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I’ve had it with this Dodger’s team.
They remind me of the Laker’s team this past season where the only thing that could be counted on was their inconsistency.
Right now I’m tired of guessing which Dodger’s team will show up to the park. After destroying the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1 Tuesday night, the Dodgers decide to be charitable and then some Wednesday night getting spanked 12-1.
Things were so bad even home base umpire Eric Cooper decided he had enough after six innings. He pulled a muscle and left the game.
Boy I envied Cooper.
The game was over when Frank Thomas doubled to left to start off the bottom of the second. It was the start of the eight run, six hit inning that chased Hong-Chih Kuo out of the game after 1 2/3 innings. Incidentally Kuo’s last batter was Frank Thomas who belted a grand slam.
Let’s get one thing straight: Toronto is not a good team. They have been wracked with injuries sending 12 players to the disabled list this season. This isn’t like being beaten by the Angels who have the second-best record in all of baseball.
So are the Dodgers good or bad? I don’t know, and I’m pretty close to not caring anymore. So I made a nice little graphic as seen above. If the government can protect us from the ominous danger of the terrorists, consider this my way of protecting you the Dodger fan from the horror that is the Dodger’s 2007 season.
And horror is not an exaggeration by any sense of the word.
How is Juan Pierre still in the line up? Yeah he fast on the bases, but you can’t steal first base.
Why is Andre Ethier still there? Matt Kemp is hitting far better right now, and it’s doing Kemp an injustice by not playing him on a more regular basis.
James Loney? Why bother bringing him up when Nomar Garciapopup insists on managing to score an out.
Jeff Kent’s been in a slump since his family went back to Texas.
Tony Abreu has some great at-bats but always strikes out.
Russell Martin is in some kind of funk.
Who would have thought at the beginning of the season that the only reliable bat would be Luis Gonzalez’s?
The situation is not helped when our General Manager goes up to San Francisco to dumpster dive for a pitcher.
I just don’t get it anymore.
Thankfully it’s only June, and there’s still more than half of the season left to play. But the longer this goes, the more I smell 2005’s 71-91 season on the horizon.
Now I know what Cubs' fans go through.
Graphic produced by Moi courtesy of frustration and 10 minutes to kill.
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Well, lets not get TOO worked up - it was Roy Halladay on the mound. He can shut down any offense.
But Nomar Garciapopup is goddamn genius. 8D
Every team in the NL and AL can have a bad game or two or three. Shit, even last place Baltimore Orioles spanked the Padres last night, when they lost the night before 6-12, and lost the 8 games prior to that. It's early enough in the season where Grady can try out different players in the open positions like OF and 3B. Eventually one player will win the spot and play as a consistant starter, at least until that player starts to falter. Then you stick someone else in there to see if lightning will strike.
But it sure would help if they could go out there and get someone like Adam Dunn in OF or Troy Glaus at 3B. And a mulligan would be nice for Schmidt, can we get Maddux back, please?
Why is Andre Ethier still here? You have to be kidding. The only reason he was off to a slow start was because he wasn't played consistently at the beginning of the season and once he was, he played well. He's also played fantastic defense. He was slumping recently and is now working his way out of it, no thanks to the fact that he's not allowed to play every day and work out of a slump like everyone else and he's had to bat 9th in the lineup during the recent American league stint, meaning he's seeing a lot of crappy pitches, like he has no doubt all year batting no higher than 7th and he still only trails Martin, Kent and Gonzales in RBI's.
Kemp on the other hand, though he has potential, how many games has he played this year in relation to Ethier? A fraction of the amount. Last year he started off strong with the 7 home runs and then couldn't hit for crap the rest of the season, while Ethier was Rookie of the Year candidate. This year he has started off strong, but he's struck out quite a bit of late, which means the league is probably figuring out once again that he can't hit anything but a fastball.
You people that have a fit every time the Dodgers lose a few games need to chill out. It's not even July yet. They don't need to trade away their talented young propects for one player who they think is going to be the magic pill in the short term.