So, a couple times this week, Youngest Master Weisman, age 4, has asked me to play baseball in the backyard with him after dinner. Nearly 10 years of parenting, and it’s finally happening.
Aside from the pleasure you can imagine I take from this, I realized just how much I still like to go play ball in the yard. Four decades has made no appreciable difference.
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Anonymous
Congratulations, and best of luck with your budding baseballer. Great things could happen in the near future, as witness this LAT’d link: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/move-over-mlb-6-old-little-leaguer-turns-144924879.html
John
It figures it was the Dodgers who were the ones batting :)
Anonymous
Did that when I was ten in a schoolyard game. Must have misplaced the video.
Anonymous
What are great feeling, Jon!
Anonymous
Regarding “All-Star” catchers, as discussed in previous thread, http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-san-francisco-giants/giants-talk/Scout-Giants-Posey-looks-worn-down?blockID=705580&feedID=2796
Jason Ungar
Did you guys see this? This really annoyed me. Maybe it shouldn’t but it does.
http://dodgers.ocregister.com/2012/05/10/billingsley-needs-to-get-a-clue/
Anonymous
What annoyed you? The pitcher’s temper tantrum or the writer’s reporting of it?
Jon Weisman
I commented negatively on Howard’s piece.
Terry Pruett
As did I. He’s a mediocre blogger at a failing newspaper, wallowing in obscurity. That just about sums Howard up.
Jason Ungar
Benjamin do you think that Billz was upset he was pulled out or upset with himself that he had to be pulled out based on how he pitched? Jon, I am sorry to bring it up again after you commented. For some reason I missed your comment.
Jon Weisman
I meant I commented at his comments section.
Anonymous
Garbage And, nice shot at Kemp.
Anonymous
How is Kemp treated differently? I’m a die hard Dodger fan and read just about everything I can and never have I heard that accusation. The only thing I see different about the way he is treated is he doesn’t get days off like the others. With his stats would you give him a day off?
Anonymous
Have you read this fellow? He is probably referring back to some hatchet job he already did on Matty?
Anonymous
Yeah Bob, I agree. That one sentence bugged me more than the whole take on Billingsley. I wonder if Cole would be paying this much attention to the Dodgers if Pujols had a few more home runs?
Anonymous
It annoys me when journalists make assumptions. I did over 20 years in that business and I was trained early on to ask myself this question after typing a statement of fact: Can that be verified? And, I know this is kind of old school, but I tended to try to get a couple of different points of verification, one of which was often a direct quote.
Now, it’s one thing if the writer had typed something like, “Billz expressed frustration by slamming his bat against the bench directly behind Mattingly.” Quite another to make a massive assumption about the pitcher’s self-centered nature and then throw Kemp and Mattingly under the bus at the same time.
Shabby.
Jason Ungar
How I felt exactly.
Anonymous
Would he rather Billz just sit there and smile? Athletes play with high emotions and sometimes they need an outlet. Truth or not, Chad said the right things after the game. After that, it’s a team issue, not a public one.
Jason Ungar
Yah they can’t win. If Chad sat there on the bench emotionless then he’d have no heart. Hey I am all for sportsmanship in terms of not breaking bats etc.., but to accuse Chad of putting himself above the team and then to accuse Mattingly of putting Kemp above the team is just wrong.
Anonymous
Congratulations, Jon! Must be wonderful.
Anonymous
Is it safe to assume that you actually go out and play? Congrats
KT
Great for you Jon
In my house if there is a ball around my son is throwing it at me with whichever hand it’s in….There’s been times when I’m reading and a ball goes between my head and the book…got to keep and eye on him…lucky for us we only keep the foam balls in the house
Anonymous
Cool.
Anonymous
Savor every one of those moments. Those hours in the yard turn out to be fleeting.
Anonymous
Underdog noted earlier today that Tolleson had been moved up to AAA. In fact, the Dodgers made 3 moves of successfully preforming relief pitchers: 24yo LH Eric Eadington in his 2nd pro year was moved from Great Lakes to Rancho Cucamonga; 23yo RH Logan Bawcom in his 3rd year moved from Rancho to Chattanooga, and 23yo RH Shawn Tolleson also in his 3rd season moved up from Chat. to Albuquerque. All three have WHIPs less than 1 this season. I’d say Bawcom has the best stats of the 3 for the last 2 months and Eadington is third.
local Michigan story on Eadington from April:
http://www.mlive.com/loons/index.ssf/2012/04/los_angeles_dodgers_prospect_e.html
story on Bawcom from January:
http://mlbdirt.com/2012/01/06/logan-bawcom-los-angeles-dodgers-closer-of-the-future/
Anonymous
I’m a bit disappointed, because in recent years, Albuquerque is a dead end for pitchers. The ones who get brought up to the bigs, tend to do so from Chattanooga, not ABQ.
Anonymous
Of course you are right, they normally take the Chattanooga Choo-Choo to LA and not the Albuquerque Flyer, but do you really think that Tolleson has been derailed?
Anonymous
No, I don’t think he’s been derailed. But I don’t think this increases his chances of getting to the Dodgers, either.
Anonymous
My thought is that they are aligning for possible moves at the major league level. Tolleson is already in his second year at AA and I am sure that the like what they see and is being stashed at AAA. This allows the other fellow to move up and get some innings at Chattanooga, where they are already heavy on good relievers. Coffey and Elbert should beware. Belli has a good start so far.
Anonymous
Wall, a RH, is 25, in his 8th season. He was a starter before his last year which was at AA. He has never had stats like he has this year. I’m not making a conclusion just stating a fact.
Anonymous
Of course, I don’t know what the Dodgers’ plans are for Wall (or Tolleson or others). But they DID add him to the 40-man, which presumably shows that they consider him of some value to the organization, and they did that before the start of this season. I don’t think they would have done that if they thought he would never make the bigs.
Anonymous
Their hand was forced by Rule 5, but, yeah, they wouldn’t have put him on the 40-man without some inkling that he had major league stuff. Good that he seems to be working out so far.
Anonymous
He seems very tradeable. On the 40 man so that the Dodgers don’t lose him cheap. I’d be surprised to see him still in the organizaition come August.
Anonymous
Weird Kemp article. If he feels so uncomfortable here in LA why sign up for 8 more years?
http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=courier-journal&sParam=54893296.story
Anonymous
I think he likes parts of LA, just not the glitz and glamour. When he was not getting on with some on the coaching staff, those problems were magnified. I suspect he re-signed becaused he loved being around his team-mates (and the great fans of the Dodgers ;) )
Anonymous
Wonderful! So happy for you, Jon!
Anonymous
Jon-Enjoy the games with your son. It seems like last week I was doing that with my 4 yo daughter and now she’s getting ready to graduate from HS next week. I really loved that she batted right and threw left, just like me (and Koufax).
Jon Weisman
“If it seems like A.J. Ellis hardly ever swings, your eyes are not deceiving you. Ellis has swung at just about 30 percent of all pitches he’s seen; if he carries his rate over a full season, he’ll be the first hitter that selective in the 11 years for which such data exist. He’s starting to take the bat off his shoulder slightly more frequently, as he’s swung at a minimum of 30 percent of pitches in each of the last nine games. ”
http://es.pn/IO4dvH
Anonymous
Laggard!
Anonymous
Bum! :)
Anonymous
Lazybones!
Anonymous
Old friend Eveland has been called up to join the miracle that is the O’s and throw against the Rays today.
Anonymous
I’m pulling for him.
Jon Weisman
NPUT
Welly Lu
Ahh scenes from the natural are coming to mind. =D