6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: The Shifting Winds: Red Sox 2, Dodgers 1

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Saturday, June 12, 2004

The Shifting Winds: Red Sox 2, Dodgers 1

We hates them, we do. The Red Sox make a blockbuster trade for Curt Schilling, one of the best pitchers of our era? The Yankees turn around and secure A-Rod's services. The Yankees lose Pettitte to free agency and Clemens to "retirement"? Fine, then swindle the Dodgers out of Kevin Brown and pry loose staff ace Javier Vazquez from the rudderless Expos. There is no pitcher so overpriced, no hitter whose contract is so ludicrous, that the Yanks can't afford to take that player on. There's really no other organization in baseball that can do that, and the principle reason is that the small-market teams haven't the nerve to take on the Yankees; as Steinbrenner himself has been known to observe, they like his checks just fine. So when I looked up and saw that the Pads had beaten the Yankees 10-2 in a remarkable replay of the Angels' 2002 postseason -- including the early knockout of "Moose" Mussina due to a groin pull -- well, I had to smile, even if it ultimately meant the Dodgers would dip to second place again. Baseball is a funny game, and not even the Yankees can buy a title every year.

Frank's finally addressing his critics, sort of, and blessedly keeping his mouth shut about the Red Sox. Sure, Frank, you're allowed to be a fan. Vinnie grew up a Giants fan, and Arte still loves the Diamondbacks. But you don't go around making Soxian references in public when you're the owner of the team. It's just not kosher. But somehow he managed to rein in his native lust and -- for the cameras, at least, and that is all that I care about -- cheered for the team he owns.

Is Odalis Perez the most frustrated pitcher on the Dodgers' staff? I'd have to believe it. His 24.7 VORP leads the team, with Ishii second at 17.7; third is Alvarez with quite a drop to 11.8. OP's 3.01 ERA leads the team's starters, yet he's only 3-3 thanks to some of the worst if not the worst run support for any starter. And Tracy assured that would happen yet again by stubbornly reinstalling Green into the cleanup slot, when he's had no indication that Green's power has returned. The only Dodger run comes on an error, when a windblown fly ball eludes Manny Ramirez' glove? I'm not surprised. But to leave Tom Martin, a LOOGY, in a close game? What was Tracy theeenking, man? You bring out Mota. You bring out Alvarez.

Recap

// posted by Rob @ 6:30 AM link // 5 comments

Comments:

Haven't registered... post as "Some Guy in San Diego" on other Dodger blogs... anyway. Great stuff, as always. Just one bone to pick, I think the Dodgers got the better end of the Brown Weaver Deal, and by a longshot. Weaver's been much better than average, with no health issues and a strong future. Brown is overpriced and prone to injury. It was a great trade for the Dodgers, now they have to show it meant something by using their payroll surplus from that trade to get a bat that matters.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6/12/2004 10:30:00 AM

Color me slightly less-than-convinced. Word was the Dodgers tried to unload Jeffy to anyone who would listen -- and all the other GMs were laughing too hard to finish the conversation. Today's game will be, um, interesting.

# posted by

Rob : 6/12/2004 10:51:00 AM

"Some Guy in San Diego" again. Boy, Weaver really is Nuke Laloosh incarnate sometimes. "I sure got an idea about that nickel head".... His stuff is great at times, but you always feel he's one or two bad pitches from a disaster. At least with Ishii, you know he's just got a way of getting in and out of jams... with Weaver you wait for the complete meltdown. That being said, I'll still take him over Brown at this point. He's mostly effective, healthy and young.... and much cheaper.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6/12/2004 06:47:00 PM

mccourt's drooling over the bosox just gives me more reason to hate that team. blah blah blah bambino's curse blah blah blah, everybody shutup about boston already. your (former? hah) pathetic team can't ever beat NYY so you jump on our bandwagon huh, mccourt?

mattkew

# posted by

Anonymous : 6/12/2004 09:22:00 PM

The funny thing is McCourt saying he brinks up the Red Sox so much because he learned 3 lessons, the third of which is how hard it is for outsiders to be trusted when they buy a team.

Obviously, he didn't really learn that lesson, or he would quit bringing up the team from the town he came from.

This guy is so dense when it comes to dealing with Dodger Fans.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6/12/2004 10:14:00 PM

6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog

Saturday, June 12, 2004

The Shifting Winds: Red Sox 2, Dodgers 1

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