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Monday, April 16, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Now THAT'S a great first course!
(Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda took time in-between courses to discuss the Dodgers strong start)
Mmmm! This is fantastic! Really sticks to my ribs, which is getting harder and harder to do. But that is a wonderful first course. I'll tell you another great first course - playing the Pirates so early in the season! The Dodgers just took care of those guys in orderly fashion and swept em right outta town. Nice to see some things never change. That puts us to 6-1, which is our best start since 1981. I don't need to remind you what happened that year! The one bad thing about the Pirates series was that Vin Scully was unable to call the games due to illness. Of course, we all wish him immediate good health. Dodger baseball isn't the same without him.
(belch) Whoop. Where's the waiter? Gettin' the salad? OK. You wanna know something? I'm gonna give you inside information on this "blog" - you keep this between you and me. Vin is sick, but honestly? He just didn't want to call these Pirates games. When we got the schedule, he and I were reviewing it over chicken cordon bleu at The Grill on the Alley. Vin saw that and said "Oh Tommy. Heavens, no. The Pirates? I suppose we could draw a parallel to college football homecoming." I couldn't figure it out until he said MLB must have awarded us the Pirates due to all this shit with new owners. Do they really do that?
Then I thought about how Selig a decade ago used to make sure the Yankees started off with the Royals or Tampa (back when they were dogshit) every year. We'd all look at that and say "what a fucking coincidence. Looks like another great start." Then I see our start this year: Padres and Pirates. Maybe I should stop complaining! But I can't blame Vin for wanting to avoid boredom by--
Ah...that looks great. Yeah, a little pepper...I need fresh Parmesan cheese on this too, you know.
(Mr. Lasorda, while dining on salad, told an "off the record" story about how (NAME DELETED) had a "girlfriend" in (AREA DELETED) and his attempts to keep up the relationship despite playing the Nationals once a year)
Mmmm! This is fantastic! Really sticks to my ribs, which is getting harder and harder to do. But that is a wonderful first course. I'll tell you another great first course - playing the Pirates so early in the season! The Dodgers just took care of those guys in orderly fashion and swept em right outta town. Nice to see some things never change. That puts us to 6-1, which is our best start since 1981. I don't need to remind you what happened that year! The one bad thing about the Pirates series was that Vin Scully was unable to call the games due to illness. Of course, we all wish him immediate good health. Dodger baseball isn't the same without him.
(belch) Whoop. Where's the waiter? Gettin' the salad? OK. You wanna know something? I'm gonna give you inside information on this "blog" - you keep this between you and me. Vin is sick, but honestly? He just didn't want to call these Pirates games. When we got the schedule, he and I were reviewing it over chicken cordon bleu at The Grill on the Alley. Vin saw that and said "Oh Tommy. Heavens, no. The Pirates? I suppose we could draw a parallel to college football homecoming." I couldn't figure it out until he said MLB must have awarded us the Pirates due to all this shit with new owners. Do they really do that?
Then I thought about how Selig a decade ago used to make sure the Yankees started off with the Royals or Tampa (back when they were dogshit) every year. We'd all look at that and say "what a fucking coincidence. Looks like another great start." Then I see our start this year: Padres and Pirates. Maybe I should stop complaining! But I can't blame Vin for wanting to avoid boredom by--
Ah...that looks great. Yeah, a little pepper...I need fresh Parmesan cheese on this too, you know.
(Mr. Lasorda, while dining on salad, told an "off the record" story about how (NAME DELETED) had a "girlfriend" in (AREA DELETED) and his attempts to keep up the relationship despite playing the Nationals once a year)
Friday, April 6, 2012
Notable Quotables
"When we win a game, it's a team win...when we lose a game, it's a team loss."
-Morris Buttermaker, North Valley League Coach
Here it is, opening day (Only Bud would spread out "Opening Day" to become "Opening Week") and we find out the Dodgers' Cy Young pitcher has the stomach flu. Vin says he wants to pitch, and so he does. The camera is sure to have a close-up on Kershaw's face in-between pitches as he holds back dry heaves. Nice touch. Vin summarizes Kershaw's ailments and says "he had diarrhea, upchuck, fever, all of that." Vin said "upchuck"; I can die in peace.
Through 3 innings, a sick Kershaw gives up 2 hits and strikes out 3. He also gets a hit himself with one of the weakest swings since I visited the batting cages. Supposedly, Donny Mustache saw Kershaw laying down in the hallway in-between innings and decided that was enough. This means, instead of a rock who can go 9 no problem, the Dodge have to turn the rest of the game over to the bullpen.
(Nervously looked away from the TV)
As up in the air as things still might be, we can be thankful for those wise words...
"Life sucks, and then you manage the Padres."
-Donovan Brandt
But...not a real bad performance. In the car listening to the 7th, I began to hear dreaded words.
"Bottom of the 7th, and Matt Guerrier in for the Dodgers."
-Charley Steiner
GRRRR. We didn't trade him, or cut him. He's here, not Albuquerque. (sigh) Fine...show me what you got. No runs/no hits? Ah...the coin landed "heads" and you looked like a good pitcher. Hoo boy, after a Matt Kemp zonk, up 4, Donny must have felt truly secure sending in...Kenley Jansen. Can I give that guy a key to the city of Alb---
NICE. NICE TOUCH, JANSEN. Give those 2 runs back.
OK, what the hell is wrong with me? Am I overly concerned because I see so little different in this team's personnel from last year? Should I calm down because it'll be a month until we can actually spend money? If this was a random game in July, I wouldn't really care so...
The 9th comes, and Javy Guerra, a pitcher mentioned on this blog a year ago overdue to arrive in town, gets the save. When the Dodge get 5 runs, it should be consider an offensive explosion. (Unlike an "offensive explosion" that happens when Tommy visits the can) So we waited all winter...it's just a matter of adjusting your priorities now that the season started. Take it from Tommy, who left this nugget on Twitter while visiting Peoria a few weeks ago:
"If you think you can break the meatball record @grimaldispizza come join me."
Don't ever change, Pisan.
-Morris Buttermaker, North Valley League Coach
Here it is, opening day (Only Bud would spread out "Opening Day" to become "Opening Week") and we find out the Dodgers' Cy Young pitcher has the stomach flu. Vin says he wants to pitch, and so he does. The camera is sure to have a close-up on Kershaw's face in-between pitches as he holds back dry heaves. Nice touch. Vin summarizes Kershaw's ailments and says "he had diarrhea, upchuck, fever, all of that." Vin said "upchuck"; I can die in peace.
Through 3 innings, a sick Kershaw gives up 2 hits and strikes out 3. He also gets a hit himself with one of the weakest swings since I visited the batting cages. Supposedly, Donny Mustache saw Kershaw laying down in the hallway in-between innings and decided that was enough. This means, instead of a rock who can go 9 no problem, the Dodge have to turn the rest of the game over to the bullpen.
(Nervously looked away from the TV)
As up in the air as things still might be, we can be thankful for those wise words...
"Life sucks, and then you manage the Padres."
-Donovan Brandt
But...not a real bad performance. In the car listening to the 7th, I began to hear dreaded words.
"Bottom of the 7th, and Matt Guerrier in for the Dodgers."
-Charley Steiner
GRRRR. We didn't trade him, or cut him. He's here, not Albuquerque. (sigh) Fine...show me what you got. No runs/no hits? Ah...the coin landed "heads" and you looked like a good pitcher. Hoo boy, after a Matt Kemp zonk, up 4, Donny must have felt truly secure sending in...Kenley Jansen. Can I give that guy a key to the city of Alb---
NICE. NICE TOUCH, JANSEN. Give those 2 runs back.
OK, what the hell is wrong with me? Am I overly concerned because I see so little different in this team's personnel from last year? Should I calm down because it'll be a month until we can actually spend money? If this was a random game in July, I wouldn't really care so...
The 9th comes, and Javy Guerra, a pitcher mentioned on this blog a year ago overdue to arrive in town, gets the save. When the Dodge get 5 runs, it should be consider an offensive explosion. (Unlike an "offensive explosion" that happens when Tommy visits the can) So we waited all winter...it's just a matter of adjusting your priorities now that the season started. Take it from Tommy, who left this nugget on Twitter while visiting Peoria a few weeks ago:
"If you think you can break the meatball record @grimaldispizza come join me."
Don't ever change, Pisan.
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