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It is key to understand what to look for in the results, the primary goal is to understand if the application reached its performance goals or not, after that other types of performance testing such as stress & soak testing may be carried out and in the case of the application not reaching its goals, bottleneck analysis should ensue.
Application Performance requirements could manifest themselves in a number of ways, however, these will boil down to three main points. The diagram to the left tries to explain that these points are all related to each other and that they all relate directly to application performance.
Response Time: This is the time it takes for the web application to respond to a user request and hence is the amount of time a user will wait while the application is under load. Transaction Rate: The number of actions the application can manage while it is under load. Concurrent Users: The number of users the application can service while under load.
All of these artifacts are related to each other, for example, the transaction rate should rise as the number of concurrent users increases (more users demanding more activity), however the transaction rate can also decrease with an increase in the number of users if the system becomes overloaded. Response time should remain constant but if the transaction rate and / or the number of concurrent users reaches a point at where the load overloads the system then response time will start to degrade. Mapping response time to the number of concurrent users is a very efficient way to evaluate whether the system is handling the load well or on.
The final report is vital in communicating the findings from performance testing. By following an iterative approach there should be no surprises in the final report. In fact there may have been several draft reports created for each of the result sets before the final report is compiled.
Reporting in AgileLoad is made very easy with its automatic reporting underpinned by the report designer which enables relevant information to be reported on quickly. There are several ways to look at the results from the tests as follows:
During Execution, while the test is running using AgileLoad Center it is possible to look at the results as they are being generated, this is a good way to understand quickly how well the test is going and to make a decision about whether to continue the test or to stop for tuning or adjustments before restating.
Analysis after the test is complete using AgileLoad Center the results are stored by Job name and then by execution date. Everything that was available during the run time reporting is available after the test along with some further details.
Report: Using a report template (there are some templates that come 'out of the box' with AgileLoad, or analysts can create their own templates) is a good way to pull out the relevant information to be presented to the project team. The reporting function can be used to generate reports after each test if desired (as it only takes a few seconds to generate a report). This way stakeholders become used to reading such a report. For the final report the analyst should write into the generated report their comments, this might include an executive summary and some observations for each graph.
AgileLoad can be used to monitor infrastructure such as CPU's, Database performance and so on. If the test has been set up with monitoring then the monitors make up an important part of the reporting and can be instrumental in identifying bottlenecks. This section will not cover monitors. Please see the advanced section for that.
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The Evolution of Animated GIFs [VIDEO]
GIFs have become a bit of an enigma — they are one of the oldest image formats used on the Web, yet if you ask anyone familiar with the old format, they'd likely not associate it with a short clip of a cat in a Godzilla suit knocking over a tower.
Throughout their 25 years of existence, GIFs have served a variety of purposes, from practicality to purely entertainment. How did such a vast, eclectic medium come to be?
The answer is in the newest episode of PBS's web series Off Book, "Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium."
As technology advanced, using GIFs became an outdated, less fashionable format. According to Patrick Davison of MemeFactory, the format began to increase in popularity again around 2007 or 2008.
"People started to realize that you can use GIFs for tons of different things," says Davison. "And now that we're in 2012 there's more GIFs online, but you also have way more places to put them."
Sites such as Reddit, Tumblr, WordPress and even Twitter are all, to some extent, content-curating sites that have created what Davison calls "post-modern GIFs."
"Humans really like repetition — we feel comfortable with it — and sometimes just the longer you watch something, the funnier it gets or it will actually change meaning," says TopherChris, Tumblr's community manager and editorial director.
"I think there's other new artforms waiting to be discovered in there that we just haven't figured out yet."
Combining High-End Fashion With Old-School GIFs
One of the most obvious instances of a new art form given birth by the GIF format is the cinemagraph, a series of still photographs with subtle moving elements.
"I think there are opportunities with this hybrid medium to show people something they've never seen before, to have these moments that can just exist forever," says Kevin Burg, who coined the term cinemagraph and co-created From Me To You with his partner, photographer Jamie Beck.
The two created a series of cinemagraphs featuring model Coca Rocha in Oscar de la Renta gowns, which Tumblr fashion director Rich Tong revealed at a conference in Paris.
Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader of Reed+Rader are another duo combining fashion editorial with the quirk of Internet culture. Both found their inspiration through memes and video games.
"The idea of art has changed, and we've always seen what we can get away with. It's fun," says Rader.

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Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming
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The second in the Nickelodeon Literacy Suite, Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words focuses on your child's emerging literacy skills. By matching rhyming words and more with Dora and Boots in this educational application, your child will become aware of individual sounds (phonemes) in words and how they are sequenced and changed to make new words. The ability to hear, discriminate and manipulate phonemes is highly associated with reading readiness in early childhood and considered a critical skill for the development of reading skills.
In this game, Dora and Boots want to go over the Troll Bridge, but the Grumpy Old Troll challenges them with a riddle: "To get past the bridge of the Grumpy Old Troll, find the tokens to pay my toll." The player must listen and match rhyming pairs to collect tokens, and then, use a slingshot to get those tokens in the Troll's moving basket. Only then will they be able to go over the Troll Bridge.
And the adventure continues! After finding the rhyming pairs, your child will progress to hearing initial word sounds, ending word sounds, and inside sounds. As your child selects a matching token, the word pairs are reinforced. Supportive directions and sound effects help guide your child in learning all about word sounds.
The educational activity of hearing matching word sounds and the challenge of getting tokens in a moving basket come together to keep kids entertained while building important early reading skills.
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Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words includes:
•Easy to use tutorials lead by Dora
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•Word matching in different ways: rhyme, same initial sound, same ending sound, same inside sound.
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•Voiceovers that reinforce the matching word sounds
•Tested by kids
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Thank you Palliser and AddeD for the pointer and insight. I think I am truely confuse with the way this is set up. What I am going after at the moment is to just listen/spy on the bus for the traffic. Whether it be OBD2 or vehicle's internal bus I have been able to plug into it via an OBD2 shield in conjunction with UNO or simply a CAN232 without participating as a node and see data flow through. Yes, I am aware of how OBD2 work on top of the request and respond the power train CAN in my vehicle contains hundreds of frames per seconds of other propriatary information aside from RPM, speed, temperature, etc. Again, thanks Palliaer I'll give it shot. The OBD2 is at 500 and I had tried them all. Here is another question, how come 100K isn't part of the constants list? Thanks,
Although I have some comments:The Can mailbox config structure "can_mb_conf_t" contains only two possible data, datah and datal. Is there any direct way to address individual bytes (B0 - B7) of the CAN message? Obviously the DLC param should has to be correctly set.
I'm using Line Driver SN65HVD232 (without any kind of low power mode, or anytingh else than pure CAN line driving) and I think that it is a little bit unconfortable to start up the transceiver as SSN65HVD234_Data can0_transceiver; instead of just using a generic CAN pin enable. Other options could also be using any 3V-5V line transceiver and using after any standard 5V Can driver.
After being successful in the test between CAN bus 0 and 1 in Arduino Due, I've tried to receive messages from an ECU. This ECU sends 13 CAN frames of 64 bytes each one.
I'm able to read the first frame but I have no idea about how to read the rest of them. By reading, I guess that the ECU is working with extended frame so I've been trying to mask the whole ID (CAN_ID and frame_ID), setting uc_id_ver=1 and some other options but nothing worked... Am I right with the extended frame CAN bus version? Has anybody experience on that? Is this library working with this kind of CAN bus? Thanks!!
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Rice and beans with fried plantains
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Low calorie soups and salads are invaluable as natural appetite suppressants. Since soups and salads are full of water (or watery ingredients), they help to fill you up before you indulge in a big lunch or dinner. Moreover, if you add extra fiber to your meal, you will also feel fuller sooner. This recipe combines all of these aspects in one easy, refreshing, and tasty dish. No need for diet pills when you can fill up on veggies!
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2 - 14.5 oz cans diced tomatoes, with juice
½ cup tomato juice
2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil
1 seedless cucumber, cut into a ¼-inch dice
1 small onion, cut into a ¼-inch dice
2 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced (can leave in seeds for spicier soup)
1-15 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 Tbsps lime juice
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(Editors Note: This is one of a series of articles about the history of the Sun Advocate and the county it covers as a newspaper. These articles are being prepared as the 120th anniversary of the newspaper's birth approaches in 2011.)
With the beginning of the high school football season, it is easy to think back upon all the years that Carbon High has had seasons where they didn't do so well. But there have been some years when they have conquered the state football world and one of those years, the first state football championship the school ever won, was in the late fall of 1938.
On Dec. 1 of that year the Sun Advocate reported the game that had been played at the University of Utah the previous Saturday, Nov. 26. Carbon beat Jordan High of Sandy, 6-0 to win the state title.
Carbon went undefeated that year in section play. Unlike today, where five different classications of schools exist, then there was only one. The large schools in the state were all in the Salt Lake Valley, with East and West being the largest (and also owning the most football titles since 1898), and Jordan and Granite High being nearly as big. The smallest schools in the state were from the rural areas, but they all played each other for the single championship if they had a football program at all.
The game was one of those offensive fans would have disliked. It was about defense, but Carbon did rack up a lot of offensive yardage in the game. They just couldn't get it over the goal line against at what was considered at the time a vaunted Jordan defense. That was until, with two minutes remaining in the game, George Farlaino, a back, passed the ball 11 yards to quarterback Bob McKinnon in an alternative play and he ran across the goal line for the score.
The victory gave Carbon its first state football title. Up until that time the closest the school had come to winning the championship was in 1924 when the team (then known as the Miners, instead of the Dinosaurs, later to be shortened to Dinos) played L.D.S. High School of Salt Lake to a scoreless tie in the finals. Then in 1935 the team had been beaten by the Box Elder Bees, 14-0 in the state championship game.
The county went crazy over the victory with celebrations breaking out in many places.
It would be 13 years before the Dinos would win another state football title.
Start of football season brings state championship memories
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Can I Secretly Buy Life Insurance on My Ex?
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Can I take out a life insurance policy on my ex-husband, with whom I share a child, without his consent? He is refusing to get a policy on himself and won't cooperate with allowing me to take a policy out on him.
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Dear Anxious, I'm sorry you are having that problem. I'm surprised that as part of the divorce settlement, there isn't a requirement that he buy life insurance so that his child support payments will continue should he die prematurely. I encourage you to check with your attorney to see if that provision isn't in the settlement. That would be your easiest path to getting these needs met.
It's a fact that the insurance industry will not allow anyone to take out a life insurance policy on another person without his or her permission. In addition, it's probably illegal in most states. Here are some reasons why, besides the obvious privacy infringement.
- There are medical questions that need to be answered by the person being insured.
- The insurance company has the right to medically examine the individual and check past medical records, requiring his or her signature.
- The accuracy of the application must be agreed to and signed by the insured. The fully completed and signed application then becomes part of the insurance policy.
If you do succeed in getting him to agree to apply for life insurance, try to be the policy owner, not just the beneficiary. The owner pays the premium, which would avert a major source of conflict in the future. In addition, only the owner can make changes to the policy terms. And if there is cash value as part of the life insurance policy, only the owner has rights to that.
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Mars500 video diary 15: Farewell from the Mars500 modules
In this final video Diego and Romain describe what were the best and least liked experiments for the crew. Then the European crewmembers say their bittersweet goodbye to Mars500's video diary followers.
The Mars500 experiment is about to end after almost 1.5 years. Six men have been isolated in their interplanetary spacecraft mockup since early June 2010, faithfully simulating a mission to Mars. During the whole trip - and even before - the crew has been conducting a suite of science experiments, with themselves as subject, and they will continue doing these for some time after the end of their isolation.


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McGwire Highway Revisited
I am advised by the impeccable Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the stretch of asphalt to be de-named after Big Mac (see lengthy tedious post below) and rechristened in honor of Mark Twain, had, long before Mac, been part of the Twain Expressway. So the great writer has not somehow been overlooked by Missouris Department of Transportation. Of course, this does mean that the DOT has gone back from McGwire to Clemens.
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That last sentence is a perfect example of why I love you so much. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the fact that this is a managed site. The last few days have been very upsetting. I was relieved to come home and not find myself dragged into the fray.
In my opinion, Bic Mac fading away into obscurity doesn't necessarily serve baseball. Every time his name comes up his steriod use is mentioned. There is talk about how he will never be admitted into the Hall of Fame. I think it's a good reminder that there are consequences when you cheat. It may take some time but my hope is that there are kids out there who will grow up knowing that there are no circumstances where this use is appropriate.
Thank you for updating on your dad's condition. I will continue to send positive thoughts your way. I'm glad you are able to use this site as a getaway. Be well and give your dad a kiss for me 😉
Keith — your McGwire-Clemens crack annoys me to bits … but only because I didn't think of it first. Darn it.
Norman Chad's column this week features this query from radio's Jim Bohannon: "Because of his steroid use, the Missouri State Senate has voted unanimously to rename a stretch of I-70 now called Mark McGwire Highway. Wouldn't it make more sense to just keep the name and widen it to 16 lanes?" (I'm not necessarily a devoted fan of either guy, but, hey, I laughed.)
I've always wondered how "Big Mac Land" in both new & old Busch Stadia has escaped de-naming. A quick check of the Internets reveals that St. Louis area McDonald's restaurants are pretending that the idea for Big Mac Land just sprang randomly from someone's head one day in 1998. (Mark McGwire? Who is this Mark McGwire of whom you speak?) I get that McDonald's is anxious that people not think "steroids" when they think "beef," but, geez, a lot of people already know what the inspiration for Big Mac Land was. Don't they?
For the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to think of something clever or magical or flowery to say about you & your father. I haven't come up with anything, save … your intelligence, compassion, eloquence, humor (and love of baseball) have deeply touched my life, & the lives of many others. You make us laugh, you make us think, you revive us when we may be discouraged about … um … things (baseball -related and otherwise). Because members of your audience don't actually know you, we can't truly reciprocate in your time of trouble — except in fervent & hopeful thoughts, prayers, and good wishes. You and your father have mine, every day. And I'm also hoping you can somehow be insulated from the cruelties of the small-minded.
Lol, Clemens.
KO- your Dad is always on my list of people that I wish for a return to
good health. Unfortunately, My Dad and as of last Sunday his brother are also on my list. My uncle was a Marine officer for some 25 plus years and I always tell him that he is my hero. He tells me to not put him on a pedestal, because it's a long way down. I am of the opinion that Mac,BB, Sammy et. al. have definitely fallen off.Loved the Clemons comment, and I am sure you know that "mark twain" is twelve feet deep.
So, "little" Marky is losing his stretch of Interstate 70, huh? Well, as a Cubs fan, I'm truly crying a river. And, Mark Twain getting it "back" isn't exactly an improvement as far as I'm concerned. If someone wants to name that stretch of highway for a Cardinal, there's gotta be more worthy Cardinals out there; heck, I'd settle for Bruce Sutter since he was the relief pitcher for Ryne Sandberg's iconic game back in July 1984! ;D It could be called the "Sutter Slide" or something; I'll come up with something more catchy when I've had all my coffee.
I've been sitting here thinking… I think the reason I enjoy your baseball blog (and Countdown) so much is that you don't just deliver information, you give it life. I've always enjoyed politics and baseball, but with you it's like the difference between seeing a picture of the Eiffel Tower – and actually visiting and exploring it with a cheerful, funny and friendly tour guide who knows all the interesting stories involved. Or the difference between seeing a picture of a meal – and smelling, tasting and enjoying a gastronomical delight. Does this make any sense? I hope so… it's late and I'm sick, so please forgive me if I miss a step here and there. 🙂 You have truly enhanced my love of baseball, and informed me politically, while keeping me delightfully entertained at the same time. That's no easy task, but you make it look easy. You have a gift, and you use it well. Sorry if this is embarrassing you (I hope not), but I just felt like I needed to say it. It's been buzzing around the back of my mind for some time, and I just finally figured out why it is that poor Lawrence O'Donnell (who does a fine job, don't get me wrong) has trouble sometimes holding your audience's attention. It's not that he's bad – far from it. He's quite good. It's just that he doesn't have your gift – and very few actually do, so he's working with a bit of a disadvantage. I'm glad he's there to step in for you while you're gone. By the way, I love the research you do on baseball… research has always been one of the things I love to do, and you bring up such interesting tidbits that I always look forward to your next post. Your piece on Christy Mathewson had me totally enthralled. P.S. – loved the Clemens bit in this post. I thought about Clemens vs. Twain, and completely forgot about Clemens vs. McGwire, and then it hit me and I laughed out loud. That one snuck up on me. Last, but far from least, I'd like to send hugs to you and your father. I hope he wakes up soon – without pain – and is able to move closer to you as originally planned. Wish I could meet him. I'd be willing to bet he's an amazing person. Take good care of him – and of yourself. Thanks. 🙂
Regarding your dad: keep the faith. You may not realize how much you are doing for your father simply by your reading to him and your presence, whether he is conscious or not. May your heart find peace. Jan
I love baseball and this blog and the peace I know it gives you. I don't read or post on blogs much I found yours sometime ago and check it out each week for baseball history,trivia or whatever you write about and yes I'm a big fan of Countdown you have spoken for this steel worker many times for that I thank you.
I live in small southeastern Ohio town grew up with the Big Red Machine my dad would take me to Riverfront stadium to watch some of in my mind some of best baseball players of our time Rose,Bench,Morgan,Perez just to name a few.
I have an eleven year old son that gets to meet some of the Reds greats each summer they have a Reds legends camp for the kids where I live.
I wish there was a way to repay you for being a voice for us hard working middle class people the only thing I can and will is to keep you in my thoughts and prayers I've been in your situation and it's hard I try to remember all the good times me an my dad had I still miss him every day.
Thanks again KO for all you do.
Insomnia & the internet … a bad combination …
For some reason, Thomas Oliphant's anecdote about happening upon the Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in Indiana — from the book Praying for Gil Hodges — popped into my head tonight, as I mused some more about the Missouri Highway Formerly Named After Mark McGwire. Which led me to wonder …
Are there any other U.S. highways/bridges/infrastructure-y type things named for living and/or active ballplayers?
There are plenty of roads, etc. named in memory of great players. A (very) cursory search online, & through my memory, reveals –the Jackie Robinson Parkway, part of Georgia State Route 93 near his birthplace in Cairo,
–the Jackie Robinson Parkway, connecting Queens & Brooklyn
–the Ted Williams Parkway, a part of California State Route 56 near San Diego
–the Ted Williams Tunnel ("the Big Dig"), under Boston Harbor, leading to Logan Airport
–the Branch Rickey Memorial Highway, a section of U.S. Route 23 near Columbus, Ohio
–the Jim Thorpe Memorial Highway & Mickey Mantle Memorial Highway, both in Oklahoma
–the Jack Buck Memorial Highway, described appropriately enough as "running through the heart of St. Louis" (I know, he wasn't a player, but I couldn't leave him out)
–the other Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge (really the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Bridge), from Brooklyn to Queens
Undoubtedly there are more, but you get the point (now that I've cured everyone else's insomnia).
I limited this search to major freeway-type roads, b/c otherwise this could have gone on all night. But once I saw the Mickey Mantle Memorial Highway — you'll like this, ford810 — I had to know if anything in OK was named for Johnny Bench, & indeed there is a Johnny Bench Drive in Oklahoma City, in what looks like a trendy retail/restaurant area. (It's right by Mickey Mantle Drive.) But it's unclear to me whether it was named while he was an active player — it may have been in honor of his retirement. I dunno.
Does anyone know of any roads named for an active player? I can't think of any offhand. (I once considered launching a campaign to re-name Cleveland "Thometown," so that he might stay here, but that's not the same thing.) For that matter, does anyone know of any other roads, etc., named for ballplayers? There doesn't seem to be a master list on the internet, so you know, if my sleeplessness continues, I could end up creating one. It would be totally pointless, but many baseball-related lists are, so why not?
Anyway, McGwire may demonstrate why it's sometimes dangerous to name stuff after the living — they still have ample potential to disappoint.
KO: the usual love & prayers to you & your dad. I hope you read him "The Unicorn in the Garden." (There's a sculpture of Thurber's unicorn, along with a plaque containing the entire fable, in the garden by the Thurber House in Columbus. It's lovely.) Love & prayers, too, to everyone here with family members in ill health.
So what am I supposed to do with my 36″ long 'Mark McGuire Drive' Cardinals red road sign purchased from the St. Louis County Housing Authority as a fund raiser in 1999?
When the legislator who'd authored the original change from Mark Twain to Mark McGwire Hwy, proposed changing it back to the more worthy Mark, local news here in Cardinal Nation interviewed fans for their views. My absolute favorite reaction was the guy who said, "Don't rename it; just add an asterisk!"
On another topic, if I may, I only just found this post when I linked over from HuffPo to read your poignant tribute to your father. You have my family's sincerest condolences. Last Wed. would have been my mom's 83rd birthday, the first since I lost her, along with my role as the caretaker daughter. So like many who posted on your tribute page, I know what you are going through. Being the one sib still in town with her could be heartbreaking, exhausting, exasperating, bureaucratic (the great Medicaid spendown of all she had worked for on her own), often lonely, but had a grace all its own, and I would not trade the blessing of being with her for her last hours on earth, for anything else on this earth. It is clear from your posts that you feel the same way. I'd like to add as well, that my son follows baseball, and your sports AND pol. commentaries with the fervor unique to one w/ ASD, since losing the similarly stat-memorizing presence of HIS father. My son tries to discuss sports with his sports-challenged old Ma, and I try my best. But I am glad you are out there to pick up the slack in that particular area. Politics, tho, is my thing, and he keeps me up to date on your great work. (In deference to MLB, I'll leave it at that.) Again, sir, our deepest sympathy to you and your sister on your sad loss.
First, Keith, my sympathies for your loss. Like many who watch you on Countdown, we feel we know you even though you don't know us and I know these last months have been very difficult. Take your time and come back to us when you can (hopefully before the '10 elections.)
I am of two minds regarding Mark McGwire's highway. I still have his US Olympic Card and can remember how he thrilled us then and in his early years with the A's. Sure, he took enhancing drugs, but he did it in a different era, before there were rules against it. I remember that back in those days the concern was not about Andro and steroids but real illegal drugs like the cocaine scandals that swept the Mets and the Pirates in the 80s. It is easy to condemn in retrospect, but most of these enhanced players were less than bright athletes who were being encouraged to dope by coaches, trainers, and agents.
On the other hand, Missouri's dilemma gives us a good cautionary tale. I currently live in Georgia where state law allows public roads, highways, and bridges to be named after any person, living or otherwise, nominated by the legislature. This has led to a mania for naming stretches of road after minor and obscure politicians (I live off a highway named for the local chairman of the Parole Commission), many of whom have since been indicted or otherwise disgraced. There are also tributes to Braves players, some of whom are still active on other teams. While Hank Aaron Way, which passes by Turner Field, seems well named, one shudders to think of how many locales may carry the names like OJ Simpson or Pete Rose.
Maybe states should consider laws limiting such accolades to players who have since been admitted to a hall of fame, although this would not have helped with OJ Simpson (I wonder if the city fathers of Buffalo or Erie County have had to make any similar revisions.) Just because someone can hit a ball or run a play better than anyone seen in years seems like a transitory reason for immortalizing them in geography. Better to wait, as in the case of Ted Williams or Jackie Robinson to insure that their fame and accomplishments really do transcend their own era. (And the same should go double for politicians; "Duke" Cunningham Parkway anyone?) In the meantime, if highways and other landmarks really need naming, perhaps the custom should be to revert to safe and deserving persons, such as fallen soldiers, police officers, and firefighters. I think we can all agree that these heroes far more enhanced their communities even if they couldn't hit a low-slider or throw on the run. (And maybe B-H could name a store for Theodore Olbermann so it really could be "his" store?)


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To devotees of the controller, many of the popular new gaming models are celebrations of slop. And they're right. Finger swipes, hand waves or voice commands are less precise. They are video gaming's version of steering a car by tilts of the driver's head and being able to accelerate only with vocal commands to "speed up."
Unlike, say, reading a book, in which the mechanics of tracking your eyes across a page of printed words has generally been accepted as the ideal from the beginning, in gaming it's an open question as to which way is better for the player to interact with the virtual world created. (The controller fan's lament, for example, echoes earlier complaints by computer-game players who scorned game systems and their controllers, instead championing the precision offered by a mouse and a keyboard.)
The quote in the headline up top about the violin for "gaming's virtuosos" is from Double Fine's Drew Skillman, a developer of the Kinect game Happy Action Theater who still has many kind words for devices that have buttons and thumbsticks.
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Inside the Dodgers Tour
Sitting in my office right now with David Kort, the winner of the ThinkCure auction in the Battle of the Joshs.
He's been here for about 45 minutes and already met Maury Wills, Manny Mota, Joe Torre, Larry Bowa, Juan Pierre, James McDonald, Tim Wallach, George Sherrill, Mariano Duncan, Charley Steiner and we're just getting going. Plus we've already taken him to some of the cool corners of the stadium that no one ever gets to see. And it's benefiting ThinkCure.
Even better, when he picked this date a while back, no one realized he'd have a chance to be in the clubhouse when we celebrate a division title. Let's hope we can pull it off tonight.
Here's the lineup:
Furcal, SS
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Kemp, CF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Martin, C
Hudson, 2B
Wolf, P
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Hello Gang!!! I have a feeling that we will celebrate tonight!!! Much sweeter to beat the Rocks head to head for the NL West and celebrate at home. D4, loved your list. LMAO!!!! By the way, does a one legged duck swim in circles?
I think we wil celebrate tonight also, Jhall. Then you can pour your Andre Cold Duck.
Hi'Ya Trumom!!! LOL!!! I would love to qurack that Cold Duck!!!
I guess I should have bought some Boone's Farm. I always had a lot better luck with it back in the day!! LOL!!!
Phish 2, Phils 2 – Inning 2
Too Funny…..Jhall…
A 68 or 69 Chevelle and a couple of bottles of Boone's Farm and life was good. Right Dad/Eric!!!
How'ya doin' D4 my friend!!! That list made my day. Thanks!!
Man Ram, you said Dodgers would pop the corks tonight…a couple bombs from your bat might help loosen them up.
I used to drink that crap too! it was pretty tasty at the time. Ahh, those were the days! lol
I think it is amazing that we put a man on the moon before we put wheels on luggage. Far out!!!
No Problemo JHall….I'm good, Just waiting to celebrate tonight 🙂
I only drank Boones once but I still remember with whom…
Yabba Dabba Doo!!!!!
:))) Trumom!!
and, th joys of Sloe Gin fizzes!
*the joys….must have had a few already!
My dates were rough, back then…We kicked with a couple of Old English 40's
LOL!! Good for you D4!! Great times!!!
99 cents a piece baby….Oh Yeah
Wow, I guess so D4!! LOL Trumom!!!
It's funny, but if you could put your hands on a couple of bottles of Boone's Farm back in high school, you were almost legendary. Geez!!!
I used to grow a mustache…Get dressed up in a shirt and tie with a v neck sweater and some Khaki's…and mix in with the 5: 00 crowd at the liquor store JHall…It worked every time….
LMAO, Dodger4life! What a sight!!!
Unbelievable D4!!! I wish I would have thought of that. However, I couldn't grow a mustache then. LOL!!!!
However I did get carded today buying some Andre cold duck……I was like really, now that I resemble Santa Claus youre going to card me….
I have a mustache now! Old age sucks!
Jhall's in the ITD House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy! You are early tonight!! I am still at school, and funny you should be on here now. I am putting up all Cincinnati Reds stuff, including Ohio State Symbols and such. Cleveland is next week.
Hey Dodger4life!! I was asking all my teacher friends, including my student teacher, if they knew about the two songs being the same tune. It's funny……….they all start singing them in their heads – LOL!!!!
Go figure D4!! LOL!!!
BonJour Nelle' bon mon amie!!! Too cool. You need to tell them stories of The Big Red Machine and their rivalry with the Garvey/Lopes/Russell/Cey Dodgers when they were in the same division and played 18 times a year. It was epic!!!
Too funny Trumom, LMAO!!!
Phish 4, Phils 2
Trumom and Nelly, you need to find your lost son, The Beav!!! Maybe I'm out of the loop, is he OK?
Hi'Ya Crash!! Go Fish!!!
Hey Wally!! Nice to see the Phils losing, but what do I really want?? A big blue victory tonight!! Lets Go DODGERS!!
I am so totally with you Crash. Good to see you as always. How've ya been? I believe we will come out smokin' and put this thing to bed tonight. It's gut check time.
Dammit!@ Kuroda not pitching in NLDS.
Wally – I'm looking for wins both tonight and tomorrow. Wolf and Kershaw will carry us through.
I wouldn't let Billz near a playoff start. Wolf, Garland, and Kersh!!!
I agree Crash!!!
Urgh@ Kuroda I'd rather have Bills
jhall – yes, Beav is doing good, as good as he can be considering how the Dodgers have been playing lately. I am guessing you haven't been checking your e-mail or perhaps you have changed your address.
I am heading home, but I will catch up in a little while after I get settled there, definitely before the game.
Oh and Jhall!!! I just did the White Sox this past week. Always a fun team to do too because of their past.
Thanks Nelly, I haven't been checking my e-mail much lately or at all. Catch you later for the celebration.
Go Brewers and Marlins.
Everybody read KenGurnick's blog?? Kuroda out for first round with cervical spine herniation… Can it get more interesting?
Anyone remember John MeLoan? He and Santana was part of the Blake trade but didn't know he's playing for Oakland. I wonder why the Indians ask for MeLoan are did Ned throwing him in that trade if so I'm going to be upset. lol he should've had thrown in a 26 years old minor leaguer playing in rookie ball. I know it's early to judge but he's been pitching well for the no pressure A's.
WB Casey Blake
I felt bad for Lowe.
lol 29 min late and the time warp doesn't help.
I guess CC won't get number 20 tonight.
Good evening everyone! Glad to see a lot of the gang is here! I'm running out to take my wife to the store, but will be listening to KABC, and will be back for what will hopefully be a celebration! Go Blue!
Very glad you are home safe and with us Nelly!!!
Hi'Ya Mike!! Good to see you!!! I am predicting a celebration tonight!!!!
The Toystore isn't so fun right now 🙂
Hi Everybody,
It's seems like the postseason is starting a few days earlier to me.
I was hoping all along that the Dodgers wouldn't have to face the Rockies head to head, but now I think this way will show them nothing comes easy and will develop PERSEVERANCE, which Lasorda once told them they needed to have.
At the very least I'd like them to be the best in the division, before they take the next task.
Here we go team, here we go! YAY, DODGERS!!!!!!!!!
Hi Everybody, I hope we do it tonight, I can't take much more of this.
I feel that if it wasn't Wolf on the mount things would be a lot worse.
I surely hope this game is a sellout.
get the dp now wolf
Stinking Ramirez!
Don't walk that pest Tulowitz
WTF the first 5 ball Wolf is behind that's a no no and losing Tulo on a 1-2 count crap.
lol the Brewers just out up a 5 spots and tied the Cards 6-6.
gosh this is bs stop getting behind
Randy needs to get the ball down in the strike zone.
Not the way we wanted this game to start. We got to get those runs back early and Wolf has got to settle down.
congrats to the 2009 west division champion rockies, have fun getting swept in the division series Dodgers, i'm gonna go throw up
Way to go Andre!!!!!
Come Andre just get on base…Give the boy's something to follow
is Manny even trying anymore?
and the beat goes on.
I just put on my Jackie Robinson tee-shirt.
The last few day's…maybe more?? Manny looks as if he is trying to hit the ball over the Dodgers dug out…..Instead of keeping his front shoulder in the swing longer….Almost as if he isn't satisfied with base hits and wants to go yard. Manny take the single or double and let the game develop around you….Mon!
I think everybody's trying hard.
If anything maybe too hard.
Collie ~ Where the heck have you been!!!!!!!!!
lol typical Wolf inning.
Maybe just one scoring inning might break the spell.
Good to see Wolf settle down in the 2nd. The Brewers came back and lead the Cards 7-6. Phillies lost. Everything is going our way. Now if we can only score some runs.
This is starting to look good, Jimenez seems to be getting wild.
If the Cards lose and the Dodgers win……Does that give us Home field advantage…and the division???
And the fact that Hudson wasn't picked off is a good sign.
Good evening…
Good evening all.
At the rate Wolf is going, he'll be lucky to make it through five innings. Still hoping the bats will awaken from their slumber here in a big way.
What a throw, Andre!!!!!
take a walk furcal
Man it make me sick to see a sac on a 3-1 pitch and a wild Jimenez.
Missing persons report…………Enchanted Sunset….also known as Brownpaperbag / justplaindisgusted or as recently as last week…..Booger, has not been seen or heard of. At the present time we unsure whether this is at best a case of the Mega Mu I love you's, or an actual abduction……He was last seen in the New Mexico area…If you have any details of his whereabouts, please post them in this or any following thread…Thank you for your cooperation……
hopefully we can at least maintain home field, but ths discussion shouldnt even matter, we shoulda locked up the division and home field a couple days ago. It's hard to think positive at a time like this
Come on everday Dre time for a homerun and you need 1 more for soem milestone in LA history I think.
Dodger 4 life, i think the phils are 1 game behind us for home field and the cards are 1.5 or 2
OMG Collie!!!!!! How have you been? You have been very much missed around here.
Tonight is the night!!!
Nice AB's hopefully is 2 runs or a 3 runs
Great At-Bat Andre!!!!! Really wanted a hit, but the walk is good too 🙂
OK Manny let's make him work so more.
WILD PITCH our luck could be changing.
Not if they both lost tonight and we win…..Check again..
Manny IS NOT doing his job!!!
Stinking Ramirez!
Stinking Ramirez!
Ok I'll take the wp now get a hit
Gosh damn it only need a sac fly
Matthew Ryan Kemp – uugghh!!!
That looked like the Matt of old.
Yes it did Oldbrooklynfan……………yes, it did!!! It looks like maybe Manny and Matt needed to go to the batting cages with Andre too.
However, we look better than the previous 4 games, so I still have faith we will get this done tonight.
Both pitchers are struggling but the Dodgers can't take advantage.
It sure did, oldbrooklynfan. The guys are pressing badly and trying too hard.
What a GREAT throw by Dre!!!!! WOW!!!!!
God bless Ethier's arm.
That is why Andre should never sit!!!!! I don't care if he is 1 for 29. AWESOME ANDRE!!!!!!!
Dodger4life ~ If both the Cards & Phillies lose and the Dodgers win we clinch HFA.
Nice job Raffy and Casey!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back Casey!
That was great defense, they're at least focusing.
TBW……Dont go to sleep on us tonight baby…..
Every Day Dre does it again!
Hello there Nelly — nice to be back & missed!! You were all missed as well. I haven't even had the time to read
2 great plays on D. The Rockies look to be making mistakes. Could the roles have flipped for now? Let's hope so!
DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE! All right! That's the way to shut them down! Now let's hit!
If ubaldo doesn't settle down things will be alright.
Collie ~ How was your trip to the OC?
I think Apodaca, might've straighten Ubaldo out.
Now I'm wondering why he walked Martin.
TONIGHT!!!! I GOT BORED SHAVING…. I'LL POST THEM ON FB… I have a good feeling about this game, stick around and celebrate with us Baby!!!!
Dodger4life ~ Don't worry tonight there is no way I'm going to bed tonight until this thing is over.
To bad Wolf had that bad 1st innings.
Martin owned him at .381.
A very very typical Wolf game.
I'm just hoping for Jimenez to goof up.
with at least one runner on base.
I am still confident we can turn this one around tonight. After almost a month since my tenant announced he is leaving my rental house, today I got some people who want to move in so I am optimistic that the Dodgers will finally get their elusive win today also. It sucks to see Manny doing his Andruw Jones impression though. He needs to get the ball in play.
Let's get another double Ethier.
Nelly — The OC was awesome. Although it seems like it was a dream. It went by so fast. We had a wonderful time. I saw my Aunt that lives in Top Of The World in Laguna Beach. We had dinner with her at her house on the patio while watching the sunset & with Catalina in the distance. It was a blazing hot night which is the way we like it! Played at the beach with some friends and their families. One of the friends & her Hubby have adopted 2 kids in the last 2 years so it was great to meet them! Then a lot of lounging, shopping, walking, and eating. It was wonderful. We are already ready to go back!
Bob — I'll be here. I'm confident as they were playing ok ball before we left. But when we were gone & the last few nights we've not watched. That's when they've been stinking it up. So I told Wifey we're watching tonight to try to help them turn it around.
I'm ready to pop my Smirnoff "Ice" after the game!
C'mon ump – tie goes to the runner. Kemp came close to being ejected on that play.
I may pass out TBW, I am trying to show my solidarity with Enchanted / Brownpaperbag / just plain partying tonight…..
By drinking double shots of tequila……
Their you shot Manny.
Stinking Ramirez!
Stinking Ramirez!
Stinking Ramirez!
He kept his shoulder in but couldn't see the rotation of the ball…….LENSCRAFTERS!!!!!
Com'on Dr Jekyll get out of Mr. Hyde
Manny IS NOT doing his job. Why doesn't he get dropped in the lineup? I know…………..but I thought I would ask anyway.
Boy Manny looks bad out there. Someone needs to spike his Gatorade.
All joking aside….
Let's go Dodgers!!
Bring the Ring to LA in 2009!!!
Testing……….just want to see if I'm still in the time warp!
Bad walking the pitchers when you got the 1st 2 guys out.
Collie……BE L.A.BABY!!!!! BE L.A.!!!!!!!!
How is that fantastic other half doing????
LADIES AND GENTELMEN DAVID AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE ARE SO RIGHT FOR EACH OTHER…and SO MUCH FUN TO BE AROUND…:)
It's good to be current!
Come on Troncoso
Collie ~ sometimes the blog is so messed up, you never know where your posts are going to appear!
Let's get some damn freaking runs.
Anything to help get SOMETHING going……..
With apologies to Ray Stevens
ITD loves the little Dodgers,
All the Dodgers on the team;
Brown or yellow, black or white,
They are precious in our sight;
ITD loves all the Dodgers on the team.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Like a starry autumn night
or a sun-scorching summer day.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Under God's heaven, this team's gonna find a way.
There is none so blind as he who will not see.
We must not close our minds,
we must let our thoughts be free.
For every game that passes by,
you know the season gets a little bit older.
It's time to realize that beauty lies
in the eyes of the beholder.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Like a starry autumn night
or a sun-scorching summer day.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Under God's heaven, this team's gonna find a way.
We shouldn't care about our last at-bat
or our failing OBP.
Don't worry about that four-pitch walk
or that Torre seems asleep.
We're gonna get it all together
and take in a game with some clients.
Just take a little time to look on the good side
at least we're not the Giants.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Like a starry autumn night
or a sun-scorching summer day.
Every game is beautiful in its' own way,
Under God's heaven, this team's gonna find a way.
D4– Actually she is bummin. She has a slightly torn calf muscle. She was put in a walking cast today. My fault… she got some to go dinner for us from this Puerto Rican place that has this killer mango ice t. She left my ice t in the car and run up the stairs outside and popped her calf. 😦
Yes that night was a blast!!! We had fun with you all! Great group to be around.
I've wanted to post some more about the events of that night, but figured I might wait for a day off or the offseason.
We WILL do it again next year. Bank on it!
How's work D4?
Thanks, Dodgereric 🙂
That's it get mad
You were safe Kemp.
no doubt.
Thank Joe for saving him.
Well, Good Evening Dodgereric!!!!! GREAT SONG!!!!
Matt got robbed…………………so very robbed.
Com'on do something fans, change your shirts, spit on your T.V., Kiss yor wife.
We have to change this bad luck.
Tru Blue!! The time warp and taking 10-15 minutes to get my words posted and communicate with you all got me a little frustrated. That's why I was doing quickie posts for awhile.
Oh girls kiss your husbands, or your dog or cat.
or a rat, if you can find one.
I changed my shirt, so far.
I haven't bathed the last few days, Joe. I don't think it's helping.
Collie – sorry to hear about wifey – ouch!!!
Joe – I guess I have to stop kissing my Wife. As D4 said she's "beautiful"!
I changed from school purple to Dodger Blue………….Andre's shirt to be exact.
Dodgereric ~ Great song! I needed that it made me laugh. The last four games the Dodgers are making me cry!!
Then take a bath dodgereric.
Please do, Dodgereric!!!
Well, that was not good folks…………….not good at all. The Toy Store just became not so fun again. The toys aren't working so well right now.
After that Joe I think I need to start kissing the Wife again!
0-2 letter high. Nice…
Nelly — She's never had an injury until last years head bumpin moment & this. So she considers herself lucky.
This team just freaking quit since Broxton fault for that Sunday game and Manny tonight
anyone else about to cuss?
Incredible to say the least.
tonight? Manny hasn't done sh*t for a month now. At least not what he is being paid to do.
Dodge ~ I've been cussing quite a bit the past few weeks!
Okay, Russell!!!!
Well, well, well…………………….Russell just woke up!!!!!!
Funny, that's what the wife's been telling me…….
Geez, I've discovered the dreaded Submission Error. It sucks.
Personally, I really don't much care about winning the division. I'd just like to see us hit the ball. I'd rather lose all three games 10 – 8 than win one game and remain in this slump.
All right Martin!!!!! Just what we needed. Maybe that will wake up the rest of the guys.
Dodgereric ~ don't you think if we win this game, we will be relaxed and win the series? Besides, Jhall wants to pop the cork on his Andre Cold Duck!
You mean you have never gotten a submission error until now? Boy, you have been lucky then. I get it at least…………at least once a night, and they last anywhere from 5-15 minutes.
I get submission errors so often, I should make that my ITD name!!!
We can still do this. Remember we are never out of a game…
Time for some H-wood squares???
Come on Furcal those 2 run in the top of the inning surely look good for the Rockies dang
Beimel has helped us out many times.
Peter Marshall: True or false…most African soccer teams have their own witch doctor.
Redd Foxx: That's true…and their motto is, "If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em."
oh come on dre… we need this…
Just when I was ready to give up we have a life.
Ethier vs Beimel damn god on Ethier stay tough
RBI #106 – Everyday Dre strikes again.
Stole the Angels Rally Monkey.
Andre hit that just as Charlie was saying how awful he is against lefties!!!!!!
Manny is way way overdue.
All right Either!!! Big hit!!! This is when Manny can redeem himself!!!! Come on MANNY!!!!
See Eric — It works!
Peter Marshall: What is it now, that Underdog always says?
Wally Cox: Where are my residuals??
Keep it up Dodgereric!!!!!!!!
Manny is reminding me of Andruw.
Come on Manny
Peter Marshall: What are "Do It", "I Can Help" and "Can't Get Enough"?
George Gobel: I don't know but it's coming from the next apartment.
You know Andruw Jones struck out 4 times last night………………….very similar indeed to Manny tonight.
That was ugly…
Stinking Ramirez!
Stinking Ramirez!
Stinking Ramirez!
Get Manny off this team.
Peter Marshall: While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo! Poo! Poo!"
What does that mean?
George Gobel: Cattle crossing.
(laughter and applause dies down)
Peter Marshall: Aren't you ashamed?
George Gobel: I really am.
Stay pumped… a base hit ties the game!!!
Stay pumped… a base hit ties the game!!!
You need one more stinking
Peter Marshall: What is the definition of the word "Gobbledygook?"
George Gobel: That's the stuff that crusts over in turkeys' eyes when they're asleep.
Peter Marshall: Does the Secret Service have any women?
George Gobel: Of course, who do you think performs the secret service?
You need one more stinking
You need one more stinking
messagebear – it should be……………………..
Stinking Ramirez
Stinking Ramirez
Stinking Ramirez
Stinking Ramirez
You forgot one dear 🙂 He needs 4 for his 4 pitiful strikeouts.
Inching up on them.
Yeah, I know.
I just copied and pasted – getting lazy just like Manny.
E it's just a run. They can do this!! Stay positive!
More jokes. Keep us loose!!!
We have six more outs to get the lead back. We can do it. You gotta believe!
That's good to know.
Damn Kemp came close to hitting it out. At least we're back in it. Come on Sherrill hold em at 4. Give us a chance.
Don't worry I posted it two times maybe he would get another chance with the bases loaded with 2 outs.
Keep it up Dodgereric!!! You are doing good…………….stay happy. Everything's gonna be alright.
tonight? Manny hasn't done sh*t for a month now. At least not what he is being paid to do.
By nellyjune on October 2, 2009 10:00 PM
You know I was giving him a break but this game is the most important with runner on base and not going throught.
I'd like to see the Dodgers do better than going 1-2-3 in the 9th.
Peter Marshall: True or false, George…experts say there are only seven or eight things in the world dumber than an ant.
George Gobel: Yes, and I think I voted for six of 'em.
oops coming through.
Peter Marshall: According to the Reverend Billy Graham, what sin have you committed if you drink too much?
George Gobel: Gluttony. The neighbors say I ate their cat.
Now I said that when Mnny returned I would support him as long as he supported us….meaning dont dissrepect us verbally ar physically…..You have done well…..However when it was reported that if you didn't get it done this year you would next…. I …. ( justplainwantedtokickyourasss )
I like it E!
Peter Marshall: According to Shakespeare, what acquaints a man with strange bedfellows?
George Gobel: The tall dude in the purple hat.
Okay, Vin just said it. The Dodgers 3-6 hitters are 0-14 with 9 strikeouts. 😦
Ouch nice 1 2 3 inning Sherrill
Ok. I'm being positive now. I got my little split of Moet champange next to me ready to go when they win it. I want to pop that cork NOW!!!
Peter Marshall: What do you call a cow that won't give milk?
George Gobel: Hamburger.
Why should Manny get any breaks? I think he has gotten his fair share of them this season. It's time for him to play for what the Dodgers paid for. Andre and Matt (Russell and James) certainly haven't been given any breaks for hitting or playing poorly so why should Manny get the breaks? Manny hasn't been doing his job since he was suspended.
I'm your friend D4!
You just know someone is due soon.
Ok. I'm being positive now. I got my little split of Moet champange next to me ready to go when they win it. I want to pop that cork NOW!!!
Peter Marshall: Is it possible for a man to get an annulment if he can prove that he was drunk
during the wedding ceremony?
George Gobel: Well, I thought of that, but by the time I sobered up, we had been married 23 years.
Keep them coming Dodgereric – whatever works at this point.
Peter Marshall: According to weather statistics, where is the wettest spot on Earth?
George Gobel: Uh, the parking lot at Busch Gardens.
**** him he need to die or leave and I mean it I dont know what message going to say
Peter Marshall: True or false, there is a magazine called "The Corsets & Underwear Revue"? George Gobel: I was reading that before Playboy came out.
Collie…..Thanks……AS AM I YOURS…..Georgeous Wifey really broke her foot? ankle? Damn……
Maybe it's me but I feel like the Dodgers put up a good fight against a superior team.
Slight tear of her calf muscle. She just went limping by me. She won't listen to me and stay put. She is a restless one…
Damn, I got to put the champange back in the frig again.
NOT ONE OFF SPEED PITCH and BALL FOUR!!!!
Losing power… bye for now…
Peter Marshall: According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army!
The Rockies were Broxtonized!
Boy, if he just could've done that last Sunday, we would be all nice and relaxed right now, but nooooooooooooooooo……we go to the bottom of the 9th biting our nails as usual.
Peter Marshall: Charles, how many balls would you expect to find on a billiard table?
Charley Weaver: How many guys are playing?
Peter Marshall: True or false, massaging the feet helps some people with hot flashes?
George Gobel: So that's why Rose Marie wears battery-operated shoes.
Rose Marie: OH! I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THAT! I KNEW IT!!
Caught him on his heels…
2 out RALLY BOY'S!!!!!!
Urgh 1996 all over again
Come on Furcal
Well, I guess we have to try again tomorrow. I really liked our chances today versus tomorrow, but like any game……………who knows what will happen until the game is played. Kershaw better bring his A game and Manny and Matt need to hit the cages or something. It helped Andre.
what just happened? gameday said he walked and showed 4 balls then all of the sudden he lined out…
De La Rosa is 0-5 vs us why don't I have a good feeling about him?
GOOD NIGHT and GOD BLESS EVERYONE……
You do realize we have been saying "We will get this done tomorrow" for 5 games straight now? I am keeping the faith that this will turn out fine overall.
I have no words to describe my feelings right now.
The only consolation is that there are two more chances to win one game and it is not 1962. That year, the Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final seven games as they lost 10 of their final 13 and the last four games, then lost in a best-of-three playoffs when a burned-out bullpen blew a 4-2 lead after seven innings in the deciding game. Don Drysdale had won 25 games that season and was available, but manager Walter Alston tried to save him for a World Series Game 1 that never happened.
Damn, I got to put the champange back in the frig again.
Well, Andre and Raffy did well tonight as did Russell, Sherril and Broxton.
I don't want to see Manny "fat cow" Jones on this team know more.
32and53fan ~ I remember that year very well. I was 10 years old sitting in front of the TV crying my eyes out as the Dodgers lost that playoff game. I'm almost at the point where I fell like crying again.
"It's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good!"
LOL!!!! Northstateblues 🙂
truebluewill ~ You mean you haven't cried yet? -LOL!!!
hey true the champagne hasn't spoiled yet lol
Randy Wolf(notes) (11-7) gave up two runs and five hits over five innings. He was 6-0 with a 2.45 ERA in his previous nine outings.
Manny and Blake were the first Dodgers to both strike out four times in a game since Mark Grudzielanek and Angel Pena did it way back on July 25th, 1999.
Small solace that the Cardinals and Phillies also lost putting the Dodgers home field advantage at one game. So with one win the Dodgers can win the Division and home field advantage.
Can they do it? Tomorrow will be the best chance with Clayton Kershaw going for the Dodgers. Can Manny bounce back after a miserable week which has seen him go 0/10 with 8 strikeouts including his last six time at bat.
Wolf has now thrown a career high 214 innings surpassing the 210 inning he threw seven years ago in 2002. Quite an accomplishment for the man who will be taking the mound in our first playoff game no matter who we face or when.
The five game losing streak is the longest of the year for the Dodgers and for the 3rd time they struck out 13 times. Not the greatest time to have your longest losing streak but just one win will change the smell coming from the team right now. It is strange to know that you could lose out and still be playing in the postseason. I wonder who was the last team to lose their last seven games and still make the playoffs?
Dont t give me this crapp…………
I'll fight for our Boy's and they'll fight for us…..
They might be Bums ….Shad.. but they are our Bums damn It!!!!
I think are real stud Kershaw going to pitching well and if he good control the rockies going to be in for a long time but Colorado owned Kershaw this year and his career but some of those game are in Colorado.
To bad he should've had won 15 to 16 by now with run support. Look at his homerun number.
If their was anyone the dodgers should've beat is De La Rosa.. He's 0-5 in his careers.
Look at year Jorge De La Rosa numbers at 0-6 5.43 and goes 16-3 4.45 ERA.
The last tiem we beat himw as Aug 27 and Kershaw love to pitch in DS.
15 15 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 82.1 58 20 18 1 44 87 1.97 1.24 .199
*time and dang run supports
Jim Tracy will probably be touted for manager of the year.
Torre – should be nominated for Sleeper of the Year.
There isn't an ounce of "motivator" in this guy – IDIOT that he is.
Well, Kids. Pretty disappointing, I admit. Manny used to crush those same pitches he's striking out on. Coulda shoulda woulda wrapped it up in Pittsburgh, but that didn't happen. NOTHING-TO-DO-BUT-KEEP-THE-FAITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And save the negative crap for when the season's over.
And who did shad pay to put that post on here for him/her?
"The only thing I can do is write his name in there, pat him on the back and expect better things to happen," Torre said.
Joe the IDIOT'S comment about Manny. Well, you could drop him down in the lineup like you have everybody else during the season. Right now batting third or fourth is the worst thing you can do with Manny. Without his steroids he's just another player, and not a very good one, so let's treat him like one.
Descriptions from an article announcing the firing of Towers at San Diego:
He once commented that he's a "sludge merchant," able to move unproductive players with big contracts for more productive players.
In one of his biggest trades, Towers acquired All-Star right-hander Chris Young and All-Star first baseman Adrian Gonzalez(notes) in a six-player deal with Texas in January 2006.
Wonder if Towers could move JP and Manny and maybe Martin and get something productive with a future for our team. I think I'd much rather see that than Ned getting extended. Besides, Towers should come CHEAP, which is a word that Frank understands.
messagebear, you beat me in posting Joe's comment, and I agree fully with your reaction to it. Here's what I was going to say:
Perhaps the following comments provide a clue to the Dodgers recent struggles:
"The only thing I can do is write his name in there, pat him on the back and expect better things to happen," Torre said.
"My confidence is always up," he (Ramirez) said. "I'm one of the best hitters. All you have to do is check my police report and see that I'm still a good hitter."
"Today I had a bad day, but remember, they didn't [build] Rome in one day," Ramirez said. "So I know I'm one of the best hitters in the game, and I'm just going to come tomorrow and be patient."
Aren't you glad Ned gave those big contracts to these guys?
I bring it all back to Frank; I think Ned is just Frank's mouthpiece and brown nose. Frank is the one who seems to delight in getting the legendary Torre in the dugout (asleep or not) and Manny on the field. Now, that was before the drug disclosures on Manny – I don't know exactly how he feels now that Manny has come down to being just an ordinary and not very effective player. Frank probably thought that this would show him up as a real owner. I don't think anybody but Selig really acknowledges that. That's why all the real owners impose an "impostor" tax whenever the Dodgers want to make a deal for somebody really valuable – Dodgers are always required to ante up more than any of the other teams to get a deal done.
Hello gang!! Very disappointing and frustrating effort again!!! I didn't have anything good to say last night so I decided to not say anything. Gotta keep the faith and try and stay positive I guess!! We'll whip'em tonight Dodger faithful!!! Hope you all have a great day!!!
messagebear, that is some good insight and probably right on. It sure is true that the Dodgers give up a lot more than they should to make a deal, and the other team's demands for the deals that don't get made are ridiculous.
As to Manny, at the rate he is going, he will soon be an effective stand in for Andrew Jones. And thanks to that ridiculous player option that Ned gave him for 2010, he will continue to laugh his way to the bank for another year. Without that option, can you imagine what his open market value would be for 2010 based on his 2009 performance and drug disclosures?
Yep, Manny will probably take the option. I can't see another team offering him more. Without the juice, he is very ordinary and old!!!!
For Ned: Maybe you can learn something from the Rockies!
"Including the guy who pitched ninth inning, Franklin Morales, every player we used [Thursday] was a homegrown player and there are not a lot of organizations that can boast about something like that," Tracy said.
"It means we're a pretty good baseball team and that we're going to remain a pretty good baseball team for a period of time," Tracy said of his team's homegrown talent. "It's because we're young on the field but have quality veterans out there and then a deep farm system, deep pitching, and if we can continue with our mind-set we have, we're not going away."
Booger ~ it's been a while since we've seen you 🙂
Gene Mauch 1964
Joe Torre 2009??
Just sayin'…
… and Mauch's lead was 6 1/2 with 12 games to go, not 6 with 7 games to go.
If Manny hits a walk-off bomb to win the division everyone (well almost everyone!?!?!) will be slobbering all over themselves with well-wishes for Man Ram and playoffs-here-we-come bravado. This thing runs FAR deeper than Manny…he just seems to be the poster child for this mess because he is THE star. Granted, he has stunk up the place, but so has Kemp and Ethier this past week. I'm not defending Manny, just spreading the manure. The playoffs are all about crummy offense, so let's look at the Dodgers' pitching in this five-game descent into oblivion. Runs allowed: 6, 11, 3 , 5, 4. Not abominable…but certainly not clutch and certainly not playoff quality. If one looks game by game at the pitching–in order–Broxton stunk, Kuroda stunk, Billingsley was just OK, Garland stunk and Wolf ("burying" his team 2-0 before they ever touched a bat) was semi stinky. These are the pitchers, ladies and gentlemen, that will carry the Dodgers only so far as their ability to grind. Huston Street, on the post-game show last night, talked about attacking hitters and if they hit your best pitch, so be it. Dodger pitchers are pitching scared. No other way to say it.
All this mumbo-jumbo aside…CLAYTON!!! We need you to be the ace, the stopper no one else on this staff seems to want to be or is capable of. Pick up the crippled offense and the "ace" baton will have been passed to you.
Someone…… Please get Khali some lemonade…….He is in for a long day behind the pitchfork folks……..That is a pretty tall pile to spread……….
Itdbooger…..Glad to see ya back
Even though there hasn't been much fun these days…
P.S. I almost forgot……..
"The only thing I can do is write his name in there, pat him on the back and expect better things to happen," Torre said.
Maybe so Joe…. but perhaps someone could give him a good swift kick in the rear as he heads out to the field..
Oh yeah I forgot…. He is the big ole pampered ( apparently porcelain now Barbie doll. )
That ones for you messagebear……
Agreed, Dodger4life, about the only one clean of this stench is George Sherrill, of all people.
Great points Kahli!! We have long known that our offense will have to perform if we are to get anywhere. We don't have the top line starting pitchers that we will face in the playoffs. That is why our recent offensive woes are so disheartening. Championships are won with pitching (starting), and defense. We can play defense, but will need the offense to mash, if we are to go very far in the playoffs. I guess, we will have to wait and see!!
Great points Kahli!! We have long known that our offense will have to perform if we are to get anywhere. We don't have the top line starting pitchers that we will face in the playoffs. That is why our recent offensive woes are so disheartening. Championships are won with pitching (starting), and defense. We can play defense, but will need the offense to mash, if we are to go very far in the playoffs. I guess, we will have to wait and see!!
Great points Kahli!! We have long known that our offense will have to perform if we are to get anywhere. We don't have the top line starting pitchers that we will face in the playoffs. That is why our recent offensive woes are so disheartening. Championships are won with pitching (starting), and defense. We can play defense, but will need the offense to mash, if we are to go very far in the playoffs. I guess, we will have to wait and see!!
Wow, triple post. Sorry gang!! Earlier, I couldn't get anything to post!! LOL!!!
Go Marlins
Oh so the Brewers can beat the Cards but they can't be the
Rockies. Cards can't be the Rockies than they got lucky winning a season series 5-2 and 3 games had a scored of 3-2 that went the Cards way and we still owned the Rockies. The Rockies canbeat the Cards at a season series is 6-1.
Nice triple jhall……..
Thanks D4!! LOL!!! Totally unintentional hat trick!!
One more win.
One more win would give the Dodgers the West AND NL Homefield.
One more win would make the last seven games irrelevant.
One more win would let us concentrate on how we'll approach the postseason.
One more win would allow Torre to field whatever strange lineup he desires on Sunday without any consequences in the postseason.
One more win would give the Brim Reaper his first taste of October, even though he spent much of his career in the colors of Fall over in Baltimore.
One more win would shut all the naysayers out… even if we know better.
One more win would mean there'll be little bottles of Andre Champagne popping everywhere from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
One more win is all it takes.
So take it already.
On a side note:
In a city obsessed with a century-long "curse", how did the City of Broad Shoulders let this sign slip by as they hoped for the '16 Olympics? :
Tsk tsk tsk.
Here here, Tru. And eleven more!
Yeah 4/31 .216 and blah Mannywood most like Bumwood is on strike. Damn these fox announces talking trash and yeah there is a solution with Manny start Pierrewood.
Riccardi maybe he'll bring Halladay with him if he came here for free lol.
Even Jim Tracy is talking trash:
"There's been a lot made of the fact that we were 3-12 against them coming in, but that's not even part of our thought process," said Rockies manager Jim Tracy. "The first two months of the season, they beat us up, but they're not beating us up now."
Just what exactly has he ever won??? Oh yeah, the 2004 division……………
"Our A team will be out there," manager Jim Tracy promised..
"They were all cheering when they got here and crying when they left," outfielder Carlos Gonzalez said. "It would really hurt them after leading the division for so long to lose it."
"I want to win the division, and I want them to keep that edge," Tracy said. "But we will do it sensibly."
"They beat up on us pretty good early in the season," Tracy said. "But they aren't beating up on us now."
There is just something wrong about going from thinking enchantedsunset to ITDBooger. Thanks for letting jhall and the rest of ITD know that you are still breathing and didn't drown deep in your Dodgerville Abyss or that you didn't overdose on the Dodgertown Koolaid.
All great posts by everyone this morning and this afternoon.
The Rockies are talking a lot of @%$#
JOSH: think that article will make it's way to the clubhouse before gametime? :: wink wink :: :: nudge nudge :: :: grin grin :: :: say no more ::
northstates, I'm with you, but if the Dodgers need "smack" quotes to win the division, I shudder. They should take the field tonight with the mindset they're going to BURY the Rockies.
That's suck for Greinke and was pitching a gem than Mauer hit a solo homerun and Young hit a 3 run doubled.
Damn it Marlins that was a dp.
Blah you mean the crying hawaiiian a fluke allstar stupid announces.
Don't Call It a Comeback
If Colorado sweeps the Dodgers in this, the final series of the season, it will make history. The Rockies will have come back from the biggest deficit in baseball history to win the division.
Year Team Games
'09 Rockies 15 1/2
'78 Boston Braves 14
'78 Yankees 14
'95 Mariners 13
'51 N.Y. Giants 13
'06 Twins 12 1/2
'73 Mets 12 1/2
blah @ that would be twice that we've done that I assume that would be the 1951 shot around the world that was the first.
Gosh Johnson you need to make that play.
I've been wearing my Dodger "gear" for the past two weeks and we haven't been winning. So, tonight, I'm going to be incognito! GO, DODGERS!!!!!!
Thanks alot Uggla now Werth hit a 2 run homerun 4-3 Marlins