DODGER BLUE TINTS OTHERS IN OCTOBER.Byline: STEVE DILBECK Is it painful? You know what I'm talking I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, noted for launching vocalist Kate Ceberano. History After the break-up of the Melbourne-based experimental funk band Essendon Airport in 1983, members Robert Goodge (guitar), Ian Cox (saxophone) and Barbara Hogarth about. Pretend all you want. Look away if you must. Act as if it's not happening. Feign feign v. feigned, feign·ing, feigns v.tr. 1. a. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep. b. ignorance. Ah, but you know. All this talk about the Dodgers not having been to the playoffs in seven years. Silly, huh? They're everywhere They're Everywhere is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. Synopsis Prue and Piper give in to their fears that the men in their lives may be Warlocks and cast a mind-reading spell to find out the truth. in the postseason. They're unavoidable. Dodgers are in every playoff series. A regular plague upon the postseason. The Dodgers haven't won a postseason game since 1988? Come on, it's October and Dodgers are winning games all across the country. Did you see Eric Karros n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. that hit? Mark Grudzielanek Mark James Grudzielanek (born June 30, 1970 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a second baseman in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Kansas City Royals. Previously, Grudzielanek played with the Montreal Expos (1995-1998), Los Angeles Dodgers (1998-2002), Chicago Cubs score a run? Tom Goodwin abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in ? Those are all Dodgers. All ex-Dodgers, of course. It's become a hot ticket to the postseason. The team that can't find its way back to the playoffs is specializing in helping others reach October. There are a staggering 13 former Dodgers involved in the playoffs. Every time you turn on the TV, they multiply like rabbits. The Cubs have Karros, Grudzielanek and Goodwin. The Giants have Marquis Grissom Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1992, Herges would make his Major League Baseball debut with and Felix Rodriguez Not to be confused with Felix Rodriquez, guitar player in the Swedish band, The Sounds. Felix Rodriguez is a common personal name that can refer to different people:
Woe to the clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. Twins, who are Dodgerless. They just haven't caught on to a good thing. The ex-Dodgers could put together a decent starting playoff team. Let's see, how would most teams fair against this lineup: Grissom (OF), Grudzielanek (2B), Sheffield (SS, original position), Karros (1B), Garcia (OF), Hollandsworth (OF), Harris (3B), Melhuse (C) and Martinez (SP). That leaves Lilly, Herges and Rodriguez in the bullpen, Goodwin to pinch run. Dodgers general manager Dan Evans, who is responsible for moving a half-dozen of the 13, said he's watched just about every pitch of the playoffs and did notice there were a few ex-Dodgers. Evans said it's the way of the baseball world these days; players are more transient than 20 years ago. ``A guy who is not a real good fit for whatever reason on your club, if he goes and fits somewhere else, that's fine,'' Evans said. ``He just didn't fit for you. I don't think you make decisions based on what he may do for his future club. ``Sometimes guys pop up on rosters. It doesn't mean you made the right or wrong decision. It just means what happened to them worked out for them. If you worry about what happens with the other clubs, you'll never make a deal.'' A willingness to make a deal has not been a Dodgers problem. Only if it's not irksome enough to watch ex-Boys in Blue succeed elsewhere, there's what the club received in return for this group. For Karros and Grudzielanek, there is Todd Hundley. He hit more than .211 once in his previous four seasons and seemed to constantly battle injury. Anyone stunned when it happened again here? For this, he was paid $6.5 million. And he has one year left on his deal for another $6.5 million. Also coming in the deal, outfielder Chad Hermansen (career average: .200), who spent most of the season in the minors. For MVP-candidate Sheffield the Dodgers received left-hander Odalis Perez and Brian Jordan, soon to become a free agent and last seen actually in a Dodgers uniform sometime around Easter. In return for Herges, it was reliever Guillermo Mota and Wilkin Ruan, but that about ends it. ``I like that deal,'' Evans said. Evans said there are players from almost every club playing for the eight teams in the playoffs, and although that might be true to an extent, I don't see a lot of ex-Angels out there. J.T. Snow? Evans said he's more concerned that when the team set its 25-man roster at the end of August, it did not boast a single Dodger drafted in the first or second round. ``That bothers me a heck of a lot more than who I'm watching on TV in October,'' he said. That's a good thing because former Dodgers are everywhere. When you can't produce a winner yourself, at least you can help someone else. ``My biggest disappointment is there aren't 25 current Dodgers still playing,'' Evans said. Well, there is that. |
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