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Title: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 01:38:38 PM
If Kemp is gone for Manny...


EDIT:  It's Laroche and I still feel the same way
Title: Re: It looks like I'm done being a Dodger fan
Post by: OG Hack Wilson on July 31, 2008, 01:54:23 PM
wow kemp stays
Title: Re: It looks like I'm done being a Dodger fan
Post by: WestCoasta on July 31, 2008, 01:56:43 PM
haha I can't believe they got Ramirez

not that it matters because the Dodgers suck anyways

it's just kind of random
Title: Re: It looks like I'm done being a Dodger fan
Post by: Man On The Moon on July 31, 2008, 02:08:40 PM
WOW!!!!
Title: Re: It looks like I'm done being a Dodger fan
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 02:27:52 PM
I overreacted lol.  In the end it's a good risk.  But i do wonder if we could have somehow just gotten Bay instead for not just this year but for the years after this year as well
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Chamillitary Click on July 31, 2008, 03:04:52 PM
Bay can't fill Manny's shoes. Bosox are done. ;D
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: OG Hack Wilson on July 31, 2008, 03:16:18 PM
red sox SUCK, they didnt even get mid relief LOL
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on July 31, 2008, 04:48:29 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Man On The Moon on July 31, 2008, 05:13:48 PM
^ Yeah, we'll win the West. We could do some damage in the playoffs too.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 05:40:36 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!

Andy>Dewitt   And you'll be able to witness this right away. 
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Styles1 on July 31, 2008, 07:02:56 PM
* Dancing down the aisles like a holy ghost filled Baptist *
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: E. J. Rizo on July 31, 2008, 07:03:19 PM
i dont know how this is a bad deal... shit i love this as a dodger fan... not just that but the fuckin red sox are paying his salary to take him for the rest of the year... lol

i think this will do big things for us... we got him for peanuts....

and he is going to have to play for his next contract so you know he should be motivated enough to do some damage.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on July 31, 2008, 07:24:49 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!

Andy>Dewitt   And you'll be able to witness this right away. 

dont forget, dewitt was drafted in the first round for a reason..

from what i saw, i think dewitt will have a very solid career...laroche didnt impress ANYONE at all.  sure, he hit well in the minors, but how many players put up great #s in the minors, only to do squat in the majors?
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 07:30:42 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!

Andy>Dewitt   And you'll be able to witness this right away. 

dont forget, dewitt was drafted in the first round for a reason..

from what i saw, i think dewitt will have a very solid career...laroche didnt impress ANYONE at all.  sure, he hit well in the minors, but how many players put up great #s in the minors, only to do squat in the majors?

Logan White thinks Laroche is the best out of all the team's youngsters. And that says a lot, better than what any random fan thinks of him.  Dewitt still needs more time, to see if he can be an everyday major leaguer.  How many top tier prospects do you know, can get more walks than strikeouts in their first 152 at bats?  That's not that often.  Laroche would always struggle after every promotion all the way from A to AAA.  Naturally he wasn't gonna come in guns blazing, but shit it's sad how much shit he has gotten for doing a poor job in his first 152 at bats.  There's a lot of asshole fans out there.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: OG Hack Wilson on July 31, 2008, 07:34:18 PM
dodgers ripped off boston
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on July 31, 2008, 07:56:10 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!

Andy>Dewitt   And you'll be able to witness this right away. 

dont forget, dewitt was drafted in the first round for a reason..

from what i saw, i think dewitt will have a very solid career...laroche didnt impress ANYONE at all.  sure, he hit well in the minors, but how many players put up great #s in the minors, only to do squat in the majors?

Logan White thinks Laroche is the best out of all the team's youngsters. And that says a lot, better than what any random fan thinks of him.  Dewitt still needs more time, to see if he can be an everyday major leaguer.  How many top tier prospects do you know, can get more walks than strikeouts in their first 152 at bats?  That's not that often.  Laroche would always struggle after every promotion all the way from A to AAA.  Naturally he wasn't gonna come in guns blazing, but shit it's sad how much shit he has gotten for doing a poor job in his first 152 at bats.  There's a lot of asshole fans out there.

when did he say that? in 06? lol
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Tay on July 31, 2008, 08:01:10 PM
DeWitt has been a better player in the majors than LaRoche, but they are both young and should both improve. LaRoche was really highly regarded, and he could blossom into a really great player. But the Dodgers just got Casey Blake to play 3rd, have DeWitt for the future, and got the best offensive player in the game in Manny Ramirez. If they don't win the pathetic NL West now, they are a joke..Arizona has a couple good starters and will step it up a little bit, and Colorado could get hot, but the Dodgers should take the division. They weren't going to get Jason Bay instead, Pittsburgh and Boston were already set in this, they were just looking for a 3rd team. The main reason for the trade is that Boston wanted to get rid of Manny. By the way, who plays center for the Dodgers now? I figure they start Ramirez, Ethier and Kemp, so Kemp in center?
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: E. J. Rizo on July 31, 2008, 08:04:23 PM
DeWitt has been a better player in the majors than LaRoche, but they are both young and should both improve. LaRoche was really highly regarded, and he could blossom into a really great player. But the Dodgers just got Casey Blake to play 3rd, have DeWitt for the future, and got the best offensive player in the game in Manny Ramirez. If they don't win the pathetic NL West now, they are a joke..Arizona has a couple good starters and will step it up a little bit, and Colorado could get hot, but the Dodgers should take the division. They weren't going to get Jason Bay instead, Pittsburgh and Boston were already set in this, they were just looking for a 3rd team. The main reason for the trade is that Boston wanted to get rid of Manny. By the way, who plays center for the Dodgers now? I figure they start Ramirez, Ethier and Kemp, so Kemp in center?
i like your thinking and throw Jones in the right bench position...
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Man On The Moon on July 31, 2008, 08:08:10 PM
LF Manny
CF Kemp
RF Ethier

That's how it should be...
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Don Jacob on July 31, 2008, 08:28:28 PM
man i can't wait to see him suit up! should be bad ass.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on July 31, 2008, 09:17:00 PM
LF Manny
CF Kemp
RF Ethier

That's how it should be...

yup yup!

once a week pierre can spell kemp, then spell ethier.

jones shouldnt even play the remainder of the season.

wow, 6 OF'ers.  Manny, Kemp, Ethier, Pierre, Young, and tubby.  wow. 
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: E. J. Rizo on July 31, 2008, 09:23:33 PM
man i can't wait to see him suit up! should be bad ass.
do you know when he is supposed to play his first game?

i want to be there... i should just get tickets for all weekend....

i already got tickets for sunday... have a wedding to go to on sat... should get tickets for tomorrow. :-)
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 09:39:05 PM
DeWitt has been a better player in the majors than LaRoche, but they are both young and should both improve. LaRoche was really highly regarded, and he could blossom into a really great player. But the Dodgers just got Casey Blake to play 3rd, have DeWitt for the future, and got the best offensive player in the game in Manny Ramirez. If they don't win the pathetic NL West now, they are a joke..Arizona has a couple good starters and will step it up a little bit, and Colorado could get hot, but the Dodgers should take the division. They weren't going to get Jason Bay instead, Pittsburgh and Boston were already set in this, they were just looking for a 3rd team. The main reason for the trade is that Boston wanted to get rid of Manny. By the way, who plays center for the Dodgers now? I figure they start Ramirez, Ethier and Kemp, so Kemp in center?

If you really have to ask who plays CF, then are you even watching the Dodger games this year?  Dewitt and laroche both dont have enough ML at bats to see who's better, it's frankly stupid to make anything out of it.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on July 31, 2008, 09:39:32 PM
Dodgers came in like Jesse James and fucking robbed that motherfucker!!!


we kept: kemp, loney, ethier, billingsley, kershaw, broxton, dewitt, etc etc.  we kept our future in tact, and got ourselves an amazing player that should help us knock the fucking dbacks outta 1st and take this motherfuckin NLW title!!!!


COME ON GOD DAM IT!!

Andy>Dewitt   And you'll be able to witness this right away. 

dont forget, dewitt was drafted in the first round for a reason..

from what i saw, i think dewitt will have a very solid career...laroche didnt impress ANYONE at all.  sure, he hit well in the minors, but how many players put up great #s in the minors, only to do squat in the majors?

Logan White thinks Laroche is the best out of all the team's youngsters. And that says a lot, better than what any random fan thinks of him.  Dewitt still needs more time, to see if he can be an everyday major leaguer.  How many top tier prospects do you know, can get more walks than strikeouts in their first 152 at bats?  That's not that often.  Laroche would always struggle after every promotion all the way from A to AAA.  Naturally he wasn't gonna come in guns blazing, but shit it's sad how much shit he has gotten for doing a poor job in his first 152 at bats.  There's a lot of asshole fans out there.

when did he say that? in 06? lol


LOL 08
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Halu Sination on August 01, 2008, 01:48:46 AM
i admit that people were too quick to give up on laroche, but this is manny ramirez we're talking about. we arent gonna pass up on something like this, especially given how weak our offense has been for years now,
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on August 01, 2008, 04:16:52 AM
i admit that people were too quick to give up on laroche, but this is manny ramirez we're talking about. we arent gonna pass up on something like this, especially given how weak our offense has been for years now,

i guess martin, loney, kemp and ethier set the bar too high (in terms of quick acclamation).
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on August 01, 2008, 07:05:20 AM
And out of those, Martin was the only one who actually produced right away.  All the other guys struggled a bit.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on August 01, 2008, 07:17:02 AM
i admit that people were too quick to give up on laroche, but this is manny ramirez we're talking about. we arent gonna pass up on something like this, especially given how weak our offense has been for years now,

It's not like if we are getting Manny for more than 1 year.  Fans should understand that basically, if we do not make it to the NLCS, this trade will be a bad trade. Personally, I see it as a huge risk a for a World Series ring.  I still lean on both sides of the argument.  It's not a steal eithe, but there are times that I feel it could be a good risk. If we were in 1st place with a record like the Angels, then I think that trade would actually be much better.  If we don't make the playoffs, basically any sort of production from 3B will already make it a bad trade automatically.  Anything more than good, we're starting to get into embarrassing territory for the deal.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Man On The Moon on August 01, 2008, 03:29:17 PM
Mark my words Laroche is NOT gonna be a great Major League palyer.
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Javier on August 01, 2008, 03:33:43 PM
What a bold statement. 
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on August 01, 2008, 05:25:58 PM
Mark my words Laroche is NOT gonna be a great Major League palyer.

he may turn out to be a decent player...but i feel that dewitt will be better. 
Title: Re: Blockbuster 3 team Trade: Bay to Boston, Manny to LA, prospects to Pitt
Post by: Tay on August 04, 2008, 02:28:41 AM
DeWitt has been a better player in the majors than LaRoche, but they are both young and should both improve. LaRoche was really highly regarded, and he could blossom into a really great player. But the Dodgers just got Casey Blake to play 3rd, have DeWitt for the future, and got the best offensive player in the game in Manny Ramirez. If they don't win the pathetic NL West now, they are a joke..Arizona has a couple good starters and will step it up a little bit, and Colorado could get hot, but the Dodgers should take the division. They weren't going to get Jason Bay instead, Pittsburgh and Boston were already set in this, they were just looking for a 3rd team. The main reason for the trade is that Boston wanted to get rid of Manny. By the way, who plays center for the Dodgers now? I figure they start Ramirez, Ethier and Kemp, so Kemp in center?

If you really have to ask who plays CF, then are you even watching the Dodger games this year?  Dewitt and laroche both dont have enough ML at bats to see who's better, it's frankly stupid to make anything out of it.
I don't follow that many games of theirs because I'm a Giants fan, but I catch a few games when they are on. Obviously I figured Kemp would be in CF, I was just checking to see if they would choose with common sense. The first night with Ramirez in LF, Jones still started. And for the Dewitt/Laroche argument, that's pretty much what I said. Dewiit has been more productive so far, but they are both at the beginning of their careers, so only time will tell on that. By the way, Manny is out to play for a contract now and prove to everyone that he isn't a distraction, so that's a scary thought if you consider him being more motivated.