Dodgers 16, Angels 3

[Oeditpus Rex]

Dodgers get 25 hits — new franchise record. :woohoo:




O'course, this means they won't get any hits tomorrow. :eyes:




Sorry, Bertha.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Oeditpus Rex!

I hate like anything to see your threads go unanswered.....So...

Even though I haven't seen the game, and I'm not that much into sports...

Here I am, to get the ball rolling!

How are ya tonight?

I have 50 miles on my new car! :woohoo:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Hey, somethin' I've been wonderin'

What's it like to drive a car that hardly makes any noise?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. A good question!

But there is some noise......I'm not sure how I'd describe it.

Just a mechanical noise, I guess.....

At stop lights, it turns OFF.....then it is silent. Kinda strange, till you get used to it!

But I already am used to that, since my husband has had the Prius for a year now....

Sorry I can't be more precise!

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I think that'd weird me out

I mean, I've got a '65 Chevy with headers and three-inch dual exhaust through Flowmaster mufflers. It ain't quiet. :silly:

[reyd reid reed]

2. That had to be incredible to watch...

To listen to...

Heh...does Dodger Stadium sit on a fault line?

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Pretty close

See the fault that runs right above "Los Angeles" and cuts through "Pasadena"? That's maybe five miles from it.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Woohoo! Thanks Dodgers!!

And my Mariners thank you!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Carla in Ca]

7. Well, I for one am happy about it

If the Dodgers are going to finally pound out some hits, who better to do it to than the Angels. Man, they win one World Series and they think they own it. They have been what I consider an AAA ball club. But, I do acknowledge their little victory.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. One?

The Dodgers have won SIX World Series — five since they've been in LA — and 16 pennants — 22 if you go back to the earliest days of the National League.

Harumph. :spank:

[Carla in Ca]

11. I was referring to the Angels, silly!

You are talking to a gal that was taken to her first Dodger games when they were in the Coliseum.


If you visit my journal, you will see a story on Roy Campanella, a picture of me with my mom and dad from that period and a I also have a framed picture of Jackie Robinson "stealin' home" in my craft room.

Needless to say, I'm blue-blooded, or was. If baseball was run like basketball, I could learn to love it again.



:hi:

Edit to add photo

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Oh... yeah

I knew that. :crazy:

I'm tryin' to figure out who's the hitter in the photo of Robinson. Looks like it may be Pafko.

No idea who the catcher is, but you notice somethin'? Look at his position — he's diving out of his squat. That tells me Robinson got an amazing jump and the catcher barely saw him coming.

Ever see film of him stealing? He was at full speed in like five steps. Amazing.

There was a column by a guy named Mike Jackson with the Laguna Beach Post in 1958 that described his first trip to a game at the Coliseum from the POV of a mountain climber recounting it to an adventurers group. I wish it were online, because it's absolutely the funniest baseball-related piece I've ever read. I ain't fixin' to type the whole thing, but here's the last bits of it:

I put on my crampons, adjusted the oxygen, sipped two cc's of Geritol. At the fiftieth row, my Sherpa guide was through. We were at an altitude where no hot-dog vendor had ever trod. "Me pooped," he gasped. "You go. Take this." He gave me his Diner's Club card. I never saw him again.

I climbed on. Then, when it seemed I must give up, that no mortal could ever conquer this mass of stone and steel, I was in K-5, the fabled unreserved section. There were only twenty-seven more rows to go. They passed in a blur.

What can I say of my moment of triumph? I could not absorb its true import. Because sound travels more slowly than sight, I could hear the faint cheers left over from the USC-UCLA game. Due to the curvature of the earth, it was not possible to see the Dodger ball game itself. However, I did sight two girls in Oxnard playing Jacks. One was on her fivesies. We hope to bring you a full report of that contest in the very near future.

[Carla in Ca]

20. I took a picture of the plaque

and it looks like it is Pafko. The catcher was G'agiola.

My mom was here today and she read our posts. She got so excited when she saw the picture of the game at the Coliseum. She told me who was at each position, like it was just yesterday. What a memory! And now you know where I got my love of the Dodgers from. Even after my parents divorced, my mom and I went to as many games as we could. I loved going as a kid because I could dress up. Those were the days.

[Zomby Woof]

14. Thank you!

I am a true-blue Dodger fan too, and a week ago Saturday, I attended my first, and probably last, game in Anaheim when the Mariners came to town. The Angel fans are the most arrogant, boorish, entitled asswipes I have ever encountered, and I have been to many MLB games in cities north, south, east, and west. They come late to the game, and leave (give up) early. I like your analogy, a AAA team, and I'll add, with Grade F fans. :thumbsup:

[bumblebee1]

15. Man, there were always jokes about Dodger fans leaving the game early.

I explained to one of my co-workers when he mentioned it. I told him that traffic on any of the LA freeways can become backed up any time of the day or night. He now understands.

[Carla in Ca]

18. You nailed it, ZombyWoof

I'm only a few miles from it and I will never set foot in that place again. You are so right about the crowd. Typical OC conservative attitude. Those die hard fans with the monkeys and the cow bells are beyond insane. I also remember fans not being allowed to sit on either side of the bullpens years ago. The only good memory I have is seeing Rollie Fingers pitch. Now I'm really dating myself! I think I recall Garrett Anderson being the MVP the year they won the World Series and his picture was not on any T-shirts that I saw being sold. Figures.

And, the insult of all insults, they dare to put LA in their name. Disgusting.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. There was a deputy sheriff here

a big-time Angels fan who went down there for a game against Boston a couple years ago. Might've been the ALDS; I don't remember. Anyway, the Sox won, and on the way out of the yard, the deputy beat up some guy in a Sox jacket.

There was an internal investigation based partly on the OC police report. I don't remember the details, but suffice to say he won't be running for sheriff anytime soon. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure he's with the department here anymore.

[bridgit]

8. Go Dodgers...

:thumbsup:

[Arkham House]

13. What's the matter with the Angels?

Living on the East Coast, to be honest, I don't always keep up with the West Coast teams as much as I should...:-(...but you can't help avoid seeing things...a team with that kind of talent shouldn't be struggling as they are. Particularly a team with Vladimir Guerrero, which by the way is the coolest name since Angus Podgorny...an old friend of the family, in his 80s, told me last year that Guerrero was the best player he'd seen since Dimaggio, in that he could do everything so effortlessly well...

[SeattleGirl]

16. Whatever's wrong with 'em, I hope it stays wrong!

Go Mariners!

(And apologies to any DU Angels fans.....)

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. They must've eaten too much fresh fruit

No, that's not it...

Injuries. At least, that's what Monday and Steiner were saying during today's game (won 8-4 by the Dodgers :woohoo: ). One of 'em said the Angels now look like the Dodgers a year ago. And a year ago, my joke was, "The Dodgers don't have a clubhouse, they have a triage ward."