A Boy Named Seo

After losing 4 of 6 to the Reds and the Nats, the defending NL West champs limp into Citi tonight to start a 3-game set tonight with your surging, white-hot New York Metropolitans. It's a fine time to catch the current Dodgers, ladies and gentleman, because they're a team with a couple of notable injuries and subsequently their roster has more holes than Fman's pre-pubescent mattress. No, enough lame Fman/sex jokes already. More holes than a Tiger Woods... no, not relevant or topical. More holes than Mike Jacobs' swing? That's OK. Maybe shoulda said Catalanotto. Holes anyway. There are holes. The Pitchers Tonight, 7:10PM Hiroki Kuroda (2-0, 2.18) v. Ollie Pee (0-2, 3.71) Nice numbers for Kuroda, but he comes in after his worst start in Cincy, giving up 3 earned in 5.2 IP. He isn't walking dudes at all (3 in 20.2) innings, but he's given up his share of hits (22), so we can get to him. Ollie's gonna face a pretty right-handedy lineup and one that's done OK against him, sez MLB.com: Perez has a 2.84 ERA in 25 1/3 innings in those starts. His success may be in some jeopardy Monday. Russell Martin, Matt Kemp, Garrett Anderson and Jamey Carroll have batted .486 in 35 composite at-bats against him. I ain't skeered. Tuesday, 7:10PM Charlie Haeger (0-2, 6.46) v. Johan (2-1, 2.59) Haeger's a knuckleballer all-the-way, including wearing the knuckleballers' #49. Another thing to know about him is that he's not great at preventing baseball hitters from scoring upon him with his pitched balls. In fairness, he K's his share of dudes, but walks waaaay too many (12 BB, 19 K in 15.1 IP) and he's gotten his ass kicked because of it. A little patience Tuesday could go a long, long way. Wednesday, Gay Dame, 1:10PM TBA v. John Maine (0-1, 8.64) Vicente Padilla just went on the DL over the weekend, so the Dodgers are shuffling their rotation around a bit, it looks like bumping Haeger up one day into vacated Padilla's spot. If they DON'T do that, LA might call someone up from AAA Albuquerque to go Tuesday, and bump Haeger to Wednesday. Either way, could be a good opportunity to score some runs and get Maine a much-needed "W". If we get to the bullpen, well that's good news, too. Their relievers have been very hittable until you get to Broxton at the end (7 IP, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 K). Dodgers bully ERA is 13th in the league at 5.14 and they've walked 37 hitters in 64 innings. Also nice that we're avoiding their ace Kershaw and Chad Billingsley, too, who had a good start last time out against the Nats. The Batters Manny, as we know, is on the DL and will miss the circus and the series. Ex-Angel Garrett Anderson or Reed Johnson will get the starts in his place and that should also be good news for us. Here's how the Dodgers should line up: SS - Rafael Furcal .312/.384/.429 C- Russell Martin .304/.403/.393 RF - Andre Ethier .356/.424/.627 CF - Matt Kemp .316/.379/.645 1B - James Loney .325/.341/.400 3B - Casey Blake .328/.379/.607 LF - Garrett Anderson .143/.184/.257 or Reed Johnson .276/.276/.379 2B - Blake DeWitt .261/.404/.283 Pretty good lineup. Lots of .300's in there (Dodgers lead the NL with a .293 BA) and are second behind the Phils in runs scored (103) and third in OPS (.815). Kemp and Ethier are complete studs and Rafael Furcal seems healthy for the moment and is subsequently not sucking. Casey Blake (ex-Indian) is raking. Work cut out for us. Ex-Factor Them: Only Torre, I think. Us: Cora, Tatis The Dodgers put up 30 runs in Cincy (and still lost 2 of 3) and then scored only 5 runs in 3 games against the Nats, getting shutout for 7 by Scott F. Olsen yesterday. Great offense for sure, but they're not in good form right and we are, so let's keep this shit rolling, I say. LGM

Simmer down, Jock. Thought Braden came off as douchey as one could there, even with King Douche ARod as the recipient. Baseball is funny.

Psyched for this, too. Pagan in front of Castillo shouldn't alter Castillo's (or Jerry's) habits regarding bunting all that much, I don't think. Little change there. But Jose third could be regular old Jose with just more RBI. Should still have plenty of opps to run, too. Looking forward to seeing it.

I haven't liked the app so far. Looks so much different than the normal site and it feels like there's too much shit smashed up in a small window. And is there any way to see posts on your league's board? I can't figure it out. Bah.

metirish wrote: The email Minaya sent Baumer regarding Francoeur must have been interesting. From: Baumer, Ben Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:33 PM To: Minaya, Omar Subject: RE: frankur The McCormick & Schmick's in midtown? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Minaya, Omar Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:31 PM To: Baumer, Ben Subject: frankur oh your good, bennyboy! frankcure is yunger, too. and more right handed. im callig shurholz now. u & me, lunch at mccormicks tomorow. i'm buying. lolz! not really, fred is buying. rofl! omar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Baumer, Ben Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:26 PM To: Minaya, Omar Subject: RE: frankur Omar, I was trying to get you to exercise caution before acquiring Francoeur. The only metrics I have where Francoeur comes out ahead of Church are age and right-handedness. Please refer again to the previously mentioned stats, and also look at Francoeur's declining wRC+ and ISO numbers before you do anything. Thanks, Ben -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Minaya, Omar Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:24 PM To: Baumer, Ben Subject: frankur yah, benny, i wnat a guy to go to WAR, too! know what i'm sayin! i love frnkuour too. i'm gonna do it! thx.omar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Baumer, Ben Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 5:17 PM To: Minaya, Omar Subject: RE: frankur Hi Omar, I'd be aware of Francouer's -0.6 WAR with Atlanta this year and his -1.3 WAR the previous year. Church's WAR for those respective years are 1.6 and 1.1. Also, most advanced defensive metrics tend to favor Church including UZR/150, RngR, DRS, and my own metric, the Baumer Adjusted Range Factor, where Church's BARF is 4 times Francoeur's. Francoeur is arbitration-eligible, too. I'd think twice about making this trade. Regards, Ben -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Minaya, Omar Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 4:57 PM To: Baumer, Ben Subject: frankur yo benny! think of trading ryan church for jeff francure from braves. he's hardnosed, know what i mean? what u think benn? omar

Taping the game again, so this is when I bid you all good luck and God speed. Kick ass tonight, eh.

Surfing the Mets guy @ the Snooze sez the tarp is off and their announcing lineups. Est. start time 7:35.

She's now looking for solicitations on baseball books (go plug your shit, guys) and contemplating a Mr. Met tattoo. I'd ask that chick's dad for permission to marry her.

Was moving on Saturday and had the game on the radio on my phone all day, and I think it hit the 10th by the time I got back to the old apartment to start the clean-up. Great to have this game on the whole damn miserable moving day and even better it ended in a 'W'. Just read this thread start-to-finish. Some real gems in here. Helluva IGT, peeps.

I'm guessing Ike's first basing, Carter's outfieldering, and Hessman's got a glove he uses somewhere, too?

YLDB Jay-Z sues Big Papi. No shit. http://pitchfork.com/news/38513-jay-z-sues-red-sox-star-david-ortiz/

Old skool FM receiver for JCL. I'm taping the game, so I'm out of here, kids. Get us a win NOW!!!

it's groovy as shit, huh?

That's great stuff. I'm on her myspace page right now rocking the tunes. Myspace, I said!

That sounds like a lotta work for a 3.2 beer.

Tuesday night in Utah and needing to find a bar with a Met game and preferably a stiff drink. You're F'd, man.

I wanna see Tatis do something tonight. Pagan in there and 8th? OK. Lets go you sumbitches. I'm hungry for one.

I think my favorite chick is the one second from the right. She's the only one not trying to be sexy and that makes her sexy. Plus, she's got an old skool Mets champs tee that she didn't cut up to make into a skirt or something. Yup, that's my chick.

Flat, disappointing effort by the O today.

Ronnie making the case that maybe Rodriguez was pissed because Harris didn't move at all. I still haven't seen it. Want to give a quick recap?

I was taking a pee and missed the fireworks.

Well, shit.

Funny taking Livan out up 5-nil after 88 pitches. Not sure how this'll shake out, but I'm sure as hell glad they did cause we had nothing on him today. Lets go dudes. Keep chippin.

Mmm.... crow. Atta boy, Jacobs. My mouth is shut.