Once left for dead by luminaries such as SHARK, the Dodgers are now in 1st place.

They've gone 25-6 in the last 31 games, their best such stretch in 55 years.

No more hot seat for Donny Baseball.

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I believe by Boers also

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Is Hanley Ramirez an MVP candidate?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Not with the time he has missed

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I kept waiting to make the Don Mattingly shout out thread. First I waited for .500, then for first place, then I needed a little bit of a lead

Peeps beat me to it.


Humbly request a mention of Donny Baseball in the thread title

41 and 8 in their last 49...wow. First team to win 40 out of 50 since the Big Red Machine.

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The GM is a Chicago guy who went to Triton college. He used to work for the Cubs.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Still waiting for Puig to pass a piss test.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Come on Jimmy, any good ole cub fan knows that. He gave Harry and Steve every stat they tossed out on the air.

Colletti should be thankful the Cubs were so cheap, gave him the chance to negotiate deals and get into the deal flow process around MLB, which is how you move from Media relations to baseball operations.

While many gave him shit for just spending money, he does get credit if they win, because plenty of guys have just spent money. LA ANGELS, T BLUEJAYS, ETc and didnt do crapola

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

He still spent 70 million more than LA and 100 fucking million (more than 16 teams spend in total) more than Toronto.

While he was buying at a fire sale, he bought what a lot of GMs would not touch no matter the price.

Since Theo signed all those contracts, the Dodgers are really his team.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

TP, Don Mattingly was thisclose to getting fired following a rotten Dodgers' start. He can thank rookie RF Yasiel Puig for a lot of the Dodgers' turnaround. Puig saved Mattingly's job as manager.

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How does yelling make players better at baseball?!?!?!?!

Clearly

Its all Mattingly

The way he's used Puig and Kershaw has been brilliant

There has to be a mixture of competitiveness,'' Mattingly said. "It's not, "Let's put an All-Star team together and the All-Star team wins.'"It's finding that balance of a team that has a little bit of grit and will fight you. And also having the talent to go with it."All grit and no talent isn't going to make you successful. But all talent and no grit isn't going to get you there either.''To make his point, loud and clear, Mattingly benched All-Star right fielder Andre Ethier.Either, who signed a five-year, $85 million contract extension last June, has just four homers and 15 RBI. His .405 slugging percentage would rank the lowest for a full season in his career."There's a touch difference between, "I'm giving you best effort," Mattingly said, "and being willing to fight you for that prize, to do whatever it takes to win. It's almost something inside you that says, "You're not beating me today. You're not getting me out.'"There's another level you can't measure with sabermetrics. They may say, "B.S.'' to that, but there are certain things you can't measure.''



Poetry

Heard during the Cubs game that Puig was fined and benched tonight for showing up a half hour late before today's game due to traffic in Miami. Also heard he has similar problems to Castro with mental lapses. Kids these days. Mattingly is going to have his hands full with this.

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10 &1/2 game lead after their win tonight against Boston in a likely World Series preview.

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2013 NL West Division Champs



And they evidently pissed off the Diamondbacks by celebrating in their pool. I can kinda see their point, but on the flip side don't be a shitty team and make the playoffs so you can celebrate.

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