True Blue LA

Is that Kuiper doing the Jeremiah Johnson thing?

Bumgarner

I think he becomes the Giants best pitcher this year and if a Giants pitcher wins another CY Young in the next 5 years it will be he, not Lincecum that does so. Dude is a badass.

Total badass.

He’s going to be god for years upon years.

Damn, if he’s god what is Kershaw a flipping angel?

jim hitchcock (railway) - February 7, 2012 reply

double god

court168627 - February 7, 2012 via Android app reply

The Giants are Dead to me.

You should do this with the Dodgers once you are done with our competitors. This is a great way to consolidate a winters worth of work into one post that even the most ardent ADHD person could probably finish.

i take that as a challenge, sir.

court168627 - February 7, 2012 via Android app reply

Yeah, that was the plan. It could get ugly.

Let me know the day so I can skip breakfast

Fade to (Rebecca) Black

I started the Colorado review last night, and they have made a whopping 10 trades involving at least one major league player since the end of the season. Trader Dan up there.

Clippers on the road against the Magic, lose Billups, lose a nine point fourth qtr lead, have DJordon foul out, Evans foul out, down by four after two straight 3 pointers in overtime and…………..

win and cover.

Impressive

Clippers have to be careful, if they keep turning corners they may end up going in a circle

Never seen you so smitten

You missed the Cassel years

Darick Martin was so dreamy

Josie

Clippers still number one in road attendance in all the NBA after eight games. By almost 400 over the Lakers.

If the NBA is great at anything, it’s advertising it’s best wares

Billups finds out his fate today.

he had a good run

sometimes i wish we had an equivalent of the “beat LA” chant for the giants, and then i remember how completely pathetic that chant is

court168627 - February 7, 2012 via Android app reply

We do, it is called “Giants Suck” and yes, it is even more pathetic then “beat LA”. Kudos to our brilliant fans.

A chant with it’s own blog

o. i guess i never heard it in the two giants games ive been to. fans are stupid people.

court168627 - February 7, 2012 via Android app reply

I say “Let’s Go Blue” when that music plays.

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

a much better chant, no doubt.

court168627 - February 7, 2012 via Android app reply

Let’s Go Dodgers, Let’s Go

Yeah I'm all for a positive chant

To drown out their dumb negative one. “Let’s Go Dodgers” starts up sometimes at AT&T Park, which makes me happy (especially when there are a good number of Dodger fans there and when Dodgers are winning). Beat LA is just beyond tiresome at this point.

Craig, I love when Dodgers win in Pac Bell, and all the Dodger fans chant “Lets go Dodgers” heading to the parking lots, and completely take over that stadium, ive seen videos, looks like a ton of fun.

It is really fun.

Walking down those things, it makes me soooo happy. They even do that when the Dodgers lose, though.

I’ve always gone for the good ‘ol “Here we go Dodgers”, but hey, as long as you’re proclaiming it, it’s fine with me.

Barry Sucks!

Barry sucks was much better though

The Stuntmen - February 7, 2012 reply

didn’t the “beat LA” schtick start with the Celtic fans back in the day?

back then they owned the chant and owned the Lakers. If anyone was ever someone’s punching bag it was the Lakers for the Celtics until Magic showed up, which is why he’s the greatest of all the Los Angeles Sports Icons.

And he did it with style. So L.A became not only the better squad, but the cooler squad.

yeah. back when there was like 8 teams, whoopty doo

Finals are finals, what does the number of teams have to do with anything when only two teams are left standing but only one walked away with a championship every single season?

all I know is since ive been put of earf, Its Lakers 10 Celtics 4… shit I aint no bunching bag haha

Selective endpoints.

especially when he becomes our next owner!

So when the dodgers get past the Phillies in the NLCS with Kemp hitting 7 home runs and Kershaw pitching two shutouts, are they on the path to being on Magic’s level?

Not even close

i thinkj i flagged this when i was trying to reccomend it.

stevesaxaphone - February 8, 2012 reply

1982 Western Conference Finals…in a loss.

The most impressive thing accomplished in Boston since the Revolutionary War.

Right, Detroit beat them

and they chanted BEAT LA for the Pistons

Philly

Really?

Wow, I’ve been thinking it was Detroit for years now.

It was the second straight year the 76ers had a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals over Boston. In 1981, the Celtics came back to beat Philadelphia (and beat 40-42 Houston in the Finals). In 1982, the Celtics forced Game 7 again, but the 76ers managed to get the win in Boston. When it became clear late in the fourth quarter the 76ers would move on, the Celtics fans started the chant (the Lakers already made it to the Finals).

You are confusing the shit out of me with this Boston, 76ers talk in the Western Conference Finals.

ditto

Since I knew the story

that part didn’t confuse me.

Yeah, I figured it out but had to reread it and then I kept doubting myself on it. Did the NBA experiment with conference names in the early 80s or something. But more likely that Eric is experimenting with something this AM.

Obviously it is

West Coast Bias.

David Young - February 7, 2012 reply

To bad about Burrell retiring, I will have to find another whipping dog, but at least he lived up to his whipping, he did just enough in the regular season in 2010 to get significant at bats in the post season to almost ruin things for them.

Or he replacing Rowand with Burrell was the difference between the Padres and the Giants missing the playoffs :(

I can’t believe I missed the #noso-and-so subthread. It was hilarious.

That was a lot of fun.

From MSTI

n a related topic, no one – Shaikin included, and he’s unquestionably the media leader as far as this story goes – seems to want to acknowledge the existence of upstart Josh Macciello. We still haven’t seen any official word that he’s made it to the second round of bidding, other than suggestions from his own Twitter feed, but it’s beginning to sound like he’s prepared to drop a ludicrous amount of money to get in the game. How much? He tweeted last night that his bid was "almost double" that of others, and then this morning Mike Szymanski in something called the Studio City Patch (where the picture at right is from) puts a number to that bid:

Sources close to the deal confirm that the bid he laid out recently is about $2.2 billion for the Dodgers and the stadium. Macciello would only confirm that, "with the money I’m bidding, I could buy three sport teams."

Is that for real? I have absolutely no idea. But I do know that if someone like him is going to have a prayer of a chance in this, he’s going to have to completely blow all of the other bids out of the water, and I can’t imagine anyone’s topping $2.2b right now.

You know, I kind of like this guy.

If you are going to excerpt something, please provide the link as well.

he could bid 5B

i just dont picture the owners approving him in a million years

to get to this stage in the process, i thought josh was already cleared by baseball. your saying mccourt choses the winner then has to present the guy to baseball for approval? i see frank sueing if the winner is turned down.
i kinda think the highest bid is good for business cuz it ups the value of the other teams, so the owners wouldn’t care.

The current stage is the right to have MLB put on the rubber gloves.

I bid 8b!

he just moved up to #1 spot for me ahead of Magic.

yeah Im with you on that, sounds like a guy thats going to spend shitloads on payroll, a fan that wants to win, and isnt in this for business it seems like.

or he’s a guy who grew up in New York, is an opportunist and is saying all the right things.

yeah, maybe.

just curious, are you saying he might move team to NY? Just seems bidding 2.2 billion, if true, isnt a smart business move, which teams me he isnt in this for business, but as a hobby, to spend grips of loot on…. We shall see though, who knows.

I have no reason to believe he is a Dodger fan at all, and I think he is just going through with this charade to get publicity.

the way he's gone about it

Gives me that feeling as well

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Hmmm maybe.

oh I see… yeah could be true.

I’ll ask him this Saturday.

publicity for what? he’s a billionaire.
if he was a lowly millionaire actor i could see the reason for the attention. but in this case its of no use to him. he comes off as a regular joe, family guy, who loves baseball.
also theres no logic too in bringing the dodgers to NY. why take the franchise there when the city is owned by the yankees. here in LA, the dodgers are the main show.

I never said he would move to the Dodgers to NY; Chris misinterpreted that.

a billionaire that no one had heard of before

“I’m from Philadelphia, we never talk about things like that in public.”

I Heard You Paint Houses

Well, in that case, if he wants to buy 3 sports teams, get the Lakers too, because Jimmy is messing it up, doesnt know shit, then if you can, NFL team please, thanks.

You poor Laker fan

lol what man?? Im still a Laker, but I know the IT factor when I see it, and Jimmy Buss just doesnt have IT… his dad does, he doesnt…. Jerry cant live forever, and until proven otherwise, were screwed with his son.

Chris in 1961

I know the IT factor when I see it, and John Wooden just doesnt have IT. Sure he wins 70% of his games, but he never wins the big game. UCLA is screwed.

A more likely occurence

Back in 2000, USC hired the wrong guy, has no college experience and was a so so NFL coach.

1859

“This Lincoln guy… I just don’t know. He never went to a formal school, and he’s failed twice in his Senate bids. I mean, if he can’t win a Senate seat in Illinois, then he’s got no future.”

ishXdavid - February 7, 2012 reply

Ok

From

From

MSTI

I kind of feel like calling bullsh*t on him.

BS that he has that kind of money and BS that he’d spend that much money on a sports franchise, when that much money is a losing proposition… but hard not to find him interesting, too.

Jared Kushner a prospective Dodgers owner

according to LA times he’s snuck in under the radar …

The bid would be funded primarily by the Kushner family, whose net worth is not publicly available. In 2006, the Kushner Cos. bought a Manhattan office complex for $1.8 billion — at the time, the highest price paid for an office building in the United States, according to the New York Times.

$1.8 billion just for a building? my guess he can afford the team.

You buried the lede

He’s Trump’s son in law

yes. imagine Ivanka being our first lady …

Softballl Players

Will will be using ASA rules for bats. I contacted them today and told them that is what I want. I will make a post on the site later today.
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by M.Brown on Feb 7, 2012 12:31 AM PST reply actions

Is that why he wasn’t coaching the Lakers last night?

Who is this Grant Frisbee guy talkin shit about the Dodgers?

That’s Maddz ex-bf. :)

you have one sex dream…

Maddz - February 7, 2012 reply

nice

NotJoeTorre - February 7, 2012 reply

Classic

Roberto Baly uncovered a 1984 car insurance commercial with Ross Porter and Mike Marshall. It’s for FGS Insurance. I actually called the number at the end of the commercial, and it is Dashers Insurance now.

Dashers Dashers, tststststststststs, Dashers Dashers, tststststststst

Ha, i almost typed the exact same thing.

Apparently that’s a catchy jingle.

Anyone feel like Vogelsong

after his two year contract, is due to come back to earth this year? Or is he destined to prove he’s for “real”?

Yep. Hopefully it means turning back into Ryan Vogelsong and not just pitching to his peripherals.

Yep.

He already started coming down end of last year.

He will be good but not that good

I hope he is both Ryan Vogelsong and the best pitcher on their staff.

Who will have a better season

Vogelsong (still sounds like the name of a skinhead punk group out from Fullerton) or Harang?

Harang

Man that’s tough. Leaning Vogelsong but could easily be wrong.

Really? Why so low on Vogelsong? From the sound of things, you think Harang’s terrible. Is Vogelsong that due for regression?

Was bad in Pittsburgh for four years. Banished to Japan for three more where he was average. Sent to AAA for a year where he was bad. Suddenly good in the bigs.

These kind of comeback stories come up from time to time. We don’t remember the next season where they crash back to earth.

Usually they involve Dave Duncan.

Rhigetti is right there IMO

Thanks. I hope you’re right. His second half was considerably worse than his first.

Colby Lewis

Joel Pinero

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

I just went with a bad pitcher banished to Japan and came back good

At least Colby was big in Japan.

I’ll let you know in July.

OT warning for comic/video game talk (z on Xei)

So I’ve been playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. I wish I was home playing it now instead of here at work. Arkham City will most likely be the end if me.

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

What took you so long to play it?

Just a general winding down of my gaming habits. I have a ton of games I never finished, just for the simple reason I didn’t feel like playing.

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

The UPS truck couldn’t deliver to his mom’s basement

hey pal, I have a room in the second floor

I’m top shelf talent

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Just f’ing with you.

I know

Just giving it back :)

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

I suck at it. Right now I can’t get past some Penguin goons that have a few hostages. So, I’ve dropped it for a few days.

Asylum is better then City

but City has so much to do you just can’t put it down.

Maybe that's the one I've got

I honestly didn’t notice

you have city

Games with that much to do usually have me staying away(not a GTA fan, though they are good games), but it is Batman

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Its more directed then that

I’m the same way but there is usually a reason to do the side quests, as they are usually associated with a villian doing nefarious things and you can go and stop them instead of doing the main quest. The riddler trophy stuff is too much in city though.

I'm having fun with the Riddler stuff right now

But yeah, I imagine it x1000 in City

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

18 spring training games will be broadcast in HD (three from the Freeway Series)

Of the 15 TV games in Arizona, Monday & Steiner will call 8 and Collins & Lyons will call 7.

I’ll have a post about this shortly, but about to head into a meeting

I promise not to complain about the limited camera angles.

it’s Spring fucking Training. You want them to bring 40 cameras and Madonna?

Whoa…looks like someone’s a bit testy this morning.

Gonna need a refresh shortly?

Awesome. That’s a departure from the low-tech “spring-training” feel they’d been going for the past few years.

It looks like Vin Scully won’t call any Dodgers spring training games in Arizona. First game with Vin is Apr 3 vs. Angels (Freeway Series)

I hate the freeway series

I still don’t understand why it butts up exactly against the season. Baseball is a seriously masochistic sport regarding scheduling.

I hate interleague play, I love the freeway series

Why?

because it’s the American League and National League, not American Conference and National Conference. Separate schedules.

In this world without interleague, freeway series is a warm up for Dodger Stadium before the season starts, with a local friendly opponent

Yeah interleague is silly. So is the Freeway series. It also ruins for the me the freshness of opening day by playing the games at the respective ML Stadiums.

so you’d rather DS make a whole bunch of mistakes opening day, with the stadium full?

As opposed to now?

What kind of mistakes?

“Hey does this stove work?”

“OMG, EVERYONE’S ON FIRE!”

The kind of mistakes that happen when you have 20% employee turnover who have never worked a major league game before, the kind that happens when you have not done a part time job in six months and have to figure it all out again, the kind that happens when you have new procedures that never got ironed out because someone thought it would be a great idea to have an opening day without any testing done with maybe a half stadium pre season game?

To summarize: nacho cheese pump training.

the opening day food lines are already atrocious, imagine them with an unskilled nacho pumper?

I don't want to Josie

………….I don’t want to………

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

I watched an old man try to replace one for 5 minutes one time

made me miss some precious baseball.

Do you really think 2 pre season games iron out those potential problems? and are you guys saying that thats the reason for the Freeway series?

There are 100 reasons for a Freeway series and all of them are valid.

It must make money.

and I still hate it.

seriously, if my garlic fries arent up to standards by opening day, we gots problems.

We could play USC and charge the season ticket holders and piss them off even more

haha, I remember going to a Dodger game vs USC when I was young.

Mark McGwire played in that series

did he really? dam I didnt think it was that long ago, thought maybe it was early 90s or so.

Yeah, totally sucks for Mariner fans to get to watch Matt Kemp hit a baseball. Silly shit.

They already have BJ Ryan dude

they can watch the All Star Game! : )

yeah I never got why people are so against interleague…. Gives people a chance to see a team play here they wouldnt normally ever see, and vice versa.

I don't like that it leads to unbalanced schedules

but if they could balance the schedules better I would have no problem with it.

also gives me a chance to see the Dodgers use a DH once in awhile, which also isnt so bad IMO.

It’s a schedule thing for me too. PLus most baseball fans can watch any team on TV if they want.

At least we have a DH this year in Rivera.

Actually

with more games available on TV, that argument becomes less compelling.

Does it, watching TV equates to watching a game in person? TV camera’s can never equate to watching the whole game unfold before you very eyes as you know the jump the fielder got, how the players shift before each pitch, …………..

or everything that makes baseball interesting.

as long as I’m not in the section with the drunk dude I’m with you on that.

Im talking about Live though…. We got to see Yankees play here, when was the last time that happened? early 80s? Boston fans got to see the Dodgers play at Fenway, has that ever happened before interleague? I mean, anytime in the last 50 years atleast.

Just drive down to Anaheim

and you can see all the AL teams play.

LA is not the only place in existence

although sometimes I feel like it should be.

I would think interleague

would be less of a big deal in cities like LA, NY and Chitown that have teams from both leagues. Still nice to see the Dodgers/Yankees actually play each other, but they play in Anaheim twice a year.

yeah but Dodgers vs Yanks is a historical matchup, not Yankees and Angels…. Its not that im a huge interleague fan, I just dont mind it at all, its something different, whats wrong with something different? I just dont get the hate for it, but whatever.

Fifty years of playing each other isn’t historical?

Im just saying IMO Yankees vs Angels doesnt have the power that a Yankees vs Dodgers matchup has, whatever shape the current teams are in. Even though Dodgers rarely play the Yanks.

Dodgers v Yankees loses some of its luster if they play often enough in the regular season. Plus our ex-Yankee manager will want to beat them so bad that he will blow out the arm of our best relief pitcher in those games.

Next time Broxton should get the three outs before throwing 100 pitches. Can’t be that hard.

Sums up my

basic feelings about this.

Its the manager’s job to pull the pitcher when he can’t do his job.

Torre was on hold, scheduling Broxton’s MRI and couldn’t get him out in time.

Tell that to Seattle

when Portland gets an NL team, this will all be moot

He was talking about

WE.

Okay

I love Interleague play
I hate the whining about unbalanced schedules resulting from interleague play.

I would like to see Matt Moore and Evan Longoria in Dodger Stadium and not have to drive to Anaheim.

It would be nice if they simply met in a WS but I couldn’t afford the ticket even if that happened so inter-league play works for me.

I can sell you my

2009 World Series tickets for a lot less.

plus I hate the Angels, and love playing them 6 times a year, even though they always kick our ass everytime. But hopefully things will return to how it should be, and we’ll own that ass, and I look forward to that. Just dont take that matchup away from me, please.

for me, Angels::Dodgers as Clippers::Lakers.
I like them both and don’t feel the hate for the other team. Just like Dodgers/Lakers a little more.

for some reason seattle was where my mind went too

to too?

or is too alone fine there? Mr F I need you!

Interesting that someone

whose real memories of baseball probably consist of inter league play (around since 1997) would not like it.

I'm thinking of a word

it starts with an h and rhymes with hipster

…

Vin can interview the new owner

during that game.

So Josh, you seem a bit unusual, can you tell us about yourself?

You know my favorite line for years on TV

was “You’re fired.”

How long does a type A free agent have to stay on the market until a team can get him without giving up draft picks?

Who is out there?

Kelly Johnson.

No he’s not. God damn ESPN.

He accepted arb, right?

Yep.

My link

is the story on ESPN.com about him accepting arbitration

Johnson accepted arbitration back in December

He is not a free agent

and they are both of the soon to be formerly known as Type B

There are only two compensation free agents left

the draft

Does this look enjoyable?

Depressing

I think a Lion would enjoy it

Quick someone put a picture of a smiling Todd Coffey behind it.

Has Todd Coffey de-throned Juan Uribe?

Coffey doesn’t even fit in the throne he’s so big.

Bread doesnt even look toasted

I enjoyed this.

right

The Wild Turkey looks ok

the fuck is that?

If you say a sandwich, you are lying

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Assloads of bacon between two slices of bread.

bacon on a plate of bread with bread on top for stability

No, but thanks for the subject header.

The Wild Turkey does.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/qa-logan-white-drafting-dodger/

Fangraphs Q&A with Logan White

Logan White seems to have selective memory regarding the Kershaw draft. Funny how Mr. Morris has slipped his memory. Wonder how his biomechanics graded?

I wish they had at least asked about Mike Stanton

Love the Chris Reed report.

interesting to see how much faith he still has in Ethan Martin

Agree about the Chris Reed part. His enthusiasm got me amped.

Is it? What is he going say at this point? We blew the pick and he will never amount to squat and everyone else but me was probably right that he should have stayed at 3rd base? The guy is still in the system, he can’t throw him under the bus yet.

he might believe everything he said, but ……………… I doubt it.

saving face maybe but Martin’s stuff is top notch

NotJoeTorre - February 7, 2012 reply

I thought the story with Morris

was if Kershaw wasn’t available, they would have taken Morris at 7.

That is my understanding

White's Interviews Always Seem To Contain Some Howlers

Bringing up Halladay when cornered on the subject of Ethan Martin is rich. Halladay did very well in High A at 19 after being completely skipped past Low A, and he was pitching in Triple A at 20.

CanuckDodger - February 7, 2012 reply

and was in the majors before he encountered that “brief” trouble he had.

"Not to be disrespectful to the other teams, or to those players, but Chris Reed was absolutely who we considered the best guy. When we picked, there were a number of good players we passed on, and it was because we really liked Chris Reed. I think we found a diamond in the rough out of Stanford.

I’m holding on to this quote.

So White Wanted Reed Over Stephenson?

Didn’t we hear a great deal about the Dodgers wanting Stephenson but Stephenson wanted too much money? White can’t be trusted to tell the truth in a situation like this.

CanuckDodger - February 7, 2012 reply

nobody can ever be trusted

good stuff

Interesting comment on Matt Moore

Tommy Blackjack - February 7, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Basically

Matt Moore should be a Dodger

Mike Stanton

Kershaw / Moore

Kemp / Stanton

Good God Almighty

Mike Stanton LOOKS like he should be a Dodger.

Ned blocks Moore with Capang. :)

If the Dodgers had a player as talented as Moore

he would be in the rotation.

Sure…but after injuries and poor performance from a vet. I don’t see him handing anything to anyone.

SS Dee Gordon.

Do you realize how few people go from the minors to a starting job in the bigs?

Injury to Furcal

Seriously name three players that just got handed a job out of Spring Training.

They don’t even have to be good. You can put Scott Sizemore on there.

Geronamo Berroa?
Pascual Perez’s crazy left-handed brother?

Steve Sax.

David Young - February 7, 2012 reply

They moved Kershaw up and to some extent Billingsley up

really fast. Some believe that jobs should be just handed to players but that is just not what happens. But Kershaw was called up in his second full-season of professional baseball and Bills came up in his third full pro season.

Ruby

Injury to Garland

and Moore would have probably started over Rubby if he was in our system

so your initial premise is flawed

Moore only got called up because of roster expansion.

Rubby would have been ahead of him on the depth chart?

The only reason the Rays called up Matt Moore was because the rosters went to 40 men.

Kershaw

Suckiness by Loaiza

Yes, the Dodgers didn’t just happen to have 4 men in the rotation and then decide to give Kershaw the job. Assuming there’s a full roster there will always be a reason somebody is called up and handed the job. Being a AA player and being considered better than the incumbent (Loiza) counts as being handed the job.

How about JMac

being handed the fifth starter job out of spring training

You have to remember that Loaiza was incredibly bad, though. If he was productive, do you honestly think Kershaw would have replaced him?

It would have been great cause Kershaw was kinda bad in his rookie year so if Loaiza was productive we’d get another year of service time out of him.

You are arguing that it’s better for young players to play even if it makes the team worse.

One Two Punches

ESPN radio had a short blurb on this morning about best one-two punches in sports. It started from a quote about Kobe/Shaq being one of the best one-two punches in NBA history. The guy mentioned Ruth/Gerhig as a baseball best one-two punch. I thought of Jordan/Pippen. Any thoughts on who you think the best one-two punches from any sport were and maybe who the best one-two punch in Dodgers history was/is.

Koufax/Drysdale

for Dodgers and maybe all of baseball

as far as Dodger hitters are concerned, it would be hard to argue against Duke and Campanella

At their peak

Drysdale (CYA 1962) and Koufax (CYA 1963, 1965, 1966, MVP 1963) were the best one two punch in Dodger history.

How about

current MLB teams. Doesn’t have to be both pitchers.

Kershaw / Kemp might be hard to beat

Free agency makes that difficult

Hard to get passed Manny and David Ortiz for their run.

best current 1-2 punch in baseball might be Fielder and Miggy. Last season it was probably Fielder and Braun, but we all know how that turned out.

also

Halladay/Lee might be a bit obvious but they’re both pretty damn nasty

In a hail of PEDs and vegan hot dogs?

Big Fed Machine
Halladay/Lee
But Kershaw/Kemp might be on top now

If we start adjusting for position and not just looking at dingers Pedroia/A-Gon might be hard to top.

Magic / Kareem had a nice run

Izturis / Cora

magic up the middle

/shoots self

ishXdavid - February 7, 2012 reply

I loved Iztruis/Cora, and so did Vin.

I did too

Shaq and Kobe were one of the best duos ever, maybe the best, but could have been so much more. If they got along, and Shaq had the work ethic Kobe did, who knows where they would of ended up. But I miss those days, and mostly miss Shaq’s power game. Watching Bynum and wishing he would just rise up and dunk that dam ball with 3 players on his back like Shaq did, make me miss Shaq that much more.

Shag and Kobe should been the greatest ever. SHOULD have won 6-8 titles. It’s amazing that in spite of all the bullshit they still won 3.

But since they were jerks, Jordan/Pippen stays number 1

The problem with Jordan / Pippen is the huge discrepancy between them. While with Magic / Kareem you did have two of the top five players in the league on the same team. Same with Kobe/Shaq.

Pip may be the best 2nd Banana ever. Gasol is another in that mold. Great players, but not top 5. THough Pippen sure was close. Top 5 defender to be certain.

They didn't win titles but for LA

West and Baylor were a great duo.

Yeah, but without the titles they simply remain a great duo

Best duo's not to win a title? (NBA edition)

Stockton/Malone
Weber/Bibby
Barkley/KJ
Payton/Kemp

and…

LeBron/Wade

well, at least not together. Hope their names stay on this board for years to come.

I thought about adding them, and really really want to…but you know…too soon….

my other Question is…Did Clyde the glide have a 2nd banana?

Terry Porter?

Yeah I guess it was Terry porter

Jerome Kersey

Buck Williams, Kevin Duckworth….

One of those guys you were happy to see be a Laker simply because he was on good teams

Sam Bowie

No contest

First is West and Baylor and then Malone and Stockton. No one else can enter this debate unless James and Wade never win a title.

Run TMC if you want three.

RUN TMC

For greatest underachievers in NBA history.

Weber / Bibby – good god man, get a grip

What you mean

He means they are not in the same class as the other great duos mentioned here.

Best duo in history

Bill Russell’s left side/ Bill Russell’s right side.

Julio Nievas - February 7, 2012 reply

Lopes and Cey?

Landon Donovan/David Beckham

thats funny

I figured the premise was goalscorer-goalscorer. That scratches out Becks. You could go Landon Donovan-Robbie Keane, but it’s not an all time pairing. Wayne Rooney-Chicharito, now that’s a one-two punch.

Messi/David Villa

yeah that’s it, that’s the winner.

But really, it would be Messi/Iniesta, right? Or Xavi?

I don’t follow the Spanish league too closely, I really don’t know.

I know that Barcelona has like three of the best players in the world.

it’s a winning machine!

not really

lampard and drogba is what you were looking for

maybe three-four years ago, sure

Carroll/Miles

Ray Lewis/Ed Reed

I wanted to say Manning/Harris but not sure that is in the same vein.

Marcus Allen/Bo Jackson

I was trying to think of best running back duos

but all I could come up with where Panthers for some reason. For football a lot of times people don’t talk about duos, but the trinity of QB/RB/WR. Emmit Aikman and Irvin for example.

Garner/Wheatley was great for a couple seasons

much of that is the use of one back sets, and the weakening of the fullback position.

well if you want to talk about great FB and HB duos

LT and that other guy are the most recent greats. But they never really put two HBs in the game at the same time in the past. Many teams these days use two backs, they just aren’t on the field at the same time.

Kelly, Thomas and Reed was good too, just not good enough to win a SB I guess

Marcus and Bo without a doubt…

My fav as a kid was Okoye and Word

Sayers / Dead guy

Jon has one Dodger player's attention

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