“not at the table carlos!”

(“well played, Garkle, well played”)

Oh, and:
“Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.”
“Godzilla destroys cities! I hate him too!”
“It’s not a purse. It’s a satchel. Indiana Jones has one.”

I’m glad someone else is taking up the Kemp Crusade. When Bob Melvin batted Justin Upton 8th for a couple of weeks earlier this year, it was a travesty, the biggest managerial blunder in recorded history. When not busy shrieking like banshees, rending their garb and loosing their bowels over the issue, people were lining up guillotines for a shot at the guy’s neck, and sure enough, they got it, and sooner rather than later. How is the Kemp situation, esp. in a lineup with no Ramirez, any different? They’re extremely analogous players at proximate points in their developmental curves, and the stupidity of the move is equally self-evident in both cases. No one calls for that dingbat Torre’s head, though. I’m sick of this guy and his bullshit. Granted, he’s got talent in managing egotistical personalities, and that’s a valuable skill, one a lot of people definitely do not have. But he could be doing the same thing as a regional director for HHS, or as a project manager at Raytheon, or as a provost at the University of Alabama. Anything, really, as long as he had the teensiest, tiniest competency in the subject matter, the personality is more important than intellect or technical expertise. That’s all he is in baseball, a people manager with a very rote and small-minded approach to the game. He knows what he knows from his time in the game to date and doesn’t really want to know any more. He lacks intellectual curiosity and vigor, he has no desire to engineer new tactical or strategic approaches based on any new knowledge or understanding of the game. He’s not going to have any Damascene moment, because unlike Melvin, he had enough easy-won success to insulate himself from extremely vocal criticism. So us Kemp owners are left to accept 60 or 80 less ABs this year (or whatever it may be), while watching a chode like James Loney rack up 120+ RBI. It’s a damn shame, watching the whole affair unfold is like Chinese water torture. As someone who grew up watching and loving the Dodgers (as the Brewers almost never made television in those days), it pains me to say it, but I wish to god the kid would be dealt to a more progressive team. Oh well, at least he’s presently _claiming_ that he won’t hand Pierre Kemp’s job when Ramirez comes back. Of course, saying that now and doing the right then when the time comes are two very different things.

Is this Coghlan kid gonna hit lefties at some point? The .167 SLG vs lefties is untenable.

I cannot wait to see The Hangover. Looks hilarious.