Deadbirds Dodgers Game Thread

by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 8:14 PM EDT

Lose, lose, loooooooose Deadbirds! Fall from your nest and break your eggs on the cruel ground below, then fry up in this hot, hot heat! We gotta keep that one game lead.

Cardinals and Dodgers are on MLB Network right now. In the absence of Our Favorite Team(TM) playing tonight, this is the Next Best Thing.

For those who don't know, this is Voodoo Albert. Feel free to stick a virtual pin in him.

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Can the mods tell SBN that Blackberry box is annoying?

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by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 8:15 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

go trolley dodgers

and

He fixes the cable?

by Colin Auscapee on Jul 15, 2010 8:23 PM EDT reply actions

it only took an hour and fifty minutes

but i finally get it.

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by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions

idon'tgetmlbnetwork'd

Made from 100% Recycled Awesome,

by 'tHan on Jul 15, 2010 8:28 PM EDT reply actions

it's on mlb.tv, too

someone needs to correct the crime that is lack of mlb network in basic cable packages. i don’t get it either, and it stinks.

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by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions

you got a tv?

I am thrilled for your success, hell I'm amazed by it. Nobody who knows you saw this coming.

by justin007000 on Jul 15, 2010 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions

i'm subletting for the summer

it comes with a tv and cable.

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by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions

bases loaded, no one out in 1st, holliday at the plate. not good

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by Daedalus on Jul 15, 2010 8:31 PM EDT reply actions

Boom!

Andre “Ether” (as crazy uncle Charlie calls him) goes yard. 2-1 Deadbirds top 4th.

Watch it, ass blood.

by -ManBearPig on Jul 15, 2010 9:17 PM EDT reply actions

Jeez

Dodgers, you suck.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 15, 2010 10:07 PM EDT reply actions

ye gods

Is Carp gonna get CG?

The Dodgers are already on their 5th pitcher.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 15, 2010 10:49 PM EDT reply actions

half game back

And for once, I agree with the Fay.

But then there’s this from Dusty Baker on the decision the rotation:

"You know there’s a lot of things that go into. It’s not always who’s pitching the best. It’s whose contract is what and who has options and various things."

Actually, at this point, it has to be who’s pitcching the best, doesn’t it?

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by BubbaFan on Jul 15, 2010 11:43 PM EDT reply actions

for one, it’s not a definite that Wood is better than Harang over the next month or so. i dont know if im confident enough either way to make a wager. and 2) once you move Harang, that’s it. you either have to trade, release, or move him to the ‘pen. you cant trade him because you wont get anything, you cant release him because that’s insane, and i guess you could move him to the ’pen, but i doubt he would be happy. that counts for something.

Wood has made 3 starts in the majors. that’s it. i like him as a prospect and im excited about his kind of talent filling out the back end of the rotation for the next few years, but he can be sent to AAA with no problems right now. you can bring him back whenever you have to and he cant really be all that angry about it. Dusty is right here. the best decision in this case is to go with the lesser pitcher (i dont think he is verifiably the “lesser” pitcher, but that’s the perception anyway).

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 15, 2010 11:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Fay

doesn’t say he expects the Reds to move Harang to the pen or release him.

He thinks they should leave him on the DL to make some rehab starts.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 16, 2010 6:07 AM EDT up reply actions

i dont think so

read his last line again. seems to me like he’s saying that Wood is pitching better than Harang and we are in a pennant race, so egos need to be set aside for the good of the team. i guess we should ask him directly, but it seems that he’s suggesting that when Harang comes off the DL, whenever that may be, Wood should still be in the rotation.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 16, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

I read the last line

But taken as part of the whole piece…seems to me he’s only talking about this weekend.

Here’s what I think is going to happen: Wood, Johnny Cueto and Mike Leake will start the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and Aaron Harang will make a rehab start or two.

He introduces what Dusty said with this:

But then there’s this from Dusty Baker on the decision the rotation:

The way I see it, Fay’s last line is returning to his opening premise: who’s going to pitch this weekend.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 16, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions

i dont know

he’s implying the judgment that Wood is better than Harang. i doubt he means “just for this weekend”.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 16, 2010 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions

well, that's how I read it when I said I agreed with him

It does seem like the Reds can’t decide who’s going to pitch this weekend, since they haven’t announced it.

For longer than that, no point in worrying about it now. Like they say, these things usually work themselves out. Someone might be traded. Someone might be injured. Someone might reach their innings limit. Someone might just start sucking like a black hole.

If they do have Harang pitch a couple of rehab games, that could settle it. If he sucks, they will probably let him pitch a few more. If he’s lights-out, they’ll activate him.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 16, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions

i think that's a solid plan

the quibble i had was with the notion that Wood > Harang (back injury aside). it may be true, but is in absolutely no way verifiable and the opposite is just as likely to be true.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 16, 2010 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions