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Can someone help me figure out the Dodgers?
I'm not looking for cynical Dodger-hating comments fueled by unconditional hate for the franchise. I'm trying to understand what the fuck is going through Frank McCourt and Paul DePodesta's heads.
The post season starts out and they let their most interesting clubhouse figure go: Lima.
They also let loose one of the most skilled veterans on the field today: Finley.
Next, they fail to show any interest in the fact that Beltre, their ultimate MVP (Fuck Bonds), is being shopped around. Next thing you know, the Mariners sign him and I start slitting my wrist.
Then they sign Jeff Fucking Kent. To replace who? Alex Cora? Kent is a washed up piece of arrogant white trash and Cora is an amazing defensive player with a consistant bat. Kent demands more money becuase he's a vet and one-time MVP. He sucks, though, regardless of what he demands. I don't get it.
Next comes the Randy Johnson scare. OK, you're willing to get rid of Green (your last, if sorely inconsistant slugger), Penny, Ishii and more in a trade involving Randy Johnson... AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET RANDY JOHNSON?!? What the fuck?
DePodesta, as if suddenly coming back to his "Sim Baseball Franchise" computer game to find that he probably shouldn't have turned on "Auto Manage" as he went to go take a shit, drops out of the deal.
What does that do, though? It disenfranchises Shawn Green, so he persues a trade with Arizona regardless.
So the Dodgers reconcile by signing Derek Lowe and re-signing Odalis Perez, thus giving them a very respectable pitching rotation for next year. But what of the bats? This team was one signature away from deconstructing completely, and now they're only half-saved ---- when they could have been out of the gates with the best damn team in the league if they had only acted sooner
What the fuck is going on?!?!?
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