Posts about Dodgers as of October 26, 2009

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One friend writes that this is the best outcome of the World Series. Pretty much. The enemies of all that is decent have aligned to get rid of the two teams from Los Angeles, and since we all know that Los Angeles is, uhhhh, the home of good stuff (I guess), our only choice is to at least root against the evil Yankees if nothing else. On the LBS (The Libertarian Baseball Scale ), with the Dodgers being about 100 (that’s good), and the Yankees being about negative 30,000, I’m not really sure where the Phillies stand.

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UNITED STATES – The Arizona Winter League (AWL), the premier instructional showcase league for professional level baseball players in the U.S. has announced the 8 team slate for the upcoming season which begins with players reporting on January 24, 2010. Also as part of the announcement is the list of managers and instructors and pro leagues that are sending coaches and scouts. For 2010 the returning list of teams includes the champion Yuma Scorpions, Blythe Heat, San Diego Surf Dawgs, and San Luis Atleticos in the U.S.

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Mark Sanchez Eating Hot Dog Mark Sanchez Eating Hot Dog During Game (VIDEO) | Bumpshack.com Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was caught eating a hot dog on the sidelines during Sunday’s game against the Raiders, which is absolutely reprovable coming. Mark Sanchez Eating Hot Dog (Video): Caught Snacking During a Game! Oh well forgive Mark Sanchez eating hot dog because he’s hungry. There’s no need to be mean about that and I hope his team mates will take this in a stride.

Scouting the infielders Catcher : Jorge Posada vs. Carlos Ruiz . Carlos Ruiz Year AB R H HR RBI BB K AVG 2009 Season 322 32 82 9 43 47 39 .255 He’s an excellent defensive catcher but is not a good offensive one. He doesn’t have great regular season numbers but can deliver the clutch hit when needed. He hit very well against the Dodgers batting .385 with one home run and four RBI in 13 at bats. He also walked five times.

TMZ posted photos today it claims are of Jamie McCourt and her new boyfriend, a gent named Jeff Fuller . (Jeff on the left) We got these pictures of Jamie yesterday, lunching in Malibu with Jeff Fuller — the new guy in her life. Now, in the awkward department, until recently Jeff was the Director of Protocol for the Dodgers. We’re told Jamie and Fuller began seeing each other after she split with Frank. Fuller was fired from the Dodgers in omid-October.

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The Champs vs. The Yanks You want star power? East coast bias? Classic franchises? Intriguing match-ups? Crazy fan-bases? This World Series has got about anything you could want as a fan – unless of course you are a Mets fan. As I said before the NLDS: Until the Phillies lose, I will not be changing the format of my previews. So, in the same format as last year’s preview , here’s my 2009 World Series rundown. The Aces Cliff Lee / Cole Hamels vs. CC Sabathia / A.J.

Recently the Arizona Diamondbacks announced yet another contest on their web site. With Halloween soon approaching, the team is holding a pumpkin carving contest . Fans are being asked to create a D-Backs themed pumpkin. Once carved simply take a photo of your Diamondbacks pumpkin and send it to the team. The deadline of the contest is a minute before midnight this Wednesday October 28, 2009. The winning entry will be featured on the Diamondbacks web site and the winning sculptor will receive an autographed Brandon Webb jersey.

Let me just get this out of the way first.  Hiring Manny Acta is not a sexy, “get the fans excited,” kind of move.  I am guessing that there will be no uptick of ticket sales in the Cleveland Indians’ offices today.  So, then what should we all think of the Indians’ latest hire? Much like Terry Pluto said, I have no idea.In all fairness to Acta and his record with the Nationals, I don’t think Joe Torre deserves all the credit he gets for the 90’s New York Yankees either.  Acta had horrible results

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The New York Yankees will face the defending World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies in baseball’s Fall Classic, and ticket brokers may be in for a healthy payday. While some diehard baseball fans might have preferred the Los Angeles Dodgers as the Yankees opponent for nostalgic reasons, the Philadelphia/New York match-up pits two rival East Coast cities against each other with fans more than willing to drive the couple of hours between the two ballparks.

Baseball fans may be bracing for a bang-up World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies, but in the political world could there be anything more boring than sports wagering among fellow Democrats? In perhaps the most un-original sports bet ever, New York’s senators, Charles E. Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand, and Pennsylvania’s senators, Arlen Specter and Bob Casey are putting up Brooklyn cheesecakes against Philly cheese-steaks. May the most runs (not to mention trans-fats and calories) win.

Last night the New York Yankees–as predicted–made it to the World Series and predictably many Americans booed.  They used to boo the Yankees because they were from New York and people like to boo New York. Then they booed because the Yankees had the most obnoxious owner in sports, but George Steinbrenner has exited the stage and that honor now goes to the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones. No, now they boo the Yankees because in the midst of this economic crisis they are Wall Street’s team, the best team that money can buy.

I got this from my favorite Dodger fan: Source: Padres interview Kim Ng for GM job By BERNIE WILSON, AP Sports Writer Oct 18, 1:53 am EDT SAN DIEGO (AP)—Kim Ng interviewed for the San Diego Padres’ vacant general manager’s job on Saturday, giving her another chance to become the first female GM in major league history. Ng, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ assistant general manager, interviewed with Padres CEO and vice chairman Jeff Moorad, according to a person familiar with the process.

“They say that baseball breaks your heart, but what they don’t tell you is that it gives you heart attacks.”– Confessions of a She-Fan This morning I’m breathing with great relief. My stomach is calm, and my nerves have stopped jangling—and all because the New York Yankees won against the Angels last night, ending an extremely tense playoff series. They’re going to the World Series for the first time since 2003, attempting to wrest the championship title away from the Philadelphia Phillies .

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Have you ever been lounging about your living room, wearing less-than-pants and flipping disinterestedly through the channels on a lazy evening, when all the sudden you inexplicably stopped on, say, a Division II collegiate badminton tournament? You have little or no attachment to or background knowledge of either team; neither squad stands out from the other; they are closely seeded. Minutes in, you’ve probably abandoned this boring badminton tournament in favor of the final 20 minutes of a Law & Order: SVU you’ve already seen twice.

The New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday evening at Yankee Stadium 5-2 and won the best-of-seven American League Championship Series 4-2. With the victory the Bronx Bombers will return to the World Series after a six-year drought. It is their 40th trip to the fall classic and they hope to win for the 27th time in team history. They will be opposed by defending champion Philadelphia Phillies, which won the National League pennant in five games against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Yesterday, Jon Heyman of SI.com said he believes the Mets big-ticket target will likely end up playing left field. …obviously, the two big free-agent left fielders are Matt Holliday and Jason Bay … According to Bruce Jenkins of the San Francisco Chronicle , “You can forget about the Giants going after Holliday or Bay.” Last week, Heyman said on  SI.com  that Holliday first prefers the Yankees, then the Dodgers, Angels and Mets, “perhaps in that order.” According to Heyman,

You might have a hunch that your apartment will be all kinds of drafty this winter, but you’re not in a position to start replacing insulation. A valuable Ask MetaFilter thread offers many temporary heat fixes and DIY draft fixes. Photo by Muffet . The question comes from a couple in Nova Scotia who spent a winter packed in outdoor clothes in a ground floor apartment, yet still felt the chill. They’ve pulled off the basics that a tenant can get away with—plastic window covers, caulking, draft dodgers, and the like—but needed a few more ideas.

(NOTE: this article is by MetsToday contributing writer and resident stathead Matt Himelfarb — be kind, and keep an open mind) Rumors of the Dodgers recent financial troubles due to the McCourts’ nasty split should be welcome news to the Mets. The only other potential Roy Halladay suitors that could fairly compensate baseball’s best pitcher appear to be the Jay’s inter-division rivals, the Yankees and the Red Sox. Both Boston and New York do not have unlimited payrolls, and figure to set their sights, both financially and in regard to prospects, on other priorities.

Baseball experienced a welcome change in 2008. From 2002 through 2007, the World Series featured at least one Wild Card team. Some of those teams — notably the 2002 Angels (99-63) and the 2004 Red Sox (98-64) — could make a case for being there. But in other years it was an inferior team getting hot at the right time and knocking off better teams. That’s the idea sometimes, but to have a Wild Card team in the World Series for six straight seasons? That’s a bit much, at least to me.

Phillies Vs Dodgers game 5 NLCS 2009 Stream Live From The Press Box Phillies Dodgers game 5 NLCS 2009 Live From The Press Box VIDEO PHOTO World Series Schedule 2009: The Phillies MLB announces World Series schedule | River Avenue Blues Now that the Yankees have wrapped up the ALCS, MLB has announced start times for the World Series games against the Yankees. The schedule comes to us via Pete Dougherty of The Times-Union.

The Phillies bring a better chance for a competitive and highly rated series than the Dodgers would have.

You might have a hunch that your apartment will be all kinds of drafty this winter, but you’re not in a position to start replacing insulation. A valuable Ask MetaFilter thread offers many temporary heat fixes and DIY draft fixes. Photo by Muffet . The question comes from a couple in Nova Scotia who spent a winter packed in outdoor clothes in a ground floor apartment, yet still felt the chill. They’ve pulled off the basics that a tenant can get away with—plastic window covers, caulking, draft dodgers, and the like—but needed a few more ideas.

Cano Swisher(Sunday, October 25th)Final Score: New York 5, LA Angels of Anaheim 2Bronx, NY – The Yankees scored three runs in the fourth to back six-plus solid innings from Andy Pettitte, and New York stamped its ticket to the World Series with a 5-2 win over the Angels in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series.In a contest that was postponed from Saturday thanks to heavy rain, Pettitte (2-0) allowed just one run on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings, and struck out six.

The New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies are officially going head-to-head in this year’s World Series, causing folks from all walks of life to root for one baseball team or the other—in fact, even the heroes of the Marvel Universe are taking sides. Earlier in the season, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada spoke with MLB.com about the various baseball franchises competing for a shot at the World Series title, which has now been whittled down to the Yankees and the Phillies.

Via Wallace Matthews – The Yankees have spent $1,187,333,651 on ballplayers since 2003, the last time they made it to the World Series. That’s one billion, one hundred eighty-seven million, three hundred thirty-three thousand and six hundred fifty-one dollars, if you’re scoring at home. The number jumps to $1,425,549,383 – almost enough to pay a Goldman Sachs CEO his bonus – if you go back to 2000, the last time they actually won a world championship.

The Weekly Rewind is our recap of some of the most captivating stories of the previous sports week. Two in a row?- The Phillies made their way back to the World Series for the second consecutive season and defeated the Dodgers in five games, once again, to get there. Ryan Howard added more hardware to his resume as the NLCS MVP. The city of brotherly love is waiting to erupt, again, in the streets, but will they? We’ll know soon enough.

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Jimmy Rollins has once again gotten his Nostradamus on. After gaining something of a reputation for making predictions, J-Roll quickly became a media target for an easy story-line sound bite (even more so than he had been), with reporters asking for his calls on a variety of outcomes. How many wins would the Phillies have? Will they repeat as champs? Do you like the Eagles with the points tonight? He nailed most of them, and after last night’s Yankees win, another J-Roll prognostication came true.  In May, it was released that Playboy had previously asked Jimmy which teams he thought would be in the World Series.

New York Yankees has won the American League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. After winning the series on 4-2, the Yankees has once again managed to bag a position at the World Series game. This time, the Yankees would have to face the strong team of Philadelphia Phillies. Yankees on the Game 6 [...]

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Oct26 News Anchor AP – They dashed from the dugout and in from the outfield, swarming Alex Rodriguez in a sea of pinstripes only steps from his spot at third base. “I couldn’t be more excited,” he said. “I feel like a 10-year-old kid.” Making it to the World Series for the first time after all those misses will do that to you.Read the Full StoryYanks beat Angels in 6 to advance to World Series (AP) Share and Enjoy:Related News PostsOctober 21, 2009 — A-Rod launches Yankees to brink of World

Back at the end of April, I compared then soon-to-be free agent outfielders Jason Bay and Matt Holliday. I concluded that Holliday was the better player out of the pair, writing: “Holliday is the better all-around player. He is a year younger, and much better on the bases and in the field. Bay has been the more productive hitter, but he is defensively challenged and not quite as valuable overall. Whether Holliday can perform in Oakland, though, will dramatically affect his and Boras’ bank account.

Last night, the Yankess closed out the Angels, advancing to the World Series and, we imagine, making journalist Matt Taibbi that much unhappier about publishing this prediction for the 2009 season back in April: [A]t the first sign of … trouble — the first six-game losing streak in May, the first whispers of a Joe Girardi firing in June — [the high-priced Yankee free agents] will all scatter like rats to the far corners of the Yankee clubhouse and start making cell-phone calls to their agents and whispering to the press.

Rooting for the bad guy always sounds so good in theory; there is a sexy excitement to the whole thing, a contrarian pride, and a Clint Eastwood danger. But in practice, it never works. At the movies, you find yourself unable to shake the momentum of the action, somehow hinged to the values of the hero, reasonably off put by the villainous secrecy, shady Russian accents, and grandiose threats of the bad guys. Somehow, you always come home to the good guy. But this is baseball. And the lines aren’t so clear.

Last Saturday I officiated at the memorial service for my father-in-law, Bill Swedberg. He died a couple of weeks ago at the age of 84, a victim of Parkinson’s Syndrome. The service was held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, where Bill’s wife is buried (and also my father and my maternal grandparents). Bill was able to die at home, thanks to the commitment of his children, most of all his daughter, Debbie, who cared for him for years and oversaw and contribute to his professional care in the last, difficult months.

According to transitive logic, Jim Cramer recommends selling the stock of his company The Street.com (Nasdaq: TSCM). In his books , Cramer says to dump stocks when executives depart suddenly or companies miss their filings. Therefore, once The Street “ failed to produce their 10-Q filing for the second quarter ” and executives started jumping ship, an honest Cramer would have been forced to “Sell, Sell, Sell.” If you are looking for supporting evidence to dump your TSCM shares, here are a few

It wasn’t that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples. Bar Girls: Friendly if faulty romantic comedy with a twist: most of its chief characters are lesbians who assemble at L.A.’s Girl Bar.

It wasn’t that long ago that a trip to the corner video shop was the most convenient way to get a movie. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples. Bar Girls: Friendly if faulty romantic comedy with a twist: most of its chief characters are lesbians who assemble at L.A.’s Girl Bar.

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Just For Fun column: Local fans welcome NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers to Inland Empire; see video highlights (Fontana Herald News) Kobe Bryant of the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers enters the court at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario on Tuesday night, to the cheers of thousands of fans from Fontana and the rest of the Inland Empire. NBA 2009-10 Pre Season 10/22?Denver Nuggets ?vs.?Los Angeles Lakers ?highlights Author: LAriza003 Keywords: NBA 2009-10 Pre Season 10/22 Denver Nuggets “> Nuggets vs.

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« BAC-ML: More E-Mail | Main I like sales of sports teams.  It’s one of the few times I can read the sports pages and still pretend to be working.  That said, the pending divorce of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt from his wife, Jamie, is shaping up to be a drag-out battle over who will own the team.  The LA Times is reporting that she is already lining up investors after having been fired from her position as the team’s CEO.

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Two bits of news out of St. Louis on Sunday; one a big surprise and the other not so much. According to a report from ESPN, Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa signed a one year deal to remain the manager for 2010 with a mutual option for 2011. This bit of news is not a big shock since it was easy to think LaRussa wouldn’t want to leave the Cardinals a bitter taste, as is from their sweep at the hands of the Dodgers earlier this postseason. LaRussa will be returning to the Cards for his 15th season.

The struggling Saguaros looked for their first AFL victory against the Phoenix Desert Dogs at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. The Reds’ Chris Heisey would go 3-for-4 at the plate, driving in three and crossing the plate twice. Heisey’s performance would help the Saguaros to stand tall against the Desert Dogs as things would look bleak for the Saguaros in the seventh inning. In the seventh, Phoenix would score eight runs to put the pressure on.

LOS ANGELES — Manager Joe Torre was more than willing to let his Dodgers celebrate in the visiting clubhouse at Busch Stadium on Saturday night. In fact, after walking over to find National League Division Series Game 3 winner Vicente Padilla and … Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted on Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 4:10 am and is filed under Ring. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

« Grading Google | Main | Dodgers Cat-Fight in the Works » OK, so now that BAC has started turning over internal e-mails to the House Committee on Oversight, it’s not looking so good … especially for the lawyers.   Law.com/Corporate Counsel  has had access to the e-mail and it’s quite a tangled web.  The e-mails show that early on the morning of Dec.