Can You Hear Me Now?

So my trusty old Samsung finally broke last week, leaving me phoneless and without any idea what ANYBODY’S phone number is. I don’t know my girlfriend’s phone number. I don’t know G. Slim’s celly and I probably talk to him four or five times per day. It’s not easy not having a phone and it made me think what life was like before a cell phone—you know, those dark days of 2001. The upside of the whole phone problem is that new phones are sick. After debating between some sort of Blackberry contraption and an iPhone I actually shocked myself by going with an LG Vu 920, primarily based on the fact that you can watch live ESPN on it and it doesn’t use your data minutes or anything. Sure I’ll be watching a 2 millimeter tall DMC bust tackles on Monday Night Football but that’s better than watching no DMC at all.

Is there any team more streaky than the Dodgers? Their win-loss record reads like a freaking polygraph–they’re up, they’re down, they’re up again…sure it’s good to put together a little four game streak but you know that next valley is right around the corner. After last night’s win Steve Lyons said he thought the Dodgers were built better for the post season than they were the regular season, his rationale that they matched up well at the top with Billingsley and Lowe and after that he sort of ran out of steam with where he was going, saying that Kershaw might be able to give you something and then with Kuroda, well if he was off early at least you knew right away. Steve, I think you do a fine job but do you even believe what you’re saying? Kuroda has single-handedly lost the Dodgers games this year in the first inning. He hasn’t even made it through the 4th inning five different starts this year and somehow it’s good that he’s getting railed early?

Of course this may all end up being a moot point if the D-Backs keep getting end-game heroics like they got today. Thanks for that, Chris Perez. Like it’s not bad enough you’re already killing my fantasy team…