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    Quote Originally Posted by MrTickle View Post
    The fake crowd noise in baseball sucks so bad. Way worse than all other sports.
    It really does. Did you hear what I said on radio about it?

    It's almost totally random. Something big and exciting happens for the home team, and we hear light cheering. Sometimes there's more cheering for mundane things like a routine flyout with nobody on.

    Is it that hard to play the right crowd noise for the right things?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Padres just absolutely raped the Indians for Clevinger.

    "Here, take 6 guys we don't need, and none of our top prospects"

    Dodgers gotta watch their back Druff.
    Yes, this sucks because the Padres were already the 2nd best team in the NL (well, either them or the Cubs), and now they have improved upon their big starting pitching weakness.

    Like the Dodgers, they hit the ball very well.

    Dodgers will likely still take the West (especially with only 24 games left to play, but the Padres will now be tougher in the postseason.

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    Dodgers coulda put together the same pile o’ garbage prospects for Clevinger. That’s simply not how Dodgers roll at the annual trade deadline.

    It’s as if insurance law prohibits Guggenheim from making that finishing touch of the pitching staff. Could be an underwriting thing.

    I’ll match the Dodgers vs Padres starting rotations.

    We’ve done this for a decade now. It’s comforting and familiar.

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    just lol at the Mets trades. Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic


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    In a three-day span starting on Saturday and ending at Monday’s MLB trade deadline, the second-place San Diego Padres dealt or acquired roughly an entire team’s worth of players. In six separate transactions, the Padres imported Mike Clevinger and Greg Allen from Cleveland; Austin Nola, Austin Adams, Dan Altavilla, and Taylor Williams from the Mariners; Jason Castro from the Angels; Mitch Moreland from the Red Sox; and Trevor Rosenthal from the Royals. That’s four relief pitchers, two catchers, and one outfielder, first baseman, and starting pitcher apiece. To do that, the Padres parted with catchers Austin Hedges and Luis Torrens, reliever Cal Quantrill, outfielder Josh Naylor, infielder Ty France, and nine prospects ranked fifth, 11th, 12th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 25th, 29th, and 39th on FanGraphs’ preseason Padres prospect rankings. They also added or subtracted three players to be named later, which is nice, because I’ve named more than enough players in this paragraph already.
    Thats a hell of a deadline.

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    Tom Seaver died today.

    Perfect time for a Dodger story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    Tom Seaver died today.

    Perfect time for a Dodger story.

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    I'm so glad you have a crystal ball to stare into

    You pollute this forum with your narcissist/obsession for what?

    Are you trying to impress with your 50/50 picks or are you trying numb out

    reality. Or is it your ultimate goal to lose and be comforted at the same time?

    There has to be a psychological disorder here.

    There is no thread for psycho killers, ques Ce say, but we put up with

    some twisto who relieves a dormant sexual life for betting on the

    ponies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    Tom Seaver died today.

    Perfect time for a Dodger story.

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    seaver was the met of all mets.

    rip
    Quote Originally Posted by bottomset_69 View Post
    Johnny Manziel will be the 1st pick in the draft. I truly believe not only will Johnny Manziel be rookie of the year, quite possibly he will be MVP as his style will shock defensive coordinators. Manziel may only be 6 feet tall, but he has size 15 feet. And he has HUGE hands. I know some NFL scouts so I know what I am talking about.



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    I pledge to stifle any negative Dodgers comments til playoffs. To do so would be idiotic not mean. I don’t want to be idiotic

    Yankees collapsing also makes one appreciate how healthy the Dodgers have remained. It’s miraculous

    Enjoy yourself Druff in this space.

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    The Mookie signing made the team even better (remember how good the same team with no Mookie was last year), and suddenly Kershaw has morphed back into his 20s self.

    It also helps that they've played a lot of shit teams in this lucky schedule, but they're also a lot better than everyone else. And minus a few exceptions, also a lot healthier. In the first 39 games, Betts/Muncy/Seager/Bellinger have 40 HR.

    They've outscored opponents 218-120. They're a close second to the Padres in runs scored per game, and the clear leader in fewest runs allowed per game. That'll do it.

    Any questions?

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    Vin Scully is now on Twitter

    This is like Robert Kraft getting caught in that massage parlor.

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    Reasons to be fearful

    The Dodgers are working out Mookie Betts at second base. Double plays, shifts, the whole shebang. This ain’t casual pregame fun. Betts came up as a second baseman.

    The idea is to get another bat in the lineup. More is never enough, I guess. I’m distraught


    Marie Osmand needs to reach out to fat fuck Vlad Guerrero. 21 years old and he struggled to get to first yesterday on an important play.

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    Lasorda was a good manager for the '70s and '80s.

    He was not good at evaluating talent.

    His biggest mistake involved Pedro Martinez. After Pedro had a great first season pitching out of the bullpen in 1993, Lasorda was repeatedly telling the front office that Pedro had no future as a starting pitcher.

    "He's way too small", said Lasorda. Indeed, listed as 5'10", but actually even shorter, Pedro was one of the few Major League pitchers who wasn't tall, and his small body just didn't seem destined for pitching greatness.

    However, he performed damn well in 1993, and was the brother of the highly-touted (but ultimately mediocre) Ramon Martinez, so they should have given him more of a chance. Instead, they shipped him out for the lolbad Delino Deshields, in one really was one of the worst trades of all time.

    Had Pedro been a few inches taller, the '90s and '00s Dodgers would have been a far different story.

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    Justin Smoak was released.

    He signed with the Brewers after hitting .208 with 22 HR for Toronto last year, in 410 AB.

    He hit .185 with 5 HR this year, before being released.

    I want the Dodgers to pick him up as a bench bat. You really do need a power bench bat for those times late (especially the 9th) when a multi-run HR is your only realistic path to tying the game. Looks like he's popping off a HR every 20 AB, so why not grab him for the prorated Major League minimum, which is basically pocket change at this point?

    I always felt the "power guy on the bench" was more important than people have believed. Union head Tony Clark pretty much made a career of being that guy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post

    The Dodgers are working out Mookie Betts at second base. Double plays, shifts, the whole shebang. This ain’t casual pregame fun. Betts came up as a second baseman.

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    How you like your new second baseman?

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    Mets still #1 in the MLB for AVG and OBP but 4 games under .500.

    Time is quickly running out, but if we squeak into the playoffs, the Dodgers aren't gonna like a 3 game series with DeGrom pitching Game 1 and Mets batting so well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post

    The Dodgers are working out Mookie Betts at second base. Double plays, shifts, the whole shebang. This ain’t casual pregame fun. Betts came up as a second baseman.

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    How you like your new second baseman?
    The Dodgers have had a 2B curse since trading away Dee Gordon.

    They finally resorted to converting players at other positions to play 2B, including Muncy, Taylor, Betts, and various others. Even Turner played 2B at some point, but I think they believe he's too old and injury prone to try that anymore. Oh, and Kike Hernandez of course spent some time there.

     
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    Betts is a rare 5 tool guy and it’s a waste of his cannon of an arm.

    I think they are just screwing around tbh but if Bellinger does not figure out his swing they ARE gonna need to get another bat in the lineup. Betts at second solves that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
    Betts is a rare 5 tool guy and it’s a waste of his cannon of an arm.

    I think they are just screwing around tbh but if Bellinger does not figure out his swing they ARE gonna need to get another bat in the lineup. Betts at second solves that.
    Yes, Bellinger has been inconsistent, and Muncy is hurting but won't publicly admit it.

    Pretty amazing they have the record they do, considering those two are underperforming. The reemergence of Seager, the unexpected clutch hitting of Pollock, and the addition of Betts has made up for it.

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    You hear this before? Tony Gonsolin looks like Frank Zappa

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    Way too much time watching Dodgers. Lol

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