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Giants fall on Dodger's swords 4-2, and other neurosis

Dodgers 5.5 over Rockies, 6.5 over Giants.

Tell me if this is strange:

In order for me to prevent Panic Anxiety Disorder, I have developed a new system of watching the games. In series such as Dodger/Giants, which have a high Fight or Flight potential, I have created a unique system which incorporates the newest in technology with the flexibility of interactive media creating a synergistic paradigm that can take the LACK OF CONTROL out of the game of Baseball.

I begin by DVR'ing the game at 7:10PM, but do not actually begin the viewing until roughly 2 hours later. When 9:10PM arrives, I go to MLB Gameday and enter the game in progress LIVE. If the Dodgers are winning, I then re-start the Dodger game on my DVR from the beginning with Vinny calling it in the background. If the Dodgers win the game in real time, I then go back to the game on my TV and fully complete the viewing experience replete with analysis.

However,

If the Dodgers are losing when I enter the game in real time on Gameday, I then delete the entire DVR recording and watch the game as is. This potentially saves me two plus hours of increased adrenalurgic activity and allows me free and unobstructed enjoyment of the game that could, in other circumstances, disable me.

Does this seem like an odd thing to do? Any medical professionals? Questions? Comments?

Dodgers 'pen falls on its sword in defeat

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Dodgers 'pen falls on its sword in defeat
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Relievers cough up go-ahead run in seventh and two insurance runs in the eighth inning of 6-3 loss to Marlins, throwing a spotlight an a troublesome area for the team.

By Kevin Baxter
On The Dodgers

July 25 2009, 12:09 AM PDT

Fewer than seven shopping days remain until baseball's trade deadline. And if you're wondering what's on the Dodgers' wish list, Friday's 6-3 loss to the Florida Marlins provided a not-so-subtle hint.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-marlins25-2009jul25,0,2228350.story

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A few things seem to be at work here.

The Los Angeles Times often seems to act as the Dodger's PR proxy, whereas on the east coast the scribes run the show, on the west coast the opposite is true. The fact that articles are suddenly appearing condemning in no uncertain terms the Dodger pen, with the kind of panic best left for real emergencies, is illustrative of the quote "the lady doth protest too much methinks".

These "releases" from the LA Times via Josh Rawitch are tantamount to a shortstop holding the ball in a hopeful "deek". In other words, the Dodgers have no intention of signing Roy Halladay but cannot be perceived as not interested directly, so a covert strategy is employed utilizing untouchable names from the 25 man roster, and an over-emphasis on the collapse of the bullpen to distract you and I from pondering a Halladay acquisition. This is PR 101, and is most typically utilized in the movie business of which the Dodger's organization essentially model themselves after.

No other baseball organization runs this way except the Dodgers. The issue is not the obliteration of the pen, which while overused and young IS THE BEST IN BASEBALL. The issue is deny, deny, deny and hearts and minds.

Posted by: dodger tony | July 25, 2009 at 02:12 PM

Is God for me or against me? You make the call.

Time Warner Cable Misses Manny Homer.

LA Observed article regarding Time Warner missing Manny Ramirez's historic homer

This is one of the most outrageous snafus in the history of sports. Perhaps the biggest home run of the season, the loudest perhaps since Gibson in terms of fan noise, and my cable went down like a bad whore. Nothing but black on the screen as Manny was standing in the on-deck circle, and then several commercials, then back to the Dodger game with Manny in the dugout after the grand slam homer, missing everything.
Half the damn city missed this moment. I had Time Warner technicians at my house all day long and now I find out that it is a problem with the signal in different parts of the city. So typical! So utterly disgusting! Once again, Dodger Tony misses the party.

I have never seen Manny play live. Finally on May 7th I had tickets to see him at Dodger Stadium and that was the night he was suspended. I have written about this over and over on this blog. To miss THIS moment on top of my devastating bad luck on May 7th is too much to handle. I am a recovering alcoholic whose life is not much to brag about at the moment. I am seriously contemplating a huge giant bottle of Jack and a lovely handful of vicodin. However, anyone who has struggled with getting sober knows that there are incredible initiations which every single sober person must go through SOBER. I will not let these disappointments drag me back to drinking again. NO WAY. Its not worth it. This has been one of the worst years of my life in terms of disappointments, in spite of the greatness of this Dodger year. This missed homer tonight is just about the cherry on top. Plus, I tried to get a ticket to the game tonight and couldn't

Time to get real grateful for the really important things in life. Maybe that's the real lesson here.

Shattering!

Can you say National League are total losers?

You know, I took for granted all the years when the NL shoved it up the ass of the AL during my youth. That's right, every stinkin year I would get to laugh at the Freddy Lynns and Luis Tiants as Pete Rose and Steve Garvey would run around the bases every July. 12 consecutive wins to none for the AL

I am now paying dearly for all those years.

In what can only be described as an NL West pitching nightmare, Tim Lincecum, Chad Billingsley and Heath Bell gave up all four runs to the American League All Stars tonight in front of the most knowledgeable National League fans, in perhaps the most storied National League city, with their most storied current player, in front of their greatest player and perhaps the greatest NL player of all time, and laid a big fat doodoo on the front lawn. The American League won 4-3 over the National League, and broke the NL record of 12 consecutive wins to go 13 and 0 over the National League who hasn't won an All Star game since 1996, with apologies to President Clinton.

Once again, they lost by a single stinkin dangleberry out of their asses. But it was enough to propel perhaps the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Detroit Tigers, Anaheim Angels, or any single one of any team you want, to home field advantage no matter what National League team they play in October. Granted, home field in Baseball is by no means a fait accomplis, but it still makes a difference. No team would it make a greater difference to than....the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have the best home record in Baseball (as well as the best road record mind you). But are Dodger fans more comfortable today with the prospect of a game 7 in Fenway against Josh Beckett, or New York against Sabathia, or game 7 in Anaheim against Lackey and his band of faggots? You get the picture.

The most un-fucking-believable thorn in Dodger fans sides after tonight's game, though, has got to be the despicable and gutless performance of their very own Billingsley, who very well may have single-handedly lost the world championship for them by allowing a 2 strike, 2 out double to left field by Joe Mauer, after Yadier Molina couldn't hold onto a third strike foul tip. Forget about Molina. The fact that this loser came back to allow the tying run, setting up the debacle of Heath Bell, is simply too much to take and sends the most detestable message, yet again, to your team that you are 100 % GRADE A PRIME CHOICE ASSHOLE, who cannot be trusted with an important game at any point the rest of your Dodger career.

And how about Lincecum? What the hell was that? Or Roy "let's trade our whole Dodger roster for him" Halladay giving up four consecutive hits and three earned in the first.

What may have been the most galling moment in a litany of humiliations, however, was that immediately after Chad Billingsley ate shit on the mound in the fifth, ex Dodger Edwin Jackson came out for the bottom of the 5th and made what seemed like three pitches to quickly end the inning. Great trade Ned!

But a more sinister and touchy subject needs to be addressed here, I'm afraid. That is the decision by either MLB itself, or the NL bigwigs, to chose players of color who are not legitimate All Stars in an attempt to fit the bill of political correctness and use the NL squad to fit some kind of marketing quota totally compromising the NL's chances of actually having the best players on the field to compete with the AL. Are you telling me that Arizona D'Backs Justin Upton deserved to be in left field late in the game for the NL over JUAN PIERRE? Or that Ryan Howard was the best choice to come up with two men on when all the NL needed was a stinking single? All one needs do is look to both squads and see the difference in ethnic makeup. How ironic that a player of color, Carl Crawford, wins the MVP on an overwhelmingly anglo dominated AL Squad. As long as the NL plays the Jackie Robinson card year in and year out, it will lose. And with the World Series at stake, it is too high a price to pay and is unfair to the fans of this great league and, I feel, the better game.

And what about Charlie Manuel and his decision to leave in Heath Bell, the third Padre pitcher to lose an All Star Game IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS with Johann Santana, Francisco Rodriguez and two more pitchers on the NL bench?

It ain't just AL dominance. It is really really bad coaching, combined with political correctness, and gutless NL pitching that has cost them home field the last six years.

Hey NL, your fate is in your own hands. For tonight, I'm sitting on mine.

The Batting Stance Guy.

Cal Arts Alumni photos

These are from the recent Cal Arts Alumni Association mixer that was in Pasadena last month. Thanks to Terianne Steinhauer for her generous spirit. If you'll notice, there is a glitch in the photographs. Somehow the camera took 100 pounds off of Kevin and Terianne, but added 100 pounds to Cal Arts President Steven Lavine and a whopping 250 pounds to my very slim 150 pound frame. Very strange.


Anthony Forkush, Terianne Steinhauer,Kevin Brown


Kevin Brown, Terianne Steinhauer, Steven Lavine, Anthony Forkush

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