Games 91-92: Dodgers @ St Louis Cardinals 1:2, 3:11
Ouch, it hurts getting swept, especially that in half of the four games we were right in, and with a little luck here and there we might have split the series. Not that it would have been right, I guess...
(1) Anyway - with the trading deadline looming, I guess I'm leaning towards the "sell mode". Really, this team does not seem to be getting pretty much anywhere, apart from those of us who had estimated a well sub-par performance for the 2006 Dodgers. Why not take chances and let the youth take over at, let's say, RF, 2B and CF? I know Lofton, Cruz and Alomar are on one-year contracts, but trading them away NOW, would give our youngsters a good shot at the additional half-year of play.
(2) What can you get in the open market for Rafael Furcal? Honestly, I need names :)
(3) I did not realize until two days ago how much Mark Hendrickson's face reminds me of poor-man John Smoltz's. Do you see how similar they are to each other? No, I don't mean height ;).
(4) Observing the last two Cardinals games pretty closely, it occurred to me to pose this question: do you think the Dodgers have already quit on this season? There seems to be no "fire in their collective loins" ;), so to say. Batters show up at the batters box seemingly to make an out as soon as possible. They do not rally. They swing at bad pitches (ok, Cruz swings at everything - he's average No of pitches he sees at the at bat is probably 3.2...).
(5) The character-revealing series @the Diamondbacks starts tonight. If we want to bounce back and start negating the (4), we'd better do it right off as the happy-go-lucky Aaron Sele counters a hittable Enrique Gonzalez.
(1) Anyway - with the trading deadline looming, I guess I'm leaning towards the "sell mode". Really, this team does not seem to be getting pretty much anywhere, apart from those of us who had estimated a well sub-par performance for the 2006 Dodgers. Why not take chances and let the youth take over at, let's say, RF, 2B and CF? I know Lofton, Cruz and Alomar are on one-year contracts, but trading them away NOW, would give our youngsters a good shot at the additional half-year of play.
(2) What can you get in the open market for Rafael Furcal? Honestly, I need names :)
(3) I did not realize until two days ago how much Mark Hendrickson's face reminds me of poor-man John Smoltz's. Do you see how similar they are to each other? No, I don't mean height ;).
(4) Observing the last two Cardinals games pretty closely, it occurred to me to pose this question: do you think the Dodgers have already quit on this season? There seems to be no "fire in their collective loins" ;), so to say. Batters show up at the batters box seemingly to make an out as soon as possible. They do not rally. They swing at bad pitches (ok, Cruz swings at everything - he's average No of pitches he sees at the at bat is probably 3.2...).
(5) The character-revealing series @the Diamondbacks starts tonight. If we want to bounce back and start negating the (4), we'd better do it right off as the happy-go-lucky Aaron Sele counters a hittable Enrique Gonzalez.
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