Lasorda = The Don Cherry of baseball???

But with excessive pasta instead of loud jackets.

What’s crazy about Manny’s deal? I hadn’t seen the details yet.

Fangraph’s analysis. Though Heyman is reporting that the union filing shows the contract to include a lot of deferred money. The actual cost to the Dodgers is $10M for the first two years and $8.33M for the next 3 — which works out to in ’11 though ’13. Which works out to $45, but the Dodgers are apparently paying no interest on the deferred money, which saves them a couple of million (and more, of course, if Manny takes the option to go elsewhere next year)

ummm… really? you’re going to go with that as your comment?

Yes? I mean, he looked considerably larger on Wednesday than what I remember. Last thing Doyle needs is more weight on his body working those already problematic knees.

I think you are way off base giving Lasorda crap for this quote.

Very true, given the context. Good grief, when you hear a coach tell his team to “get out there and fight”, do you lambaste him for advocating violence?

And didn’t Clemens make a joke about the Japanese and Koreans and laundromats. It’s stupid enough to make an ethnic joke. It takes another class of stupid to make an ethnic joke and use the wrong stereotypes.

FWIW, many of the laundries/dry cleaners in LA are run by Koreans, as well as Chinese. Haven’t seen any run by Japanese. But yes, Clemens’ quotes (not just this one) show many signs of him being a horse’s *ss, actually not just his quotes his actions too.

Gutierrez and Cedeno going deep back to back was unexpected and awesome…the offense will be better than most “experts” think this year…

…as long as the pitching the M’s face is equivalent to Australia’s. Yes, I think the M’s are going to have more offense than a lot of the “big stick” fetishists expect (especially if Clement gets going) but let’s not get carried away.

Aardsma looked good, didn’t he?