I guess winning isn't much fun

I swear that watching the Dodgers is like serving some sort of a punishment. That's a good idea for you parents out there reading this: if you want to discipline your kids, force them to watch these bunch of losers for 3 hours. They'll never do anything wrong again.

Remember how I said in my last post how last game I couldn't help but feel that they were going to blow the game - so of course they did? Tonight, same sort of feeling, same sort of result. I guess I can now understand why all of those people have been critical of Takashi Saito. He looked like an absolute pile of dog crap tonight. An absolutely embarrassing loss.

I really hope Joe Torre chews their asses out tonight for looking like a bunch of little girls out there. How in the hell any team can go an entire 3-game series and score 3 damn runs is beyond me. I don't really care who's hurt and who isn't - that doesn't matter. The team is made up of Major League players, and they should feel embarrassed and humiliated for playing like such trash. No excuse whatsoever for playing with no fire and no enthusiasm like I saw these last 3 games.

What's lost in all of this is that Derek Lowe, for the 2nd straight game, deserved a win. Not unlike Hiroki Kuroda the night before and Chad Billingsley the day before that. 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 5 K, and he couldn't get the win. That's 14 innings and 2 runs the last 2 games, and still 0 wins. Every offensive player needs to find the local CVS tonight and buy apology cards for the starting pitching staff for playing so piss poor.

The best way to explain the Dodgers is that if something can go wrong, it will. Lowe was fantastic, they had a 1-run lead with their closer on in the 9th, and come away empty. 10 men left on base. 5 left on in scoring position with 2 outs. 3 double plays grounded into. Pretty much your recipe for losing, which is what the Dodgers do quite nicely.

So now that they have been pimp slapped by the Cubs, they now move on to New York where the Mets will be coming off a dramatic comeback win against the Marlins tonight. They've now won 2 in a row, and are perhaps finding the groove they have been looking for. Maybe just splitting this series is the Dodgers best chance. I'll take any sort of win they can get these days.

At some point, the excuses about injuries and being too young has to stop. No matter who's in there, they have the responsibility of playing with much more passion and desire than the garbage they have shown lately. If not, then they'll be falling back into the cellar with the Rockies, Padres, and Giants in no time.