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Post by Roberta on Aug 25, 2013 9:56:27 GMT -8
My worst nightmare -- the Reds announcers are talking about Vince Scully. When he does retire from the Dodgers will he start a second stint, say in the Midwest? ((
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Post by Brian on Sept 9, 2013 23:00:24 GMT -8
I feel silly talking about baseball with everything else that's going on -- and with all the fabulous posts on this message board in the past three days -- but I can be silly with only 19 games left this season.
The Dodgers' magic number is eight. Only a historic tailspin by them combined with the Diamondbacks winning most of their remaining games will prevent the Dodgers from clinching the National League West. They hit six home runs tonight off of the Snake Team to end a four game losing streak. The Dodgers lost three of those games to the Reds, all by one run, further underscoring how much tougher the Reds are fundamentally in pitching, hitting and defense. If the Dodgers aren't lucky enough to avoid meeting the Reds in the Division Series, I don't know where they'll find the luck to advance to the National League Championship Series, let alone the World Series.
Yet I've been wrong all season, starting with picking the Giants to win the west. I wish I could feel sorry for the World Champions. The nicest thing I can say for myself is that the Giants have been in last place or so near it for so long that I no longer experience much joy in their plight.
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Post by Roberta on Sept 12, 2013 10:45:39 GMT -8
I feel silly talking about baseball with everything else that's going on -- and with all the fabulous posts on this message board in the past three days -- but I can be silly with only 19 games left this season. Silly? I think not. I was ecstatic, seeing/hearing the Reds sweep the Dodgers. We were on the road for the 2nd and 3rd games, listening to MLB network through John's iPhone, don't ask me how that works. Baseball NOT Bombs!!!!
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Post by Brian on Sept 16, 2013 23:00:49 GMT -8
James and Kirk from Metallica play the National Anthem at a Dodgers-Giants game in Frisco last May.
Admittedly, I was already bummed after the Dodgers dropped three out of four games to the Giants in Chavez Ravine. Then they lost Monday night in Arizona despite Ryu giving up only two hits. True, the magic number remains four, with 12 to play. But the magic team remains missing.
What the hell. Let's see what happens when the Dodgers return to San Francisco in two weeks.
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Post by Brian on Sept 29, 2013 0:16:43 GMT -8
Today is the 162nd day of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. Two teams might have to play their 163rd game of the official season on Monday -- the Wild Card race in the American League is extremely complicated. For a National League fan like me, the only real issue that will be decided Sunday is whether the Los Angeles Dodgers will meet the Cardinals or the Braves on the road for their Division Series.
At least the Dodgers aren't facing the Reds or the Pirates initially, as I feared earlier this month.
In my beloved National League West, the Dodgers will end 13 to 11 games ahead of the Diamondbacks, depending upon Sunday's games. If the Giants defeat the Padres, both will be tied for third place.
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Post by Brian on Oct 6, 2013 0:05:43 GMT -8
Our cat Bernard seems to wake up only in October. Because of his tuxedo, I suspect him of being a Yankees fan, but that team is again absent from the postseason. Maybe Bernard secretly roots for the Dodgers. He occasionally posts on another message board -- here's his take on Friday night's game: nextexit.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=News&thread=4460&page=2#127963The Dodgers and the Braves play in Chavez Ravine tonight. I'm hoping my team wins both games in Los Angeles so they won't have to go back to Atlanta. Then they would face either the Cardinals or the Pirates in the National League Championship Series. (Sorry about the Reds, Roberta -- and poor Dusty Baker.) Who outside St. Louis is not pulling for the Pirates? I've loved that team and so many of its players since the 1960's, from Roberto Clemente through Willie Stargell -- to former Dodger catcher Russell Martin today. The postgame shows on TBS hosted by Keith Olbermann are fabulous, but I can hardly listen to the game announcers' play by play. Thankfully, Vin Scully broadcasts the first and the last three innings of each Dodger game on the good old AM radio. The TV images run five seconds behind Vinny's calls.
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Post by Brian on Oct 12, 2013 23:29:14 GMT -8
My Dodger blue heart is broken after the Los Angeles Dodgers lost the first two games of the National League Championship Series in St. Louis. If they can win the next two games in Dodger Stadium, they will resemble the team that dropped the first half of the season and went on to lead the National League West by 11 games. And I'll feel better than I do now. Nonetheless, the Cardinals look like the real thing, the best team to prevail over the American League in the World Series. I don't start paying much attention to the American League until September. The American League Division Series between the Oakland Athletics and the Detroit Tigers was wonderful, but I just didn't care about the other series between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays. After all, it's been a decade since the Red Sox ended their century-long absence from the world championship. Still, Boston fans are the greatest. Saturday's Game One of the ALCS in Fenway Park was one for the ages, a Detroit no hitter into the ninth inning past midnight in Boston. I saw a game at Fenway back in 1985, which come to think of it was the same year that the Dodgers lost the NLCS to the Cardinals in Chavez Ravine -- and that was the first seven-game championship series in Major League Baseball. I remember both games like it was yesterday. How long will I be able to hear Vin Scully on the radio in 2013? That's my main consideration. The Fox network, which will broadcast the World Series, would drool over a Dodgers-Red Sox series but gag if the Cardinals met the Tigers. Absent the Dodgers in the Fall Classic, I want St. Louis and Detroit to match up again for history -- and recall the 1968 World Series, which gave Detroit a boost when the city needed one.
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