Bumped - Kind of crazy the past few days so I haven't been able to to look at this closely. Thanks to BlueMax for putting this up!

Per ESPN

Ouch, this is a huge blow to the defense. Thankfully two of the next 3 games are UW and Stanford, games where we shouldn't miss him too much. However that Cal game without him could be very scary.

As best as I can tell Will Harris is next in line for his spot. Anyone got any info on Harris? I wish I knew more about him off the top of my head than I do...

UPDATE...Here is a write up on the torn Meniscus. Not uncommon but it takes a little while to heal. There is some nice interactive stuff here.

Fight On! Kevin, get well soon!

First major fall out of the Lute Olson surprise retirement:

Link.

"Abdul Gaddy, Solomon Hill and Mike Moser have all told Arizona media sources that they will look elsewhere now that Olson has retired. He left the program unexpectedly last Thursday.

Hill, from Los Angeles, is considering hometown USC, among other schools. Moser, from Portland, Ore., joined Hill in decommitting last week."

 

Anyone have any info on Hill? I'm assuming he's a decent player since he was going to head to Arizona. I wonder if our odds of landing him are pretty good now...

 

 

Sporting News Article

MarketWatch Article

 

The source I found this on seems to think it could be good due to the developer (Blue Castle Games). If nothing else it could provide another competitor to the OOTP/Baseball Mogul world. Still a real development team and an actual license makes it a pretty attactive option for fantasy GMs of the world.

I can't wait for Geoff Baker's winter articles on his team!

 

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Just saw on the ESPN ticker that Shareece Wright has been charged with felony resisting arrest in connection with a party last weekend. Supposedly this comes from the LATimes so I'm looking for more info as I type this...

Horrible news and completely stupid if true. Just comply with the police and your problems aren't gonna be this bad

Insert stupid  bruin fan joke about Shareece needing to contact Rey because he owns the police yada yada yada

Edit:  here' an ESPN.com link  http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=358527

And LATIMES: http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-uscfyi13-2008sep13,0,781989.story

Just saw this in my email:

 

"Starting Tonight:  Both home and away feeds will be included as part of your MLB.TV Premium subscription.  Watch Live streams of your favorite team's home broadcasts even when they are on the road."

 

Fuck yes. No more bitching about shitty announcers from other teams! From now on we have our own choice of which feed we want to watch. Now the only road games I have to dread are trips to Angels stadium when I am forced to watch on TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTuf761yJSM&eurl=http://www.sundaymorningqb.com/

 

Or at least his singing. I saw this live on Saturday and started cracking up. Hat tip to SMQ for the you tube link.

 

I suppose to his credit they did stop booing after he got going, but it was still pretty surreal to hear the stadium start booing as soon as his name was announced. Maybe all those Bears fans hate him or something?

Per rotoworld:

The Dodgers will recall Clayton Kershaw and have him start Tuesday against the Rockies.

Jason Johnson was supposed to join the rotation and start tomorrow, but he'll either be left in the pen or get sent back down. It seems unlikely that spending three weeks in the minors did Kershaw a lot of good. He's worth owning in NL-only leagues, but he probably shouldn't be used as Coors Field.

According to this:

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/22/SPBK11SNDP.DTL&feed=rss.athletics

 

The Dodgers are scouting both Huston Street and Bobby Crosby to help with their SS problem and their closer situation (even though Broxton is awesome).

 

I wonder who the A's would ask for in this trade? Would they try and get Ethier back? I think it is weird that supposedly the Phillies have asked after Kemp. There's no way the Dodgers would be willing to part with him, right?

 

Given that they're in a pennant race I can't see the Dodgers dealing any of their core players. Except Andy LaRoche because Joe Torre has a man crush on DeWitt and hates LaRoche.

Okay, so I'm a Mariners fan originally born in Washington grew up watching them. Started watching the Dodgers when Beltre first came up and after coming to LA for school I got more into them (since I can root for them not at the expense of the Mariners).

Anywho recently M's fans have been throwing the Dodgers out there as a team that might be interested in Yuniesky Betancourt. Yuni is vastly overrated defensively but won't kill a team with the bat like Beroa and Maza have been doing. He doesn't have much power (most of his XBHs are due to his speed and jump), he never walks but also rarely strikes out.

 

Realistically what can you guys see the Dodgers offering for him? M's fans like to delude themselves into thinking Kemp or Loney (hur hur Coletti is dumb) but I don't seem them moving either, or at least not for Yuni.

 

Andrew?

Cubs grab Rich Harden from the A's for prospects:

"According to WSCR-670 in Chicago, Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin has been traded to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Matt Murton, Eric Patterson, Sean Gallagher and catching prospect Josh Donaldson."

Seems like there is no way the Wildcard doesn't come out of the Central as well now. Looks like the Dodgers best chance to the playoffs is to win the division.

 

Also as a random trade aside, what do you think Ned Coletti would give up for Yuniesky Betancourt?