- Greinke wins sixth KC's Gordon improving
- Ace Zambrano put on DL Cubs victorious
- Ankiel carted off after wall crash Cards fall
- Red Sox now 4-0 vs. Yanks A-Rod closer
- Mets move Perez to bullpen Defeat Braves
- Hamels on track to start for Phillies on Friday
- Hamilton tests rib cage injury Rangers win
- Braun, Weeks help Brewers beat Bucs again
- Cards' Carpenter tests side by playing catch
- Olney: Sorting through A-Rod book fallout
These are the top ten stories on the MLB section of the ESPN website as of 11:06 PM on Monday May the 4th.... ok .... where you goin with this OJ? On this same day the Dodgers extended their home win streak to 11. The most ever in the history of the National League which began in 1876, 133 years ago. 133 years of history and the Dodgers have done something no other team could ever do, yet these are you top ten headlines. Two stories involving the Yankees, one for the Red Sox, one for the Cubs, two for the Cardinals, one for the Mets, one for the Brewers and Pirates!!!, throw in the Rangers and the Royals, and it sounds like news to me. What does this all mean? 80% of these stories are Eastern markets and some how the Rangers are relavent, I don't know. In all fairness, Greinke and the Royals is a pretty fun story which I am interested in hearing about. How the flying rat fornication can this be considered a credible source of sports or baseball news? If the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Mets, the freakin Royals had an 11-0 record at home to start a season and set a league record we would get the "pleasure" of reading 17 different "journalists" opinions on how that team was the best team in history and on their way to the World Series. Can anyone explain to me how the Dodgers, aside from the home streak are not newsworthy, they are currently leading the MLB with a .704 WP... if nothing else at least mention that in this same game they hit into a triple play. Nothing? Not even a mention?
ESPN is as credible a source of sports information as the Huffington Post is for politics. I hate ESPN and the Eastern bias makes me want to puke.
Breaking News: As of 11:27 PM the 8th story headline reads, "Dodgers survive D-backs' triple play for victory". If you click on the link, it shows the boxscore.... bitchin. Teammates alledgedly call A-Rod "Bitch Tits" and it was worthy of ESPN's home page front story... which may have actually been the right call, because that is still perhaps the best story in baseball the last decade, better than the Red Sox winning it, better than the Rays making it to the Series, better than Barry breaking records... BITCH TITS... it never gets old.
Somehow in LA we are going to be the "Nobody believed in us" Team, does not seem possible, but whatever, if that is what it takes to recapture the magic of Kirk, then that is what it takes, I am sure you all remember no one believed in the '88 team either... oh that's right, we can't really honestly say we remember anything that happened 21 years ago. At least not those of us who write for this website.
Eff you world, we don't want you on our side.
4 comments:
OJ:
An update to your post of a week ago or so about the Dodgers hitting RISP. Last night Vin said the Dodgers are hitting .293 "in the clutch" (which I assume meant w/ RISP). So, while your argument was that they were not coming through, I think you also were only looking at games they lost. Overall, though, it sounds like they're being pretty productive in those situations. Let's hope they keep it up throughout the year and stay on pace to win 81 games... at home.
My statistics were only for I think 7 out of the first 11 games, I think one or two of them they had a good BA/RISP and the remaining games were Dodger blowout wins.
I have been searching high and low to try and find a statistic somewhere that will show me the Dodgers BA/RISP as well as the rest of the leagues. I would like to see where we stack up on this issue. I know it has gotten better since that article, but somehow I don't believe .293 and frankly Vin is getting old and says some wierd stuff sometimes, God bless his heart.
He could have been talking about at home, in a particular series, perhaps against the D Backs, who knows... what I want to know is where in the hell are they getting that stat... Some of the sites dedicated solely to baseball stats and have everything you could ever imagine somehow do not have that stat. Anyway, the home record isn't lying, albeit against weaker competition, still have the best record in baseball. And longest home streak to start a season ever... things are pretty good in the Chavez ravine... we can build on this.
Ahem...
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/aggregate?sort=avg&split=39&group=9&season=2009&seasonType=2&statType=batting&type=reg
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You can see it for yourself if you navigate the splits, but the Blue Crew is batting .285 overall, and .286 w/ RISP.
Looks like we're in for a big disappointment as they regress toward the mean...
Seriously though, 3rd best BA in baseball, and 10th best BA/RISP. Really not much there to complain about.
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