By John Scanlan<\/p>\n
I went to a Dodger game with Villanueva and lived to tell about it. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ll have you know, though, that the self-avowed Angel lover left the game in the top of the 8th and tried to pin it on his wife. So next time he tries to drop the \u201cDodger fans leave games early\u201d smack, remind him that he not only do so, but he threw his wife under the bus in the process. I will give him credit for calling Matt Kemp\u2019s 4-6-3 seconds before it happened, though. Blind squirrel, nut, etc\u2026<\/p>\n
I never want to go to the Coliseum, much less when 90,000 unemployed or \u201csick\u201d Angelinos show up for a free event. As I watched bits and pieces of yesterday\u2019s rally, I couldn\u2019t help but think how thankful I was that I was not there.<\/p>\n
If the Dodgers won the World Series and they held a rally at the Coliseum, I wouldn\u2019t be there. Now, if they held it at Dodger Stadium, well\u2026.then it\u2019s time to use that Mid-Valley press pass. No way would I go as a civilian though.<\/p>\n
If I were to pick a most surprising team in baseball thus far, I\u2019d have to go with the Milwaukee Brewers. When you\u2019re staring down a rotation with more question marks than an edition of \u201cOn the Couch\u201d, it wasn\u2019t a stretch to see the Brew Crew struggling to finish .500. There they stand, though, with the 2nd best record in the NL at 37-29 entering today\u2019s play. The return of Yovani Gallardo has removed some of the questions about that rotation.<\/p>\n
The Texas Rangers would be in that conversation too and speaking of, how about that Andruw Jones? Torosian wanted to put a toe tag on the guy, but thus far he is posting a line of .246\/.358\/.509\/.866 to go with 7 HR and 17 RBI as essentially a 4th OF. Jones tried to imply that Dodger owner Frank McCourt wasn\u2019t supportive last year. Even if that\u2019s true, McCourt certainly had a legit reason to not support Jones and it was far from the reason why Jones had such a poor year in 2008. By all accounts, Jones is actually one of the more likeable guys in baseball. However, it seems he\u2019s still stuck at the age of 15 emotionally and that has stunted a career that held all the promise in the world in 1996 when he hit 2 HR in one World Series game at the age of 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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