DODGERS News/Rumors Thread

Discussion in 'Los Angeles DODGERS' started by irish, Apr 1, 2013.

  1. IBleedBlue15

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    Their GM is crazy. He'll trade anyone, at anytime. Also with signing people as well.
     
  2. Bluezoo

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    Hey congratualtions for having some balls to the whistleblowers who are going to testiy about the Bengazi attacks on 9/11/12.
    In light of the nauseating response from the White House spokesman last week, which was, fucking incredibly, "that's a long time ago; we have more important things to address".
    I truly applaud them. Thanks for standing up to this. The lies and manuevering by Holder should be epic.
    Yeah seven months ago is not recent enough to merit any attention from this administration...to hell with those families who lost sons, brothers, husbands and fathers in Libya that day. It's positively ancient now....what does it really matter?
    Besides, we feel bad about it.
    Sickening.
     
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  3. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    lol hairston... "I'm going to stay in bed tonight."
    yeah, just don't shit the bed this time jerr...

    Long list of Dodger woes includes tripping over suitcase, consecutive walkoff HR defeats to Giants
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    The Giants' Guillermo Quiroz rounds the bases after hitting a walkoff homer last night vs. the Dodgers

    SAN FRANCISCO – In a decision made about 30 minutes before game time Saturday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers opted not to have the guy in the neck brace bat third.

    Adrian Gonzalez had injured himself running into an umpire, not to be confused with Jerry Hairston Jr., who required stitches over his eye after running into a desk in his hotel room. Or Zack Greinke, who broke his collarbone running into Carlos Quentin. Or even Hanley Ramirez, who blew his hamstring running into an out at third base.

    All this adhered itself to about a half-dozen other medical crises in the Dodgers' clubhouse, through which Gonzalez eased into the pregame wrapped in a cervical collar and heating pad, though on a nearby bulletin board he was to play first base and hit third against the San Francisco Giants, and very soon.

    "I could still change the lineup at this point," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said, and then he did, as apparently Gonzalez could not turn his head quite far enough to see the pitcher from the batter's box, which would seem the absolute minimum as far as effective hitting goes. Jerry Hairston Jr. needed stitches after taking a nasty tumble in his hotel room. (USA Today Sports)

    As a result of the excess of infirmed, when Mattingly stalked to the mound in the second inning to remove a starting pitcher who a month ago was 10th on the organizational depth chart, the infielders who fell in with him were – from left to right – Juan Uribe, Dee Gordon, Skip Schumaker and Hairston. They stood where Luis Cruz (batting .098), Ramirez (hamstring, nee thumb), Mark Ellis (quadriceps) and Gonzalez (neck) were supposed to be standing, which isn't at all what the Dodgers had in mind when they began spending and thinking so big and entertaining the notion of a budding dynasty before a pitch had been thrown (or a disabled list filled).

    Suddenly, a rivalry born – or reborn – of Giants acumen and Dodgers mad money seems intent on running off without the Dodgers for a while, as between slumps in the lineup and lumps in the clubhouse, the Dodgers have little to defend themselves with. And the Giants, they're the same old Giants.

    They may wonder what's up with Matt Cain and Ryan Vogelsong. They may squint and strain to see the old Tim Lincecum in the new Tim Lincecum. The starting pitching has been so good for so long, they almost forget what it's like to have to alert the bullpen before the seventh inning. So, they score runs at about the league average, they air out the bullpen a little, they figure Cain and Vogelsong will figure it out soon enough, and before games they do not fret like the Dodgers do, they dance.

    One of them does, anyway – outfielder Andres Torres. But, when he stands before that boom box and twists the knob to loudest and does his thing, he perhaps speaks for the Giants; focused and carefree, confident and self-deprecating, and sure they're kind of sexy. If you could be just one kind of happy for the rest of your life, you just might choose the intersection of Andres Torres and salsa music.

    Down the hall, before the Dodgers held a rare in-series hitters' meeting that bled into their batting practice time, they'd drawn for Kentucky Derby horses. On a day a list of unavailable Dodgers included Gonzalez, Ellis, Ramirez, Greinke, Chris Capuano, Chad Billingsley and Ted Lilly, that a list of struggling Dodgers included Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and near anyone holding a bat with a runner in scoring position, Mattingly pulled the thoroughbred Falling Sky.

    A couple hours later, the Giants led, 5-0, his rookie had pitched himself out of the game after four outs, and about 40,000 people at AT&T Park had joined Andres Torres.

    "I look at our lineup today," he'd said, "and I see a team that's capable of winning. I mean, we're capable of winning today. We're good enough to win a game some way."

    As life would have it, the sky held for a few hours. Through five weeks having outhit only the Chicago Cubs in the National League with runners in scoring position, the Dodgers rallied for seven runs in the fifth inning alone. And they stood tied, 9-9, with the Giants into the 10th inning. And the night after Buster Posey's ninth-inning home run beat them, and they'd lost another middle-of-the-order bat, and GM Ned Colletti had been heckled by fans walking the hallways, and they'd reluctantly summoned Dee Gordon from Albuquerque, the Dodgers scored at least eight runs against the Giants and still lost for the first time in 25 years.

    Guillermo Quiroz, the last position player on the Giants' bench, swung at a two-strike slider from Brandon League and hit it over the left-field wall. Like that, it was 10-9 and the Giants were dancing again.

    "It's been a rough 24 hours for all of us," said Hairston, his forehead stitched, swollen and black and blue. "That's life. Things are not always going to go your way."

    By the end of more than four hours of baseball, the Dodgers were somewhat optimistic Gonzalez would play Sunday. He actually appeared in the on-deck circle twice Saturday night, but the moment passed without an at-bat.

    The Dodgers are 13-16. Of all the things they're running into, they are not running out of time. So there's that. But, just in case, Hairston has a plan they might all heed. The night before, he'd walked through his darkened hotel room, stumbled over a suitcase, and hit the desk forehead first.

    "Once I'm in bed," he said, "I'm going to stay in bed tonight."​

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  4. irish

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    • Hanley Ramirez is signed through 2014, so the Dodgers may eventually move Dee Gordon to second base, unless they feel they can sign Robinson Cano as a free agent after the season. The Dodgers are unlikely to pick up their $5.75MM option on Mark Ellis.
    :rolleyes:
     
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    I can see it now...cano signs with the dodgers and is either hurt half the time or gets popped for peds.
     
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    No to Cano...I've had it with ex-roiders collecting huge paychecks and dissapointing the fucking hell out of us.
     
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    • The only team with less pop than the Dodgers this season has been the Marlins. Heading into Sunday's game against the Giants, the Dodgers' isolated power – that's slugging percentage minus batting average – was .111. The $200 million-plus mega-team had all the power of a Tonka truck. Yeah, there is legitimacy to the Dodgers' panic. The NL West is better than expected. Hanley Ramirez is headed back to the disabled list after a lovely four-game reminder that he still exists. Zack Greinke is there for the foreseeable future after he tried to go all John Cena on Carlos Quentin. Adrian Gonzalez is hurting. The Dodgers' greatest offensive force is Carl Crawford, while the other two-thirds of the $387 million outfield, Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier, have contributed bupkis to the cause.
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  8. CapnTreee

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    tired of reading this shit...

    not that it ain't true but I'm soooo fucking tired of reading the same story line after we got a new owner and he stepped up to spend untold millions and it has meant nothing.

    And the single shining example of someone lighting them up this year and of course we go all O'Malley/McCrook cheap and send his bat to the minors... because we can. Just to prove that our shortsightedness has no limits

    shit... nothing but shit in this whole damned shitty Dodger story...
     
  9. irish

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    ^more than just one bad game, inning, pitch or at-bat... no excuse to be last in the nl west
     
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    exactly... we are still sending out there a lineup that has Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier and even AJ Ellis, who is not an All Star but a solid all around player... there's no reason to be this low...
     
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    Oh, it's time to panic. We are in the cellar. There better be a roster move soon - just to put a boot into the ass. Cruz getting a DFA would be a start.
     
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    Go to a game thread from game 1, 2 0r 3 AT THE END OF THE GAME. I'm just saying.....

    I'm not talking about now, I hate the way the team is playing and think something needs to happen, but I also realize that our best hitter is coming off of major surgery, our #2 pitcher is out, our closer is not playing well, our 2B is on the DL, or #3 pitcher is on the DL and multiple players are under-performing. It is just kind of like the perfect storm.
     
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    i definitely hear ya
    and i'm probably one of the bigger offenders
    but when is it no longer too early to be concerned?
     
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    You can be concerned at any time you want....after one game or in the cellar, like we are now, like jerkoffs who can't hit or pitch. It's a fan's right to moan, groan, curse, be disppointed, scream, blow up, smash the TV set, and whatever the fuck they want to.
    The team sucks right now, no matter who is hurt or who is whatever. Other teams lose important players, best hitters, and they replace them with competent guys who get it done. see: SF Giants and every other team in contention.
    Our pitching sucks and is underachieving. Mistakes are being made like idiots who don't know how to win. The attitude comes from the top....if you don't believe in yourselves , then you wind up in last place....where you belong.
    Go out and get a Mark Scutaro, Ned...or whoever. Everyone who licks your taint made the Frank McCourt excuse for you back then (even though in the beginning you were allowed to spend however much you needed seems to be forgotten). You went out and signed guys like Schmidt and Jones, etc., etc. Did you think there was going to be NO injuries to these old, injury prone superstars you signed? Where's the bench? Maybe you're just not as good as the other GMs Ned. Ever cross your well paid mind? You're supposed to know and have your finger on the BB pulse. You're stone cold dead, Ned.
    Time for anyone to be concerned if they want. When they turn it around, then it can be time not to... meanwhile....
     
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    I'm concerned as well, NO DOUBT about it all, just less so than others. I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
     
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    I like Dylan Hernandez, but not too much information here. Basically, stick it out and hope we can play .500 ball until the team comes back from the DL. Probably won't fire Donald unless complete disaster. Yada yada yada.
     
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