'm a true Dodger fan.)

BTW....Ethier's making about 14 million dollars less per year than Drew. Even Drew's OBP% is very low. What happened to your Princess???

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Joeyp's hatred for the Dodgers must be kept a secret. Do not discuss it.

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Lowe has given up 1 run or less in 4 of his last 5 starts in which he has a 3-1 record... Not to shabby...

mmmmmmmmmm

I'm not a Drew fan, but to be fair, he has a .926 OPS in June. Imagine if we could insert that kind offense in place of Juan Pierre.

joeyp how about your other boys how are they doing- Choi, Navarro, Guzman, Bradley I can't imagine this team without Martin that's our heart & soul! This is by far the best line up in the west please keep this line up Grady!!!!

Got to approve of this lineup. Does that mean if we win, we can keep the same for tomorrow, or is Grady going to screw around with it.

I forgot Valentin that was a great pick up

Kudos to management for inserting Kemp in there, Josh put 2 RF'ders today?? i'm sure Kemp will be in Right & Ethier in Left.

diehard...you cant fault Depo for Valentin. He got hurt and as we saw last year with the Mets he could still hit. Unlike Schmidt, Valentin showed no signs of an injury when signed he got injured on a freak play at the plate.

Ok, this could be cool. Tomorrow night, the Dodgers will be wearing their 1955 Brooklyn Dodger uniforms while the Rays will wear uniforms of the St. Petersburg Saints of the Florida State League. Thanks to Tony Jackson's blog.

No but I rather keep a defensive player that hits for average his three previous seasons before he came to LA he hit
.216

.237

.249

not to mention all the strikeouts and errors I hate that guy.

sweet. i love retro nights. awesome lineup. i sure hope we win or we'll never see it again. ever.

I love the line-up...Best one i've seen to date

Hey everyone! Including you lostmysoul321....

DO NOT FEED THE TROLL!!!

Very nice lineup... we should score our share tonight.

Go Kuo!!

Go Dodgers!!

this is great, everyone needs to stop talking to this joey P. you guys dont have to bash every depo move when he posts, you cannot sense the sarcasm? ignore the troll. next person to debate with the troll should be banned. it is so pointless.

I apologize for feeding the troll that is Joey P. and his man crush on Depo.

1) I guess Pierre covers so much ground that he doesn't need a left fielder. :) Either than, or Kemp and Ethier play rock, paper, scissors to see who gets right or left.

2) Nice game last night for just about everybody, really. Pierre went back to having shorter plate appearances, but otherwise all was good.

3) Nomar's absence from the lineup makes me wonder if his room was haunted. He seems like the most superstitious one on the team.

4) Dioner Navarro isn't doing so well. He's thrown out 23% of baserunners and he's hitting .170/.241/.240. That line just screams revenge for Julio Lugo.

5) Sonnastine has had 3 major league starts, and his big weakness is the longball (6 in 19 IP!). He seems to throw strikes, just some that aren't very good ones from a pitcher's perspective. I don't see our guys striking out a whole lot without swinging, so this promises to be a fun game. Especially since we have Lowe pitching.

Yeah, nice lineup too.

Lowe has given up 1 run or less in 4 of his last 5 starts in which his record is 3-1... Not to shabby...

If everyone keeps on letting this Joey P character get to them, we will have to put up with his bologna forever. It's as simple as how to get rid of a bully...don't let him get to you.
GO Blue.

P.S.

Even though I'm happy to see Loney in the lineup, I hope Nomar gets a chance to pinch hit, he's still one of our best-despite what the blogging community has to say.

randy, Nomar is still o.k in my book but i really wish he'd see more pitches, you don't think the other teams know he's a 1st pitch hitter & counter him with that defect?

Please make sure Juan Pierre is checked into room 1408.

Please --- will somebody tell me the reasoning behind batting Furcal in the leadoff spot rather than Pierre.... Just Curious..

Like most of you, I do think that this is the best lineup so far this season...

Nomar is on pace for a historically bad season for a Dodger first basemen. His average with RISP is about all he has going for him.

If Nomar's name wasn't Nomar Garciaparra he would be on the bench, in the minors or DFA'd

This is scary! The first night in Toronto nobody liked the lineup Grady put out there and they scored 10 runs. Every one posting tonight seems to really like this lineup, so we'll probably just win 3-0.

You folks realize your having a conversation with someone impersonating the person you don't like(JoeyP) and also impersonating a gentleman(Jon) who has more Dodger blue in his pinky then the rest of you have in your whole bodies. To mock a man who everyday shows his love for the Dodgers based on the time and feelings he puts into his blog is pathetic.

As far as Joey goes, he bugs everyone but battle it out in an honest an open way, not this cowardly backdoor **** your pulling.

Six of the nine batters in tonights lineup could very well be in our future lineups for years & years to come..
Sure hope they continue to mature & improve (Furcal already there) in the weeks, months, years to come...

I hope they will all be together for a long, long time & bring us many winning seasons...

This ought to be a good lineup. I hope Gonzo comes through in the DH role. He's been playing so well lately and it's just killing people here in Arizona!

I'd like to see them roll over the Devil-Rays, this way maybe we'll see more of Kemp and Loney and Either in the same line-up.

That's good strategy, 2 right fielders. I would expect to find one of them in LF. One good thing about the DH, it helps give players more of a chance to play. I watch Joe Torre play around with his line up everday and he has various combinations. But I'm a traditionalist I like the old fashion way. Once the game begins.

I love the line-up and agree that there should be no lack of production here. I hope Lowe keeps to form and tears up these Rays (can we have a moment of silence for the late but great Steve Irwin "Bi-Crickie let's get those Rays") sorry i just had to!!!!!!!

GO DODGERS!!!!!

GO LOWE!!!!!!!!

VOTE 4 MARTIN!!!!!

Hating a baseball team is one thing, but to me Joeyp is just frustrated. But it's interesting. It's like actually rooting backwards.

I am also in the "I love this lineup" camp.

What bothers me is why? If I analyze it one of our vets is sitting and one is DHing.

So we really only have on vet in there, Kent. Of course Furcal is not a youngster type youngster, and Pierre has been around the game a few years.

So maybe I'm just rambling and worrying about nothing!!! Think I'll just sit back, pop a brewski, and enjoy the evening.

hey joeyp, you remind me of dennis quaid in major league 2. Go Dodgers!

What's with the idiot screaming in the background?

What a Stud!

Wasn't that Randy Quaid in ML2?

Yes fisher, it was RANDY.

good looking out fisher. Nice job gonzo.

GONZO!!!!

Gonzo with his patented sweet HR stride!

Loney follows with his beautiful swing for a double

I used that one about Max just a few days ago wanted to make sure I had not posted wrong.WTG Loney!

I'm liking this!

sorry to take your line. New to the blog.

THE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no prob its a Blog everyone is free to say what they will with proper respect to the Topic and Welcome!

what a difference our third batter steals a bag and the young guys are smacking the ball everywhere!!!!

I don't hate Nomar but there is no way that guy should still be batting third!!

I'm liking Gonzo more and more Maybe Gonzo to 3 and Martin to 5 with Nomar doing the mop up in the 6 hole.

The Kids & Gonzo !!!!

Raffy - It's OK if you want to contribute also...

Given as we already have the highest paid hitting coach, and Schmidt could be the very highest paid pitching coach, I wish we'd make Nomar the highest paid public relations man and keep him out of the lineup period.

I can't wait to finally see Kershaw in the future's game!!!

Raffy sure didn't look like he was running allout to 1st on his groundout.

Lowe & Penny Lethal combo!!!!

Nice play Kemp!

Martin doing his Nomar impersonation on that one....

4 straight batters have hit the ball well off Lowe, he needs to get through this.

Loney Needs to play 1st everyday!

Thanks to the tremendous glove of Loney, he did

We all see & agree who should probably be hitting 3rd or more to the point, who SHOULDN'T be hitting there....

However, I can almost guarantee Nomar will be hitting 3rd tomorrow....

It simply blows my mind that Grady doesn't see what is ovbiously apparent to everybody else on the planet...

Did you just see that play by Loney ??? Just another reason why....

Loney...yeah you all know the rest

What a Beautiful swing stayed back and waited still pulled it through.And Kemp follows suit!

THE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Kids are at it again !!!
Let's keep it going...

awwww man......

You're no doubt right, rwbjr0 about Nomar returning to his usual spot tomorrow. There's no way that Grady will let him sit out two days. That's the shame with this team - we just don't want to play the best components, because we have so much money spent on the veterans, and they have EGOS.

Its a shame it took Kemp and Loney this long to be on the big club together. I could watch this alllllllllllllll year long.

Loney and Kemp are our next 3-4 hitters.

Max --- I'm sure your right... Hope it stays that way for years to come...

Welcome to the Bases Raffy!

Here we go ---
It's BIG INNING time ---

YES 1-2 Punch Great ab by JP!

What a tremendous at bat by Pierre, send them in Martin!

RUSSELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL MARTIN

SUPERSTAR!

Is there any question who should be hitting 3rd??????????????

MAN-CRUSH!

THE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really enjoying this game.

The only thing that keeps me from jumping aboard the Martin#3 train is the worry of burning him up.I want him in the game catching as many as possible.Thats the only reason I'd keep him in the 5 spot.

Headsup Play By Abreu!

Good point fisher

MATT. KEMP. OWNS.

click click

Clack...

Gotta quit wasting opportunities here and put this game away.

It must be mandated that the #3 hitter swings at the first pitch...They need to change that!

Loney is just Unreal at 1st base ----
A Gold Glover for years to come....

Agreed

This game is getting to close for comfort...

Please guys, Don't waste another great outing by D Lowe

That pitch was Nasty!

i'm still not comfortable when seanez come in...keep fingers crossed

Phew!

On to Bills and Saito now we still need a run or 2 to keep it comfortable.

WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!KENT TRIPLE STOP THE PRESSES!!!!

i bet kent is made that Young made him have to run that far.

old man showin some wheels!!!

mad*

nice triple by kent...it was fun to watch him run

some much needed insurance on the way

mad?Max?

The Old Timers !!!!!!!!!!

Ha Ha Ha

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHA!!! who would think it

HAHAHA the old guys with back to back triples...niiiice

Ok, there is something we will never EVER see again. But,***** am I glad I did tonight!

This is looking Much Better!

I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW

I don't believe what I just saw

haha kent and gonzo are gonna need some extra Geritol tomorrow.

and james loney comes through. Nomar who?

WOW OLD MAN TRACK MEET!!! Followed by some clutch kiddie corp action gotta love this line-up!

This team is fun to watch boy!

It's a Gatorade Moment!

The Kids with all their ENTHUSIASM have ignited this team...

I agree rwbjr, this team has a different feel to it with this line-up

I voted for Milton Bradley 250 time for the as taem along with navarro and Lugo.....

Welcome aboard Tony!

I love kiddie ball. I know that sounds like something a pedophile would say but they give the team a whole new look and feel and its much much much more exciting to watch.

THE KIDS !!!!!!!

THE OLD TIMERS !!!!!!

THE TEAM !!!!!

Great fun to watch ....

Are you kidding me if grittle starts nomar tomorrow I'll be on suicide watch!

Wonder what it must be like for Nomar --- Watching the Future pass him by...

i bet Nomar DH's tomorrow. Loney at first and Gonzo gets the day off with Kemp in Right and Either in Left.

Nomar would be an insane super sub pinch hitter utility player.Can you imagine DS in the playoffs with Nomar Pinch hitting with risp during a rally?

fish turn in your resume to colletti!

Why he need some remodling work?

I'll one up you Max a few weeks back Little said Kemp would play center against lefties and we haven't faced a lefty since he said that. Tomorrow is that day, Gonzo in left, Kemp in center, Ethier in right, not quite sure who DH's yet, Martin will DH tomorrow or Sunday, if not tomorrow Nomar is the obvious choice to DH with Loney at first.

I think Nomar would be a good piece to try and trade before the break. Honestly the Yankees need a first basemen. Maybe Nomar for a b or c level prospect but I think Loney is poised to take over now.

we all know Cashman likes those big names.

wow Max ...I Agree!

fisher..i think **** just froze over.

But Nomar would have to approve it and I'd much rather push him into a utility role first so we can get his blessing.

Nomar would never accept a trade to the Yankees, this team is SO deep. I love it so much because we can rest certain players and still play with talent good enough to win. It's such a great thing to have and the dividends will be shown later in the season.

lol Eagles Rock!

Geeze thats his 3rd first pitch swing that one made it but whats up with that?