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Bad Baseball

I just don’t really know how to explain my frustrations with this baseball team right now.

I’ve given everything to the Dodgers, and I love them to death, but right now, this is one of the worst baseball teams I have ever seen in my entire life.

That’s not to say that they can’t turn it around. When I say that they’re one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen, it’s not because they lacking in talent at every position, it’s because there is talent on the roster, and there is actually room for this team to make a run for the World Series. Who’s to say we can’t?

I’m frustrated by them because it honestly seems like they don’t care. Hold on a second. It’s not like they’re taking the field with no intensity, don’t run out ground balls, or don’t throw as hard as they can.

They have the talent. For some reason though, they refuse to throw strikes, they refuse to get clutch hits in key situations. They refuse to close down games, and they refuse to have positive first innings.  Takashi hasn’t had a Save in six outings!

Our bullpen is awesome in 7-2 games, but where the hell are they when it’s 3-2?

Our guys are knocking ‘em out of the park when there’s nobody on, but can somebody please tell me when was the last time we hit a ball out of the park with a runner on?

We certainly are capable of doing certain things, but for some reason we can’t do it when the pressure is on or when it really matters.

We scored one run AGAIN tonight, I’m so sick of it.

We got a win last night. Sure, a big one I guess, we won 7-2, but we scored the go-ahead runs on a seeing-eye single that Russell hit through the right side of the infield with his eyes closed…and the next run we scored on a infield single. We won, but it was lucky, not pretty.

Jake Peavy pitches tomorrow, and we’re going to lose.

I’ve googled it, I can’t find a stat, but I don’t think we’ve ever beat Jake Peavy. If I only watched Dodger games, I would honestly tell you that Jake Peavy is the greatest pitcher of all-time, because we’ve never done a thing against him.

Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.

I haven’t completely lost faith in them yet. You know, I still watch every single game, and every loss still hurts me just as much.

Furcal’s been out for 32 games now, and that’s what the real problem is.

It’s not scary to face our lineup when Angel Berroa is hitting eighth (or Chin-Lung Hu, or Luis Maza). It’s scary to face our lineup when Furcal is at the top and Pierre is after him, with DeWitt, or Ethier, or even Delwyn Young hitting eighth.

I can’t even believe how frustrating it’s been to watch Dodger baseball without our best player, and that leads us to a serious dilemma…

Rafael Furcal is our best player, and this is his contract year. I want nothing more than for him to be a loyal Dodger until he retires, but at $13 Million a year, is it worth bringing him back when he’s just going to be injured every single season? He’s three-for-three so far; he’s never really been healthy.

I love Raffy forever and ever, but it hurts us to invest our franchise in him, and just have him come up with another BS injury every year. Serious problem, but not as serious as our absent offense.

A few things, including Furcal…

At least three more weeks before Raffy comes back, I’m sick of it, let me know when he’s in the starting lineup.

By now you’ve seen Angel Berroa occupying Furcal’s former spot on the diamond. It’s always a funny thing when guys you used to watch on another squad just show up in a Dodger uniform and take the field. Berroa will be fine for a little, at least he’s a bit of a step up offensively from Chin-Lung Hu, who by-the-way got sent down to AAA for… 

ANDY LAROCHE!!!!

After all that Nomar-Andy-Andy-Nomar talk in Spring Training, LaRoche finally makes his 2008 debut 64 games into the season at First Base believe it or not.

And…he hit a Home Run in only his second At Bat of the year. A solo. Obviously…

Also, on a side note, I think Andy needs to keep his hair long; it looks better that way.

Nomar is headed towards a rehab assignment, and word is Torre wants him working out back at Shortstop. Andruw Jones took some BP and shagged some Fly Balls in the outfield; he may be only weeks away, and who would have thought that we’d need him this much. I’ll welcome his bat back into the lineup as soon as he’s ready.

I also want to congratulate everyone’s favorite Dodger, Blake DeWitt, on receiving May’s NL Rookie of Month honors. What a cool thing for a dude that wasn’t even on the map in Spring Training. He hit .322 in May with 5 Home Runs and 18 RBIs. I love him, and I love Russell, everybody else better figure it out. Especially Matt Kemp, he’s 6^th in the NL in Strikeouts, he had three tonight, I’m sick of it…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm and is filed under Chin-Lung Hu, Delwyn Young, Nomar Garciapara, aaron sapiro, Blake DeWitt, Angel Berroa, Luis Maza, Matt Kemp, Randy Wolfe, Andruw Jones, Rafael Furcal, Juan Pierre, $35 All You Can Eat, Dodger Loses, Takashi Saito, Russell Martin, Andy LaRoche. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.