Hello,
Just a quick Dodgers Daily today as I'm very busy at my real job today. The Dodgers took 2 of 3 from the Brewers over the weekend and move back to .500. Since the Dodgers-Red Sox trade occurred late last season I've been ripping the Dodgers for allowing Boston to include Carl Crawford in the deal. When he played for Boston, he was relatively ineffective and was extremely injury prone. Honestly I expected more of the same for Crawford in LA.
It's still relatively early in the season but I may have to issue an apology to Crawford if he continues to play like he has so far this season. The Dodgers improved to 12-12 yesterday after being powered by Crawford's 2 home runs and another excellent Clayton Kershaw outing. Crawford won't ever be a home run hitter, but if he hit 10-15 this year that would be nice. Yesterday he hit his 3rd and 4th season home runs this season. After going 2 for 4 Sunday, Crawford is hitting .307 this season.
There hasn't ever been much doubt about the abilities of Kershaw, he's one of the 4 or 5 best pitchers in MLB. He's improved to 3-2 this season after pitching 8 shut out innings. At one point Kershaw retired 18 consecutive batters and added 12 strikeouts in the game. Thankfully Kershaw also didn't have to provide the offense this game.
Again the Dodgers are 12-12 this season and are 4th place in the NL West. Or as I call 4th place in the NL West for the Dodgers: home. I expect the Dodgers to spend most of the season in 4th place. That is unless they find some offense.
Upcoming: Now the Dodgers welcome the Rockies for a 3 game series to Chavez Ravine. Colorado is tied for first place with the Diamondbacks at 15-10. The Dodgers will be sending Ted Lilly, Hyun-Jin Ryu and Josh "Oh Hell We Ain't Winning Today" Beckett to the mound in the 3 game series. With Lilly and Beckett pitching the Dodgers are going to need all the offense they can get in this series.
You have no idea how much I enjoyed watching the Lakers getting swept out of the playoffs. It didn't happen to a more deserving team. Dwight Howard got kicked out of the game for running his mouth. Honestly I think that was intentional as I'm sure Howard was ready for the season to be over. I love that Magic Johnson criticized Howard for getting ejected. Johnson acted like the Lakers could have still won if Howard had stayed in the game. No they wouldn't have won, the Lakers were done. Here's the difference Magic between you and Howard, you truly cared. Howard could care less.
Now the question is will the Lakers learn from their mistakes or will they repeat their mistakes from this year? If I'm the Lakers I'm firing Mike D'Antoni asap, not signing Howard for anything and use the draft to build for 2014 and beyond. I know they won't do that as they want to win now. However sometimes having a couple of rough years is worth winning a couple of years later.
Also with Tim Tebow being cut by the Jets today it seems the ESPN hyped players/teams have a rough time. Please Tim Tebow can you just go away now? Name a team that could add Tebow to their roster and it would make a significant difference. How many NFL teams would he even play for? Seriously I get so tired of these over hyped players. ESPN loves the Lakers and Cowboys also and look how bad they've been lately. Thankfully the Cowboys have already said they aren't interested in signing Tebow. How much of an attention monster Jerry Jones is that truly surprises me.
Anyway back to ESPN I fail to understand why they give more coverage to the Lakers and Knicks over the defending NBA champions. It's not like this Heat team has dramatically fallen off from last season, in fact they are actually better. LeBron James is playing better than ever and they added the sweet shooting touch of Ray Allen.
But no we hear more about the heartless Dwight Howard. Yesterday I heard a couple of broadcasters rip on Howard, so I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks he's vastly overrated.
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