# Fucking Dodgers!!! (trite and unimportant) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688 "2004-07-31T02:15:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/1 "2004-07-31T02:15:24Z")
AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! They just traded Paul Lo Duca, Juan Encarnacion, and Guillermo Mota to the Marlins. Dickwads. Get rid of Nomo…sure. He hasn’t done shit all year. Dump Dreifort…ok. See note for Nomo. They are in freaking FIRST PLACE for a change, and they just traded their only decent catcher, who has a great on-base percentage, and their best fielder, and a pretty damn good reliever. Shitheads! Alright…calmer now. This whole deal may include getting Randy Johnson to LA, which would be a good thing, but I fucking HATE it when teams trade away players I like to watch! (mutter, mutter, gripe, gripe) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/2 "2004-07-31T02:53:19Z")
It’s worse than that. We got Charles Johnson back. At the suprisingly low price of 9 million per! :rolleyes: Johnson is a slouch in LA. We had for over a hundred games, and he showed no spark at all. And to quote Crash Davis, he “couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a freakin’ boat!” ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/3 "2004-07-31T02:58:46Z")
Your GM’s a genius next to mine. We just traded our best hardnosed player, our club leader in Runs scored and RBIs last year AND our top pitching prospect AND our top catching prospect, and got two older pitchers, one whom (maybe both of whom) is/are going to be free agents after this year, to bolster a pitching staff on an under .500 team that, but for the last-place EXpos, would be in the cellar where they finished the last two years. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/4 "2004-07-31T03:35:44Z")
WOOHOO! Paul LoDuca is on the other side of the country! This rocks my fuckin socks! Now if only we can get Gagne over to the AL… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/5 "2004-07-31T03:37:39Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Now if only we can get Gagne over to the AL… If Gagne ever wears anything but Dodger Blue, I’m goin’ postal!! [sub]mutter, mutter,mutter…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/6 "2004-07-31T03:45:05Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > If Gagne ever wears anything but Dodger Blue, I’m goin’ postal!! You and me both, **Spooje**. You and me both! Ahem… **Kyla**? Pftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/7 "2004-07-31T03:49:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You and me both, **Spooje**. You and me both! > Ahem… **Kyla**? Pftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft!! 😃 Pftftftftftf yourself! If Giants and Dodgers fans can’t razz each other, the terrorists have won. Dodgers suck! And now they suck more! Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/8 "2004-07-31T03:51:16Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Pftftftftftf yourself! If Giants and Dodgers fans can’t razz each other, the terrorists have won. You’re Giants fan? And her I was, about to take you seriously! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/9 "2004-07-31T04:00:04Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Dodgers suck! And now they suck more! Ha! :eek: :eek: :eek: I say…I say…there is a Giants fan over here! Could someone call Pest Control? 😃 (Ultimate dilemma for Dodgers fans: Giants vs Angels in the World Series. Who do we hate more?) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/10 "2004-07-31T04:01:21Z")
Hey! I love the Angels! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/11 "2004-07-31T04:07:30Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > You’re Giants fan? And her I was, about to take you seriously! > > 😃 A smiley face? HA! That implies a happiness, a lightness to baseball than any Giants fan knows does not truly exist! Only if your main interest is in how to best avoid traffic, to make sure you do the wave in unison, and to remember the beach ball, could you use a happy face! Baseball is not about happy faces. Baseball is about freezing in July, about pain and heartbreak and lousy lousy relief pitching and IF ONLY HE COULD GET A FREAKING PITCH TO HIT, YOU CHICKENS. I think I’ve spent too much time in Chicago. There’s too much baseball-related pain in this city and it’s beginning to rub off on me. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/12 "2004-07-31T04:15:16Z")
I have to admit that assuming the other deals LA is planning come off, this does seem to make them a better team. It’s a downgrade at catcher offensively, but the offense would be better overall with Choi replacing Encarnacion, and the defense probably saves a few runs with Green back in his natural position and Johnson replacing Lo Duca. and Randy Johnson is obviously worth far more than Guillermo Mota. It does, however, seem to be a plan to make the Dodgers much older, with the two Johnsons and Finley having once played with Moses. Better hope they win this year. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/13 "2004-07-31T04:20:26Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Baseball is about freezing in July, . Freezing in July??? Where the hell do you live? Antartica? I sure hope this Murphy guy, the AA pitcher, is something special. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/14 "2004-07-31T04:27:29Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It does, however, seem to be a plan to make the Dodgers much older, with the two Johnsons and Finley having once played with Moses. Better hope they win this year. Not really. They get some age with those guys, but Penny and Choi are substantially younger than Lo Duca and Encarnacion and Mota. Gotta look on the bright side… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/15 "2004-07-31T04:28:03Z")
As I write this, they’re thumping the Pads 9-1. I was pretty pissed of at first but now that I think more about it, it’s not all that bad. I love LoDuca too but he always slumps during the 2nd half. Green gets to go back to the outfield and we get Choi at 1st who is no slouch. Losing Mota is tough but we need a starter. Penny is a gamer who has playoff experience. That Murphy kid was an All-Star in the minors so there’s something for the future. DePodesta is a mastermind. I have faith. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/16 "2004-07-31T04:36:28Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Freezing in July??? Where the hell do you live? Antartica? Clearly, you have never experienced baseball in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/17 "2004-07-31T04:56:13Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Clearly, you have never experienced baseball in San Francisco. Yes. I have been blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/18 "2004-07-31T05:05:02Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Yes. I have been blessed. If you were blessed, you wouldn’t live in Southern California. HA! Gotcha ya! ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/19 "2004-07-31T06:59:58Z")
It isn’t right to trade longtime members of a team in the middle of the season like this. Especially when the team is finally looking strong. Paul Lo Duca cried while talking to reporters. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688/20 "2004-07-31T07:20:10Z")
Good luck, Paulie! We’re gonna miss you! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-dodgers-trite-and-unimportant/257688.md?page=2)