During this evening's game the Dodgers did manage to score a run from Nomar Garciaparra when he originally was called out at home plate. 3rd baseman Ryan Zimmerman ta
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29 July 2008
I’ve suffered through the indignation if watching Andruw Jones strike out more times than the “Star Wars kid” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU) at Pure nightclub ( www.purethenightclub.com), and I resigned myself to the idea that he would rather pile ribs on home plate than swing a bat over it. I am completely comfortable with this idea. He’s earned every piece of hate that has rained upon his head. Then what does he do? He smokes a single to actually drive in a run! Miracles can happen! So of course, due to having the “attention span of a boiled potato”, myself as well as thousands of drunkards at Doyer Stadium told ourselves, “This is when he’ll break out of his zero for infinity slump”. Never mind that he looked just as terrible swinging at that slider as he has swinging at every other pitch this year (i.e. belly swings first and then the bat), and if that pitch was anywhere but accidentally right down the middle, his whiff would be at epic proportions to the likes of Casey ( http://ops.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/casey.html). We had hopes. Andruw was up in the 9th inning. The Doyers down by one. Time for the slump to end. Here’s the pitch…High drive, deep to right field…Wait, I was watching Kirk Gibson’s homerun again. Of course Andruw struck out with a chance to do some damage, and of course the Doyers lost with a chance to tie Arizona for first place in what is the saddest race since Steven Hawking challenged Christopher Reeve to a 3 yard dash.
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10 July 2008
he same moron who tosses $19 million to Andruw Jones, $16 million to Jason Schmitt, $9.5 million to Nomar Garciaparra and he is terrified of a trade that would increase payroll by $9 million? Granted he would have tried to sign CC to an extension and what not (and that would be about $25 million/year), but this is for the best pitcher in the game, not to mention a platoon player (who can play short) and a 3rd basemen. Everything the Dodgers wanted all in a package, and he vetoes it. It’s go to mean something when other teams won’t take on any of your high paid players because all of your high paid players are broken down and useless. So instead of moving towards a winning franchise, McCourt seems to love to meddle in mediocrity because we are dumb enough to keep going to games and to watch a bunch of turds in Dodger Blue “play baseball”. The best part of this trade was that we would keep ALL The high end prospects and could unload all the crappy players (Schmitt, Lowe, Nomar, Andruw, Kent) after next season and it would all be good. We are not a small market team, but apparently that is how the owner sees it. He is ready to try and turn Dodger stadium into a revenue service year round with his renovations and he is willing to increase prices to watch crap on the field but unwilling to make any moves of consequence to make the team actually look professional.
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4 July 2008
On the eve of the Dodgers playing the Giants a few hours from now, and the NBA turning on it’s head with constant movements, I find myself watching: The 2008 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Championship. I always seem to catch myself watching this every year, totally disgusted with what I’m watching and with myself for being so interested. This is one of the reasons the rest of the world hates what America stands for. Gluttony. People are eating more hot dogs in 12 minutes than the rest of the world sees in their entire lifetime. ESPN tries to make this a legitimate “sporting” event like rock, paper, scissors tournament, but generally people don’t buy it. Not even the “athletes” believe themselves to be partaking in anything but a gorge-fest.
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2 July 2008
ted to pitch today against the Astros, Brad Penny is likely to pitch Saturday in San Francisco, and Nomar Garciaparra and Andruw Jones showed no signs of regressing.
In the most key of battles, though, it seems that Rafael Furcal left Las Vegas after complaining about his sore back, and this is likely to set him back even more. As usual, this is bad news for everyone except the guy who gets to play in the big leagues in Furcal’s spot, who in this case is Jason Repko. Technically called up to replace the injured Juan Pierre, Repko had a busy hat day, trading his Las Vegas 51s cap for Dodger headgear and ultimately wearing the Golden Sombrero, striking out his first four appearance (in the leadoff spot, no less) in the Dodgers’ series-opening 4-1 loss.
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And do us a favor while you're out there, give Jason Schmidt, Andruw Jones, Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Furcal, (and Juan Pierre soon) a good ol' show of support pat on the back from their fans in Los Angeles.
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29 June 2008
Meanwhile, the Dodgers announced today that their trio of injury-plagued veterans – Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Furcal and Andruw Jones – were to begin rehab assignments soon, w
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24 June 2008
Hot of the presses comes word of Nomar Garciaparra (my FAVORITE Dodger) being diagnosed with a gene problem that causes him to heal slower than a normal man. Who is this guy the ANTI-Wolverine ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing_factor)? That has seriously got to be the worst mutant power of all time, but the funniest part of all of this is that he has been diagnosed by his PHYSICAL THERAPIST. These guys aren’t doctors! Nothing against physical therapists, but really, Nomar is more disabled than Lt. Dan ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/) and has spent more time on the disabled list than the Raiders have been an embarrassment, and it took them this long to find out that he has the skeletal structure composed of Faberge egg? I like Nomar as a person, as he seems like a cool guy and it must be incredibly frustrating losing so many years to injury, but man, if I was the Dodgers, I would be greatly annoyed that nobody realized until now that they had signed Samuel L. Jackson from “Unbreakable” to play baseball for them for 3 years.
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20 June 2008
Not a terrible player, but really not worth $9 million.
Nomar Garciaparra: A perennial Dodger favorite for some inexplicable reason, Nomar’s lone purpose is to spend eternity on the DL, and probably provide Indiana Jones with the Holy Grail as well. He also allows giant people with CA or Hispanic accents the ability to yell “No-mah” at the top of their lungs like they are some displaced Bostonian. At the time, the signing of Nomar to the 2 year $18 million was thought to be a terrible move by me, and glad to know I was right. It seems that unfortunately Nomar will be more popular here than any more deserving player due to: 1) His Hispanic heritage; 2) His ONE year of 20 homers and 96 RBI because he managed 3 clutch hits, something the Dodgers didn’t have since Robin Ventura and Steve Finley; 3) His name is Ramon backwards. Ingenious! Seriously though, you know how sad it is as a Dodger fan that the only reason we love a player is there ability to provide a clutch hit or two. The Red Sox love Big Papi for this same reason except he is also a great player. Nomar is not a great player, but had a few walk-off homer runs and he is a Dodger legend. Another prime example is Steve Finley whose lone highlight is the walk-off grand slam to send the Dodgers to the playoffs against the hated Giants in 2004. He will always be remembered for that hit, and only that hit for Dodger fans because it reminded us so much of Gibson’s homer, and we need SOMETHING to celebrate.
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15 June 2008
Examples: Signing Jason Schmidt from the Giants for three years and $47 million; signing Nomar Garciaparra for two years and $10 million.
Although Schmidt’s signing also counts as a violation of the tenth commandment, we’re filing it here to reflect Schmidt’s injury-plagued existence on the Dodgers. The Dodgers acquired Schmidt as a free agent before the 2007 season, despite whispers that he had lost some velocity in his last year with the Giants. Last year, as supposed ace of the staff, Schmidt pitched six games. He posted an ERA over six, recording as many wins (one) as homers before succumbing to a variety of injuries. He has yet to pitch this year.
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3 June 2008
Wrist injuries are bad news for hitters. Especially if surgery is involved. Nomar Garciaparra missed almost the entire 2001 season when he had to have surgery on his wrist to repair an injury similar to the one suffered by Ortiz. There is a distinct possibility that Ortiz could be done for the season. It is probably a near certainty that he will be out longer than a month.
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25 May 2008
ers five highest paid position players are Andrew Jones, Jeff Kent, Rafael Furcal, Juan Pierre, and Nomar Garciaparra. Furcal was having a great year before being sidelined with an injury and his return should spark the Dodgers some. However Andrew Jones just went on the DL, but before going there he was batting .167 with 2 homeruns, not the type of power the Dodgers wanted from him. Nomar has barely played the last couple years, and is chronically injured. Kent is batting .234 with 4 homeruns, not what you want from your middle of the order bats. Juan Pierre is doing what he normally does, but he is not the big bat the Dodgers need.
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7 May 2008
The Poster Child for this disorder, of course, is Nomar Garciaparra, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that his fragility was due to a repetitive-motion disorder caused by his Rainman-like regime before each pitch. Get in the box and hit, man.
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26 April 2008
Relying on Nomar Garciaparra to be your everyday 3rd baseman is a potential death sentence.
Not that anyone is dusting off the bugle for the boys in blue at this point, but last year's Gold Glove catcher, Russell Martin, just ditched the tools of ignorance in favor of an infielder's glove (I'm doubting that whoever's mitt he did trot out to 3rd was one he'd ever tried on before which has to be comforting seeing as how he's not played that position in 5 years). Add to that Andruw Jones' unique ability to leave a game with a calf injury suffered by his own batted ball and it makes for one of those nights where you wish it was raining and none of this had ever happened.
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24 January 2008
Can you believe that spring training is almost here? Personally, I"m ecstatic, but not just because that means that baseball season is quickly coming. Nope, I'm excited because this year, we are planning a trip to Arizona to watch a few spring training games!!! Talk about fun! We will probably leave the kids at home with my mom, so that we can fully enjoy the experience (without having to plan all kinds of entertaining side trips). The kids don't really care about baseball until the season actually starts and they get to head to Chavez Ravine.
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