Posts about Dodgers as of October 25, 2009

It’s been a few days since the clincher of the NLCS. I am still pretty spent. Those NLCS games were a bitch. With the exception of the 11-0 Game 3 blowout, every game had a ton of drama. Here’s some interesting stats and more as we wait to find out who we’re playing in the Series. Jayson Werth is now the Phillies all-time postseason home run leader with 7 long balls. His opposite field shot to right-center on Wednesday was crushed. The first ever postseason home run by a Phillie was hit by Fred Luderus in the 1915 World Series.

The SST reports : Finance minister Bill English has signalled the government will next year get tough with tax-dodgers by closing loopholes that allow wage earners to avoid paying their share of tax. The IRD says the government is missing out on $300 million a year because of wage earners who squirrel away money into trust accounts to avoid paying the top income tax rate. More is lost because of earnings that are “sheltered” by a company created solely to avoid tax.

The Cleveland Indians have hired Manny Acta as their manager. Acta signed a three-year contract with a club option for 2013, team spokesman Bart Swain said Sunday. Additional terms were not disclosed. Acta was fired by the Washington Nationals in July. The Indians chose him after a second round of interviews over former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine and Indians Triple-A manager Torey Lovullo. The team also had been expected to interview Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly.

Tony La Russa will be back next year to manage the St. Louis Cardinals. Per ESPN.com: “I’m coming to an understanding of what I’m doing and intend to get it settled one way or the other shortly,” La Russa told the Post-Dispatch. La Russa, who during the offseason lives in Alamo, Calif., east of Oakland, was scheduled to arrive in St. Louis for a Bruce Springsteen concert Sunday night. The 65-year-old La Russa has been mulling his future since the NL Central champion Cardinals were swept in the division series by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Oct.

Vicente Padilla shut down Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals, putting the Los Angeles Dodgers back in the National League championship series with a 5-1 victory on Saturday night. [Click Here To Read More]

Not the Mets? RT @NYPost_Mets: Bobby Valentine and Manny Acta are now finalists for the Indians’ managerial job: http://bit.ly/1REGZQ # mets # Gotta shake this one off and win tomorrow! RT @dodgertownusa: There is good news, Game 4 of the NLCS is stll 0-0 # dodgers # On the latest SNL, that Beauty and the Beast sketch was the funniest skit on there than anything on the show in years! # snl # Ordering in Domino’s cause it just took me 1.5 hours to get home and I’m not going out again, heh.

Let the Many Acta era begin. Today the Indians made it official, hiring the 40-year-old as their manager. Team spokesman Bart Swain said Sunday that Acta has signed a three-year contract with a club option for 2013. Additional terms were not disclosed. Acta was fired by the Washington Nationals in July. The Indians chose him after a second round of interviews over former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine and Indians Triple-A manager Torey Lovullo. The team was set to talk to Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman’s Twitter page, the Cleveland Indians are set to hire former Washington Nationals manager Manny Acta as their skipper. They also interviewed Angels bench coach Ron Roenicke, Dodgers hitting coach Don Mattingly and former Mets manager Bobby Valentine.Clearly, they were impressed by Acta’s 158-252 record as a manager.

This Week in Yankee History October 25th – October 31st October 25th 1869 – Former Yankees 1B Jack “Dirty Jack” Doyle (1905) was born. Jack appeared in 1 game with no hits in 1905 for the Yankees. 1917 – Former Yankees front office executive Lee MacPhail Jr. was born. Lee was the son of former Yankees Co-Owner Larry MacPhail (1945-1947). After graduating from college, Lee MacPhail was the business manager of the Reading Brooks in 1941.

Greg Mc Elroy(Saturday, October 24th)Final Score: (1) Alabama 12, Tennessee 10Tuscaloosa, AL – Alabama’s Terrence Cody blocked a 44-yard field goal attempt as time expired, and the top-ranked Crimson Tide survived Tennessee, 12-10, in an SEC tussle. Jonathan Crompton finished off Tennessee’s previous series with an 11-yard TD pass to Gerald Jones with 1:19 to go. The Vols came up with the onside kick at the 41, and Jones made a 14- yard catch into ‘Bama territory on second down.

Thanks to an expanded playoff schedule, the World Series will end in November for only the second time in history: Not long after the conclusion of Game 3, or even during its late innings, Major League Baseball and the World Series will go somewhere they have never intentionally gone before: the month of November. For only the second time since the Boston Americans beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903, baseball’s champion will be crowned in a month that has always belonged to football and sports with enough sense to play indoors.

Much has been made of the NFL’s use of anniversary AFL jerseys this season. The created buzz and although luckily most of the Denver Broncos striped throwback socks won’t be at retail, the jerseys raised some extra interest. Whether that buzz is needed for the NFL to raise awareness who knows, but it certainly created a little more water cooler talk. However many other leagues and brands do need buzz, and one, The Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League, took three big steps this past week in helping a cause, identifying with a legend and creating some great exposure for the brand and for hockey in general.

Colleen Dominguez on the Dodgers’ sweep of the Cardinals [Click Here To Read More]

A grand slam by Juan Sanchez (Milwaukee) in the bottom of the tenth gave Aragua an 11-7 victory over Caribes Saturday. Sanchez had entered the game in the ninth as a pinch runner for Justin Huber. Ex-Twin Luis Maza (Dodgers) had four hits and ex-Twin Alex Romero (Arizona) had three to lead the Tigres. Huber was [...]

Editor’s Note: The new collection of Cuts and Glory x Manny Pacquiao shirts are live! After watching the critically acclaimed and extremely fun to watch HBO 24/7 earlier tonight, I was taken aback at how indifferent Manny Pacquiao was toward Freddie Roach. At the end of the first episode, Freddie was worried the training camp would be stalled by the typhoons and asked Manny to leave for Los Angeles as soon as possible.

Hey guy’s.    First, sorry about the video. I’m on it. Hope ur having a good weekend so far. Mine is going well. Last night I went and saw Amelia Earhart’s movie. I thought it was good. Swank did a great job as her. I thought. And after the movie, I walked over to the Border’s. (book store). And got a book. I looked around, then went and got in line, payed for the book. It was a completely normal transaction. Untill…;-)  I’m walking away and the guy that rang me up kinda whispers some what under his breath.

Filed under: Dirty Divorces Frank McCourt’s wife, Jamie, may have unceremoniously gotten the ax as CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but she is clearly trying to move on with her personal life. We got these pictures of Jamie yesterday, lunching in Malibu with Jeff Fuller — the … Permalink

Filed under: Dirty Divorces Frank McCourt’s wife, Jamie, may have unceremoniously gotten the ax as CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but she is clearly trying to move on with her personal life. We got these pictures of Jamie yesterday, lunching in Malibu with Jeff Fuller — the … Permalink

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Filed under: Dirty Divorces Frank McCourt’s wife, Jamie, may have unceremoniously gotten the ax as CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but she is clearly trying to move on with her personal life. We got these pictures of Jamie yesterday, lunching in Malibu with Jeff Fuller — the … Permalink

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Dodgers sweep Cards! Today was a good day to be a dodger fan. They won the national league west division series over the Saint Louis Cardinals. While winning would be great in itself, their win is more substantial because the dodgers win put a proverbial foot in the mouths of all the naysayers. The dodgers have been the number one team in the NL practically since day one and yet the east coast loving ESPN and even our own Los Angeles times had the cards winning in 3-4 games.

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Manny Ramirez drives in two runs as the Dodgers sweep the Cardinals [Click Here To Read More]

Major league baseball – fresh on the heels of the divorce of the owner of the San Diego Padres – is once again in play in a California divorce court. Frank McCourt , the Los Angeles Dodgers’ owner, and his wife, Jamie McCourt , formerly the team’s CEO, are divorcing. The McCourts have been married since 1979 and have an estimated net worth of $1.29 billion, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal . The team is valued at $722 million. The McCourts purchased controlling interest in the Dodgers on Jan.

Highly touted left-handed pitcher Yusei Kikuchi has announced that he will stay in Japan after meeting with eight MLB teams and 12 NPB clubs, according to Kyodo News .  Kikuchi chatted with the Red Sox, Dodgers, Rangers, Giants, Indians, Yankees, Mets and Mariners before opting not to make the leap to the United States.

More links on this Saturday night… The Indians’ “trio of managerial candidates” each told the club how they would improve the team’s less-than-stellar bullpen.  Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer brings us the ideas of Manny Acta, Bobby Valentine and Torey Lovullo.  Chris Perez was one of the Tribe’s bright spots in relief, posting 38 Ks in 33.1 IP after coming over from St. Louis in the Mark DeRosa trade .

Thanks to the rain in New York, we’re without baseball once again tonight.  No need to panic though because we got you covered with links from around the web: The Phillies will have the opportunity to repeat as world champions but they’re already looking beyond this year, writes Jayson Stark of ESPN.com .  Stark compares this Phillies team to the late-90s Yankees and notes that unlike that Yanks lineup, the Phillies position players are all north of 30, with the exception of Shane Victorino

A few more links to peruse as MLB officials sift through rainy forecasts in NYC… According to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle , Oakland GM Billy Beane has touched base with free agent right-hander Justin Duchscherer .  It’s not yet clear, however, whether the A’s will try to retain him.  MLBTR profiled the “Duke of Hurl” about a month ago. Diamond Leung passes along a nice anecdote involving Dodgers assistant GM Kim Ng and Justin Orenduff , the club’s 2004 first-round pick.  Orenduff was designated for assignment last year to clear roster space for Manny Ramirez and then retired in March of 2009.