04.23.05

Can we talk?

Posted in General at 10:59 am by Steven Gardner

When the Dodgers started their roll I vowed I wouldn’t write a thing until they lost two in a row. I would have been content to not write about them all year.

If you believe you’re playing well because you’re (doing the laundry), or because you’re not (doing the laundry), or because you wear women’s underwear, then you are! — Crash Davis in Bull Durham (Family-unfriendly material replaced by different euphemism.)

Since the Dodgers have been doing so well everyone has been talking about them, except for when they’re talking about the White Sox. My hope is the Dodgers take the next two games in Colorado to begin the winning thing again. But you just can’t take personally a loss in Colorado. Playing in Denver is like asking an arena football team to go to New England and beat the Patriots. It helps that the Rockies are more like last year’s 49ers, but still.

Specifically for the Dodgers,

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04.19.05

SHUT UP! Oh, yeah, the Mariners.

Posted in General at 10:07 am by Steven Gardner

I’m not saying a word about the National League in the second-largest U.S. city. Nothing. Nope. Don’t you talk about them either. Not now. Shhh.

Now for the Mariners. We’ll have a better idea in about a month, but so far they’re doing about as well as I expected. I predicted they’d improve to become about a .500 team, which will keep them within reasonable distance of the wild-card spot into August. That’s great for the fans.

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