27-5
August 26, 2008 at 8:42 am | Posted in Crapulence, ineptitude | 9 CommentsThat would be the total in which the Dodgers were outscored in Philadelphia this weekend. What an embarrassment. This team doesn’t really deserve to make the playoffs – not that it ever really did – but Arizona did their best to help us out. If there was a half decent team in this division like all the others, by all rights the Dodgers would be 11 games out of first place and we wouldn’t have traded excellent prospects for guys like Casey Blake. There’s really nothing good you can take away from this series at all. The pitchers didn’t pitch (decent starts from Kuroda and Billingsley aside), the defense looked terrible at best and lazy at worst, and the offense.. my god, the offense. Who goes into Citizens Bank Park and has the offense disappear?
I can’t even talk about this debacle, so I’ll just leave you with some fun stats over the last 7 days, and while I’m not ready to say the season’s over just yet (not with two more series against Arizona), I will say that if the Blue don’t go into Washington and take at least two out of three, it’s time to pack it in.
Oh, and keep in mind with the stats below, the Dodgers played 7 games this week (some teams only played 5) and they were home against Colorado and in Philadelphia, not generally time you’ll see the offense fizzle. If they’d
played against good pitching, they might somehow have scored negative runs.
Dodgers, Last 7 Days (MLB Rank):
Runs: 14 (30th of 30th)
BA: .250 (22nd)
OBP: .296 (25th)
SLG: .336 (29th)
OPS: .632 (29th)
RBI: 11 (30th)
ERA: 5.69 (25th)
Wins: 1 (tied, 30th)
If this team misses the playoffs and finishes at or below .500, there’s no way Ned Colletti can retain his job, right?
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Buck up, little trooper, it’s not all bad. That was a gruesome series and getting 13 hits but no runs made me die a little inside, but the gNats, D’Bags, and MaxiPadres are coming up. Then some more poor teams, the highlight of which will be when they play Pittsburgh and Andy LaRoche hits two walk-off HRs when Sturtze is pitching the 9th of a tie game.
Comment by b.rock— August 26, 2008 #
You’re not wrong when you say the schedule coming up is pretty lousy.
Of course, losing to THOSE teams might be cause to just disband the entire organization.
Comment by Mike Scioscia's tragic illness— August 26, 2008 #
Actually, I found an article that said sources close to the situation almost guaranteed Colletti’s job security beyond this season. Ugh.
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Also, I was really hoping that Carlos Santana would suck when he went to the Indians. So much for that hope. :o
Comment by Fire Ned Colletti Now— August 26, 2008 #
FNCN, wasn’t that article written just after Manny was acquired and rumors were all over the place about Ned being canned, but that moved probably saved his job? I would think that still meant the Dodgers making the playoffs (and frankly getting Manny SHOULD have been a guarantee to make the playoffs move), for Ned to be safe. How in the world can one have a 120M payroll, be able to acquire two future HOF’s, not make the playoffs, possibly even finish under 500 and still keep their job? It just can’t happen and if it does, I weep for this off-season when Ned has 40-50M to spend. (actually I’ll weep anyway unless the Dodgers are World Champs)
Comment by Throwdeuce— August 26, 2008 #
Jeff Kent, from the end of the LA Times game recap…
“I’m not a wizard…”
http://tinyurl.com/5oaltl
Comment by dane bramage— August 26, 2008 #
I don’t get it. The offense disappeared (unexpected, considering the park and the fact that there’s a lot of good hitters in there), the pitching was unexpectedly bad, and the defense was even worse than could be expected… and so Colletti should get fired?
Comment by BlueMamma— August 26, 2008 #
Mamma, I’ve thought Ned was a lousy GM long before this series in Philadelphia. I didn’t mean it in a “I think he should get fired” way, though, but more in a “after another season of spending McCourt’s money and making lousy trades, I can’t see him keeping the job with only a .500 season to show for it.”
Comment by Mike Scioscia's tragic illness— August 26, 2008 #
Throwdeuce-No, it was on Yahoo not too long ago.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-dodgers081908&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
BlueMamma-All that stuff will lead to calls for those who run the team to take responsibility.
However, I for one, don’t care about all that stuff. He should be fired for his incompetence in signings and trades, plain and simple.
Comment by Fire Ned Colletti Now— August 27, 2008 #
[...] August 26th: 27-5 That would be the total in which the Dodgers were outscored in Philadelphia this weekend. What an embarrassment. This team doesn’t really deserve to make the playoffs – not that it ever really did – but Arizona did their best to help us out. If there was a half decent team in this division like all the others, by all rights the Dodgers would be 11 games out of first place and we wouldn’t have traded excellent prospects for guys like Casey Blake. There’s really nothing good you can take away from this series at all. The pitchers didn’t pitch (decent starts from Kuroda and Billingsley aside), the defense looked terrible at best and lazy at worst, and the offense.. my god, the offense. Who goes into Citizens Bank Park and has the offense disappear? [...]
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