Alone in first place

[Oeditpus Rex]

                W       L       Pct.    GB    Last 10  Strk. 
Los Angeles 	73 	70 	.510 	-  	8-2 	W8 	
Arizona 	71 	71 	.500 	1.5 	3-7 	L3



Man, that looks nice. Especially on Sept. 7.

[Mutley]

1. Oooo

You must be pacing excited. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Hasn't been much to be 'excited' about

Except for a couple innings in today's game, we dominated the series with the Snakes. :headbang:

[Iggo]

3. Yep.

It's been a realtively pleasant week to be a Dodger fan, I tell you what.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. But a roller coaster of a month

Win five straight, then lose eight straight and 10 of 11, then win eight straight.

They've been toyin' with my emotions. :crazy:

[bigwillq]

4. The Yankees

would be in first place in that division! :P

Congrats to the Dodgers. I hope they hang on and win the division.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. So would about half the clubs in the majors

There's no arguing that it's a weak division — probably because the average age of the starters is about 26. We had just three guys 30 or older in the starting lineup today, and Kershaw, the starting pitcher, is 20. DeWitt just turned 23 and Kemp won't be 24 for a couple weeks.

Thanks for the good wishes. I often think you're too nice a guy to be a Jankees fan. :D

[bigwillq]

16. Awww.

:) :hug:

I've been a Yanks fan since birth. Been through good times and bad with them. They will always be my team.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I also think you're too nice a guy

to be a sportswriter. :D

[KitchenWitch]

7. 2.5 games out of first.

x(

Oh well, I am sure the Twins will make it up.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. C'mon, you know 2 1/2 out isn't that much

It depends a lot on the schedule, though. Who've you guys got comin' up, and who do the Sox have?

I'd say the rest of the schedule favors us, except that we've got 13 road games left and we suck on the road (28-40). But everybody we play is a drop case (San Diego, 6; Colorado, 3; Pittsburgh, 4; Giants, 6) and the Snakes have four with St. Louis in the last week.

[KitchenWitch]

11. We have a 10 game roadie coming up.

I think we face the Wox head to head once more.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. That's the way you want it, isn't it?

Jock to jock. Balls to the wall. :headbang:

[KitchenWitch]

18. Yup.

I want to humiliate Ozzie Guillen!

:headbang:

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. There's much to be said for the humiliation factor

I took particular enjoyment in that we didn't just sweep the hard-hitting Snakes, we gave them five runs in three games. :woohoo:

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. What happened to Arizona this year?

they came out of the gates setting the world on fire and have just been limping along for the past few months. Still nothing quite like a September pennant race.

Just 2 more outs and we'll hang on to first place as well

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Seems like their pitching fell apart

We racked up Haren and Webb twice. Webb's missed getting his 20th in three straight starts, and Haren's ERA since July is in the sixes. The Johnson's been getting hit, too. He was supposed to start today, but they sat him because of a sore shoulder.

I'd love to meet you guys in the playoffs. With you, I wouldn't have to put up with much trash talk. :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

12. I think that would be a fun series...

if the regular season was any indicator of what is to happen, it should be pretty evenly matched...but the playoffs are really all about who is hottest going in

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Yeah, which is why I'm a little worried

about us peaking right now.

'Course, there're enough games left to coast for a bit and then pick it up again. Hell, it's what we did from Aug. 11 to now — won five straight, lost 10 of 11, then won eight straight. :crazy:

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. streaky has been the name of your season

you guys have either been really hot or ice cold

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Tell me about it

It's makin' a wreck outa me, I tellya. :scared:

But, y'know, since the All-Star break, we're 27-21 (.563), and that includes that streak where we lost 10 of 11. And Manny B. Manny didn't "save" us, either; we're 19-16 (.543) since we got him.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. those are the worst really...

because just when you get yourself into the mindset that your team is finished, they go on a run to make you believe again

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. And the other way around

When we got Ramirez and started scoring runs, I thought, "This is a lineup with no real weaknesses," especially after we swept the Phillies. Then we hit that losing streak and I was like, "Okay, so much for that theory."



"It breaks your heart. It was designed to break your heart." — A. Bartlett Giamatti

[rug]

15. That .510 is scorching the division.

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. It's a pretty easy division to scorch

One match should do it. :)

[KitchenWitch]

25. Well you know much of the NL West IS in wildfire territory!

:P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Damn, I wish the BoSox were in that division.

:rofl:

[TZ]

27. Hard to believe

this is the same team that got swept by the lowly Nationals--the NL West sucks....:P

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Christ, they've won eight straight?!

That is fantastic. Go, Blue!