oops ............and you're goin' at everyone using Stow as an example like you're his personal PT/fluffer......
I am just so refreshed you are blaming someone other than Don Mattingly. Someone who truly did not do there job and as a direct result, costs the Dodgers a game. Bravo Irish!
I totally get that, but there is a big difference between making a joke among your friends and tweeting it for the world to see. Especially when you are dealing with fans of a franchise that hasn't even sniffed the World Series since '88.
If I had the hopes and dreams of a couple million rabid Dodger fans and I sucked then I might deal with it with humor but we all don't react the same.
What is the proper length of time to mourn? You mention affecting the fans well how about stepping in his shoes and imagining that pressure of maybe your next pitch putting them over the edge. If I didn't have humor about tragedies in my life I'd go postal and might take people down with me. Just my thoughts and it's only sports.
he's an idiot he has all these tweets leading up to his start but falls dead silent after his loss and then this is the way he reaches out? glad you asked the proper length of time to mourn using that analogy, is it "proper" to make jokes at someone's funeral when others are still "mourning"? and this isn't aimed at you doughty, but i'm getting tired of the "it's only sports" cry seems like a convenient excuse when your team fails and we've now been hearing it for 27 years... and counting
but if you insist on humor... ANDERSON: "Hey Rick, high five?" HONEYCUTT: "Five? Don't you mean six? ANDERSON: "Six?" HONEYCUTT: "Yeah, as in runs you gave up in three innings, you piece of shit!"
Good one but you're still wrong. Sports is an escape by the way not real life so it is just sports no matter how you spin it. It's a great escape don't get me wrong but there will ALWAYS be a next season. Waiting another year stings like a bitch but I/We will survive.
so it appears we won't be adding a legitimate #3 after all Dodgers considering Qualifying Offer for Anderson by Vincent Samperio | Dodgers Nation — 12 hours ago With the Los Angeles Dodgers eliminated from the postseason in the first round, the attention now turns to 2016 and what the front office will do to improve the team. The ending was a disappointment for the NL West champions; however, the final result shouldn’t detract from another competing season. One of the biggest surprises of the season came in the form of Brett Anderson, a left-handed starting pitcher that signed a one-year, $10 million deal in the offseason. He hadn’t pitched a full season since his rookie year in 2009. Anderson was expected to be the team’s fifth starter, but was quickly thrust into the third spot behind Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke. Anderson ended up holding his own in a full season, starting 31 games with a 10-9 record and a 3.69 ERA. Any good feelings about the 27-year-old’s season were quickly forgotten in Game 3 of the NLDS when he allowed six runs in four innings. Despite the rough ending, it appears the Dodgers wouldn’t mind Anderson coming back. According to Mark Saxon of ESPN LA, the Dodgers are welcome to having Anderson back for at least one more year: The qualifying offer salary has been set at $15.8 million this year, meaning if the Dodgers extend an offer to Anderson, he can accept a one-year deal or decline and search for other offers. If Anderson signs with another team, the Dodgers will be rewarded with a compensatory draft pick. With such an extensive injury history, albeit one with little actual pitching arm injuries, Anderson could indeed take the qualifying offer in order to prove that he is capable of pitching an entire season. It’s possible that Anderson could get a better deal elsewhere, or even with the Dodgers, but the disappointing end to his season may have cost him a few dollars. The Dodgers have five days after the end of the World Series to extend a qualifying offer and then Anderson will have a week to accept or reject it.
i'm not wrong, we just view things differently after 27 years of failure/mediocrity, you're content with division titles and quick postseason exits i am not
Great post. No need for me to reply. In this Golden Age of Hipocrisy, we will now enter the " time it takes for a new FO to get it all together " phase, which should justify the next 3/4 years of dismal failure on deck and in the hold. Plenty of room for lots if stats and SABR shit, and" we better get ________( fill in the new Joc/Puig/Lee type name in AAA) up to the Show right away to save our asses "...and of course, none of them ever do.
Like it or lump it, I agree with teh Kid. People react differently to the same situations, that's why we're humans, we are different. Personally, little things get under my skin and piss me the fuck off, while big things tend to roll off and I take them in stride. But anyway, I think "tweeting" is pretty fucking lame anyway. Getting upset about something some one "tweets" is a waste of my time. Anderson pitched well for what he was contracted to do, he laid a giant turd at the worst time- so what? Kershaw has been doing that the last two postseasons. The difference is their reaction. Neither reaction changes the outcome. They both sucked. Move on. I'd welcome Anderson back, he proved he could pitch an entire season and did a decent job.
That's possibly one of this team's problems...to expect the sublime results from only moderately talented, even injury prone players- in some cases. Spend top shelf multi millions and get bargain basement results. I look around the MLB, and see teams laden with power youth ( Cubs) everywhere, incredible pitching top to bottom ( Mets)...and they are all in it. All out there trying for the prize. NOW, not 3 years from now. Not us. We have so many holes it's ridiculous, and then the FO announces that the team will tend to go conservatively with a .500 guy like Anderson and probably not pursue a big name FA pitcher. 15+ million for this guy? Don't worry..."we'll make due". But we won't win...but y'all know that already. Just keep coming, fans. Asses in the seats, PLEASE...you do know we have to pay for these terrific guys, don't you?
Some of the biggest playoff heroes to this point are Daniel Murphy, Chris Young and Alex Rios. They're the Dodger equivalent of Howie Kendrick, Mike Bolsinger and Scott Van Slkye. It's much more that they got lucky when we didn't, which makes this even harder to swallow, in my opinion.
You could go on for days disagreeing about post season heroes..?so I won't..but I'm watching a bunch of other teams "lucky" enough to be in them...so if that's the goddam answer year after year, decade after decade, so be ie it. To some we are just unlucky, I guess. Me? I think we pretty much suck on a whole bunch of levels, all the time. What does it matter why? The result is constant as Polaris.
I was kidding thus the big smiley face. NEVER wrote I was content but 1 team wins man so gradually killing myself with worry won't make the team win any sooner.
