The Dodgers are blazing, the Padres are flailing. The Nationals are atop their division and the Red Sox are at the bottom of theirs. And the Twins have the worst record in the league.
Can you feel the excitement? 
I don’t know whether to let my heart start beating again for my Dodgers, or to just remember all the times they have crushed it before.
Cardinals lead the division and lead the league in run differential. However, it still feels like April could have gone much better after blowing a few late leads and having a rather ill-tasting loss on Sunday.
Nothing like a series against the Pirates to get the next month off to a good start.
Personally, I’ve embraced them again 
I love Kemp and Ethier, Kershaw is aweswome to watch control a game, and Mattingly seems to know how to get the most out of all the roll players. They were playing hard for him at the end of last year, too.
The most important thing, though, is that damned glorified parking lot attendant no longer runs the team. He’d gutted half the franchise, and thought you could run a baseball team like a parking garage (well, maybe the Pirates fit that model).
Jose Reyes: .220/.293/.341/.635, 6 runs, 3 RBI, 5 errors
MIA: 8 wins, 14 loses
Ruben Tejada: .299/.361/.391/.752, 13 runs, 8 RBI, 2 errors
NYM: 13 wins, 10 losses
Yesterday was a good day: Dee Gordon got his first major league home run, Lindblom got pulled before he gave away the entire lead, and Hosanna Heysanna the sale was finalized and the Dodgers are no longer under the control of the Parking Lot Attendant.
Fuck you, McCourt. I hope your wife takes every cent of what you made on the sale.
What he said.
Not a pretty win yesterday, but it all looks the same in the standings. Hopefully we can get out of Colorado with another series win.
The Dodgers are about to play four consecutive day games – I don’t know how unusual that is overall, but it’s really weird for this team. Still, it means I get to listen to games while at work instead of trying to follow them on my phone while I’m commuting home, so I’ll take it.
Astros sweep the Mets and have a strangely non-terrible offense so far this year. Also, that Jed Lowrie for Mark Melancon trade is looking pretty decent.
No such luck. And to rub it in a bit, take a look at this call from Tim Wielke. Seriously, it may be the worst call I’ve ever seen.
I had to look up Melancon’s stats. Oh, dear:
2 innings pitched. 10 hits and 2 walks. 11 runs, all of them earned. A WHIP of 6 and an ERA of just below (gulp) 50.
Friends, these are Charlie Brown statistics.
That’s just a gobsmackingly bad call. I guess he was listening for the sound of the ball and wasn’t even looking at Helton. :smack:
Get a rope.
The Will Middlebrooks Era has begun in Boston.
This kind of thing is always fun.
Here’s another:
Albert Pujols:
5 RBIs. So far. All season. In about 240 innings.
Carlos Beltran, signed by the Cardinals in an effort to begin to make up for the loss of Pujols’s bat:
7 RBIs. So far. Tonight. In 3 innings.
Of course it won’t last. But it sure is neat.
Jered Weaver no-hit the Twins tonight. He was no Phil Humber, but he was pretty good.
I managed to catch the entire Dodger/Rockies series. That call was horrible. My seats are 27 rows back of home plate and I’ve seen guys take smaller lead offs the Helton was off the bag. Unfortunatly, it was a make up call since the Dodgers first run was scored on a pretty questionable call at the plate.
Besides that I think that Donny baseball is afraid to go to the bullpen. Last night with Lilly his pitch count was over a hundred when he gave up those two runs in the 6th and while he looked good in the 5th his first couple of pitches in the 6th didn’t look great. Yesterday with Kershaw was just weird. He had the lead in the 8th and the trainer had been out the inning before when he felt something throwing out a guy at first. I guess trying for that complete game or dropping his era back under two could have been decent excuses but I have no idea why he was still out there. Oh, that’s right our bullpen does suck.
On the one plus side Kemp is turning into Barry Bonds with two intentional walks and 1 intentional unintentional walk yesterday. I think a lot of that was due to moving Ethier to 5th so he didn’t have as much protection but still teams are getting scared.
One last thing Dee Gordan is awesome and fuck McCort.
Can we start the fire Bobby Valentine call now. Leave Becket in for 125 pitches in April and have him miss a start because of shoulder and lat soreness. Ass-hat.
Yeah, that was a fun game. So now the last two games I’ve been to the Cards have scored a combined 25 runs. Makes for some easy watching, that’s for sure.
The offense is really humming along in a merciless sort of way. Having only one below-average bat in the lineup (besides the pitcher) makes it awfully tough for the opposing team. It’s quite a bit different than the Pujols formula, but I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
Who had Lance Lynn as the first NL 5-game winner?
Now we’ll see if they can finally get a series sweep.
And even with new Dodger ownership Ned Colleti gotta Ned Colleti. It seems that uncle Ned is in talks with Bobby Abreu.
https://twitter.com/?tw_e=screenname&tw_i=197842667101630464&tw_p=tweetembed#!/JonHeymanCBS
Awesome. :smack:
I’m sorry, what? I really thought today was May 3rd, not April 1st.
In other Dodger news, new ownership’s first move was to drop parking prices from $15 back to $10. Lotta folks will appreciate that one. They also were able to stop being nice to McCourt and to say openly that he’s gone and that they’re glad he’s gone. It’s a good start.
Now let’s see what they actually do about getting the stadium into better shape in the next couple of years (in addition to getting more on-field talent, of course).
The sad thing is he *would *be an improvement over Adam Kennedy.