IGT 78 6/29/12 Mets @ former Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers

[Ceetar]

R.A. Dickey versus Aaron Harang. Harang is 5-4 with a 3.81 ERA and a stupid face.

In what will be Dickey's last first half start, he tries to get to 12 wins. How he pitches tonight could make or break whether he starts the All-Star Game, although I'm starting to think he will just given the story. Supposedly the LA media absolutely mobbed him when they arrived yesterday.

[metirish]

There are some very worthy candidates to start the ASG, I guess this is why people harp on about this start....if he gets shelled tonight I don't think people carry that memory to the ASG, it's the story so far.....for him to get that start would be a story that transcends the game I think, good for baseball.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ceetar wrote: In what will be Dickey's last first half start...

I initially misread that. It's his final start of the first 81 games, but not his final start before the All-Star break, which is the "traditional" (and inaccurate) halfway mark.

[TransMonk]

Yeah, Dickey's still got another start (likely against Philly at home) before the ASB.

Not sure when LaRussa's staff will name a starter, tho...so this start is still a pretty big audition.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Ceetar wrote: In what will be Dickey's last first half start... I initially misread that. It's his final start of the first 81 games, but not his final start before the All-Star break, which is the "traditional" (and inaccurate) halfway mark.

I was more noting that in terms of projections and on pace to win 22-24 games.

incidentally, I'd start Dickey first game after the All-Star Break and hold Santana back unti l4th. this way they both pitch against WSH (although Atlanta is important too.) probably too early to pplay around with short rest to get them both against both.

[TransMonk]

Oh...and lets shame the Harangutan!

[G-Fafif]

Thank you, Aaron Harang, wherever you are. I don't mean this flippantly, or obnoxiously. I mean it sincerely. I've never met Aaron Harang, a pitcher for the Padres, but he gives me a lift today and doesn't even know it. Whenever I have a rough outing -- and a I have a brutal one here today -- I have a strange custom: I go on my laptop and surf baseball websites until I find somebody who had an even worse day than me. It's not that I delight in other people's misfortune; it's just that misery does like company, and after my eighth start of the year I am definitely looking for somebody to point to and say, "Hey, this guy's a respectable pitcher and he got lit up too." Harang gave up nine hits and seven runs in four and a third innings against the Rockies. Today he supplies the comfort. I feel less miserable for knowing this.

--R.A. Dickey, 5/14/2011, after horrible outing of his own at Minute Maid Park (page 176, Wherever I Wind Up)

Dodger clubhouse bulletin board material?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Why... that sonofabitch called me.... respectable. Let's get him!

[G-Fafif]

Also a comforter!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

If this keeps up metirish will be calling for handbags at ten paces.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hey, lay off Harang. I dig him. I dig him a lot. A lot of people dig him, in fact, and...

Oh, wait.

Sorry. I mistook him for a shovel.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ridiculously Acclaimed Dickey should stop writing about how much Aaron Harang sucks and demonstrate it for once with a couple of hits and a friggin shutout. For crissakes already, Mr. Look-At-Me-Everybody-I-Wrote-A-Book. The fuck?

[ashie62]

The Dodgers are horrible....

[Frayed Knot]

Keep in mind that we've won one in a row at this point and that we're seeing them without both Kemp & Ethier.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Two in a row, no? Final game of the Cubs series?

[G-Fafif]

Andres Torres - CF
Ruben Tejada - SS
David Wright - 3B
Ike Davis - 1B
Lucas Duda - RF
Daniel Murphy - 2B
Kirk Nieuwenhuis - LF
Josh Thole - C
R.A. Dickey - RHP

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Them:

Gordon SS
Herrera 3B
Hairston Jr. 2B
Abreu LF
Ellis C
Loney 1B
Van Slyke RF
Gwynn CF
Harang P

What a lineup. If Dickey pitches like he did against Baltimore they may end up with a negative hit total.

[Lefty Specialist]

Swan Swan H wrote: Them: Gordon SS Herrera 3B Hairston Jr. 2B Abreu LF Ellis C Loney 1B Van Slyke RF Gwynn CF Harang P What a lineup. If Dickey pitches like he did against Baltimore they may end up with a negative hit total.

That's not a lineup, it's a pileup on Interstate 5.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With Abreu and a not-in-the-PCL-anymore Lil' Van Slyke at the corners, they've managed to put together an outfield that neither hits NOR fields anywhere near league average.

Donnie Baseball is magic!

(Didn't they say last night that Rivera was, like, the ONE guy actually hitting the ball well over the last two weeks?)

[Fman99]

Man, that's a March road game lineup right there. These guys suck/blow.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I know the bit about Dodgers fans being a late-arriving bunch, but this joint is empty.

[Fman99]

Encouraging start against Chimp-Face. C'mon, Sugarpants, put another one in the seats.

[ashie62]

Harangutang is one big marshmallow.

[ashie62]

Uh oh...Duda and Davis are on base at the same time.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Harang may be the ugliest pitcher since Don Mossi.

[Fman99]

Ugh. Big strike zone tonight, as per Murphy's at bat. Swing away, boys.

[Zvon]

Fman99 wrote: Ugh. Big strike zone tonight, as per Murphy's at bat. Swing away, boys.

Yea. I didn't even think that was too close to take.

[Edgy MD]

Hopefully that works for Dickulous.

Dee Dee Ramone up.

[Edgy MD]

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[ashie62]

Abreu looks like Hugo Chavez.