2012 LAD season over: Fuck Guerrier, fuck Ely, and fuck Mattingly

"Kemp's slugging is below 1.000, Dodgers should trade him since he has Vernon Wells written all over him. All that money is getting to his head." - love_that_reefer

Dodgers turn a Triple Play in the 9th today. Impressive.

Probably won't count(this game has protest written all over it.), but impressive none-the-less.

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Originally Posted by realmofotalk

"Kemp's slugging is below 1.000, Dodgers should trade him since he has Vernon Wells written all over him. All that money is getting to his head." - love_that_reefer

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For it to be in quotes, it actually has to be a quote but I'm not shocked you don't grasp simple concepts like this.

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Originally Posted by love_that_reefer

For it to be in quotes, it actually has to be a quote but I'm not shocked you don't grasp simple concepts like this.

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I'm surprised he didn't attribute the false quote to all Giants fans, as that is his usual M.O.

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Originally Posted by love_that_reefer

For it to be in quotes, it actually has to be a quote but I'm not shocked you don't grasp simple concepts like this.

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It's my way of mocking your baseless Vernon Wells comparison which by itself you were not misquoted on.

Haha You are misusing the Vernon Wells comparison but again, not surprised.

Mofo will have a Dee Gordon fathead by the end of the season. That is my 2012 prediction.


It'll also be the lightest made fathead since the Earl Boykins fathead.

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Originally Posted by Kingdom_of_Zito

Mofo will have a Dee Gordon fathead by the end of the season. That is my 2012 prediction.


It'll also be the lightest made fathead since the Earl Boykins fathead.

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I hope like hell Dee doesn't go down as simply the trivia answer to why we failed to acquire Cliff Lee in the '09 trade deadline.

That'd be fun. It'd be like the Rockies blaming Larry Walker for them not having Ian Kinsler at second base.

(If you don't know, Walker was set to be traded to Texas for Kinsler, and used his no-trade, back around the time when the Dodgers were trading for Hee-Seop Choi.)

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Originally Posted by realmofotalk

I hope like hell Dee doesn't go down as simply the trivia answer to why we failed to acquire Cliff Lee in the '09 trade deadline.

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But if it is, you know the answer! And you can rub it in on Trebek.

Here was Bill Plaschke of the L.A. Times going on one of his emo ramblings after Cliff Lee shut the Dodgers out in Game 3 of the NLCS in '09.

Cliff Lee Dodgers | Dodgers pay again for whiffing on Cliff Lee - Los Angeles Times

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On a blustery night featuring timid Dodgers offerings and furious Phillies hacks amid an angry stadium awash in blue blood, you know what I would have liked to see?

I would have liked to see those Dodgers prospects whom they liked more than Cliff Lee.

Now that would have been ugly.

Who are those guys? Where were those guys?

They needed to stand amid the ruins of Sunday’s 11-0 Philadelphia Phillies victory to witness what the organization sacrificed to keep them.

They need to be part of this Dodgers tumble into the ropes in the National League Championship Series, the team falling behind two games to one after the franchise’s worst postseason loss in 50 years.

They needed to be here, and we needed to see why.

Why did the Dodgers sacrifice the chance to acquire Lee, the starter stolen instead by the Phillies at the trading deadline, the guy who brilliantly held the Dodgers to three singles in eight innings of puzzled stares?

Was it worth this? Were these players worth this?

These have been questions asked several times in this space since Ned Colletti's trade-deadline whiff, and Sunday's embarrassment makes it perfectly fair to ask it again.

"It's just one loss," Russell Martin said afterward. "But at this point, every game means the world."

And one trade could have meant this game. Colletti has long said that his offer was better than Philadelphia’s offer, but the Indians obviously didn’t agree, and baseball folks say the Dodgers continue to overvalue their lower-level prospects.

Here’s hoping those protected kids are named, I don’t know, Koufax and Piazza?

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I want a real fucking closer already. I'm sick of losing games on walk offs every fucking year.

Dodgers get hosed on a call at home

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Originally Posted by love_that_reefer

Haha You are misusing the Vernon Wells comparison but again, not surprised.

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What is there to misinterpret about the comparison? By saying Kemp's new contract "could have Vernon Wells written all over it", you were implying Kemp was going to be a bust going forward.

I wasn't implying anything and never once said Kemp was going to be a bust.