Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
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Hail, Cesar
Nathan Kurz on why Izzy might finally get some recognition by the east coast press:"Baseball is a game of reputation," [Former Dodgers GM Dan] Evans said. "Cesar is early in his career, has played in the unbalanced schedule and hasn't been seen by many of the East Coast voters. Now that he's putting up (offensive) numbers, it's only a matter of time before he gets the proper notice."
Ooh, Scary, Scary
The ghost of Count Floyd rises to scare Dodger fans:DePodesta's critics feared turning over one-fifth of the roster in a 20-hour flurry of phone calls would destroy the first-place club. They were wrong -- the team has added a game to its 2-game lead before the trades, it has lost only a game from its then-.584 pace, and both its runs-per-game and runs-allowed averages have held steady.Yeah. Except, of course, the audience knows the shark is made of rubber.As it turns out, the trades didn't make the Dodgers better. The trades didn't make the Dodgers worse. The trades made the Dodgers scarier.
You watch the Dodgers these days from the edge of your seat. Peeking between your fingers. With your heart in your throat.
If this season were a summer movie, the Dodgers would be the girl swimming in the center of a circle of shark fins.
"You will get emotionally involved," Vin Scully said on a recent telecast in a ticket-sales pitch that was a pretty fair description of life in the late innings at Dodger Stadium these days.
D-Mac Attack
Well, kiddies, here he is. (Also on the Angels website.) McPherson hit .313/.370/.680 in 259 at-bats with the Salt Lake Stingers, striking out 95 times and walking 23. He hit 20 homers in that span. From the Angels website story:The Angels have already announced that McPherson will play winter ball for the Escogido Lions of the Dominican league."He's got to cut down strikeouts, take more walks, and really, that means becoming more aware of pitches and the strike zone," Stoneman said. "Before he got to Triple-A, he drew more walks. In Triple-A, there were few of those, and a number of them were intentional.
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