NLCS Non-Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers
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Even though I swore to myself in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s trainwreck that I “didn’t care about the rest of the playoffs” and I “sure as hell wasn’t going to watch the games”… I was totally lying (it was just the bitterness talking). It’s baseball – and any baseball is good baseball, especially playoff baseball. |
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So I’ve decided to put my idle hands to good use with a series of NLCS and ALCS non-previews. You can find thoughtful analysis anywhere- I’m just here to post whatever random shit about the teams that I feel like. Hey, if Leitch can write previews without actually previewing the team, then I sure as hell can write non-previews. |
The Dodgers have a lot of things to worry about.
#1: According to Peter Gammons, Joe Torre is gonzo after the 2010 season because “his life with the Dodgers is pretty much a living hell.” (Of course, Torre denies this – which any good employee would do in this shitty economy.)
#2: There may not even be a team to speak of by the time 2010 rolls around anyway, since owner Frank McCourt and CEO Jamie McCourt just announced that they’re getting divorced. California is a community property state, which means all assets get divided up 50/50 in a divorce… and as the Padres discovered, dividing up a MLB club in Cali is no easy feat.
#3: They can’t manage to sell all their allotment of tickets to Game 1 of the NLCS, and are reduced to begging folks on Twitter mere hours before first pitch.
#4: A certain member of the media hates a certain left fielder (starts with “M” and ends with “anny Ramirez”) so much, that he gave away his prospective World Series tickets to the person who would write in and and rip Manny the best. The winning entry?
Dear Manny,
I am a firefighter for the USFS, I make $16 an hour. It’s hot, dirty, dangerous, with long hours. My body hurts all the time. It takes four years to make $170,000. My bonus, somebody telling me ‘Thanks for the hard work.’ You should try it some time.
But even with all those problems, the Dodgers are still smiling big – because at least they didn’t get drilled in the nuts in front of a national TV audience.
Matt Holliday: brightening the faces of Dodgers fans everywhere since 2009.
Let’s go Phillies!!!
Phillies beating the MFDs in LA == awesome.
The GIF of Matt Holliday makes me want to cry.
For the record, I’d rather see the Dodgers in the World Series than the Phillies.