Yeah i dont know much about the NL but i assume they have solid SP and a pen? I dont even know their 3b (i assume hanley) but knowing the dodgers id assume if their close they'll try to trade.

Puig is fun to watch though

They've got a nice top 3. Kershaw is obviously elite. Greinke is a good, albeit overrated, pitcher, and Ryu is a solid starter.

Their best reliever (Jansen) doesn't close, and there are a number of low character/malcontent guys on that team (Hanley, Beckett, Kemp) that makes the whole considerably less than the sum of the parts.

This.

Me and my Dad used to bowl a lot, and my Dad's highest game ever was 223. He had that same back-handed release, and got absolutely no ball speed whatsoever. Only times he got high scores was if he was lucky as shit, and he'll even admit it.

There isn't really an easy way. What I usually do is try several different starting positions on the walk-through and then tinker with different angles until I find a good path.

But can he play football...:hmmm:

Maas had one of the most beautiful swings I've ever seen.








so......ummmm.....







yeah.....

All I have is my memory and my reputation as an honest person. It was no big deal, we just went there and bowled. I messed around and recorded my scores for attendance/grades [not score dependent]. I wasn't throwing really high scores and really low ones. Just consistent from low 200s to low 240s skewing to high 220s most of the time. Somewhere in the range of 7 strikes and 3 spares, rare open frames. Only explanation is; I'm left handed so I tread untrod ground, we rarely switched lanes, I'm sure the lane maintenance was minimal, and I just regularly hit the same spot time after time.

No way I'm pinning my entire reputation on so trivial and ancient a bit of information. I just wanted to express some nostalgia at fun times past, not stir up some cyber hornets' nest over something so stupid and incidental.

On the up side, Hootie now has something really juicy to roast me over were I so honored, however remote the chances I rate above the luminaries already enumerated, to still somehow rate in the pantheon of the 101.

I have bowled in leagues, and yes there is a difference both physically and mentally. I also played baseball through college and hardball leagues into my late 30's. The comparison between batting practice and bowling practice as it relates to what you face in a game is quite a stretch of the imagination.

I was in no way trying to compare the difficulty of throwing strikes in bowling with the difficulty of hitting a baseball. When I brought up the whole batting practice analogy, I said nobody cares how many home runs Eric Hosmer hits in batting practice because a home run in batting practice is meaningless. Not because the pitcher is a coach who is grooving his 70 MPH fastball down the middle of the plate. Nobody cares about batting practice home runs because they do not count.

Perhaps a better analogy would be spring training games. Nobody cares that the Royals won the Cactus League with a 25-7 record. The Royals have proven pretty effectively that winning 78% of your games in spring training doesn't mean you are good enough to win 78% of the games that count. Or 70%. Or 60%. Or even 50%.

To get this tread back on track somewhat: Yes, I know Yasiel Puig hit over .500 in spring training, and he's tearing up the National League now. But a lot of guys rake in spring training and suck when the real games start. Mitch Maier used to be spring training MVP every year.

Poor guy just got drilled in the face.


Edit- Look's OK

ugh

Well that started a battle. Greinke came back and hit one of the D'backs to retaliate for Puig. Then when Greinke came back up to the plate about had his head taken off... bench clearing fight. Mark Gwire and Don Mattingly about got in a tag team fight with Matt Williams and Kirk Gibson.

Kemp is not Malcontent or low Character. Dude's shoulder isnt healthy. He has no power on his swing before his hammy went down. He couldnt lift weights at all. Barely got the go ahead to play baseball right before spring training and never had a chance to strengthen it. Hopefully he is now that his hammy is hurt.

He was sucking it up bad, though.

He was dog cussing out Mattingly on national television two weeks ago.

Can we just call Grienke the "Honey Badger" since he just doesn't give a ****?

He's actually pretty much a badass

Greinke will stick up for his team. Dude may have just "chased the money" not may he did, he admitted it, but when he's on your team. He's all in.

.483 6 hr. 13 RBIs he's still tearing it up

He's all in unless he has decided he wants to move on to a different team. Greinke was anything BUT all in his last season with the Royals.

Puig is a ****ing beast.

JFC. Can he put a full season in first. Morons were talking about putting him in the All Star game because of a hot couple of weeks.

I love Greinke. His postseason in Milwaukee was embarrassing.

But but but Bo Jackson!

He's a superstar right now and it's a game that doesn't mean anything (regardless of whether MLB says it does). Of course he should be in.

I don't give a **** about him.There are plenty of more established guys that deserve it more. We tend to care more about winning in Cardinal country anyway...

Great examples....

if anything home run derby, but not the all star game.

Dude has more hits in his first 16 games then any other player since 1900. thats still pretty ****ing impressive. Or was it multi hit games, either way, still ****ing impressive.

1 BB(It was intentional) 14 K's. .524 BABIP.

**** the Doyers :whackit: Who else would be dumb as **** to go by that name?

Ouch!!!

And he goes deep agian, thats number 7!

hate to break it to you

but literally none of us care about the Dodgers

is there a Dodgers planet?

So what, i didnt start this thread, so someone else cared :)

Puig > LeBron

False

Don't you have some CP members you have to research for your list?

Back to Puig now Fruit Ninja


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This happened yesterday. I missed it.

sounds good.

John Perrotto ‏@jperrotto 1h
#Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig has 7 HR in 77 AB. The only more physically gifted player I've seen in 26 years of covering #MLB is Bo Jackson.

No one cares, really.

Dodgers still suck ass.

Jelly?

I guess someone has to make up for Matt Kemp being a pussy

I'm "jelly" over a team that's 33-42? Yeah, sure.

The pitch he hit out yesterday, defies physics. I still have NO idea how he got it out. He after taking two hard cutters in on his hands, takes a change up, down and away, out the opposite way. I HATE, LOATHE DESPISE the dodgers, so giving them credit for anything, is hard for me. That was a hell of a hit.

Yeah u usually don't see a ball hit like that from a righty, maybe to right center. But that Homer was down the right field line.

Guys are finally starting to get healthy. Still need kemp and Crawford back. Within 2 weeks though.



As shitty as they have played they are only 8 back.

The next Bo Jackson fellas.

Who's ready for some Dodger baseball?


Think Blue

LA Fans are the dumbest in the country behind Oakland. Congratulations.

ROFL

No need to capitalize the word "fans" genius.

It was for emphasis, because you are a dumb Fan.

Nice reach.

Blow me.

Stand up double for Puig baby.

1-0 so far.

Check your PM, he probably wants your address.

Is your girlfriend using you account tonight because you seem like a whiny bitch?

He needs to stick to posting pictures of dinner.

If you don't like Dodgers or Los Angeles then this thread isn't for you. You don't see Pestilence and I giving shit in your Male Hottie thread.

I usually do that when in drunk lol. I like showing off my masterpieces.

Weren't you the guy with the Brady Quinn avatar for months on end when we signed that pile of garbage and stated how awesome it would be for him to get a chance? That he would be good?

GO LA!

There is a BBQ sauce called KC Masterpiece. Does LA have something like that? Well ok then.

............dumb

You used to be cool, now I see a Nascar avatar and an LA Dodgers thread from you.

I could care less what you think of me lol.

So that means that you care enough...to care less?

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Rofl

SWEEP!

EAT SHIT YOU PUMPKIN PIE HAIRCUTTED FREAKS

Hanley Rameriz is absolutely killing the ball lately. His hits are rockets. He has Insane bat speed.

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Curve ball

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**** this guy is clutch.

Too bad the Dodgers bullpen is out there now. lol They are sketchy as hell.

6 in a row. guys are starting to hit now! Puig continues to hit! See what happens only 6 out now.

Puig is bringing a whole new atmosphere to the Dodger stadium.


I was there about 3 weeks ago and everything didn't seem right lol. Everyone was actually enjoying themselves

Puig is 40-93 since his call up. Insane.

Got killed yesterday lol. Today Hanley goes deep. I think we got that old Hanley back.

I want to crush your Dodger spirit. So I will say this: Jeff Francoeur started his career hitting .432 with 8 homers. Oh and frenchy strikes out roughly one in every five abs as well. So take that. (I haven't even watched Puig play.)

Good thing Puigs name isnt Jeff Francoeur then huh? lol

Puig is a stud, Period. He's no Frenchy i guarantee that.

So far in todays game Puig is 3-3 and 2SB. 2 singles and a pop fly triple that landed just over the first basemens head.lol

Dodgers PR ‏@DodgersPR 22s
Puig's 43 hits are the second-most all-time behind Joe DiMaggio (48, 1936) for a player in the 1st month of their career

But but but he's not good