The Good Stuff
Not in any order of importance
1. Chad Billingsley's continued development into the ace of the Dodger staff.
2. Clayton Kershaw's rapid ascension into the rotation
3. Hong-Chih Kuo becoming the best setup man in baseball
4. Blake DeWitt's April/May and Sept
5. Mannywood
6. Hiroki Kuroda breaking Ned's bad streak of free agent busts
7. Matt Kemp proving he can play centerfield
8. Andre Ethier ripping 3.5 off his resume and becoming a real force
9. Russel Martin's all-star 1st half
10. Vin Scully
11. Winning our 1st playoff series in 20 years and doing it in fine style
12. Rafy Furcal's 1st four weeks of dynamite baseball
13. Cory Wade's season from nowhere
14. Chan Ho Park's semi successful return
15. Nomar playing SS one last time and giving us one last walk off home run
16. The Boston/Dodger Coliseum Game
17. Playing baseball in China
18. Carlos Santana breaking out in High A
The Bad Stuff
1. Andruw Jones
2. Rafael Furcal's Back
3. Blake DeWitt's June/July
4. Andy LaRoche's failure to impress
5. Carlos Santana getting traded
6. Chad Billingsley pitching horribly against the Phillies
7. Jeff Kent's body giving out
8. Russel Martin's powerless 2nd half
9. Loney's double plays
10. Berroa getting 200 at bats while putting up a 62 OPS+
12. Chin-Ling Hu making the Mendoza line looking good
13. To much bad Penny
14. Still no Schmidt
15. Mark Sweeney putting up one of the worse pinch hitting seasons in history
Feel free to add to the good and the bad.
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Here’s to an even better 09.
Linix129 - December 31, 2008
Play Specific...
The Good
Nomar’s diving save against Arizona
Loneyslam
Blake DeWitt’s Inside-The-Park homerun
The Bad
Broxton in San Francisco
Brewers 50-time Gold Glove Outfield
Rain-Delay Bills
The Ugly
Matt Stairs.
-Jacob Burch, who needs a new SBNation login.
Jacob Burch - December 31, 2008
re:
Great additions. How could I forget the Loney slam. One of the greatest playoff shots in LA Dodger playoff history?
Phil Gurnee - December 31, 2008
A few additions
Good
1) Seeing “The Infield” toss out the first pitches before NLCS Game 3. I was hoping they would get to do that, and it worked out since Lopes is the 1B coach for the Phillies
2) Russell Martin & Matt Kemp jumping into the pavilion in the celebration following the sweep of the Cubs. I was sitting a few feet away and reveling in the joy, and also hoping like hell neither man got hurt
3) Joe Beimel’s custom-made uniform/robe. Awesome.
Bad
Getting the wind knocked out of me when Matt Stairs crushed Broxton’s pitch roughly 450 feet
Eric Stephen - December 31, 2008
re:
From the point after Kuo was removed I have erased all memory of that game. If Ned had released Sweeney and traded for Stairs would we be World Champions?
Phil Gurnee - December 31, 2008
Without Hyperbole I Can Say
we would have without a doubt won every playoff game if the de facto Sweeney/Stairs swap happened! :)
Eric Stephen - December 31, 2008
Some off the field and media stuff
Mixed bag, but not all bad.
“That’s why the call me the Bison.”
Plaschke’s endorsement of James McDonald.
“The Baseball Boogie”
Troy from WV.
The end of FJM.
StolenMonkey86 - January 3, 2009
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