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And, here is our lineup:
Punto, 2b
Victorino, cf
Gonzalez, 1b
Ramirez, ss
Ethier, rf
Cruz, 3b
Rivera, lf
Ellis, c
Kershaw, p
With Billz and Jansen probably finished for the year….what the hell are we going to do? Is Ned going to get pitcing, or will we bring several up from the minors?
He’s got less than 30 hours to bring in pitching that will help us in the post-season.
Pretty scary, isn’t it?
Lucky me, I will be at tonight’s game and hopefully will get there in time to see the festivities.
It would be tough enough to lose either Jansen or Billz, especially with the way he has been pitching. Losing both along with Elbert makes things that much harder.
I’m so jealous. This is by far the all time best bobble-head!
I finally checked out the Dodgers remaining schedule vs. that of the Giants. Now I know what everyone was talking about. Dodgers will be VERY hard pressed to not only catch Gnats, but even secure a wild card. Too bad. I thought September was about playing within the division; guess that was a long time ago when there were only two divisions per league. Instead, Dodgers get Cards, Nationals and Reds. Ouch. Gnats don’t play anybody decent.
That’s all true. Also, we are hosed when it comes to starting pitching. But it’s still too early to say “wait til next year”!
Very excited to be here. hisla rge family will be here too!
-Emma
I saw you in the audience at the town hall meeting with Stan Kasten on Dodgers Live after tonight’s game.
Just what is the team’s fascination with Punto?
And, I thought we got Victorino because we needed a proper leadoff man. Does Donnie know what the hell he’s doing?
Well, don’t even answer that.
I will let others decide if Donnie knows what he is doing but Victorino has been a big disappointment so far, especially as a lead off hitter.
It used to be “if you’re a second baseman, you must bat second”. Now all of a sudden, it’s “if you’re a second baseman, you must lead off”.
Donnie is:
A) On drugs – he needs to be tested.
B) Still the same as he ever was – a loser – couldn’t even win when he played for the Yankees.
C) Joe Jr.
D) All of the above
E) B and C
( E )
Yep, his ailment can be neither caused nor cured by drugs.
( 😉 )
Guess that’s why it’s said you can never have to much pitching.
Look out! Guerrrrrrrrier is back!
Oh, crap!
How many different line-ups had Donnie used in his not quite 2 years? Team chemistry? He wouldn’t know what that was if it came up and bit him in the ass. Not going to go anywhere as long as he’s the manager, and that includes this year making the playoffs.
Let’s say there are 30 games left this season ……so, Donnie has managed 294 games ….. of those, I’d say he’s used the same lineup around 4 times……Ta-Da….the grand total is 290 different lineups 🙂
Hi everybody.
Hello, Oldbrooklynfan. Going to be a great Dodger Blue night.
Hope so .
I see Donnie’s really got the troops motivated again tonight.
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
My favorite line from TJ Simers’ article two days ago:
“”I don’t know about embarrassing,” says Mattingly, who then goes on a baseball-filled cliche filibuster in an effort to downplay the effect of three consecutive losses to crummy teams.”
Isn’t that all Joe was? One long filibuster cliche? Donnie has no business managing a lemonade stand let alone a ML team.
You would have enjoyed the pre-game show….Lyons singing the praises of Donnie-boy….should be considered manager of the year….I almost lost my dinner!
Truth be told, Bochy has done a great job, considering Wilson was lost for the year and Lincecum was kidnapped by aliens.
Hope the great Punto experiment has run its course.
Well, that’s ballgame. Guess I’ll check back in on Sunday to see if we’re 7 1/2 out.
Well that could have been much worse. That was a timely twin killing!
I’m sure glad Punto is playing instead of Ellis!
2 more chances.
LAST CHANCE.
Phooey!
Disappointing!
Runs are at a premium…
Lately, I’ve been watching games that I recorded on DVD. Either live or prerecorded, it’s been torture watching the team sinking fast.
With the new, high priced talent, I still have hope for this season.
Gee, what’s this country and the game of baseball coming to if you can no longer buy a championship?
As Ron White said, “You can’t fix Donnie.”
Oh wait, that’s “You can’t fix stupid.”
Outstanding!!! LMFAO!!!!
Maybe we can buy a few runs . . . .
I’m hoping Kasten is taking notes during the free fall. No excuses and no injury alibis. I’m still waiting for Donnie to put a play on; seems he plays not to lose, fearful of any gambles. It’s the National League, for heaven’s sake. The stagnant offense is no aberration. We should have Dodger pedigree running the show, not a Gnat GM and a Yankee manager.
Great post, Kahli!
Hello Gang….
I’m still around and following our Dodgers… Alot has happened since I last posted. Seems like our new owners have alot more money than brains. I guess we will see. The Ethier contract was ill advised in my opinion. He’s great in April and May but doesn’t do squat after that. I’m glad to see the Loney era over. I can’t really get behind the team until they get rid of Nedcompoop. And, Juan Uribe…..
Miss you Tru!!! I’ll be back soon…..
Hi, Jhall…..the sooner you are back, the better! We all miss you a lot.
Wally!! Good to see you, sir! Hope all is well, or at least reasonable, with you.
Good news comes in threes???!!!
1) Hey Wally! Good to see you!
2) Giants lost to Cubbies today 6-4
3) Kemp is back in the lineup tonight.
Nice….watched the gnats lose,
I wish there were a 4) as in Uribe DFA.
This is just a corollary to 3) but I’m also happy about
5) Rivera doesn’t start tonight
or…6) Kennedy not playing 😉
You know it has been a disappointing night at the ballpark when the highlight of the evening is watching Vinny, via his grandkids, throw out the first pitch. Not sure how many of you heard the postgame show on the radio last night but Kevin Kennedy and even Rick Monday sounded like many of you when questioning why anyone needs rest at this time of the season and why the Dodgers don’t have the best players available on the field.
Resting regulars this late in the season is how Joe did it…and Donnie is Joe’s clone. I really am kind of shocked that Donnie hasn’t carved more of an original niche for himself. He even knows how to ding pitchers’ arms like Joe. If new ownership is all about winning, I’m not sure how Mattingley has any kind of job security. It’s not like he’s “hit the ball out of the park” as a manager these past two years.
I would rather see Ethier bat in front of Hanley but does it matter?
Please Harang…..don’t let them hang!
Hi everbody
I’m watching the game on my Netpad, MLB.Extra innings has the Dodgers on a bad channel and I couldn’t get MLB.TV up on my PC.
I’m listening to it on the audio KLAC on my PC.
Don’t you love multi-tasking?!
I can’t believe it. Haha
Come on Harang…Please have a great game
Need a win boys
Damn Andre
Normally catches that
Whew got out of that
Donnie’s got probably the best coach of running in the game in Lopes, that’s why they brought him in in the first place. So why is it they never run, never hit and run, never bunt, never run and hit. Nothing.
You would like to think that the average human being would be intelligent enough to learn and get a better grasp of things in two years of on the job training, but I seriously doubt Donnie could grasp what it takes to even be a Wal-Mart greetor.
Did you see, Jhall stopped by earlier?
I did!!! Hope he stops back by soon! Need some laughs 🙂
I think the team needs him too chew them out! Our tactics aren’t working.
run and hit….Damn Harang u can’t lay a bunt?
Now I have Charlie and Rick.
Come on Dodgers
nice Harang….RUNS
Billingsley has started 25 games, Harang is starting his 26th. They each have FIVE sacrifice bunts. Do the math. Just what DID the pitchers do in spring training with the bat?
So much for Donnie’s meeting…Goodnight game over
Harang is hanging his pitches.
Kind of hoping for Cahill to make some mistakes.
They have booed enchanted
Good. Kasten, Magic and the boys need to know people aren’t happy with what’s going on.
We sure aren’t!
Sorry didn’t mean to get in between u 2 lol
Wow! Punto really scorched that one!
Nice slide Punto….Way to go Mark!
wow 2 runs
That was 2 for 3 with RISP.
Donnie needs four runners on base to score any runs. Station to station at its worst.
All the years I’ve watched baseball crash, I’ve never seen anything like it. Certainly not to the level that this team has taken it.
Matt decided to take matters into his own hands (or I should say legs)!
Good to see Kemp draw a walk, steal second and tag up and go to third.
Way to go Dre!
Attaway Andre’
Nice now let’s win this damn game
GrrrRear coming in….keep your fingers crossed.
Nope, he went with Tolleson.
I’m sure now that they’ve tied it that there’s nothing to worry about. Afterall, we’ve got League and Choke in the pen 😉
Oh crap!
Your boy Tolleson got an out.
I think he’ll be a good pitcher Tru, but they’ve brought him along awfully fast. I really think he’d benefit from some more time in the minors.
He did great….1-2-3 inning! So, now Donnie will send him down 😉
Nice job Tolleson
What a bench we have!!!
I’ll bet after the call ups tomorrow….Kennedy & Uribe will never get an at bat again. Oh, wait, Donnie is manager, scrap that!
There going to be much for call-ups? Isn’t Alb. in the playoffs?
I don’t know what they will do.
Whew! Beli was worrying there.
Enchanted…Alb is in the playoffs…Sorry if u knew that
Cruuuuz,, awesome play!
A play like Cruz just made could give me hope.
Some better clutch hitting could give me hope.
Nice job League…..wow, I thought Sellers had a lot of tattoos…this guy is loaded….I like him!
Think next time we see any mention of our bench it’ll be in the obituary column.
lol…true!
Thought we traded Loney to Boston…
Oh, crap, guess who’s pitching?!
Shit!
POOF!!
Thanks Grrrear!
Figures …game over for sure now
I don’t know why League couldn’t go one more inning….he hardly threw any pitches!
Donnie had to give our awesome bench a chance to exercise their muscles.
I understand that Kubel was long overdue.
We’re so long overdue they’ve sent out a search party.
Damnit Guerrrrrrrrrrrrier
Sure hope AJ comes through – Uribe’s on deck! No es bueno!
I’d walk AJ just to get to him.
You know, a real manager might’ve had Hanley try and steal second so he could score on a single.
Question of the night: What’s a real manager, Beav?
Think we’ll have to consult the Dodger history books sparks, we haven’t seen one around these parts for years.
Yep, but if you look closely, you just might see a few in the first base dugout.
He would have scored! Donnie is an idiot! He really needs to go!
Tru, he spent his entire career in the American League and has no clue as to how we play in the National League. But that doesn’t excuse his idiocy – which, unfortunately, is not curable.
RATS!!!
And so ends another night of watching Donnie fail as a manager.
In honor of Wally: UNACCEPTABLE PATHETIC FUTILITY!
Well we almost won. I guess the D’bags still own us.
I’m off to watch Star Wars – see you all tomorrow night.
Guess it’s Donnie-bashing night…nothing else to do. My one beef with the bottom of the 11th inning was the 3-1 pitch to Cruz. Donnie HAS to run and hit there. Now, that was the pitch Cruz singled on, and even running, Hanley probably stops at third; it was a hard-hit ball. But the message Donnie sends to his players is a negative one. The worst thing that Cruz could do on a 3-1, run and hit, is to swing and miss. Anything else is fine. And even then, Ramirez has a good chance of stealing 2nd base. So Donnie is basically telling Cruz you’re going to swing and miss and he’s telling Ramirez you’ll get thrown out. The SAFEST thing to do is just what Donnie did. What would Lasorda do…or better yet, what DID he do a million times? Take the gamble.
Fast pitch softball used to be a big deal in this region, some pretty good teams in Utah and Colorado. I was on a team at one time that was loaded with talent, but personalities never meshed, and the team was flat. We were consistently outplayed by lesser teams. But that is where any comparison to the Dodgers ends. I guess the point is, these fellows have not had the chance to jell as a unit or may never do it at all. It rather looks like to me they are being pushed out of the race by a bunch of also rans. You’d think these millionaires would start to earn their pay soon, but they may not.
Pretty disappointing, but like Johnny said, “I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.” Maybe they’ll turn it around, it’s Sept. 1st, so it will have to be soon. Like now.
Grizzy, not sure why some teams go flat but never having been in this situation myself, I can only relate to what I see as a fan. We hear about “chemistry” all the time in sports but most of us have no idea what it really means. I caught part of an interview with Davy Lopes on the radio pregame show last night and he was talking about it sometimes helps to have some player conflicts and a little anger. He was also asked how Lasorda handled the tough times and Davy commented about how Tommy would constantly remind each player about how much better Tommy believed that player was over the opponent. I got the sense Davy was disappointed at how the players have responded to the challenge. He made it clear he believed the problems have nothing to do with effort or desire but all about execution.
I’d like to execute a few myself 😉
lbirk, Tommy was the ultimate motivator. Hell, I was motivated as a Dodger fan and I’m just some slug sitting at home. His reign as a manager was the golden era. I never had one doubt the Dodgers would “run through a brick wall” for him. He learned his craft at AAA Spokane. The guy was always a winner. Mattingley? If you’re new ownership, and you’re trying to build a souped-up, high performance automobile, are you going to hand the keys to Mattingley? Let him learn about managing for a decade in some American League outpost like Cleveland.
Damn Kahli, what have you got against Cleveland?
Bad cartoon spinoff?
Iknew I was letting myself open by using the word “execute”.
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lbirk-thanx for the Lopes comments. I don’t get that stuff out here.
Hi Everybody
Ready for another night of Dodger baseball.
I see Fed-Ex, Ely & Guerra were called up for the expansion. I’m glad they didn’t call up more….However, a “bat” would have helped.
That was sure a strong first inning for Beckett.
So much for that rirst inning.
I see you! Finally an early run!
That’s HANLEY’s 9th HR as a Dodger, already.
This HP Ump is pathetic!
At least Upton’s homer was a solo!
That lead certainly didn’t last long.
We will get it back…have faith 😉
Sure a gruesome twosome we have leading off.
Can make it a threesome when you add Adrian Loney.
I would have Cruz or A.J. up there….of course, I’m just a dumb fan!
Another pretty sharp inning for beckett but Wheeler made him work.
Cruz hit it hard again but to no avail.
0 for 5 with RISP.
Doesn’t this offense ever do ANYthing? They ought to watch the Ducks football team. That offense knows how to get things done.
Sometimes…
Glad Donnie had that talk with them. I hate seeing this team when it isn’t all fired up.
DRE!!!!!!!!!
Thank-you Andre!
Like now..DRE..
Uh, oh….pitching change!
Beckett pitched another nice game and I hope he gets the win tonight.
Hey we got a run!
Beckett pitched a nice game tonight.
I know it’s late………yeah Hanley and Andre!!!
Never too late 😉
Maybe they need the good luck from you.
Please get them out Mr. Wright!
Nice!
And now we test the Jansen-less bullpen with a one run lead.
A run or two would be appreciated……especially with us being Jansen-less.
A walk….good start.
Hey…Shane draws a walk.
Hey Donnie, see what can happen when you actually run.
Gotta score Shane now … runner on third, no outs. Come on, offense!
Pffffft!
Guess again!
I’d rather that he tries and he’s out, than that they never try anything at all.
Why am I not surprised?
0 for 7 with RISP
I’m having another Pepto moment!
Come on, Brandon, one more!
Nice closing job by League.
It sure was…..I like him….he seems cool and collected!
FINALLY!!!
Maybe they can at least salvage a split for this series. . .
Holy crap! We won a game!
Great job by the pitchers, making a whopping two tuns stand up.
Just got home from the game. Beckett looked good tonight. He had great control and the breaking ball kept the hitters off balance. Nice to see a couple of Dodger home runs but the offense still struggles. At least tonight they hit some hard balls but right at someone. Let’s hope tonight marks the beginning of a long win streak and the Dodgers find a way to finish the season strong.
All the team needs is a pep talk from Tommy Lasorda. He’d get them going.
Almost same lineup today…..except Treanor will catch Cappy.
…..I almost said crappy 😉 Just don’t want to jinx them!
Abreu called up from AAA.
We’re saved.
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Hi Everybody.
Just when I was getting myselve prepared for a non-postseason finish, I noticed that the Dodgers are only 1 1/2 games behind that Wild Card game tied with the the Bucs behind the Cards. No rest for the wiery, I quess.
Why is Ellis leading off yet again?
I guess when you have a top three in the order that are mashing like ours, you hate to break that up.
Now, of all times, Donnie sticks with the same lineup!
Beast Mode is back!
Another hit off a lefty for Dre!
Cruuuzzz, too. Too bad it’s up to Treanor to bring them home.
ATTAWAY Matty.
And RISP drought continues.
Crap!
The D’backs always seem to come right back.
And the hit parade just keeps on coming from our top 3. Guess Donnie likes their consistancy.
I think he forgot Andre is playing…..that’s right, he demoted him to 6th!
Crap, Cappy!
All I can say after that one is . . . Go Cubs!
No such luck! Marmol blew it.
Gnats went ahead in the 8th
Tied it in the 6th & went ahead in the ninth. I got it on the tube.
Typical Cubbies. Can’t hold a lead.
….and, they won…. Damn!!!!
When I least expected it, D’backs take the lead.
I call game.
Good news The Nats beat the Cards 4-3.
WTF is going on with these guys? I thought last night was a sign that they were going to turn things around. Now I just checked the MLB scoreboard only to find out that the offense is just as anemic as ever. We need rallies, not just a couple of solo homers now and then. Everybody is saying that the Dodgers should win on paper. Well, we all know that the game is played on the field and the only paper relevant to the team is toilet paper… to help flush away the awful stench that they are producing right now.
Unless the Dodgers go berserk the last few weeks, just what has Donnie done to warrant coming back?
Nothing! However, I read this morning, that Lyons, Collins, Steiner and Monday are all coming back….so, it doesn’t look good for us to lose Ned, Donnie or Bunnynutts.
When Vinny isn’t on TV I turn down the sound. Collins and Lyons never stop talking. “Three and one to the batter…one more ball and he gets a free pass.” Really?
I do the same thing. What’s even worse is Charlie on the radio thinking every warning track ball is a homer! And, he never lets Monday talk.
More positive news, the Brewers just beat the Pirates 12-8.
Nice going Andre’ that brings in Matt.
MAN it’s hard to score runs.
oh o.. this doesn’t look good.
These D’backs don’t even give us time enough to think before they get our runs back.
Nice clutch hit for Victorino.
I’m leaving. I hope I have a nice surprise when I get back.
I hope so too.
Kennedy? I thought Abreu was brought up.
Everytime the D’backs get a man on, I think the’re going to score.
We need a walkoff.
YO,,,,ADRIAN!
Yo Adrian!
AND WE GOT IT.
We’re now a 1/2 game behind the Cards for that wild card game.
Now thats earning your money, with Gnats winning already, it was pretty bleak, till that inning. Way to go Dodgers!
That was a nice surprise!