Dodgers' Andre Ethier doesn't raise a fuss about not starting - Los Angeles Times

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Dodger Thoughts: Cutthroat Competition
Published 5/6/2008 at Baseball Toaster
Not gonna talk about it . But James Loney, watch your back. * * * I only just noticed that Baseball Prospectus spiffed up its team pages; you can see the Dodgers ...

Introducing Crock-Hit and Tubbs
Published 5/6/2008 by Steve Sax at Sons of Steve Garvey
... Fast forward to the beginning of May, and now Ethier is out of the starting lineup. And he's not moping, mind you; he's remaining positive, and correctly (and wisely) saying all the right things to the press, but he's still sitting. What gives? ...

Sons-Worshiping: A Comment On Matt Kemp
Published 5/6/2008 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... Allow me to suggest here and now that the real issue is Ned Colletti's preponderance of what passes for depth, along with an inverted sense of what the Dodgers' depth chart should really look like. Why, just today, we discovered that Joe Torre is in the process of burying Andre Ethier behind Juan Pierre. We need stories, and the story of the Ned Colletti Dodgers is that of preventing kids from playing whenever a contractual albatross stands in the way of that playing time. Does anyone seriously believe that Blake DeWitt or a healthy Andy LaRoche* would be playing ...

Requiem for a 1977 Ford Mustang
Published 5/7/2008 by Steve Sax at Sons of Steve Garvey
... The curious thing is, I went to my mechanic, and he said the best thing to do was to continue to drive the car every day. There wasn't anything wrong, he said, fundamentally. I implored with him about the noticable lack of power, the sputtering out of the driveway only to return to the garage, the fact that the car drove a lot heavier than I had originally anticipated. However, my mechanic was firm in attesting that only driving it every day would get it back on track. In fact, he wouldn't even admit the Mustang into his shop, as he was resolute that I had to ...