Colletti's Man-Crush on Giants Targets Yet Another Veteran
Sons of Steve Garvey —
... And now, the recent injury to Jeff Kent brings even more insanity to Crazy Neddie's penchant for Giants retreads, as Colletti apparently covets 95-year old shortstop with no bat Omar Vizquel as the latest "intriguing fit": ...
Closing Time: Take care of those bears
Roto Arcade —
You're barbecuing, you're moving into the dorms, you're
drafting a slew of football teams, you're spending a holiday weekend with the
family. Ah, but there's still a bunch of fantasy baseball happening to keep
tabs on, and that's where I come in. Here's your weekend briefing:
• The Cubs have a solid 4.5-game lead in the NL Central (and
it's 10 games clear of the next NL club), and that enables them to play it safe
with their precious arms in the rotation. A "dead arm" got Carlos Zambrano
pushed back from Sunday to Tuesday, and the team is going to skip a turn with
Rich Harden (his next start won't come until Sept. 9). Zambrano had a 7.43 ERA ...
Dodgers Follow Up Series Win of Dbacks with Win Over Padres
Dem Bums - A Dodgers Blog —
The Dodgers beat up on the Diamondbacks in an 8-1 victory in Sunday’s rubber match before heading back home to get a 5-2 win over the Padres in Monday’s opener. The Dodgers scored all eight runs off Brandon Webb and chased him out of the game in the fourth inning. Andre Ethier started things off with a solo homerun in the first on an 0-2 count before Casey Blake blasted a three-run homer. They scored another off Webb in the third before rallying for three more in the fourth, with Ethier smacking a double before two runs scored on an Arizona error. The Dodgers were then blanked for the next five frames, but an eight-run head start led them to the win. Derek Lowe evened his record at .500 with the win, ...
Off-Day Puzzle #10: Holes Up The Middle
Sons of Steve Garvey —
... Any Dodger fan familiar with the 2008 Dodgers groans in agony when watching Jeff Kent fall over to one of his sides like a toppled tree, knees creaking like an old floorboard, as he tries to stop a grounder up the middle. [Editor's note: to be fair, this joke was a heck of a lot funnier before it was announced that Kent, who had been playing on torn cartilage for over a month, had what might be season-ending arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday. SoSG Sax has added funerals, along with birthday parties and barmiztvahs, to the list of events at which I ...
