Yeah, if I had the resources to confirm it, I'd be willing to bet that Tony does the same thing more often than not when playing a late night game followed immediately by multi-timezone travel.

Time for Fight Night Round 4.

Dodgers are putting a big time beating on the Cardinals wow.

All teams do that...especially the Dodgers. Obviously they do it because they think they get more wins that way. Check out a Sunday Dodger box score after a night game.

Dodgers actually have Casey Blake and Russel Martin on the bench tonight as well.

Dewitt goes yard! LOLZ

PS3 or 360?

I've been thinking about giving it a rent, though now that I'm finally able to manage the stairs, I'll likely be heading to the Parquet Level and hitting up some Road To The Show for a while.

Got stuck in the Mariners organization for a while, but finally reached FA and signed a 6 year, $110M contract with the Red Sox.

vinny givin props to all the scouts out there

He's going to be a good player. He's goign to be hitting 15-20 a year pretty soon.

ive been followin him since we drafted him in the 1st round. i always thought he just needed the game day experience.

ill take 20 a year.

The reason the Dodgers are up tonight sure has nothing to do with the Cardinal line-up. It is about the pitching. The Dodgers are getting it so far and the Cardinals surely haven't.

That is why the next two nights will be tough for the Dodgers...Carpenter and Wainright. That is a one two punch.

monasterios has been a pleasant surprise so far

No doubt...especially considering he is a rule 5 who had never played above AA. Picked him up out of the Phillies organization. Dodgers have been fortunate with him and Ely stepping up

lol, my friend who is a Giants fan of all, calls him Monsterous. I like that.

360.

You should definitely give it a shot.

One tip: The training games in legacy mode are so hard as to border on unfair. I usually adjust sliders for the training games and then knock them back down for fights.

I went through an entire legacy mode with a Light HW who I moved up to Heavy, and now I went from MW to Light Heavy.

I think my guy is 56-0 with 45 KOs, but there have been several close calls.

I have a PS3. I might check the reviews to see if there are any substantial differences, then rent it if I can pull myself away from Road To The Show.

I'm really wanting to buy Red Dead Redemption as well, so something is going to have to wait.

Ugh - what a beatdown. Looks like I picked a good night to play Mass Effect 2.

You new to watching Larussa manage? ROFL

They gave up before they even took the field.:cuss:

I understand you can't catch Molina 162 games. Two of your young studs got tweaks and don't want the injuries to linger. You have two spots in the rotation open due to injuries. But, comeon you don't have to lay down so obviously before even the first pitch is thrown.

Against Pujols+scrubs. Want to impress me? Try to do that against Carp and Waino.:harumph:

This, I would bet we take the next two, but Randy Winn and the rest of the hobos better be on the bench where they belong!

whats the word on rausmus anyways? somebody just dropped him in my fantasy league

they are fools. It's just a calf tweak. Bet he's in the lineup today.

.287 10 dingers and 30 ribs, wtf would you drop him without him even being on the DL?

I dont care if you are impressed or not, you all couldnt hit off our rule 5 pitcher who was supposed to be the pitcher you pitch when you are down 10-1 in the game. He's only pitching because 2 of our starters are on the DL. We are stuck with this guy for the whole year he cannot be sent down.

So, you want to impress me, hit off a dude that was supposed to just be the Corey Mays of the Dodgers.

YOu all should win today though, you all got a great pitcher going against a pitcher that has been struggling the last 3 outtings for us.

Newslfash, the Cardinals arent the only team with throw away games like i said a few posts up. Dodgers do it all the time and rest, the catcher, 3rd basemen, short stop and left fielder all the time.

I dropped him because I couldn't trust him.

Rasmus is too streaky for a team with a short bench (we only carry 23 players). Raz will go on 3-4 week stretches where he simply misses everything.

I dumped him for Cuddyer because I wanted a more consistent stick. He was my 5th OFer and I hated the idea that I would be forced to start him on a Sunday where I had a tight race in Ks or something like that.

Colby has value, but he certainly has his warts as well.

The Cardinals really kicked ass through the first three rounds of the draft.

If there is any way DeWitt would funnel the money he was going to use on Wagner Mateo to make Austin Wilson an offer he couldn't refuse, it'd be a phenomenal influx of talent.

I wouldn't be surprised if Cox was the team's 2B by June of 2012.

Actually I have been watching LaRussa since he was with the A's so I am sure I have been watching him manage a hell of a lot longer than you have. You seem to follow the Cardinals but no one else in mlb? Kinda crazy.

As I stated...there are no throw away games in the mlb. There are professionals behind professionals and all teams rest players. As I stated...the Dodgers were resting players last night as well. Pitching was the reason for the Cardinals defeat last night. If you can't afford to rest Molina and Freese you ain't got much.

I bet this will blow your mind. Tony LaRussa actually managed the White Sox before the A's. I sh@t you not....

Ho.

Lee.

Shit.

Strasburg has some nasty nasty stuff.

Yeah...he might actually be this good.

Austin takes on Wrigley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkdtex_EkaM

Listen to the sound when he makes contact a hair past the 1 minute mark. The damn ball had to have a flat spot.

Smart kid, good upbringing, productive, talented and projectable? Sign him.

Give him Cox's money if necessary (we'll get the pick back if we can't get Cox signed). Get this kid in the fold.

Damn, I forgot that game was on MLB network tonight...tuning in now.

Then you tuned in just in time to see his first lesson: Sometimes all you can do is tip your cap.

That HR pitch to Young wasn't a bad pitch at all. It was low, it was tailing and he didn't look to telegraph the off-speed. Young just made a nice adjustment mid-swing and fell into it.

No, MLB isn't always fair. Learn this and you'll go far, Stephen.

Sit down. He made that inning look easy.

Definately buying the hype. I know it is the Buccos, but Wow that doesn't make his pitches any less nasty.

14 K's!

He went 7 innings, correct? So he struck out 3/4ths of the batters he faced in his MLB debut?

A bit over 50% of the batters he faced. He gave up 4 hits but didn't walk anyone.

No, BRC, that would be 2/3 of the outs...

Wondering if you had a minute to check out my reply to you about the Tony LaRussa? Might be informational to you. Post 1467

Yadi has way too much Reggie Sanders in him in those spots.

Any time there's a runner on first and one out with Yadi up, I'd be much happier if he just ****ing bunted.

This game is ****ing painful. We're back in no-hitting/piss-all-over-the-pitcher mode. Molina at the plate makes want to hit something.

And it's official - I ****ing hate Matt Mulder-I mean Holliday. I really don't think he could do anything to change my mind, and the good news for him is, he's too busy counting his money to care.

He'll take bigger and bigger swings while making poutier and poutier faces until you love him.

SWING HARDER, MATT!!!

****ing dickhead.

I think you can pull Carpenter now.

I'm not sure there was an easy out for the Cards over the last 3 innings. Bullets all over the yard.

Garrett Anderson once beat Pujols in the 2003 HR Derby.

Fortunately, he has the defensive prowess of a young Clemente.

I'm just glad the guy making 120 million is our third best outfielder.

Like, 7 year-old Clemente?

Though to be fair, Roberto probably had a better throwing arm in grade-school.

I assume you mean after the plane crash.

I guess my sarcasm is going over about as well as Mr. Holliday's play in high leverage situations.

Sorry. It's late, I'm tired and getting over a sinus infection.

Kuo is absolutely ****ing filthy, so at least they are wasting him on the bottom of the order.

Although Broxton will fist us in the 9th.

There should actually be at least a little entertainment value in it.

I look forward to this pack of half-wits trying to pull 98 mph high-heat.

**** going opposite field and using Broxton's power against him, chicks dig the ****ing long ball.

Ludwick's defense is keeping us in this game.

Christ, have the Dodgers hit a soft out for the last 4 innings?

Everything is smoked at somebody.

We win in the 9th or we lose. The Dodgers are going yard soon (if Ethier doesn't do it here).

He has some wicked stuff. :thumb:

I was hoping Tony would go full reerun and bring in Franklin against Manny, given that he has an 8.000 OPS against him.

Gold glove type of year.

Manny, bumaye.

Only a matter of time before that happened.

You just can't keep giving up liners while answering with dribblers.

This game was a loss, it was just a matter of how many innings it took to get there.

Manny with the RBI double

Bringing in McClellan worked out well. :cuss:

he's also had 2 TJ surgery's and his elbow is still messed up, he's been pitching the last few years in pain.

Eh - that's what happens when your LOOGY lets both lefties he faces reach base.

McClellan didn't do us any favors but it's still on Miller, IMO.

Miller with the Randy Flores

Left-Handed
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I have no idea who's batting, but here's how I see this playing out:

Grounder to 2b (after rolling over a fastball trying to pull it)
K swinging
Popup to short RF (after trying to pull a high fastball that the hitter is light years behind).

14 pitches

The hitters don't matter, they're all ****ing braindead.

For those of you who haven't seen him a lot, Broxton is Motte with a slider.

"I'll bet you don't have enough hair on your ass to throw me another one."

"Here it comes, Parkman. Number one, the Terminator."

And a shitload more consistency.

2 years ago when he first got the gig, he was wild as **** walked everyone, he's turned that around big time.

That slider hung just a tick, but he tried to yank it.

Of course he did.

Find a hitter on this club that doesn't try to yank everything thrown up there and I'll show you someone that hasn't been with the club for long.

They have a consistently awful approach up and down the lineup.

But have no fear! Holliday's slider speed bat will save us!

Holy shit, Choke Boy actually did something useful.

Dude has hung his last two sliders big time and we missed both of them.

Nobody on base.

I suppose a 9th inning single with nobody on is more than I should expect from Holliday, but I'm gonna wait a bit to get too excited about a ducksnort up the middle from our $17 million cleanup hitter and worst starting OFer.

Give them a break.

You have any idea how hard it is to pull a hung outside slider?

or when you think its a fastball coming in anywhere between 95-99 mph

Skip against Broxton....

:facepalm:

If Broxton throws another strike in this AB he should be fined.

Game Dodgers back in first place in the NLW.

Nice ****ing swing, Skip.

Just swing at the next one with your palm like you're playing handball. You'll hit it with more authority than that.

What a shitty game.

lol, havent seen Broxton pitch much huh? that dude just will challenge anyone. Here'z the heater, hit it.

hmmm, looks like the pujols+scrubs lineup managed 4 more runs than your supposed "good" lineup.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaahahahahahahahaa

That AB was like Tyson vs. Carl "The Truth" Williams.