Dodger Notes: The Cure for a Healthy Mind

A day after reaccessing the Dodgers loss to the lowely Pirates last night, I still have a few observations as I grow increasingly more frustrated with the stupidity most of the local writers and bloggers exhibit. Despite what is said and written, Monday night's performance means absolutely nothing now that the Dodger blew a golden opportunity to build on that momentum. So all you hack bloggers on Dodger.com, Latimes.com, and ladailynews.com can all officially SHUT UP! I wonder if all those blogs are run by A. Martinez, the biggest Dodger apologist on KFWB. I only wonder what Stu Nahan would have to say about all this.

One major issue that seems to be overlooked again and again is that the Dodgers cannot hold late leads or ties. Grady illuded to it in last night's presser, "we have to find a way to stop the bleeding late," however several people still seem to gloss over the fact that for two games in a row, rookie reliever Johnathan Broxton was brought in late inning hold situations and failed on both occasion giving up the winning run in the 3rd game of the Friar series and giving up 4 in the capper. It's one thing to be loyal, however its a whole different thing entirely to repeat an act over and over again and expect the same results. That's insanity, and Grady must really be close to buying that farm, because his decision to run Broxton out there and attempt to get the outs was the wrong move. Sure Broxton has done it before, but that was before his arm got tired from pitching in so many games and he has definetly lost some velocity and movement on his fastball. But all this is repeating the obvious.

Moving on, one thing that caught my eye was the squable Fathers pitcher and Alabama Slamma' Jake Peavy and Mariano Duncan, the pride of the Domincan, seem to have started during their last game on Monday night. Reportedly, Peavy was walking off the field after striking out a Dodger batter yelling at no one in particular. Duncan then, alledgedly, walked past Peavy and told him to get some class and not to show anyone up. "We're going to get your cocky ass you stupid fuck," was the gist of what was said by Duncan, that according to the wordsmith Peavy. Duncan for his part admitted he said it, which is a real gangsta thing to do, and added that what had set him off was the cultured Peavy's response to Rafael Furcal dropping a bunt on him, "Swing the bat, you little shit." Duncan apparently also took exception to the fact that Peavy was screaming down Mike Piazza as well.

Now, Peaves doesn't really strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed, and his vocabulary seems to back that point up. He is uneducated and from the South, a deadly combination. However I will agree that perhaps Duncan should have avoided the altercation, lest he wants to be seen as that unnamed Daniel Murphy High coach that likes to yell and call the opposing team's underaged players "bitch ass punks." If Peavy did say what he did to Furcal, then maybe Furcal should have dropped a bunt up the first base line forcing Peavy to field it in a position where Furcal could have run it right up his back Will Clark style. However calling a guy out in the middle of a game, near his own dugout, in a game you have to win is pretty unacceptable and down right bitch made if you ask me, and Mariano should have used a little more common sense on that one. Hey, Duncan could have always had Brad Penny plant one in Peavy's ear as well if it was that out of line. As for Mike Piazza, he lost all his self respect when he signed with the Friars, so I'm not going to defend that guy. I believe he is still to this day telling anyone that will listen that his absolutely, positively, one hundred percent without a doubt, not gay.