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Originally Posted by MRM
...I am a huge Red Sox fan, but... It's just a given that the Sox will go into an August swoon, the Dodgers will have great pitching and no hitting, the Cubs will have to wait until next year, and the sun will rise again.
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Oh man, as a Dodgers fan you're killing me....but it's true.
This year we had a reasonable expectation of some decent pitching with Schmidt, Penny, Lowe, Billingsley. I ALWAYS felt the wheels would fall off of Tomko and sure enough it didn't take long. What took long was getting rid of him. I thought Hendrickson might pick up the slack as a No. 5 ...uh...no. Who'd a thunk it that we'd get what? 4 or 5 wins out of a gasping, running-on-fumes David Wells? We had SO many injuries on our pitching staff and then we had NO power coming in but a reasonable expectation of some emergence from the new kids, Kemp, Ethier, Loney, Martin and LaRoche. Well, we got it alright (except LaRoche). We were hanging in there, at one point 12 games above
.500. Nomar largely did nothing this year compared to last year but Gonzo produced nicely. Then comes mid August, a 3-13 record and we are toast. Man, this stuff kills me every year.