Occasionally, I have a little more information than some of you (at times), but it’s not nearly as much as it used to be when I had several members of the Dodgers Organization on Speed dial. Jeff probably has a lot more inside connections than I do now. Since Andrew Friedman became President of Baseball Operations for the Dodgers, I have very little inside information… and that is by Andrew’s mandate. The Dodgers play their cards close to their vest and a leak is a “fireable offense.” I don’t particularly like it, but I respect it. If I were AF, that is exactly what I would do.
When was the last time you saw Billy Gaspirano sit down with a blogger for a two-hour interview like I did with Logan White about 10 years ago? The quick answer is “Never.” We don’t know what we don’t know because Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers want it that way… and I do not blame them. That’s why it really bugs me after every close game or after every loss, many of you blame it on Dave Roberts, simply because of the following:
- Because you have all the inside information and know better;
- Doc has cost the Dodgers hundreds of games, because you know it;
- You are psychic and know better;
- You have never ran anything in your life and this is your chance; or
- You simply have an irrational hatred of Doc;
For example, recently, Dave Roberts was repeatedly criticized for bringing in Kenley Jansen to blow games. I think many of you have failed to realize that baseball has changed and so is how the front office and manager communicate. Gone are the Sparkey Andreson’s, Lou Pinella’s, Tommy Lasorda’s, Jim Leyland’s, Dallas Green’s, and Earl Weaver’s who would do what they “damn well pleased!” Baseball has changed. We don’t see stuff like this anymore:
Why? Because the management of a baseball team has changed, like it or not. Today, there is so much more information and data. Managers are now hired with the understanding that they “collaborate” with the front office and analytics people to make “informed decisions.” Many of you don’t like that, but I guarantee that while those types of decisions do not work all the time, they work more of the time than the “gut feelings” of a manager from yesterday.
Shifts don’t always work, but they work more often than not shifting (which is why I would like to ban them). This brings me to the point I want to make. You can blast Dave Roberts for rolling out Kenley Jansen, game-after-game, but I guarantee that it was a “collaborative” effort between Roberts, the Front Office, and the Dodgers’ Pitching Coaches. While I admit that I do not have inside information, it seems logical and likely to me that the Front Office, Coaches, and Roberts believed that Kenley’s problems were mechanical and could be fixed and they were willing to lose a few battles in order to win the war.
Behind the scenes, it is quite likely that Kenley was working with Mark Prior, Josh Bard, Charlie Hough, and/or Rick Honeycutt and they all believed he could be “fixed.” Well, he looked “fixed” on Saturday night, but only time will tell if it will last. Yes, I would love to have Craig Kimbrell, but at what cost? Not Keibert Ruiz, Bobby Miller, Ryan Pepiot, Josiah Gray, Diego Cartaya, or Miguel Vargas… and I doubt he could be obtained without one of those players UNLESS the Dodgers take back Jason Heyward. Then, I think Kimbrell could be obtained for a couple of #11-30 Prospects. I would do that, but it ain’t my money!
Roberts was using Jansen in save situations in order to determine if Kenley could stay as the closer and the front office and coaches were part of that equation. Roberts was the “point man” for what was likely a Management Decision by many individuals. The same thing is true with Dave Roberts lineups. If you have ever been in the “Bowels of Dodger Stadium” you will know that the Dodgers have an analytics department that is huge and second to none in MLB.
When you say “Why did Doc bring in _____________ to pitch to blank? He has an OPS of ___________and he has an ERA of ___________.” Yes, you looked at a few metrics, but I GUARANTEE YOU, that Doc has about 50 more metrics that the Dodgers have developed that give him a lot more insight than Fangraphs, Baseball-Prospectus, and Baseball-Reference. You are playing checkers while he is playing chess. Actually, it’s more likely you are playing PONG on Atrai and he is playing with a Supercomputer.
Literally!
Thinking you have more information than Dave Roberts is like trying to fly a 747 from Row 13, Seat C. It’s totally delusional, but if it makes you feel good… have at it. I just think it is plain silly. Now, don’t get me wrong, Dave Roberts makes many mistakes. Every manager does. I disagree with things he does… the same as I disagree with Friedman, but I look at their overall body of work and have to say that they both are pretty damn good. There is a human element in everything, but I happen to think he is a lot better than many of you give him credit! I disagree with his politics, but can still respect him.
Remember the greatest baseball tacticians only look that way when their players execute. Certainly, I would welcome Craig Kimbrell, but as I said earlier “at what cost?” Several teams want him and I cannot see Andrew Friedman further depleting the Farm System for instant gratification. Tony Gonsolin and David Price did their part to show that they can hold down a rotation spot… and one of them can go back to the pen when Clayton Kershaw returns (which should be later this week or early next week). To lighten the workload for Buehler and Urias, I think it’s possible the Dodgers go with a six-man rotation.
I do not see the Dodgers trading for Scherzer or Turner and really, if healthy, and it appears they are a rotation of Buehler, Urias, Kershaw, Gonsolin, Price, and Gray is OK… if Bellinger, Seager, Betts, and the rest of the guys can hit. It’s certainly possible that they get healthy in August and become the Big Blue Wrecking Crew again. I read fans lamenting the Dodger’s lack of hitting the past two days but remember that they were missing Max Muncy, Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager, and Mookie Betts. When healthy, all four of these players have proven track records of being at the top of their respective positions.
When they come back, I do not expect to see an immediate surge – it will take some time for them to get their swing and timing back, but I can see very good days ahead for this team. Knebel, Nelson, Treinen, Gonzalez, Vesia, Kelly, Graterol, and (gulp) Jansen have the potential to be great. Yes, Kenley scares me too. Can they keep him mechanically sound? It’s a tightrope act. I’ll take Kimbrell for the right price, please!
How They Get There is Irrelevant
The Dodgers have been bit by the injury bug all year long and the repercussions may last well into September. However, the fact is, if they can stay the course they will be in the playoffs, and at that juncture, everything changes. IF they can get healthy for the playoffs and the World Series, they could be a very dangerous team.
We saw how Cody Bellinger struggled after coming back. Expect Seager to do the same. Tony Gonsolin and many other pitchers have experienced varying degrees of success after returning from the IL. Jimmy Nelson did not miss a beat, but Victor Gonzalez took a few games to get it back (and still does not have it), and so did the Bazooka. Garrett Cleavinger is showing signs that he might be a viable bullpen piece (next year, as he still walks too many), but Phil Bickford and Alex Vesia may be the real deals this year. You can see Alex growing in confidence. When Corey Knebel comes back, he will likely need some ramp-up time. Darien Nunez? Maybe next year.
Mookie, Corey, Cody, and Max should be back soon. Cody was just starting to put it together when he went down again. David Price and Josiah Gray are showing promise in their new positions. The point I am going to make is that progress is not linear and it may be well into September until this team really clicks. I’ll take that. Nothing like getting hot at the right time. Could this be the lineup in September?
- Betts 2B
- Seager SS
- Turner 3B
- Muncy 1B
- Taylor RF
- Smith C
- Bellinger CF
- Pollock LF
It remains a possibility. I think we will see Ruiz at some point and I am very encouraged by JoJo Grays’ progress and prospects. Yesterday “Dave” wrote this:
“This is silly, but there is a large dark place in me that would love to see the Giants win the west, the Padres come in second, and the Dodgers get into the playoffs by winning the 163rd game of the year to sneak in as the second NL wildcard, then proceed to win the chip. There’s some dark magic in that scenario that satisfies an itch that just running away with it can’t reach. The crowning touch would be a whole winter of listening to midgie fans whine about the unbelievably lucky Dodgers.
I know, it’s an impossible dream.“
It’s not silly, Dave. it’s a cool possibility. Not only a possibility but something that could be very likely…. barring a Giants collapse and that could certainly happen!
A Quick Primer on Masks
This was mentioned a couple of days ago and I just want to be clear about a few things. Do masks work all the time? No, they do not and if they are not used right, they may be as bad as having no mask. However, if they are used right, they are very effective… even the cloth ones (if they are double or triple layers).
- Masks are not extremely effective at preventing you from infecting others if you have COVID-19… unless you actually wear them!
- Masks are not nearly as effective at preventing you from getting COVID-19 because most people do not utilize them properly.
If you touch your mask, you should take it off, wash and sanitize your hands and put a new mask back on, You should do this each time you touch your mask. If you don’t do that, you will still protect others, but not yourself so much. People who slip their masks down to eat and slide it back up are doing nothing except conforming and sometimes you just have to do that, but it is not effective at preventing disease. I will have a mask on from Indy to Las Vegas on Wednesday and back. I hate them, but wear them and try and wear them properly, however, I still slip up. Everyone does. I have heard that 80% of people who caught COVID-19 wore masks. If you are going to mask up, try and do it the right way. They are effective, when used properly and let me tell you, you do not want to get COVID-19. It’s no fun.
This has been a public service announcement.
It Your Mind Open or Closed?
Remember that successful people tend to approach life with an open mindset — an eagerness to learn and a willingness to be wrong. The other group digs their heels in at the first sign of disagreement and would rather die than be wrong. Closed-minded people don’t want their ideas challenged. They are typically frustrated that they can’t get the other person to agree with them instead of being curious as to why the other person disagrees.
Closed-minded people are more interested in proving themselves right than in getting the best outcome. They don’t ask questions. They want to show you where you’re wrong without understanding where you’re coming from. They get angry when you ask them to explain something. They think people who ask questions are slowing them down. And they think you’re an idiot if you don’t agree.
Open-minded people see disagreement as a thoughtful means to expand their knowledge. They don’t get angry or upset at questions; rather, they want to identify where the disagreement lies so they can correct their misperceptions. They realize that being right means changing their minds when someone else knows something they don’t. Closed-minded people are more likely to make statements than ask questions.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
We shall continue to keep an open mind here and we value everyone’s opinions… even Bumsrap trade ideas for Joc Pederson. OK, here’s the cookie: If Mookie is indeed hurt as it appears, Andrew Friedman has a relationship with Alex Anthopoulos, and if the Braves keep falling, I could see Joc Pederson coming back to LA by Saturday! For real! Bums would be in high cotton!
Masks do not work vs a virus. I can give you 47 studies (including meta studies) that prove that. They can even hurt your health system under certain circumstances (like worn wrong, or in bad enviroment like when they get wet).
So please stop giving personal opinion as a undisputable scientific fact. Because it is not .
To baseball: I am all for getting Kimbrle even if it takes ONE (not two) of the prospects you mentioned. However as you stated I would prefer a lower prospect for him and taking on Heywards contract. A lot of money will come of our books after this season and the Dodgers could absorb that hit to the payroll.
Lets hope Kelly will not have to be the next player to be on the IL after he hurt his hammy yesterday. How much more can the injury bug bite this team.
Bazooka looked very good . Triple digits on almost every fastball and if my eyes did not betray me I saw some good movement to go along with the velo.
Why they did not put Mookie on the IL sooner is startling. Playing shorthanded for over a week is tough when you already have so many injuries.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Masks do not work vs a virus.
I am not going to debate it, but it is not my opinion. They are not perfect, but they do help, as I stated. If I had to sit for 15 minutes beside a person with COVID-19, I would rather have a mask than not. It may not prevent COVID-19 at that point, but it is very likely it would be milder. If there are 47 studies that prove masks don’t work, I am guessing there are 4,447 that show they do.
Why the anger?
Until Corona the consensus among science was that masks do not protect vs any virus. That stood for almost 100 years. Then Corona appears and all of a sudden everything changes regarding to certain scientists. Makes you wonder.
And Yes, I am angry because I see how this thing is going and it is not a good direction. More and more restrictions and loss of basic rights whereever you look. More and more vaccine apartheid all over the world.
For something that according to the WHO and Ioanidis is basical as dangserous as the seasonal flue.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!
As in some leaders in supposedly “free” countries coming out pubilicly stating that the vaxed will “have more rights” than the unvaxed.
I call bullspit.
I usually don’t get mixed up un this debate. However, I will relate our experience for you. In Nova Scotia we have no daily cases on most days and are opening up. We still have a mask mandate which most people abide by. It is indeed rare to go into a store and see someone without a mask.
A while back we had a couple come in fom Ontario and held a party in Halifax. They did not follow the mask protocol, etc. and all of a sudden we had over 200 positive cases coming from those two and those at the party not masking. Once a strict mask policy was enforced our cases have gone to zero on most days. Now we have only about 1,000,000 people in the province but right now we have 12 active cases. We are still masking as asked by our provincial government and will do so until the mask protocol is changed. This winter flu and cold cases in out area were virtually unknown while we were masking. Is this all a coincidence? Perhaps but Elaine and I think we might continue to mask this coming winter even if the mask protocol has changed. For us it is short term pain for long term gain. Masking is our way to help keep our fellow Nova Scotians safe. Such a small price to pay.
It is due to distancing, not masks. And OF COURSE distancing works. It is just not sustainable in any form.
Next time you have a surgery be sure to tell your surgeon that you prefer her to not wear a mask.
Right, because that is what I suggested. NOT. Way to link something to nothing. What I stated is true, if you want to twist it to mean something else, well that is your choice, though not an intelligent one. I DO want my surgeon to wear a mask because of what it is intended to do ……. >>to prevent the passage of germs from the surgeon’s nose and mouth into the patient’s wound and to protect the surgeon’s face from sprays and splashes from the patient.<
germs, not virus's. Germs are WELL CONTROLLED by masks as they are much larger than virus's. End of true story.
Good public service announcement, as the Delta variant rages.
Regarding the efficacy of masks, Americans and the West in general could have and should have easily learned a lesson from Asia, which as a whole has managed covid much, much, MUCH better than most of the world.
I’ve lived in Hong Kong for the past six years. HK is a city of more 7 million people just 570 miles from Wuhan, which is just as big, if not bigger. Before covid, there were frequent flights between these two metropolises. In late December 2019, the South China Morning Post first carried news of a “mysterious outbreak” in Wuhan. Hongkongers started wondering if this was another SARS and authorities embraced a “better safe than sorry” posture before the virus was confirmed. Hongkongers, millions of who lived through SARS, started masking up before it became in mandate. In early February 2020 I stepped into a subway car and was mortified when I realized that everybody else was wearing a mask.
They weren’t just protecting themselves–they were protecting each other. AND THEY WERE PROTECTING ME TOO, even though was I was then too clueless to return the KINDNESS.
Pardon the caps. I would prefer to use italics, but it’s not an option.
When I read comments like “masks don’t work,” well, it sure seems to work well here. How many lives has covid claimed in LA or OC or wherever you may live? Well, here in Hong Kong–with about double the population of OC–the covid death toll is 212.
Not a typo: 212.
Suffice to say that, relatively speaking, HK has been much more successful than the US and the West in suppressing the virus. Masks aren’t the only reason–but they are the only tool that could be easily adopted throughout the world.
Also, HK isn’t an outlier in Asia. In this part of the world, the Japanese wonder why the South Koreans and Taiwanese have managed this crisis so much better. But compared to the US and the West, Japan would be a role model.
The level of stubborn denial and willful ignorance in the US can be measured by the covid death toll.
Thank You! I get NOTHING when I state the same. Actual studies show that they do not work. And Mark even somewhat proves that when he makes a statement about wearing them “properly”. I have not seen ONE person who will not grab their mask and pull it down to talk occasionally, thereby ruining ANY chance they protect you or others & in fact make things worse by collecting sputum and then blowing out concentrated clouds of virus if you are infected. And viral load is the key, so you are INCREASING the chance of spreading, but EVERYONE does this. And that is IF masks even work, which they do not. And most people are confused and say “well, why do surgeons wear them?” It is not to prevent virus spread and in fact if a surgeon had some kind of virus, they are not supposed to be in the OR at all. And OR’s are oxygen rich environments thereby mitigating any loss of oxygen intake that is caused by mask wearing which depending on the mask is approx 17%+-.
cheers dude
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Exactly, “if everyone uses them correctly”, might as well read “no one uses them correctly”, therefore they don’t work.
If the media and politicians weren’t constantly lying to us, maybe we would listen to them.
“Mostly” peaceful protests while showing burning buildings in the background.
“Insurrection” showing people with American Flags and no weapons.
Kameltoe “I haven’t been to Europe” Harris saying she wouldn’t take the vax if Trump said to, but would take it if Fauci said to. You know, No Mask / Triple Mask Fauci that sent money to the same Wuhan lab that the virus came from. Listen to that guy?
I find it odd that everyone died from Corona, but no one died from the Flu, which was supposed to be the worst flu in decades. How are we supposed to believe anything “They” tell us when the same people say that White Supremacy is the worst threat we face? How can we be the most diverse country in the World and also the most racist? These people have less credibility than Doc explaining away his blundering moves saying I liked that guy right there.
>>If the media and politicians weren’t constantly lying to us, maybe we would listen to them.<< Well, I for one will NEVER actually "trust" the govt again. No matter WHO is in power. For politics and the media I am now firmly a "Missouri guy". SHOW ME. Until I see actual results I remain a firm skeptic about EVERYTHING.
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You have to understand that if you have an N-95 Mask and change it as soon as you touch and then wash your hands properly, you will likely be safe. I know a lot of people in the medical field… some who have never been infected, but they were OCD about their masks. Others that got COVID–19 admitted that they were not!
We provide air disinfection and I have seen the infrared camera that shows transmission of carbon dioxide and viruses.
I know that a lot of people do not like to use masks because it was politicized but I use a mask when necessary.
Mark if you actually swap your mask out every time you touch it, you are definitely a one percenter. In that realm.
Que terquedad la tuya, total no la uses y no salgas a ningún lado para no contagiarte de nada. mejor comenta de beisbol, se te da muy bien.
And I wish you guys would learn how to spell Kimbrel. I wear a mask where it is mandated and go mask less where it is not. I agree with what you say Mark. Fans do not have enough information to make rational evaluations. Most fan reactions are based on feelings, not information. To many, Dave flunks their eye test. They remember the decisions they feel cost the team in the World Series and every decision after that is questionable. But he was smart enough last year to use Urias as his closer, and not Jansen. He is a players manager, and he uses the analytics provided to him by the analytics team AF has put together. He is also a big matchup guy. I disagree with a lot of his decisions and I do not think he is a very good baseball tactician. But I do not have the information in front of me that he does, so my decisions are less informed. I notice every game that he has that little note book in front of him and he is constantly referring to it. Fans, well, sometimes our passion for our team puts our brains in neutral. As for the lack of hitting, well the B team is out there. But as long as they outscore the other guy, I don’t care how they do it. Taylor stepped up yesterday, and Smith got a big hit. The pen was stellar and they got a W. Time to move on. There is also a story out today that says a majority of the Dodgers players do not want Bauer back on the team. That could prove very interesting if he gets reinstated.
Maybe Craig spells his own name wrong! 😉
I was afraid of Bauer’s presence when he signed. I can see that they may not want him back…
…but it still depends upon the facts, which may or may not come out anytime soon.
I have thought that if the woman was beaten up as she said, there should be some video somewhere to corroborate or refute it.
I read the article, but when I read “Two people with knowledge of Dodgers clubhouse dynamics, who are unauthorized to speak publicly about the situation, said that a majority of players do not want Bauer back under any circumstances.” I cannot take it seriously. He may be right… or not. Those anonymous quotes are dangerous.
MT, that was a long rant. I love it! I hate wearing masks and right now they aren’t required, so I don’t wear them. I believe they do a little to protect people, but not a lot. The way I look at it is if someone coughs or sneezes while wearing the mask, it blocks some of the contagion from going airborne, thus lessening the payload. The higher the payload, the sicker you get. If you get hit with a small payload, your body has a better chance of fighting it off.
I agree with the very last comment on yesterday’s post. Jansen looks like a deer in the headlights. He lost his confidence and looks like he doesn’t know if he’ll have the right mechanics on any given night. I would prefer to have a closer that knows he’s gonna get you out. Not one that worries if his hip is in the right place.
When you said your inside information was on speed dial, I thought that must have been a long time ago. The picture of that Atari systems bring back memories of blowing into the cartridge to get it to load correctly. I still remember the nails on chalkboard sound those joysticks used to make when they began to wear out.
The other picture is not of a “Super Computer”. That’s a standard picture of racks of “pizza box” servers in a Data Center. That is something I have a lot of experience with. I’ve worked in places that look exactly like that for the past 20 years. We call the servers pizza boxes because they are thin and wide just like a pizza box and come in a 1U form factor. 1U means that take up 1 unit of rack space. There are larger servers that take up more than 1U of rack space that aren’t referred to as pizza boxes.
I agree with what you say about managing a team. But, is that the best way to go? Do you always play by the script, or do you adjust based on what your gut feels or what you’re eyes are seeing in real time? Sure the stat guys think that making a lineup based on the computer simulations is the way to go, but are they? Do they consider the human element with their computers? The familiarity of hitting after this guy and in front of another? The trust you have with some teammates vs others?
The computer doesn’t not compute human nature and that is the flaw in the system. If an assumption about a variable in your algorithm is wrong, then the outcome will be incorrect. You see, there will always be human interaction. Humans write the algorithms that are used by the computer. So, is it better to let the human that writes the algorithm effectively pick the lineup, or is it better to just let a human write the lineup after reviewing the information the algorithm spits out? Remember, the game is 90% mental and the other half physical. The computer is real good with the physical, but not so good with the mental.
The algorithm might tell when it’s time to take Kenley out of the game, but your lying eyes can see right away he doesn’t have it on a given night. Tonight my lying eyes see what’s happening in real time. The computer just adds the results that tonight produces to it’s dataset for future calculations. By that time, it’s too late to make the correct decision.
On paper, this team is good enough to take back that 2 game lead with 2 months to play if healthy. But, a key trade will provide a little extra motivation for human nature to get the players on the team to give a little more.
Someone suggested trading Corey and Belli for Scherzer and Turner citing that they’re both injury prone. I wonder if they even bothered to look at Trey to see that he’s only played 1 full season out of seven due to injuries. Who is more injury prone than that?
How is trading a couple of injury prone players for another couple of injury prone players going to help this team? Scherzer had injury issues late in the season the last two years. He was also scratched from his last start with a “minor” injury. Who’s to say that Scherzer isn’t going to have late season injury issues this year? Maybe Trea Turner is about to be injured like he always seems to do. And maybe Corey and Cody are about to come back from their injuries and play healthy for the rest of the year?
Bear commented about Trea Turner being so much better defensively than Seager. Maybe that passes the eye test because Trea is a flashier player, but the stats say otherwise. Trea Turner has a lifetime RDRS/yr of +2 at SS. Seager is -2. Not a huge difference a difference of 4 runs over 7 years does not sound like a huge improvement. That’s better, but not a lot better. Corey’s OPS is better, but not a lot better. It’s really a lot like swapping spit. I think I’ll just stick with Corey and hope for another post season like the last one. I think his teammates would agree.
Sadly, the Giants would look like a team that’s realing if it weren’t for Kenley choking those games in the last series. They lost 2 out of 3 against the lowly Pirates and should have lost 3 of 4 against us and lost 2 of 3 from the Cards right after the break. They should have been 3-7 in the second half if and would have lost 3 straight series if it weren’t for Kenley’s ineptitude at a very critical time. That is unforgivable.
I stand corrected. No problem. I have not trusted Jansen for quite a while, and Dave did not trust him to close out games in the World Series, so if there was that little confidence in the guy last season, when he was iffy a lot of the time, why trust him 3 days in a row?? Dave’s biggest fault as a manager in my mind is that he is way to loyal to his players. Tommy would have not even let Kenley go out to the pen after games like that.
What do you do involving IT? Been my gig for the same company for 33yrs. I had my RCDD for 30yrs ( if you know what this is ) until last year when I let it lapse as I am retiring at EOY & the continuing ED and stuff required. Been designing & selling IT infrastructure since there was IT infrastructure. B4 IT it was mostly electronic & electrical systems.
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Mostly Infrastructure. I was one of the first 1000 people certified on VMWare and was working with Citrix when the installer included Windows NT. I held certifications from VMWare, Microsoft, Citrix, Cisco, Netapp, Equallogic and I can’t remember what else. I setup racks of servers just like the one that Mark posted and also Blade Systems, backend storage and networking. Now I’m also running Cloud Workloads in AWS and Azure. I did consulting for about 10 years, then I moved on to staff positions.
Very cool. I have always been the “dude that built the highways”. Copper & fiber infrastructure, pathways, spaces, specialized security NVR’s, network cams. Pretty much everything BUT the switch architecture and only because there is no money in Cisco or other mfrs in the big picture. Margins on that stuff is typically single digits & we do not like to play on that playground.
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Hats off to Robert’s for 2 out of 3 with the Rocks. He is essentially playing with a aaaa team. One post said we were close to sweeping which is true but we were also close to being swept. This current team is average. I don’t believe Robert’s did anything special but the injuries and tough losses it would b easy to give in. Of course I believe his poor decisions played into the losses so there is that.
As far as the trade deadline Kim from the cards shouldn’t b too costly. He is going to b a free agent and the cards hopes are dim. AF might ask Preller how he fleeces these other teams. If we get kershaw back soon our rotation would b stabilized. Without Bauer, May our rotation is not dominant but very good assuming health. If I were AF I wouldn’t waste high level prospects on this team. If healthy we stand a chance if not we don’t.
No more masks for me unless required by law.
It was really our pitching that won AND lost for us this series. You know, the one that needs so many pieces replaced and tampered with? And I DO NOT disagree with that, but one of the pieces everyone has said needs some help stood up pretty tall on their own, especially the last two games.
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If the BP performs like they did yesterday, they will be fine. Nice to see Kelly get the save even if he did tweak his hammy. He stayed in and got the last out. Nelson looked good just off of the IL. Knebel is said to be pretty close to coming back.
In a lesser trade move I would take Joc back as a bench player and his 60 game salary for the post season in a minute. He’s better than the current shuffling of AAAA players Andrew brings up and down that bring absolutely NOTHING to the party. Strike outs and unable to move runners in key situations has been the norm from these players. They are just not ready for primetime. You know what you will get from Joc, a great team player,, comes up big in the post season and a decent outfielder. Make the deal because the Braves have no chance of making the playoffs with their current roster with key players hurt or suspended with domestic violence. It will not cost much capital to acquire him. He’s a rental and a FA at the end of the season..
I like Joc, and he would be a huge upgrade over Reks, Raley and McKinney. But I also think Atlanta right now is still looking for pieces. They are 5 games back in 3rd place, and only have to jump over the Phillies to get into second and they are only 1 game back of Philadelphia. Frazier to the Padres is going to give them an abundance of options in their infield, and a solid lead off hitter. But they still have holes in their rotation, like the Dodgers do, and outside of Machado and Tatis, the offense has been slumping.
From MLB Trade Rumours
“A majority of players do not want [Trevor] Bauer back under any circumstances,” writes Mike DiGiovanna of the L.A. Times, who cites “two people with knowledge of Dodgers clubhouse dynamics.” Bauer’s paid administrative leave from the Dodgers, which the club has previously extended twice, runs through tomorrow. In late June, news surfaced of an ex parte temporary restraining order a San Diego woman obtained against Bauer after she alleged sexual assault.
Bauer appeared at a court hearing Friday in Los Angeles, which was pushed to August 2 as his attorney seeks more time to prepare based on recently-received medical records and exhibits. As Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic wrote, the three-day hearing is now set to take place on August 2, 3, and 19. At least nine witnesses will be called at that hearing, according to Britt Ghiroli, Fabian Ardaya, and Katie Strang of The Athletic. It’s known that the woman will call three police officers, while Bauer’s side is expected to call three witnesses of their own. Bauer’s accuser will also testify, and her side will call Bauer as a witness. Bauer’s attorney has advised him to invoke his fifth amendment rights.
DiGiovanna’s article is worth a read, as a well-done overview of where the Bauer situation stands at present and how he came to be a member of the Dodgers. It’s notable that DiGiovanna describes Bauer as a “pariah in his own clubhouse,” as his teammates haven’t spoken publicly on the topic. In the opinion of the L.A. Times scribe, Bauer’s entire career is in jeopardy.
The timing of a potential unpaid suspension by MLB remains unknown, as they investigate the allegations against Bauer on a parallel track with the Pasadena Police Department.
I think he will never wear the Dodger uniform again. But that is just me. No matter what, the entire situation is a mess and the Dodgers would be wise to put as much distance between them and him as possible. The legal team of the Dodgers will certainly be looking for ways to get out of the deal if he gets charged.
IMO if he is not charged & there is no real outlet for him to be suspended without pay, that they will “Arenado him” if they can find anyone to take him. They have deep pockets & eating a couple tens of millions is worth not screwing up the team dynamics.
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Problem lies with the fact that this is not going to go away soon. I have little doubt his suspension will be extended, and all of a sudden we are in the middle of August. If he is not charged, a whole new can of worms is opened. Now UNFORTUNATELY< it will be August. He cannot be traded anywhere at all because there are no trades allowed after July 30. The old waiver wire deals cannot be done anymore. They are stuck with him and his salary through the season. And he has the option to either opt out or exercise the second year of his deal. Sad to say, the best case scenario for the Dodgers to get out from under the contract is for him to be charged. There is not a team on the planet that wants to trade for this can of worms. So you can forget a trade.
I agree about Bauer never playing for the Dodgers again. And, rightfully so. He cannot be trusted in his private life which directly affects his status with the team. What a major hole he has put his teammates in with his selfish actions. If he gets the remaining of his salary without playing for the Dodgers then the system is severely broken. That isn’t right. You can guarantee if Manfred is involved in handing out any penalty he will get Bauer his money and then fine the Dodgers for who knows what.
Cannot fine the team for the players behavior. MLBPA will be the ones trying to get him his money. All Manfred can do is extend the suspension, or try to make it permanent with out pay. When it comes to the players, MLBPA is the power, not Manfred.
Not altogether true. The last CBA gives the power to the Commissioner to suspend players without pay for domestic violence concerns. If the player wants to contest, they can go to arbitration. The suspension does not have to result from a legal charge. They can be a result of MLB investigation. But where I think you are right is that while Manfred may have the power to suspend, he may be reluctant to go against the MLBPA this close to new negotiations. You are right that MLBPA will always represent the player. That is why I said that Manfred needs to grow a pair and make a decision. This will be a big topic in the upcoming negotiations, even though it may not get the publicity.
Here is some information of the matter.
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-agree-on-domestic-violence-policy/c-144508842
Good point Jeff.
But I think there’s a difference between what Urías did, shoving a girlfriend in a parking lot, maybe as she was trying to claw his eyes out (happened to me) and what Bauer is accused of doing. The Players Association may not stand behind this guy.
Oh he can fine the player all right and suspend without pay, but he cannot fine the team for Bauer’s behavior was my point.
You are right. The Commissioner cannot fine the team. IMO, Manfred needs to suspend Bauer without pay for the remainder of the year (roughly 60 games). There is no presumption of innocence. There is plenty of precedence. It is not a legal matter. It is a baseball matter that MLBPA has ceded authority to the Commissioner. Bauer and his legal team will get all of the time they need to prepare a proper defense in a legal setting, and the Dodgers can plan for the last two months.
Interesting that dodgerram mentions Ioannidis (sic) as I just read something about him at Statnews recently. Interesting, very opinionated, epidemiologist.
I admit that keeping up with information the last few years has been increasingly difficult for me, for personal reasons I won’t go into here and for the mere fact that the spewing misinformation is at an all time high. I read an article about that recently too, I’ll try to find it and post it as it helped me in my efforts to discern.
What I am fairly certain of is that accurate information, using a Markism, appears not to be linear. Covid is evolving and keeping up with it’s expansion is challenging to even our most gifted experts. Being in the group most susceptible has caused me to exercise practices I’m not exactly comfortable with but am willing to do. At 73, I choose to exercise on the side of caution.
Roberts. He’s the guy Friedman wants at the helm, and who am to question him? Look at his record, here and in Florida. The man knows what he’s doing. Roberts greatest strength, and perhaps his greatest weakness, is his trust and belief in his players. I admire that. I’m sure players want to play for him. His main problem this year, in my opinion, is trying to win with replacement players …. and the heretofore oft mentioned back to back use of Jansen.
I found it. Here is that misinformation article I mentioned. Hope it might be helpful to some.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-avoid-misinformation-about-covid-19-180974615/
>>Covid is evolving and keeping up with it’s expansion<< Dude, ALL virus's mutate and IMO opinion they are AGAIN using this as political leverage by not telling people the whole story. IF this is a natural virus's it is programmed to mutate to become MORE transmissible and LESS deadly. A virus that kills its host is not around long and nature says so. That is the Science. Think the cold virus, EXTREMELY transmissible, yet deadly to an extremely small percentage of people. That is what virus's do to survive. If they evolve to kill almost no one, then no one tries to "kill the virus back". Now IF this was man made, it is possible that what nature intends the virus to do could be off the table. And at that point it becomes undeniable "the china made virus".
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Thank you for posting this link. It shows you have a tremendous sense of humor. It’s one of funniest things I’ve read in a while. When it said that the WHO and CDC were excellent sources of the truth I almost stopped reading. Thank goodness I didn’t. As I continued reading I felt like a boy scout being told how respond to covid information in a way that almost no one in the real world would do. Calmly do this, rationally do that and in the end you will be left with all the truth available to the world. I cam almost smell the dope smoke from here. Most don’t have the time, patience, or sense to do investigative work on misinformation. That’s why there is so much disinformation.
The WHO, CDC, Fauci, Wikipedia were listed as sources to validate information. What? These are all corrupt sources. This is obviously a left leaning solution to canceling misinformation. This article suggested going to Google to validate information. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok? They don’t need no stinking sources. They got all the correct information at their disposal. They’ll decide what’s right and wrong. Like who appointed them the information police? “Trust our sources” seems to be their agenda. No, cries the right “trust our sources”. Both side have their agendas which doesn’t meet my agenda.
But, again, thanks for sharing.
The point was, I believe, that misinformation sources are at an all time high. It can begin with places like 4chan and 8chan where any idiot can say whatever they want then it gets re-twitted millions of times by millions of twits and is actually believed. I think it may have actually started with a certain Limbo “mouth that roared” who would quote himself and say “some people say”. Yeah yeah, each side has its own blah blah machine. Depending on your POV, some are more insidious than others.
Someone said something a little earlier about it might take some time for Seager to get his timing back, like it seems to have taken Bellinger forever. I think it won’t take that long. Seager’s swing is pretty compact and he does not have the long swing and moving parts Belli has. But only time will tell. No game today. How about that game AA Tulsa played last night? Set a team record for runs with 23. Davidson hit his 17th bomb in OKC’s 10-8 loss to Sugarland.
Mark, I think your lineup is likely with one change I would make. Bellie was taking grounders at first base on Saturday. I think having Bellie and Mookie playing on the infield is going to lessen the hamstring issues and keep them off the il. If that is the case can Muncy play right field? He has played left a little bit.
I don’t think Muncy would be moved to the outfield. If Belli goes to first, Muncy will go to second.
Then where do you put Mookie if they want both he & Belli in the IF for a while?
It is moot right now. Mookie is on the IL until trade deadline day. So they put Belli at first during the SF series, and if he feels no pain and can run freely, he would go back to the outfield. McKinney will stay in right for the foreseeable future. If Mookie can play by Friday, Muncy goes back to first and Mookie to second. Your putting the cart in front of the horse. Muncy is no outfielder, and putting him in RF? I do not think he has the right kind of arm to play out there. Makes no sense to worry about this stuff until we know who is healthy and who is not. Seager comes back, and Taylor heads to the outfield. If Belli and Mookie are both healthy at the same time, Belli can play right, Taylor to CF and Mookie to second.
Your plan makes more sense. By the time Mookie comes back, Belli should be able to go back to CF.
That makes sense. I was not suggesting Max in the OF, hence wanting to know where to put him.
You put Muncy in LF, Pollock in CF and Taylor in RF. Belli at 1B, Mookie at 2B, Seags at SS and Turner at 3B.
That might work, I am sure they are exploring everything. Problem with most of us fans is we have no insight to their plans, so all we can do is guess. Some of the trade scenarios being brought up by fans on Twitter border on stupidity and lack of knowledge about how the trading deadline works. I extend Taylor as soon as possible. He is about the best piece they have.
There is a lot of starts and stops at second base, including the pivot. There is no place to hide a hamstring or hip issue in the game of baseball.
Sure, Muncy can play left field, in an emergency. He’s done it at second for the same reason. But, he is our first baseman and has worked his ass off to become a good one.
McKinney, Neuse, Raley, Reks don’t belong on a team that is fighting not just one but two other teams for the Division. The way I look at it we have another month to get our starters up to snuff and if we are still doing this 4A shuffle at that time we can probably kiss the pennant adios. We can maybe live with one blind squirrel in the lineup (Bellinger) but if Mookie is gone, Seager and Kershaw are not 100% frankly I don’t like our chances. The giants and Padres will make moves to get better. Our best moves will be to get our first string back on the field.
Injuries, slumps, idiot managers, scum-sucking relief pitchers, Giants ahead of us in the standings. He’s what I say:
Instead of blindly believing every word written in print, I try to look for other facts or trends to support or deny what is written. As it relates to Bauer, I doubt that all the players hate him as much as “The Athletic” tells us. The facts in the case make it look like a setup. Even the accuser said the police accused her of a setup. I would think other ball players would be sympathetic to a teammate being setup especially considering a rival team was involved.
Regardless, it took the Dodgers a long time to cut Milton Bradley and Yasiel Puig loose. Both were hated and both were kept a lot longer than a single instance of indiscretion. Before this happened, it seemed like the team welcomed Bauer. I point to Bauer and Bueller’s changeup strikeout contest to backup my claim. He seemed to be coaching and rubbing off on the other pitchers on the staff. The articles mentions that many teammates “unfollowed” him on social media. It didn’t say most, or almost all, or all. Just many. It’s certainly reasonable that players that are interested in self preservation would distance themselves in that manner without making a conclusion that they’re doing it for another reason. Players also don’t have to all like each other. Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent hated each other but played together for years. The front office did not put their player’s affinity for one another ahead of winning.
The Athletic is a garbage mag akin to a grocery store checkout line tabloid. It started off as a good sports resource and morphed into a virtue signaling echo chamber.
I hate to speculate on the Bauer situation because this isn’t about guilt or innocence, law or crime. It’s being treating like a political issue like everything else these days. If you support that kind of behavior, there’s no hope it will change any time soon.
It is completely ridiculous that I can apparently request that you punch me in the face, then sue you for accommodating my request.
And what if it was a “setup”? It would appear he did it. Anybody that unhinged, and stupid, is an organizational liability. Get rid of him.
I disagree with your take on the Athletic. And I find your take “isn’t about guilt or innocence, law or crime” a bit askew. It most certainly can be about guilt. I don’t believe you can give someone permission to break the law. If he did what she’s claiming he did, he f’d up big time. If it was just a guy on the street he’s probably locked up. But, it’s a wealthy celebrity so it remains to be seen how the City of Pasadena deals with it. There is precedent for rich law breakers. Lots of it in fact, so in that respect your guilt or innocence position could be possible. In the mean time we wait, but the black eye that is Bauer will remain for at least the remainder of this year. With only 3 months of this baseball year left I don’t see any way we see Bauer again.
I see a “way:”
1. Surveillance photos are discovered that show the woman’s face unmarked;
2. The Police refuse to charge Bauer;
3. The Victim recants; or
4. The Police charge the alleged victim with false reporting.
At least two of those things have to occur… most likely three!
Badger, if it was a setup, you can’t take her accounts at face value. You say there’s a president for rich law breakers, but fail to mention the multitudes of crack-heads that do unscrupulous deeds to feed their habits on a daily basis. I don’t believe if he was a guy on the streets he would be locked up. Without proof, you don’t get someone arrested very often.
I remember that you say you were locked up without doing what they said you did. I also know people who say they same thing, but fail to mention all the things they did that should have got them time in the box that they weren’t caught doing. Maybe you are the one guy that never broke the law and got framed, but I will never believe that is the norm. Does it happen, yes. Does it happen all the time, not likely.
I’ve been in that boat and know plenty of people that spent a lot of time on the inside. I’ve never met anyone, face to face, that was completely innocent.
If he did what she’s claiming he did, he f’d up big time. That’s a big if and it isn’t fact until it is proven to be so. Again, she’s a Padres fan. She’s been in bed with Tatis. She reached out to him. She went back for another go. She’s in “The Program”. Why would you believe what she’s claiming he did? She doesn’t sound like a person of high character.
You don’t even consider the possibility that just maybe she did this to cash in and to screw the Dodgers since her favorite team and former employer is the Padres? You deny the possibility that a person would do such a thing? Do you really think it’s out of the realm of possibility the she inflicted some of those wounds herself for greater effect if her ultimate end game was to extract money from Bauer and to keep him from pitching with the Dodgers?
I am considering all possibilities before I make a final judgement.
You weren’t there. You don’t know what he did. “It would appear he did it” is your personal opinion so everything afterwards is also your personal opinion and has nothing to do with facts.
It’s entirely possible that they had rough sex and then she got a friend to punch her in the face and in the back of the head. If that happened, is it fair to call him unhinged, stupid and an organization liability?
For someone that was falsely accused, you sure seem to be on the wrong side of the argument.
“Without proof, you don’t get someone arrested very often.“
Are you kidding me? It happens EVERY DAY. I know this for a fact. I spent two years researching this crap.
It’s called precedent, not president, but presidents could certainly be included. Topic for another time.
“A friend hit her”. Seriously? Sure, a lot of things could be considered possible. But come on, Bauer already admitted it. Let’s not be purposely naive here. I too am waiting for a judgment. But I’m not wasting my time considering “all possibilities”. He did it or he didn’t.
You’re gonna spell check me now? Believe me, you don’t want to open that Pandora’s box with your writing habits. Please line up everything Bauer admitted to with references. When you go through that exercise you’ll realize how little you know.
There was a lot of time and a lot of miles between Bauer’s house and the hospital that she went to. Anything could have happened. You do not know that Bauer caused the injuries that are reported. If you can’t see the logic in this argument, then there’s no sense debating it other than your propensity to insist on getting that last post in.
If you’re ever been to an AA meeting, you’ll know it wouldn’t be difficult for someone to get one of them to help with her extortion attempt by punching her in the face. I’ve seen crack-heads do a lot worse for a whole lot less.
A buddy of mind has spend the last several years researching how Aliens and Lizard people control the World Government, so excuse me if I don’t put a lot of credence into your two years of research about people getting arrested without doing anything wrong.
But, I did in fact get arrested for not doing anything wrong. One night in my teens I hitchhiked to a house party on the other side of town. As I was walking up, the cops were already breaking up the party. One cop looks at me and says go the other way, I obliged and noticed a friend in his truck outside on the street in a line of cars trying to leave. I asked for a ride and hopped in the back. A couple of moments later, that same cop grabbed me from behind, pulled me out of the truck and put me in his cruiser. I told him that I did was he asked and was leaving in the back of my friends truck. He said I didn’t leave fast enough. He took me to the station, booked me for drunk in public (didn’t even have a beer because I never made it inside the party) and let let me go the next morning with a ticket slip with a day to appear in court. I never got anything in the mail, but showed up to court. I checked the docket, I had plenty of experience doing so, and didn’t find my name. I went to the clerk and showed them my slip and the clerk told me that there’s no paperwork, so I can go. I checked back with good ole HB police and found that there was no record of the arrest other than the ticket slip I possessed. I was falsely arrested, but believe me, if they caught me for everything I did…
Wasn’t it you that posted his texts? Did he not give his phone to the cops and admit it was consensual? If not, I apologize. Somebody did. It looked to me that they agreed to meet up and get physical with each other.
Badger no smart aleck remark here but I don’t know anybody being arrested now days. If they r they just send them right back into the community. Not a day goes by without seeing some innocent person beaten. Murders, gun fights over and over. The school systems are crazy no control can’t do anything to discipline. This country is looking the other way at crime. That seems obvious but I know it is not to everybody. No malice intended just concern and after the incident in DC it is baseball related.
I don’t follow you. You “don’t know anybody being arrested today”. This country is looking the other way on crime?
Well, there may be some truth to that, the elites get pardoned. But a simple search will tell you that the prison system in the U.S. is actually a growing multi billion dollar industry. Not everyone in this system is guilty of what they were accused of doing, as police can lie their asses off on arrest reports to guarantee a conviction, thus a sentence that fills a bed in one our thousands of prisons. Innocent until proven guilty? Hogwash.
People are arrested every 3 seconds in this country. You’re damm lucky you don’t know any of them.
I think he was alluding to the trend in some big cities (SF and Philly to name 2) to try to dial back incarceration for low to mid level crimes.
Perhaps, he/she is extrapolating that to all cities?
I did not mean that literally and I was not being hostile. when the Minnesota mayor stepped aside to let criminals take over that has led to open season on violence. They were one of the first to defund and now are being ravaged by crime. The defund the police mantra has led to open season on innocent people. The DC incident will lead to more until it is in the ballpark. Baseball and America better start taking a strong stance against violence or it will come to a ballpark near all of us. In New York there is a no bail law u get arrested and then r let go before it can be processed(sarcasm)
The Defund the Police has some footing as far as I’m concerned. When I was doing my research a few years ago I discovered beat cops were making considerably more than teachers in Denver. SWAT teams were making more than twice what teachers make. And SWAT teams are highly undertrained for what they are asked to do. At the time training for qualification was only 40 hours. They are given military grade equipment and aren’t required to qualify in the use. I could go on. The point is, beat cops don’t need to make 6 figures.
Nonsense, and I have been a bit on the other side. This might not be good enough for you, but 99%+ of peeps doing time are doing it for things they did. Now even .5% wrong convictions is TOO MUCH for sure as that is still a huge number & I did not bother with exact stats because it is not the point. A huge percentage of cops are doing a great job & should be commended, and you ARE NOT really in a position to sit on a throne & extoll us of your superior knowledge of bad cops. Talk to people who actually LIVE in crime ridden areas if you want more than what floats around in your own noggin as proof.
Study out today ……. even in the MSM!!! ……. NINETY percent of citizens in Detroit want MORE cops, not less. I will leave it to you to decide just who those in the 10% who do not want more cops are. Hint …… they are NOT good upstanding citizens.
Don’t lecture me Flipper. I HAVE talked to many families who have lost loved ones to the system. In Colorado SWAT teams have killed people and tossed grenades into children’s bedrooms AT THE WRONG HOUSE!
Your numbers, like your OPINIONS, are biased. People plead guilty to things they didn’t do quite often. Look it up if you don’t believe it. As much as 90% of all convictions are plea deals. I know what I’m talking about here.
Until it happens to YOU you have no idea how devastating it can be.
Re the shooting outside the nationals game, somebody said something l like:
“People were shocked that the national pasttime would take place so close to a baseball game.”
lol – That was great!
I have done my ever loving best to stay away from the Trevor Bauer story. I said my piece yesterday, and I was going to walk away from any further discussion. But I do believe that most of the players do NOT want him around. It has NOTHING to do with guilt or innocence or being a possible setup. That is a legal matter that will sort itself out in due time. It has nothing to do with his sexual choices. From a players standpoint, they are WTF was he thinking? How selfish can a player be? Why would he put himself in that position? Answering an Instagram request for a night of kinky sex with someone you do not know. You just signed a $102MM three year contract. What can possibly go wrong? Just sheer bad judgment that has affected his team and teammates. Why wouldn’t they be pissed? I do not gamble, but I would bet a huge amount of $$$ that the leaders of the team, Kershaw/JT/Mookie, are peeved and will not welcome him back and probably went to management. Will they play with him like previous teams had to play with other pariah’s like Bradley and Puig? Of course they will. They will be professional, unlike Bauer’s actions, But he will not be welcome.
I had a colleague who had a relative with SFG when MadBum was there. The clubhouse was furious with him after the dirt bike accident. What was he thinking? At the beginning of a season when all hopes are for contention are ripe? It wasn’t that he got hurt, it was how he got hurt. He was thinking only of himself and not of how his personal actions may impact the team. He knew how to ride a dirt bike. No harm could come to him. Right? To his teammates, he was selfish. Of course, MadBum apologized saying how irresponsible it was, but the temperature was very cool in that clubhouse.
No, Bauer may play for LAD again, but he will not be welcomed back. And I do not think he will be back this year. No, the owners and AF F’d up when they signed Bauer to begin with. As I said yesterday, it has nothing to do with social media, and everything to do with how impulsive with lack of judgment he has. I still refer to how he reacted to Francona when he came out to get him in KC. Chucking the ball over the CF fence? You do not show up your manager like that and expect to get respect back. Especially with a players manager like Francona. Now maybe LaRussa.
Now, that is a strong and refreshing argument. I’m generally optimistic that people and players can learn and change. Maybe it’s the Christian in me, that I’m willing to forgive. Maybe I give people too much credit, or the stats blind my judgement. Anyway you look at it, in this moment of time, the signing was a mistake. I can agree with that. But, like many other things, a different moment in time can reverse it.
It will take Bauer probably three weeks to get built up for a starter’s workload is the number that I’m looking at it my head. I’ve seen the Dodgers rush Rich Hill to participate in a postseason rotation in as much time or less.
Bauer has been effectively suspended since the beginning of July. There’s still time to come to some sort of agreement and pass down a 60 day sentence with time served making him available for the postseason and saving face with the woke mob at the same time. Not likely, but entirely possible. Being a skeptical optimist, I’ll consider and support that possibility until the clock runs out or until new facts are introduced.
I like the Bumgarner analogy because even after that incident, the Giants still chose to have him return to the clubhouse and even refused to trade him at the deadline. Rings and the possibility of getting them will bend morals and convictions more often than not.
Well said Jeff
I did not know that the subject had changed to talking about Hunter Biden. Hold on, let me get my notes.
You need notes? The talking points are all the same and quite simple.
I seldom, okay almost never second guess Dave Roberts, decisions are decision, they either work or they don’t. However I did disagree with Roberts decision to go back to Jansen in the series finale against the Giants. Just a sense. I flipped off the TV and my wife was surprised. Big mistake to bring Jansen in again. Okay there was the blown strike three call, but Jansen created his own mess. Daily News columnist Jim Alexander explained why it was a bad decision through data. His data, my sense it could have been avoidable.
As to where the Dodgers go from here, the trade deadline coming up. Pitching, maybe a starter, defnitely a bullpen piece or two, maybe a role player. Not exactly like Reks, Raley, McKinney, McKinstry or Neuse are delivering with the bat.
I agree with Mark on keeping Keibert Ruiz and it would probably take a player like that to pry away a significant difference maker like a Max Scherzer or Craig Kimball. Guessing the competition will be fierce if both are on the market this week. Maybe Andrew Friedman can get creative and put together a different package. But if I’m the Cubs or Nationals, I want Ruiz in the deal.
Either player would offer a significant impact and Friedman has a history of putting together those kind of deadline deals. He also manages to do it without giving away top prospects. Maybe he can pull it off again. Seldom do such deals have the impact some think or hope they will. After the big trade with Boston, the Dodgers still finished second.
As to Jason Heyward, I seriously doubt the Dodgers are looking to add more dead money to the payroll. They obviously would like to see the Trevor Bauer situation resolved and the best of all solutions is they can walk away from the contract, the players not wanting him back under any circumstances. A toxic clubhouse situation. And no, they really can’t trade him unless they eat a lot of money. Who would want him, the Yankees maybe?
Hey, may be some interesting deals pitched this week. Trea Turner?
Only five more days.
It’s Kimbrel, and I think LA is a likely landing spot for him. Would it take Ruiz? Maybe. Hope not.
I don’t see Heyward as “dead money”. Andruw Jones was dead money. Heyward is still only 32 (in August) and could be helpful if Mookie is not coming back. That said, since I don’t know what is going on with Betts I can’t assume a trade will be made for a $22 million replacement.
I think it’s safe to say no team will touch Bauer any time soon.
GM Brothers – looks like Marlins will be selling. With Mookie,Belli hurt – need some more pop how about Duvall,Garcia combo. Probably wont take alot to pry away. I know Duvall OBP isnt sterling but proven hitter. Curious, who we all want ? need 1 SP 1 RP another stick. Maybe another Freese type.
Have good day – God Bless !
I was out yesterday after the game and didn’t catch up on the posts until this morning. Last night Badger wrote “I have a question – when I played and coached, if you are on third with less than 2 outs and the infield is in, you have to wait for the ground ball to clear the infield before scoring. That’s why the infield is in, to prevent the run.” No kidding, Badger. I couldn’t agree more. Remember the advice “make the ball be through” with the runner at 3rd? Being an old schooler, I hate the contact play. I don’t think it’s manufacturing a run. It’s manufacturing an out and an easy out. I’ve argued that point with a number of young college coaches, who use the contact play every time. IMO the only time I ran the contact play was 1st and 3rd with no outs. The runner at 3rd goes on contact to prevent the 5-4-3 double play. Usually early in a game, the defense will be at double play depth and will turn it anyway an allow the run. If the infield is in or half way (which is a tough turn anyway) and they go home it’s the runner’s job, if he’s going to be cold at home, to get into a rundown hopefully long enough to to allow the runner at 1st to get to 3rd and the hitter to get to 2nd. You’ve exchanged 1st and 3rd, with no outs for 2nd and 3rd with 1 outs. That, to me, is the only use for the contact play. I see it all the time and hate the play.
* CT3 is making himself some cash with his performance this season. I really hope it’s with the Dodgers.
* Geez, if you don’t put steal on w/ CT3 bottom 7, 2 outs with a 1.38 guy on the bump, then when will Doc start a runner in a tie game? That’s a green light special.
* As a player you have to fool yourself when things are going badly with the “they all even out” motto so you don’t start feeling sorry for yourself. But yesterday in the 9th that theory was pushed to the limit for me. Kelly gives up a pissie swinging bunt to Cron, slips and hurts himself. Diaz hits a wimpy chopper over the mound that moves Cron to 2nd. Tying run on 2nd now by absolute friggin luck and I’m thinking WTF. Fortunately, for my mental health, he didn’t score and we go to extra innings again.
I thought the same thing. I thought he was going to get “treinened”, as when Blake was having some “issues” A LOT of them came from weird weak contact with balls dribbling just to the right spot for the runner to get on, not because they had him “figured out”.
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Once again on the money Phil.
Why would a slip like the one we saw with Kelly cause an injury in a professional athlete? Makes little sense to me. Yeah, stuff happens, and an isolated play like that could happen, but looking around it appears to be happening everywhere. And I think I might have an answer.
The fabric of our cosmos is unwinding. We live in a global Twilight Zone episode. I read it in a Science Magazine article and saw it on a NOVA Special, from politics, to education, from our courts to Covid, to infrastructure, to climate and now baseball – time and space is not what we grew up believing it was.
BP and Flipper, not being in IT I had no idea what you guys were talking about. But it’s ok, as anyone who uses the term dude as often as you do is clearly from a different generation than mine. I respect it, and fully accept my time has passed, but, dammit, philjones and I are right about the contact play. Stop using it already. And run more in your conditioning practices. Run here run there, run backwards forwards and sideways. Run long distances and run sprints, lots of them. Sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, burpees, rope climb and long distance runs. That’s about all we did in the Marines and I guarantee you nobody is more fit and prepared for a physical challenge than a young United States Marine.
Gotta go. My oatmeal is ready.
DUDE, I am a boomer & a life long socal surfer ….. well until I moved to CO, still get out very occasionally, but mostly ski now. We were using dude AT LEAST from the early 70’s. That it became ubiquitous has no relation to my use of it, though I cannot speak for anyone else. I am retiring at the EOY. So you are older, but not by a lot.
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Yeah, the word dude has been around a long time. But I first noticed the overuse of it when my 7 year old daughter called me dude in 1990. My step son, 42, uses it like you do.
And never forget THE DUDE. Bridges best movie IMO. So very weirdly cool.
Hey PJ, I would agree with your assessment on the contact play if it weren’t for the fact that with two outs and Pollock at 3B with Raley coming up, he has less than a 10% chance of scoring, needing a hit from a guy with a .077 average over his last 15 games. With the pitcher up next, they wouldn’t even have a need to throw Raley a strike which would lower that chance even more. No risk, no reward it was the right play given the circumstances, IMHO. The F-UP was McKinstry pulling the ball to the first baseman.
When you are going to be out by 10’ at least get into a rundown to allow that weak hitter to get to second base.
Changing the subject. There seems to be a lot of smoke surrounding Jose Berrios and Scherzer and the Dodgers.
Since the Bauer situation won’t likely be resolved before the break, I would think that AF would have a lot of motivation to add another starter, since the lineup is already producing like a top offence even without key players and the bullpen gets better if you have to push a couple of starters into the bullpen to accommodate Kershaw and either Berrios or Scherzer.
I think either would be a the best bang for this team. With all things being equal, Scherzer would be my top choice is they can add another year to his deal. Berrios is pretty damn good and would be a fine consolation prize, but he isn’t Scherzer and doesn’t have Mad Max’s post-season experience.
Who do you prefer?
We agree on this. Scherzer had an alleged triceps inflammation. If true, Berriios. Otherwise Scherzer. You can bet Farhan and Preller will be all over this.
Hey, did you two guys (BullPen and Badger) ever get together for coffee?
If you haven’t done so yet but plan to, I’d like to warn all the other patrons to watch for flying mugs.
That said, I see you’ve managed to find a topic you agree on, Max Scherzer in Dodger Blue.
So what would each of you (and everyone else here) give the Nats to get Max?
I give them Ruiz before Cartaya since Cartaya lines up to be Smith’s replacement. I go quantity over quality after that. I say no to Pepiot and Gray. Maybe Jackson or Carillo and a high upside guy like Beeter. I hate to propose trades because I don’t know what another GM values in our prospect pool. I’m proposing players from what I consider are depth. I guess 3B would be another option.
I wouldn’t be throwing any mugs. I can be civil and I often have an old friend who’s a full on Occupy Wallstreet Democrat over to the house to watch Dodger games. We never talk politics.
I give them Ruiz +. I’m fine with Beeter being used. We have to outbid Preller and Farhan, so, as long as Scherzer is ok – do it.
I doubt we have to outbid Farhan. He may well have been AF’s secret potion for getting something for darn little.
Answer to the question many have had about WHY the flu ( which was supposed to be bad this past season ) had virtually disappeared.
>>CDC to Withdraw Emergency Use Authorization for RT PCR Test Because It Cannot Distinguish Between SARS-CoV-2 and the Flu<<
Waiting to see this in the MSM headlines ………….. HAHAHAHAHAHA SMH
Bowden in an article from the well respected Athletic proposed a trade for the Dodgers .https://theathletic.com/2729647/2021/07/26/bowden-three-trades-id-like-to-see-the-giants-dodgers-and-padres-make-this-week-in-the-wild-wild-nl-west/
Scherzer to Dodgers
Pepiot and Cartaya to the Nationals.
“I’d Gladly Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today”— Wimpy, from the cartoon Popeye
We wouldn’t have to discuss masks if 85% of us were vaccinated.
Got Polio, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Hpv Haemothilus, Pneumopoccus, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Varicella?
Thanks vaccines!
I would not do that trade!
Only way I would even consider it is if I could extend Max for 2 years before the deal was made and if I knew I wouldn’t have to pay Bauer beyond this year.
Then, I would have to think about whether I would rather try to sub Ruiz for Cartaya. At this point I really don’t know where I stand on that.
I’m with you Mark.
Uh, no.
No for me too. Ruiz is good enough. He’s ready now.
You forgot shingles.
I didn’t forget and decided to not include it because my guess is that in comparison too few have taken that vaccine.
The shingles vax is the same thing as chicken pox. EVERYONE gets it. But then when older for some it starts wearing off and then when old peeps get one they call it the shingles vax. Even that, my late pops had one, my mom made him get it. He got a debilitating case of shingles from it, worse than the cases people normally get just from the virus. Even REAL vaccines DO hurt some people. Simple truth.
Well brain trust, those are ACTUALLY vaccines. Being half informed is not being informed at all. You are comparing PROVEN & FULLY TESTED vaccines to an experimental drug therapy. I guess too bad for you that you choose to remain somewhat ignorant on the subject. The current treatments ARE NOT vaccines in any sense of the word. They contain ZERO weakened or kill virus in them. IF I decide to get one eventually, right now it would be the not yet approved Novavax which is actually a REAL VACCINE. Mrna is VERY similar to the tech they use in GMO foods, it is where the tech came from. So, GMO away your body, it belongs to you.
I hope that Ruiz is better than Lux, who was also a “we can’t let him go no matter what the offer” prospect. Anybody can be wrong about things like this, but I think that Dodgers fans and writers are more apt to overvalue prospects than undervalue them. Is Ruiz better than Will Smith? We all like Smith, but he is not a superstar, and I seriously doubt that Ruiz would be. And again, he is a catcher, so either you trade Smith, a very bad idea, or you somehow try to move him to the infield, a very risky idea. Or you do what many teams do, and will do this week, trade a top prospect for player who can help you win a title now, and in the next year or two. Also, we have Cartaya, so how many catchers do we need?
If we keep pitching Jansen as our closer, we will not win any title, and likely won’t even win the NLCS. We may not in any event, but Jansen should not have been the closer for the last three years, but he still is. And Kelly may very well be out for an extended period, given his wince, but they did leave him in, though he was shaking his head after the game. Get Kimbrel, or just play it all out with Jansen, and blame the season on the injuries and Bauer.
Bauer acted very irresponsibly at the best, but so many people are anxious to convict men any time they are accused of something by a woman. We do need to know the facts, if we ever will. There are women, unfortunately, who will try to get rich by accusing a wealthy man of doing something illegal to her. Sometimes it is true, other times not, but they usually get a big settlement.
What I will say about virus protocols is that I am very much in favor of trusting highly respected epidemiologists and doctors. They are not always right, but they are very much more reliable than non-experts who in this current culture, think they are able to know more than those who devoted their adults lives to the study and treatment of diseases. Now, one should always be careful, and even wary, but why do so many people think that they somehow understand these things better? It is like De Toqueville’s greatest concerns about fledgling America manifesting themselves. If we get to the point where everyone can just do what they want regarding vaccines and masks, we will be in the Dark Ages again. Look at the three states with the highest number of Covid cases, maybe 40% of them. Florida, Texas, and Missouri. This is not coincidence, they all have governors who ignored and even mocked the epidemiologists and doctors. Science is certainly not infallible, and it evolves, but it has a much higher level of accuracy than guesses or conspiracy theories. Why would all these doctors be recommending masks, if they were not helpful and even necessary?
Finding any excuse to avoid doing what our top epidemiologists ask us to do is like “trying to fly a 747 from Row 13, Seat C”.
IF you actually pay attn, there is ZERO agreement in the medical community. There are TONS of docs that are highly respected in their fields who disagree with “the mainstream” on this subject. All of them BANNED by the msm & censored on social media. For instance as I noted above and totally non-reported in the msm is the emergency approval for PCR tests being revoked by the FDA because they do not work, but because the emergency approval was given & expires at the end of year, “medical professionals” are still & will still use the useless test until year end. IMO that is “medical professionals” playing politics. I think any intelligent person would have a real problem trying to explain how they could administers tests to people KNOWING they are as likely to be wrong as correct. But maybe you have info I do not.
That qualifies as “any excuse”.
So YOU only listen to those who you have been told by either the govt or the msm as to just WHO is an expert? Well then, you will be massively uninformed and often incorrect in what you believe vs what actual truth is.
Your choice.
Agree almost completely with William.
Trust the experts. Don’t trust Jansen.
Will the experts be wrong? Of course, especially in dynamics where it’s a new virus in a modern society. But they’re still the experts.
Jansen wasn’t the closer when it counted last year’s WS/playoffs, I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t this year. But he can help the team get to the WS.
BASEBALL AMERICA has new updated Top 100:
Keibert Ruiz is up to 16 from 39 (I still think the team has to trade him, but I know nothing)
Bobby Miller at 56 up from 98
Cartaya at 57 up from 87
Jo Gray to 59 down from 52
Busch at 80 down from 67
Bluto is Baseball America the experts? Should we trust them?☺☺☺
BTW, they are for me.
They are experts, but not the experts.
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OK, William, here are the facts:
Let’s start with the fact that Florida has the oldest population in the US and you would expect them to have a higher morbidity rate. Let’s look at it:
Florida averaged 566 deaths per thousand people.
Texas averaged 558 deaths per thousand
California averaged 616 deaths per thousand
New York averaged 362 deaths per thousand
The difference is that by many accounts California and New York, both with Democratic governors shut down the economy, kept kids out of school, destroyed up to 80% of small business and the AVERAGE death rate in the Dem states were higher than the Republican states which refused to shut down.
That’s a big reason many are moving from NY to Florida and from California to Texas!
No they are moving to flip the state from Republican to Democrat.
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Mark, you’re saying “averaged.” I am writing about now, where those states have far more cases than CA and NY. I think that DeSantis got them to hide the rates in Florida, but even accepting them as stated, there is no doubt that Florida has far more cases now. And though this can only be supposition, how would we not think that it was due to the fact that Florida and Texas locked down far less than CA, had less or no mask mandates? DeSantis was encouraging people to party without masks.
CA didn’t do everything right, certainly, but what they did was much more reliant on science than anything FL and TX did, particularly recently. My girlfriend was much more emphatic about this, but I certainly agreed with her, that we opened too soon here; everyone was so anxious, plus businesses were threatening Newsom with the Recall, so i think he gave in, though CDC did say that it was okay for vaccinated people not to wear masks except in large indoor events. I am very wary of doing that. FL and TX mocked all of it.
I am very concerned that if that there is not widespread vaccination, there will be mutations which are not nearly as able to be to dealt with as those now, and then we could have a nightmare. And yet so many people are not only risking themselves, which I guess they have a right to do, though we wish that they would not, they are risking and at the very least, greatly inconveniencing those who are vaccinated. Various places in Missouri and Georgia are now reinstituting mask mandates, at least indoors. This was inevitable. If we had 90% vaccination, as we had in the first year of the polio vaccine, where 91% of people dutifully got vaccinated,, we would be in a much better place. But so many refused to do it, and still do. Los Angeles has had to go back to mask mandates indoors, because they reopened too soon, in my view. And we don’t even want to think about India and Brazil, where social darwinist dictator types who did not lock down, did not mandate masks, are suffering through millions of cases and deaths.
We do know that Cumo killed more people per capita than anyone.
Cases are higher but the Delta variant is less deadly.
The mutations while more transmittable become less deadly.
Cuomo.
I think New Jersey has more deaths per capita than NY.
IF ONLY the msm would report the truth. But then, no one would get their experimental drug therapy that is not actually a vaccine.
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You continue to type msm here. What exactly do you mean by that?
Badger, I think he is using that for mainstream media
How do you know they are dying from covid? There could be a hugely deadly flu strain going around and NO ONE would know it since if they got the current PCR test it would show “positive” for covid, when it could be covid, the flu, shingles (chicken pox ), or even something else they have not discovered yet since EVERYTHING IS NOW COVID. FDA announced they are cancelling the emergency approval of the PCR test because IT DOES NOT WORK. And that is what they use to determine EVERYTHING. Let’s see, false positives, false negatives, and several other completely unrelated diseases that show covid positives. What could go wrong?
And just WHAT small biz’s were the most affected? Those owned by women and minorities …. and yet …………
Yep!
Since you guys won’t stop mentioning me and Joc in the same sentence let me share this thought with you.
Joc is better off for now playing with the Braves. He is a full time player on a team that still has a chance to make the playoffs. Even if Betts were out for the year and Joc started every game for the Dodgers, Roberts would pinch hit for him as early as the fifth inning and maybe the fourth inning.
I have no desire for Joc to platoon with the Dodgers when he can play full time for the Braves.
If he stays in the NL I would rather Joc play full time for a non contender.
I think the 2024 Dodgers catchers will be Cartaya and Ruiz. Smith will be on 2nd or 3rd by then. I’m not trading any of those guys.
Smith’s bat plays. I like the idea!
Muncy back on active roster, Neuse back to OKC. Note to AF, keep that loser at OKC the rest of the year. He couldn’t hit Timmons fastball let alone anyone else’s. He is a AAAA player. Does not belong in the majors yet.
I’m pretty sure my fastball is under 48.
I am pretty sure my current fastball does not qualify AS a fastball these days.
But if your slider comes in at 39 and change up at 29, never mind.
I think I could still get hitters out from 46’. My change still works and I got a knuckle ball the likes of which Little Leaguers haven’t seen.
Not only Neuse Bear. Look at these strikeout rates
Neuse – 40%
Peters – 54%
Raley – 39%
Reks – 70%
McKinstrey – 31%
These guys can’t even make contact with MLB pitching let alone be somewhat productive. Well, maybe McKinstrey.
How about a bat via trade this week? Because what the Dodgers have available to them in the minors is awful.
Surprised Raley is at 39%. Every time I see him he strikes out. Thought he was more in Rek’s territory. Yes we need someone else ten trottingout the same usual suspects.
McKinstry is 5 for his last 41, .480 OPS with 13 Ks and 2 BB. We need better out of our 1st bench. The rest of those guys shouldn’t be here.
Seems like some AAA/AAAA players might even be as good as they are gonna get IMO. They send them down, they tear up AAA, come back here and ……… crickets!
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One of the players traded to Oakland for Neuse and Gus Varland, Cody Thomas, is having a great year in AAA in Las Vegas. .289/.363/.665/1.028. 18 HRs. He still K’s a lot; nearly 32%. DJ Peters – .226/.310/.367/.677. 4 HRs. K rate down to 29%. Both tremendous athletes with excellent defensive instincts.
Gus Varland was once regarded as a very solid reliever. He has a fastball in the mid-’90s and a plus slider, but while he is at Tulsa, he returned off the DL in May. I haven’t heard much about his, but I do know that he allegedly has good control.
I was sad to see Cody Thomas go. Even more so now that I get to look at Raley’s swing on a regular basis. It’s insane how these guys can OPS north of 1 in OKC and suck this bad on the big team.
On Bauer:
1. There are many innocent people in prison, but not as many as you might think. Of the hundreds… maybe thousands, that I have encountered, I would say I have seen less than 6 or 7.
2. Trevor Bauer has ONE allegation against him, while Deshaun Watson (Texans QB) has 22 pending sexual lawsuits against him. The NFL, nor the Texans have suspended him.
3. No one else has come forward to accuse Bauer. NO ONE!
What do we know for sure:
Do we know that he first met her on social media? Do we really?
Do we know that they had kinky sex? Do we really?
Do we know he punched and strangled her? Do we really?
Do we know that she said, “gimme all the pain” and “choke me out?” We know that was on her social media account.
Do we know that the majority of the Dodgers do not want him back? Do we really?
What do we know for sure? 100%?
1. they may not be innocent but they are not necessarily guilty of what they were accused of doing. And the conviction rate is what it is because of plea deals. Like I said, they can and do charge with anything closely related. Get drunk, shoot up your own apartment and cops show up? Attempted murder on every cop that responds. You think I’m exaggerating? I am not.
2. You may be right but it would shock me if this got to trial with only 1 count
3. Doesn’t he already have a history?
I admit I know very little for sure. They met, they had consensual rough sex….. I’m pretty sure that happened. Other than that? ??
I know the ONE time in my crazy years I spent more than overnight locked up it was 4 days in county. I DID NOT do what I was accused of, however what I HAD DONE was considered worse at the time. I just kept my mouth shut, but could honestly say “I didn’t do it”. I think that is extremely common.
Badger,
I know about your family situation and yes, that is bad, sad, and unjust. It happens too often.
A lawyer friend once told me “Our judicial system ain’t very good… but it’s the best in the world.”
I do not think Bauer has a history of abusing women physically… but rather on social media.
It wasn’t just my family Mark. Yes, I have a family member serving life for something he didn’t do. That situation is what drove me to do the research, and testilying, the cops own word for committing perjury, is real. Academic papers have been written on it (Michael Oliver Foley, Abstract – Police Perjury: A Factorial Survey, The City University of New York, 2000). It’s real. And overcharging is in fact encouraged by DA’s Offices nation wide. Felony convictions are where the money is. Misdemeanors? Pshaw. Careers are made and money flows with felony convictions.
Badger,
I know this stuff happens. It happened to me, but I think it happens the opposite way a lot more. Here’s a current situation:
Activists on social media sent alleged a viral video showed a Wisconsin police officer planting evidence inside a vehicle during a traffic stop last Wednesday. (VIRAL VIDEO)
The short 14-second video shows an officer with the Village of Caledonia Police Department in Caledonia, Wisconsin, toss an item into the backseat of a vehicle that was allegedly pulled over for traveling 63 mph in a 45 mph zone.
“Hey bro, what’s that?” the passenger of the vehicle asked the police officer who threw the item into the car.
“What’s what?” the officer responded.
“What you just threw in here. I got you on camera, bro,” the passenger responded.
The passenger then panned his camera to show what the officer appeared to toss into the backseat of the car. The officer told the passenger that he was also recording the interaction, presumably through his officer bodycam.
Body camera footage posted by the police department on Saturday shows the bag that was thrown into the car, as seen in the viral video, had been retrieved from a passenger before the viral video began. The viral video only showed the officer returning the material to the car.
Police chief Christopher Botsch explained:
A subsequent search of one of the rear passengers produced an empty corner tear (corner of a plastic baggie) from a passenger’s pocket. The empty corner tear did NOT contain any illegal substance; however, this type of packaging is a common method for holding illegal drugs. The empty corner tear was turned over by the searching officer to another officer who was on scene. That officer turned it over to the officer who is seen on video. Since there were NO DRUGS in the corner tear, the officers discarded the empty packaging material in the vehicle. This is what was observed in the video.
“While we would discourage officers from discarding items into a citizen’s vehicle, the video is clear that the officer is NOT planting evidence or doing anything illegal,” Botsch added. “Additionally, the empty corner tear is not itself illegal.”
There are people (mostly every criminal I have ever met) who would love to destroy the pigs.
Of all people, I should hate the police and prosecutors, but I don’t. I did nail the ones who framed me however!
Colossal difference Mark. Life sentence compared to what? A few days?
I’d have to see the film of course but the way you describe it that cop f’d up. Throw something back in the car? Chain of evidence. A good lawyer would have had it thrown out.
Cops and District Attorneys are liars. Truth has little to do with guilt or innocence. You of all people should know that. It’s their story vs your story. In fact, we got talked out of telling exactly what happened that night by our $100,000 attorney. His strategy was to leave out the drinking aspect of the night because he thought it wouldn’t play well with the jury. I said “tell the truth and let the jury decide”. He said “they’re gonna tell their story and you can bet it will contain untruths (did it ever) and our story has to be better”. The jury never got the truth.
Does any of this matter if the team and/or management doesn’t want him back?
It’s been reporter the former doesn’t, I can imagine the latter has good business reasons not to.
The boos would be as loud at home as they would be on the road. I just don’t see it.
Here is my frustration with the whole TB saga. The more MLB extends Trevor’s “administrative leave,” the more the Dodger’s are having to pay for MLB’s inability to make a decision on what to do with him. The Dodger’s are currently paying his (substantial) salary which may be inhibiting them from finding a replacement. MLB needs to grow a pair and make a decision so that the Dodgers can move on, one way or another.
I realize that MLB probably does not have much more information than anyone else as lawyers on both sides probably will not let their clients talk to MLB, but the current status quo is horribly unfair to the Dodgers. I’m not sure what the answer is, but maybe if the MLB wants to indefinitely delay making a decision, they should have to pay TB’s salary.
The Trade Deadline cannot be the determining factor.
I think it could be. Probably won’t be, but if we landed Scherzer and Kimbrel, it very well could be.
Why care that we are paying him? At least until we get hit with taxes for being over the limit, which means it starts hurting this weekend depending on who they pick up. A bunch of billionaires own the Dodgers, I am not gonna cry one bit for them. They are all in the risk/reward business & this is a risk they took that appears to not be working out for them.
I don’t care about their pocketbooks. I care about the negative impact on our team. Do you think the Dodgers will trade for Max S and sign him to a multiple year extension without resolution on the TB case? They could, but I seriously doubt it. Maybe AF will prove me wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.
I was going to add, but was tired of typing :-), that my only issue is IF having tb’s contract hanging out there, if that would stop them from going after someone that we could use.
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I agree. If they believe they can make the playoffs they will do what they have to do. If, for example, they know Mookie and Kershaw will not be back, and Bauer won’t either, it’s possible they may not go all in.
And if that is the case to they become sellers? Pollock? Jansen? Kelly?
…”A bunch of billionaires own the Dodgers, I am not gonna cry one bit for them.”
hmmm, sound like you are pro tax on billionaires.
Of course he is Bum. Who here isn’t?
WOW! you got that? Absofreakingstupid. I DID NOT suggest they pay “more taxes” in the sense you & I pay them & frankly you know that, you are just being obtuse. The MLB “taxes” are not “taxes” they are monies used in their business to try to keep all teams competitive. A private biz can be as “socialist” as they want to keep things even or to achieve equity. In real life you get out, what you put in for the most part. Now if you asked if dudes like Bezos who pays almost no taxes due to creative deducting, we would have a completely different conversation.
You thought that was absofreakingstupid? I thought he was being funny. One of us missed the point, so, who’s obtuse?
I need to grow up and stop playing with toys.
F that. I don’t even care that they’re owned by billionaires. Have you seen ticket prices? They’re printing money!
Scott M, I think everyone would like to see some more haste on MLB’s part in deciding what to do with TB. But when MLB acts hastily without the necessary information, they screw it up. I think they were hasty in giving the players immunity in the Asstros cheating scandal. They were so eager to make a judgement, they allowed guilt players to get off scott free. Only Hinch and Cora got a year’s suspension. In my book, Cora and Hinch should be banned for life. Had MLB waited for more information, like the Duke Case, the punishments might have been more just. While we all want this settled, the wheels of justice need to grind along.
I get that and I think I alluded to that in my original comment, although I probably didn’t express myself too well. I’m mostly just venting frustration. However, I would probably modify “when MLB acts hastily without the necessary information, they screw it up” to “they screw it up.”
You’re right Phil Jones, you can add the sticky stuff fiasco to the list of hasty decisions as well. Didn’t even consult with the players. Great job Manfred!
Pirates trade Holmes to the Yankees for a couple of minor leaguers. Chris Taylor named player of the week in the National League, and Kike Hernandez named player of the week in the American League. Texas and Oklahoma leaving Big 12 for SEC. Dodgers going to Frisco with a short bench again 14 pitchers 12 position players.
That is rather sad, after the long and storied history of the Big 12. But it is probably the precursor to one or two “superconferences,” in college football, since very few schools can compete with the money the SEC schools allocate to buy players under the new rules. I thought that was the end of college football, at least as we have enjoyed it. It will now be akin to a professional sport, and that is a shame. Big 12 now down to the Kansas schools, Iowa State, and the lesser Texas programs, although Baylor did win the basketball championship. That said, I will still follow it for now, though I think it is going to become ridiculous, with top players getting a million dollars or so to go to an SEC program. UCLA would not even try to compete. USC might, but not at that level.
I got a James Michener book while I was in college, Sports in America, and in it he predicted college football would one day become a 60 team anything goes league. That was in 1976. I figured then he was right. And it would appear it’s coming to pass.
With respect to the need for MLB to make a decision on Trevor Bauer, above Mark stated, “The Trade Deadline cannot be the determining factor”. Of course it can. Only the Commissioner has the power to suspend, not the team. The Commissioner can cede that authority to the team but as of yet he has chosen not to. If I am Mark Walter, et al, I am telling Manfred “no more Administrative Leaves after tomorrow. Either suspend him or reinstate him so that we can make a decision that is best for our team.” It does not need to be adjudicated for their to be a suspension without pay. Go ahead and suspend without pay and let’s see how fast Bauer’s attorneys want to get in front of an arbitration panel to contest it. There is plenty of precedence to suspending without legal due process. And if so, what do you wait for…lifting of the restraining order, criminal court, or civil? Different standards. Decisions need to be made before Friday at 1:00 PM. That date does not move. The Trial does not pick up again until next Monday and Tuesday, and possibly August 19. The decision will probably not be made that day. And that is only for the restraining order. We have no idea if the Pasadena Police will provide sufficient evidence for the DA to ask for an indictment. The Dodgers should not have to wait for Manfred to make a decision. If he cannot, then let LAD decide.
Roberto Osuna was suspended for 75 days, and there was no trial, thus no conviction. But there is no doubt in my mind that he beat the holy living s*** out of his girlfriend. Anyone who saw the pictures, questioned why he wasn’t in jail. Osuna chose not to contest the suspension. Did money change hands in a settlement? Hmmmmmm??? After the suspension, MLB reinstated him. Don’t tell me other teams would not be interested in a trade for Bauer. The scum-sucking Assterisks Cheaters traded for Osuna while he was still on suspension. All it would take would be one team and how much $$$$ LAD would have to pay.
I hear you, but I would prefer justice be blind. I would like them to rule on the merits, not the calendar.
Look, if Bauer did this, he is a scumbag who should rot in hell. But, if this is a frame job… I do not want to rush justice.
… and I have no opinion as to innocence or guilt.
I was never on board with the signing, but I rooted for him because he was a Dodger.
This has the potential of being Freidman’s biggest blunder.
I do not care if he is guilty or not. That is for a judge and/or jury to decide. Manfred did not wait on Osuna. Had they waited, there would have been no suspension. That would have been a bad outcome IMO. My point is that the decision should not be in Manfred’s hands. It should be in the Dodgers hands. Let them decide. If they want to suspend him without pay and let an arbitration panel decide it, so be it. But it should be their decision. Not Manfred.
I was always an anti Bauer signing for the reasons I stated yesterday. I think you are right that this could go down as AF’s biggest blunder. IMO he made the decision on emotion, missing out on other players who could make a difference, and not wanting other teams to sign him. It was a reaction for his sometimes reluctance to make a move.
How is this a Friedman blunder?
It’s 100% a Bauer blunder.
Do you think the team did extensive research on Bauer? I do.
Do you think they uncovered anything that may have anticipated this? I do not.
He did his job. He followed a proper process.
Sometimes shit happens.
It wasn’t a blunder but I believe it was a risk. Looks like it’s not going to work out.
I think you can probably get odds on this somewhere in Vegas. I’ll bet 50 push-ups he doesn’t pitch again this year. Any takers?
Who here wants to be my second should I accept Badgers challenge?
No Mark, en lo particular nada en contra de Roberts solo que toma algunas decisiones durante el juego que son tan ilógicas que como tu sueles decir ” hasta un invidente lo vería” como el mal uso del bullpen que los grandes managers clásicos de tiempos pasados jamás harían, juagadas a la ofensiva o defensiva que nunca serán obsoletas, pienso como algunas otras personas de este Blog que se somete lacayunamente a los mandatos de la oficina principal, y en mi opinión es incorrecto porque hasta en esto, la dignidad tiene límites.
Here’s the translation. I even tolerate dissenting opinions:
No Mark, in particular nothing against Roberts only that he makes some decisions during the game that are so illogical that as you say “even a blind person would see it” as the misuse of the bullpen that the great classic managers of times past never they would make offensive or defensive plays that will never be obsolete, I think like some other people on this blog who lazily submit to the mandates of the main office, and in my opinion it is incorrect because even in this, dignity has limits.
Ruiz AAA west player of the week at age 23. He is a keeper!
I hope they keep him, even more, I think they need to bring him up.
Aren’t the Dodgers the innocent party in this. Either way it turns out it seems somebody is responsible for their cost. Or, with the Dodgers agreeing to the administrative leave do they forfeit any financial reimbursement? If it turns out he is totally clear the Dodgers have paid for services not rendered. If it is a scam how do the Dodgers recoup?
If TB is totally guilty how do the Dodgers recoup for services not rendered or can they? It seems the Dodgers should not have to pay for the courts timeline or MLB timeline? How does the Dodgers insurance play into this if they have any?
I am ready for this, The Soprano’s are getting their own version of the Monopoly game….totally cool. Land on Park Place and get to whack someone! I am sure the Dodgers legal team is looking into ways of getting out of the contract if he is charged, if he is not, I would think they are up shit’s creek and will have to pay the guy.
Hall of Fame inductions yesterday, and it was done very quietly. Hawk Harrelson went into the Broadcasters wing. When there is no Dodger game, I try to read as much as possible. It is something I really enjoy doing. Reading another Jeffery Deaver, Lincoln Rymes novel. The writer of “The Bone Collector” has written some pretty good stuff over the years. After him, I think I like Clancy the best.
My last word on Trevor Bauer. I hope he never pitches for the Dodgers again. I think he would be a huge distraction to the team. Guilty or innocent, I have no clue. But I am sure his team mates have distanced themselves from him for reasons we do not know. They do not need that kind of distraction in the club house.
I don’t think we need an ace. We need an innings eater. I know Colorado doesn’t want to trade with us but they’re going to lose Story and Gray anyway. Maybe if we offered Lux and Barnes they might bite. Gray and Story, an arm and a right handed bat. You would have a leg up to resign both and may have a replacement SS if Seager walks. I’d put Seager at 3rd, Turner at first and Muncy at 2nd. Others might just put Seager at 1st. Next you can bring up Ruiz. Another option, give Seager his wish and trade him to the Yankees for Torres or maybe Judge and a BP piece.
Place your bets;
Some Max Scherzer trade odds:
New York Mets 3/1
Los Angeles Dodgers 7/2
Milwaukee Brewers 15/4
New York Yankees 9/2
Houston Astros 5/1
Boston Red Sox 6/1
Oakland Athletics 7/1
(From Bet Online.)
That’s interesting. I thought the Padres and giants would have been on that list. The Brewers?
The Yankees make sense. I think he prefers the East Coast. Yeah, if not us, he can go there. Not the Mets please.
What happened to the Giants and Padres?
I think they both have a better shot than the A’s who wouldn’t take on that kind of money.
Also don’t think the Brewers would spend like that considering the pitching they already have.
Seems like we had pretty identical reaction to those odds Badger.
Not surprised by that Jefe.
If the Mets and Dodgers are legitimate favorites; i.e., the people making the odds have some knowledgeable assessments of the chances, then I would bet the Mets, because we essentially outbid them for Bauer and I don’t think Cohen will let that happen again. I think they were favored to land Bauer in the offseason.
2021 Dodgers draft picks and signings updated
Round Pick # Pos Player Bat/Throw Age* School Slot value Signed?
1 29 LHP Maddux Bruns L/L 19 UMS Wright prep (AL) $2,424,600 $2,197,500
3 101 RHP Peter Heubeck R/R 18 Gilman School (MD) $577,000 $1,269,500
4 131 RHP Nick Nastrini R/R 21 UCLA $430,800 $497,500
5 162 RHP Ben Casparius R/R 22 UConn $318,200 $247,500
6 192 RHP Emmet Sheehan R/R 21 Boston College $247,000 $244,500
7 222 RHP Ryan Sublette R/R 22 Texas Tech $194,400 $147,500
8 252 LHP Ben Harris L/L 21 Georgia $162,700 $197,500
9 282 LHP Lael Lockhart S/L 23 Arkansas $149,800 $2,500
10 312 RHP Michael Hobbs R/R 21 St. Mary’s College $142,200 $2,500
11 342 LHP Justin Wrobleski L/L 20 Oklahoma State
12 372 LHP Ronan Kopp L/L 18 South Mountain CC (AZ) Yes
13 402 RHP Antonio Knowles R/R 21 Florida SouthWestern State College
14 432 RHP Jordan Leasure R/R 22 Tampa
15 462 RHP Madison Jeffrey L/R 21 West Virginia Yes
16 492 SS Michael Sirota R/R 18 The Gunnery School (CT)
17 522 LHP Adam Tulloch L/L 20 West Virginia
18 552 OF Damon Keith R/R 21 Cal Baptist Yes
19 582 RHP Gabe Emmett R/R 20 Folsom Lake College
20 612 RHP Charlie Connolly R/R 22 Navy
Totals $4,646,700 +$159,800 (3.44%)
*age as of June 30, 2021
I had a big stack of soapboxes and I can’t find them anywhere. Do you guys know where I might find them?
I think it’s funny how everyone thinks the Dodgers are such a noble organization that they couldn’t possibly employ the services of Bauer any longer. You think those hedge fund billionaire owners never did anything you might find unsettling? Hell, even the blessed and beloved O’Mally family kicked a bunch of people out of their homes to build Dodger stadium and he was a pussy cat compared to Guggenheim. Hell, Kasten got torched on Twitter for his own Bauer comments. Did that sound like a guy that was ready to cut bait? Y’all as naive as the guy that thinks the stripper loves him, or as naive as Bauer on an instagram DM.
lol
I do not consider myself naïve on this subject at all. I felt that Trevor Bauer was an arrogant narcissist before he signed with the Dodgers and I have not changed my mind. I feel the same about Manny Machado and Madison Bumgarner. All three think they are the most important person in the room, and put themselves above the organization.
It is irrelevant if I find anything unsettling about the Dodger owners. My opinion is that they should have the power to decide what should happen to Bauer and not Manfred at this time. Odubel Herrera was suspended 85 games and his single assault charge was dropped when his girlfriend refused to press charges. In lieu of dropping the charges, Herrera was required to complete an anger management course. No charges – 85 game suspension which he chose not to appeal.
Jose Torres was suspended for 100 games due to domestic violence in June 2018, even though he pleaded not guilty in January. He chose not to appeal. As it turns out, he ended up pleading guilty in November of that year, after the suspension. He completed an anger management course and served two years probation.
I have already discussed Osuna and his 75 game suspension. In those three cases none of the legal battles had consummated, and in two, there were no charges.
There has never been a third administrative leave suspension, and if it gets extended again on Tuesday a fourth time, the Dodgers should complain. I just want Manfred to make a decision or cede the authority to LAD. I still have hope, and that perhaps is naïve.
“The shingles vax is the same thing as chicken pox. EVERYONE gets it. But then when older for some it starts wearing off and then when old peeps get one they call it the shingles vax.” Just ran across this post from por…boy.
This one is from the Mayo Clinic web site…. “Varicella-zoster vaccines are approved for children age 12 months and older to prevent chickenpox and for adults age 50 and older to prevent shingles, but the formulations are different, and the vaccines are not interchangeable.”
faux facts vs real facts or can’t we trust the Mayo Clinic either?
Here’s a real fact. Try and get funding for something that the CDC does not endorse and the NIH will see to it that your funding is cut. FACT!
No thinking outside the CDC Box if you want funding.
And what is your opinion of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Institute of Medicine?
Pop,
I have no opinion. I only know about NIH because of people I know who rely on their funding.
All I know is that I had a shingles vaccine about five years ago, and now my Doctor said that the “old” vaccine was considered ineffective, and I needed the new one. The new one is a two dose vaccine administered two months apart. My left deltoid muscle is getting a work out. I got a COVID shot in May, one in June, and the shingles shot in July. One more due in September. My arm hurt more from the shingles vaccine, but not really noticeable unless it gets touched. I had no reaction to the COVID vaccine.
I have no idea how the doctors determined that the previous vaccine was no longer sufficient. If anyone has lived with someone with shingles, you do not want to experience that. My wife got shingles, and I did not hesitate to get the vaccine the first time, nor now the second.
I have had pneumonia three times, and I thought I had a fourth last Thanksgiving. Thankfully I did not, nor did I have COVID. Perhaps the Adult Pneumococcal Vaccine help to thwart pneumonia. Maybe not. I get a flu shot every year. Unfortunately I did not get it sooner last year. I do not fear vaccines. I take them with informed due diligence with my Doctor. But I do not pass judgment on those who choose not to vaccinate.
How old to you have to be before they offer you the shingles vaccine?
I am not sure. I was advised when I turned 62. I think I held off until my wife got shingles which was about a year later. I belong to Kaiser, and they have all of my vaccines on record and advise when the next one is due.
I think the Pneumonia shot helped me when I had COVID-19 Pneumonia. As in immensely.4
I was due to get my shingles vaccine before the pandemic.
I wonder if there is a vaccine for diarrhea of the mouth? Seems many suffer from that affliction. I quit getting flu shots after I got one in the Army that laid me up for a week. I don’t get the shots, and I never get the flu. Got the Covid series months ago with only a sore arm for my troubles. I got my shot because I did a lot of research on the vaccine I was receiving. But, it is your body. What you do with it should be your choice, not some government order.
My wife is like you. She had the flu shot one time, got sick,and refuses to get another one. I have never had a reaction.
You are lucky. I was sicker than a dog for about a week. Luckily my section chief just let me stay at home and have my wife call him and let him know how I was. After that I have never taken one since and that was 1974. I just do not get the flu. Oh, I have had some bad colds now and then, but nothing like the flu.
If you were in the service you got plenty of shots by government order. If you grew up in the 50s you got several more mandated by government. I don’t get the flu shots but I got these for Covid because I thought it was the right thing to do.
The only vaccination I remember from when I was a kid was smallpox and polio. Other than that, I did not like shots very much, so I rarely got them. The polio and smallpox shots were given at school. I cannot remember exactly how many shots we got in basic, a lot of them were combined and all given with the gun. In Korea we were getting paid on our tac site, and they made everyone dig out their shot record and get it up to date before we got paid. I had 3 to get. One guy had 7. He ended up passing out after number 5. None ever hurt worse than the Gamogloblin shot I got when I first got there for Hepatitis. 1cc for every 10 pounds of body weight. I got 11ccs. In the buttocks. Hurt like hell.
Bear,
I call it VD.
Verbal Diarrhea!
To whom do you assign this label? I could put together my own list. No doubt would be different than yours.
Mine would be medium sized at best, unless I added some of the twits on twitter, then it would be very very long.
I do not expect AF to make a move before Thursday at least. He has rarely made trades more than a day or so before the deadline. Machado trade being the big exception. I really believe he misses being able to add players at the end of August like they used to do. He got Granderson and Utley that way.
Thursday may be too early. I think AF will be more comfortable on Friday at 12:59:30.
Ha
You are probably right. He said in an earlier interview that the Dodgers had a lot of talent they could trade. I think he must mean AA and single A players. Outside of Ruiz, I do not see much at AAA.
Looks the A’s will be acquiring LHRP Andrew Chafin from the Cubs. It looks like the Cubs sell of has started.
I thought it started with Joc. Hoyer indicated what he planned to do when he traded Darvish. Then his players messed things up by getting off to a good enough start the he had to sit on his hands until they came to their senses and started losing.
You are right. I forgot about Joc. I wonder if he would have moved so early had Acuna not got hurt. Just like the Dodgers in 2018 with Machado, ATL had to move fast. They are already without Ozuna.
Teams are showing a lot of interest in Trea Turner. Apparently the Nats have not told them to hang up the phone. It would take a major offer but it seems as though he might be available.
He would sure look nice batting behind Mookie in the lineup.
I would like to see Byron Buxton and Trea Turner on the Dodgers.
I would like for you to see Buxton and Trea Turner on the Dodgers, although that would probably mean you no longer had a farm system.
Of course, if you were willing to include Bellinger and Lux in those trades, it might not take too many more prospects. And I’ll bet you’d be happy to do that.
Courtesy of an Alex Freedman tweet:
A good looking first inning for Corey Knebel in his first rehab game:
-K swinging
-Fly out (Bregman – also rehabbing)
-K looking
15 pitches/9 strikes
Nice!
Its debatable that Jansen should have been brought into the last game of the Giants series. I would say no, but whatever. I just don’t think that its debatable that he should have stayed in the game as long as he did. He got Yaz on 3 pitches and then was garbage. He was missing almost all his spots and made a ton of completely non-competitive pitches. He couldn’t even come close to putting away the guys from AAA.
The game reminded me of watching Roberts sit there are stare like a deer in the headlights as Rendon and Soto were hitting back to back shots in the 2019 playoffs. Just sickening. Short sided. No backup plan.
As far as Bauer, PPD has been looking into this for months. They haven’t arrested him. That speaks volumes to me. There is much more to the story that poor, wide-eyed girl meets rich athlete and gets abused.
Masks…..total joke. Id bet my life that the masks the kids “wear” in school have more germs and crap on them that any risk of Covid is to them. Absolutely gross and filthy. I just about never wear a mask. Never got Covid and I don’t restrict myself at all. Could care less if I get it.
Fauci….please. Total and absolute fraud.
Nats apparently up to trade Turner as well. I would make that deal for just about anyone! Dude is a stud. I’ll take him and Max for Ruiz, Lux, Gray and a few lowers. Bye Seager and your 300 million want.
I don’t get the Bauer hate. At least before all this. The guy is goofy for sure but to act like he is Milton Bradley or even Puig is ridiculous at best. Watching his YouTube channel a bit here and there has made me like him quite a bit. I think, or did, that he is a good guy for the game overall. Not a little bitch like Bumgardner and doesn’t take things too seriously as far as what other players do. I think that whatever the results of the investigation show, he will have a hard time coming back. Too many minds were made up by the release of a press statement from the accusers lawyer. LOL Like that would be the gospel truth. Again, the fact that Bauer hasn’t been arrested speaks volumes as to where this is likely headed. I can’t see the PPD letting Bauer walk the earth all this time IF they know that he is guilty of beating/raping/abusing this women, 100x in this political climate of MeToo and everyone is a victim.
If Bauer did all that stuff she alleges, hang him from the light pole and let the birds eat him up till he rots. Could care less. Somehow I just don’t think that is the case though.
Masks. Wear them. Vaccine. Get it.
“The right’s attack on Fauci shows it has nothing in its policy tank but slogans.”
I doubt the Nats trade Turner.
Bumgarner (sic) is hardly a little bitch. He sure seems like an a**hole but he’s nobody’s bitch. Don’t believe it? I dare you to say it to his face.
Bauer. For a guy who “could care less” Jason you sure have strong opinions on the subject. I don’t know if he’s “guilty” of anything but I still believe he’s done as a Dodger. Maybe New York would tolerate him. Whatever. The story needs to come to an end.
And I don’t care if you get Covid either. Good luck with it.
Thanks but no. Won’t get the “vaccine” and masks for a virus are dumb. If those things make you fell better because people on TV tell you that you will feel better, then you should do that.
I am not the “right”. I am a guy. LOL Fauci IS a fraud. He is wrong so much, his emails show that he is a flat out liar, and he indisputably lied to you, me and everyone else on the mask issue. He never takes, or took, his democratic partners to task on their stating that things were safe and fine and the beginning nor took our current president and vice-president over their stating that the “vaccine wouldn’t be safe…….when it was Trump who was in the WH. I could go on but its already set in your mind that Lord Fauci is beyond reproach and the Covid religion rolls on for so many. Add it in with climate change, gun violence, Asian Hate, and everyone’s a racist.
Nats have told teams they will trade Turner apparently so I think that means that they will. Will they get a good enough deal to do it? Who knows.
Yes, BUMGARNER is a whiney bitch. That is my opinion and honestly that of most of my family, who are all Giants fans. In addition, of you want to be petty and use a “sic” you should leave my spelling error. That is what the “sic” is for.
As to Bauer, I have no opinion outside of he isn’t in jail after a couple of months of PPD investigating this. This isn’t a major money laundering conspiracy and a pretty thorough investigation should be fairly complete at this point. Again, that he is not in jail says something. My opinion is that wait for the facts. The same as it has been since day 1. I haven’t called for him to be in jail, his career over, his Dodger’s tenure to be over. If he is innocent, he should get his job back regardless if the other players want him back or not. If you believe The Athletic, which I really don’t on issues like this because most people biases come in and The Athletic IS a left wing site, then the majority do not. So what? It isn’t up to them. I work with plenty of people that I don’t like and would rather not work with. A baseball team is not a group of friends playing ball. Its a group of guys that work together at playing baseball. Is it better if they all get along? I don’t know. I have never been a MLB player but I work fine with people that I don’t really care for while we are at work.
NOBODY should lose anything IF the accusations turn out to be false.
If Bauer did what he is accused of, he should go to jail.
If he didn’t, then she should.
Agree 100% on every point you made.
Scherzer and Turner for Lux, Gray, Ruiz , Pepiot would be a good deal for both sides.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much misinformation being spewed. WHO to believe?
Speaking of WHO:
“Vismita Gupta-Smith
So Maria, different countries of the world are in different stages of this pandemic. How can we assess our risk wherever we live to protect ourselves from the Delta variant?
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove
So, this is a very important question. Knowing your risk helps you to take the measures to lower your risk every single day. There are many things that you can do yourself that can keep yourself protected and keep your loved ones protected against this virus, including the Delta variant. This includes making sure you have clean hands and wearing a mask, making sure that mask covers your nose and your mouth and that you have clean hands when you put on your mask and you take off your mask. It involves avoiding crowded spaces, keeping your distance from others, making sure that if you are indoors, you are in a room that has good ventilation. And in many respects that’s as simple as opening a window or two windows so that you have good airflow. Taking all of those measures will reduce the possibility of exposure to the virus and reduce the possibility of you getting infected. In addition, when it’s your turn, get vaccinated. We know that the vaccines are incredibly effective of preventing severe disease and death. And so, when it is your turn make sure that you take that opportunity and you get vaccinated and you get the full doses. If you are required to get two doses, make sure you go back for that second dose so that you could be fully protected against severe disease and death. “
I figure she knows more than I do. The delta variant is raging and though some continue to compare this to the flu, I choose to exercise caution. You don’t. Again, good luck to you and yours.
Is this a record for responses in one day?
Probably close. I try not to post about things I do not have a whole lot of knowledge of. As for the legal system, other than a few traffic tickets, I have really not had much contact with the police or lawyers. I was an eyewitness to a murder. But they never caught the guy, so I never had to testify in court. All I know about the vaccine I received is the literature I received prior to getting it. I am not as learned as some here, so I try to keep it simple and then just reply to things I might have some knowledge of .
This is an excerpt from an article on the Athletic—probably to late for anyone to read but here it is anyway.
Urías’ strikeout rate and HR/9 have both moved into worrisome territory. His final start of May, in which he gave up seven runs (six earned) over five innings against the Giants, actually had some encouraging signs (such as 12 swinging strikes in 82 pitches), but he has not been the same since. Over his last nine starts, Urías has induced whiffs on only 9.6 percent of his pitches, and hitters have made contact with 88.8 percent of the in-zone pitches they have swung at. That’s actually a bigger concern than the spike in home runs against the lefty, as he has compiled a favorable 4.8 percent barrel rate and a 90.7 mph EV FB/LD during this recent span. Lately, Urías has a plate discipline profile that is similar to Merrill Kelly’s. That’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not what you expect from a pitcher who is rostered in just about every league.
Is he getting tired???
The current SP in the last 30 days:
W L ERA G GS IP H R ER BB SO WHIP AVG
Bueller 3 -0 1.69 5 5 32.0 20 8 6 8 37 0.88 .177
Urias 3 -0 2.45 4 4 25.2 19 9 7 7 20 1.01 .207
Gonsolin 2 -1 2.14 5 4 21.0 15 5 5 11 23 1.24 .195
Price 1 -0 2.45 4 3 14.2 12 4 4 4 14 1.09 .226
Dodgers get Scherzer from the Nationals for Ruiz and pitcher beeter.
Hope you are correct but not seeing this anywhere online.
If you are going to post about a big trade please include your source
Padres get Frazier from PTT for three prospects. Preller probably not done yet too.They really are going all in this season.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31884344/san-diego-padres-acquire-all-star-second-baseman-adam-frazier-pittsburgh-pirates-sources-say
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry D ram but that’s old news
Did not see it was already posted. My bad.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!