The lineup gets a pickmeup

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The world did not end when Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games, and after going 29-21 without the slugger, he returns Friday night.


The team needs to get going

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Ya, the Dodgers are 49-29 and yes they have the best record in baseball still, but the fact remains that things are not going great for the Boys in Blue.

A very, very big win

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As losers of four out of their last five, and with the Giants and Rockies both thinking they are creeping back into the National League West race, Monday night's 4-2 win over the Rockies was a big win.

The List

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Putting together an updated list will hopefully break me out of my funk and get me off my lazy ass.

Manny's return just around the corner

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Manny Ramirez is starting his rehab assignment on Tuesday when the Albuquerque Isotopes host the Nashville Sounds.
Manny will apparently play three games in New Mexico, and then move into the California League when the Inland Empire 66ers play at Lake Elsinore and then at home against Rancho Cucamonga.
That will take him up until July 1 when IE travels to Visalia. Whether he goes there remains to be seen, but just a couple of days later he'll rejoin the Dodgers.
He'll be back on July 3 when the club is in San Diego. That, my friends, is only nine games from now.
Yes, 41 games have passed since it felt like the world was coming to an end, and somehow it has not. The Dodgers have been better than good, going 25-16 without him, which is a .610 winning percentage. That over the course of a season would win you close to 100 games.
So now we know the plan as far as Manny's return, so here comes the big question...

Two of three from the Halos; Palehose next

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It was frickin' fantastic to see the Dodger roll into the Big A and take two out of three from the Angels, in fact, it should have been a sweep, but I'll live with it.

And the stopper is...Jeff Weaver?

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Friday night's loss upset me to the point where if I would have typed anything it would have been about nine words long, or a diatribe filled with foul language and unchecked rage.
So, I decided to wait a day, but I figured I'd be writing about the Dodgers losing the first two games and needing Clayton Kershaw to be the stopper.
But Jeff Weaver shut me up.

Slumps aplenty

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Seven very important members of the Dodgers are going through varying degrees of slumps currently. Some aren't too bad, but some are horrible.
Let's take a look.

Oaktown comes to Dodgertown

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So I was sitting on my couch watching the Dodgers game last night with a buddy of mine, who is an A's fan. As you guys probably know, I live in Berkeley which is literally connected to Oakland.
I could seriously walk to Oakland in about five minutes. You guys that live in Los Angeles know all about going from town to town in a matter of minutes.
And despite what you think, Oakland isn't all that bad.