Eye Nosh: Is This the Best Pastrami in America?
Zenyatta Makes "Her"Story
-thumb-110x110-455795.jpg)
Build Your Own BBQ for Under 10 Bucks!
Pixies 'Doolittle' @ The Palladium 11/4/09
The Bravery @ the Wiltern 11/05/09
With both college football and the NFL going ahead full steam, it’s been hard to really pay attention to the goings-on of the Dodgers. And there is a good reason for that.
The Dodgers just plain stunk it up at Telecom-of-the-Moment Park against the Giants. Each game featured a Dodger pitcher giving up crucial runs late in the game. Jonathan Broxton gave up home runs in Friday’s and Sunday’s games, and David Wells managed to only give up two runs in a dicey sixth inning on Saturday to preserve the victory.
You know a series isn’t going well when Takashi Saito doesn’t make an appearance. The August DHL Delivery Man of the Month (I’m not joking about this one) awarded to the most outstanding relief pitcher was brought on in a non-save situation Saturday. Saito has been lights out in August converting all 10 save situations he was in while posting a 0.68 ERA and giving up only one run in 14 games.
All that aside, this week is a make-or-break week for the Dodgers. They start with a three-game series against the Padres on Tuesday and a weekend series against the D-Backs. If they bomb like they did this past weekend, there is no October for the Dodgers. However if they manage to play well and gain some ground in the division and wild card standings, they still have a chance to sniff the playoffs.
For Tuesday night’s game, the Dodgers are remembering 9/11 by hosting a hero’s night to pay tribute to civil servants. Prior to the game the world’s most horrible baseball announcer Rick Monday will head over to the LA Fire Department training center to meet and greet over 1,000 public safety officers and family members. Monday, besides making Dodger games unlistenable on the radio, is best known for preventing the American flag from being burned at Dodger Stadium while he was playing for the Cubs.
There will be a helicopter flyover prior to the game, and local representatives from the LA Police Department, LA County Sheriff’s Department, LA Fire Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, LA School Police Department, CHP and the US Marines.
It should be a great tribute to the sixth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11. What would be great is if LA Police Chief William Bratton beans Rick Monday. Oh wait. Does that mean I get subpoenaed now?
The most pressing question now is will the Dodgers make the postseason? The magic eight ball says, "Don't hold your breath." Words to live by.
AP Photo by Ben Margot
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Don't hold your breath is right....these guys killed me again this weekend. why can't Grady Little wrap his mind around letting Saito in every once in awhile in non - save situations??? the dodgers at the very least needed to win the series against S.F. when it's down to the wire you sometimes have to go with the pitcher who's been lights out.
I'm dreading these games this week.
It is crunch time, and that is exactly why the Dodgers will choke. They will win enough games to make you think they have a shot - that way they can maximize the heartbreak for their fans.
I've been trying to be uncharacteristically positive about these bums this season. It's been very hard for me.
But now I think is the time to be realistic. Even if they sweep both series doesn't mean they will make the playoffs. But just one mistake and they're out. It's that simple.