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Your misson: Help Delwyn Young find his at-bat music

Kid's getting his first ever Major League start and, as one might expect, he's rather geeked at the chance.  "It's like Christmas," said Young with a big ol' grin.  He had no idea today's lineup card would contain his name, the sight of his #49 prompting him to do a quadruple take.  Only one problem.  He still hasn't come up with the proper introduction ditty for when he takes the plate.  He's kicking around "Flashlight" by Parliament, which I think would be a killer choice.  Hard not to get happy when that bass line's kicking.  And as Young pointed out, it oft provides one the visual of 70s roller skaters.  And who, I ask, doesn't dig 70s roller skaters?  Anyone raising their hand is a freakin' liar.  But he's not totally sold on the George Clinton classic, so if you have any ideas, be sure to post them and I'll pass them along.  I'd like to help steer Young in the right direction because as everyone knows, I take at-bat music very seriously.  Some would say too seriously, but I maintain there's more than one way to analyze baseball.

Tonight's Lineup
D-Backs

Chris Young - CF
Orlando Hudson - 2B
Eric Byrnes - LF
Chad Tracy - 3B
Conor Jackson - 1B
Stephen Drew - SS
Justin Upton - RF
Chris Snyder - RF
Doug Davis - P

Dodgers
Furcal - SS
Pierre - CF
Martin - C
Saenz - 1B
Nomar - 3B
Kemp - RF
Young - LF
Martinez - 2B (Kent's still day to day.  I'm predicting Sunday, but it's as much a guess as anything)
Bills - P

-AK

Comments

I hope Bills can pitch a shut out because I'm not seeing a lot of runs produced by this lineup unless a lot of guys snap out of their funk all at once.

Saenz is 1 for his last 21 at bats ( under .050 batting avg.) and 1 for 9 lifetime against Davis. As Grady says " I dont pay much attention to dem statistics..I play my hunches." Brilliant job, slingblade.

Only way I can see anything resembling sense in this is that the way Loney looked last night Saenz is not likely to do any worse than that. Maybe Loney needs a night to get his swing put back together.

for DY's song, how about Dr. Hook's Cover of the Rolling Stone. Kind of a play on his chance at the big time.

Why is Tomato not only starting, but batting clean-up?? Where is Loney tonight for 1B duty?

Is this GLL's way of making himself look good when he needs a bat off the bench? I mean, he's right, Loney's bat will look better as a PH than Tomato's would, but come on!!

why the hell would you put a sub hitting .188 in the cleanup spot?????

Somebody, but somebody tell me that!!

little is such a major league idiot, i just cannot believe what a freakin piece of crap this guy is. I am never ceased to be amazed. This is a baseball guy???

bt-

slingblade....! i like it!!!!!!!!!

Now a lineup without Loney, ethier, in addition to kent.

WHAT THE F#$%K IS GOING ON HERE???

I've got it for young's song...

Is there a song called, "Grady is a piece of crap"?

Have we been transported back to Vero Beach during March of this year?

I looked at tonight's lineup and thought the Dodgers were getting ready for a spring training game.

I say SIGN Julio Franco to back up first base and send the 'tomato' to Vegas.....a .185 average doesn't cut it.....

OK...Tomato is down to a .179 average after his 3rd AB (0 for 3). Experiment over GLL...put in Loney. Nobody cares if it's a lefty vs lefty match-up at the plate, Loney's odds of getting a hit are so much higher - and at the rate this game is going, WE NEED HITS & RUNS.

Billz is pitching a gem. Now we just need to score a run. But how to do that with wilted Tomato batting cleanup? If LaRoche was called up, we'd have him playing third and Nomar playing 1B. (Of course, we could use Loney, who bats 350 against lefties).

If Bombko wants the home town fans to appreciate him, he should try pitching like Billz!

Please, GLL, Pinch-Hit for Wilted Tomato in the 9th inning!

Someone wake me up from this nightmare. Can we impeach a manager?

He's not a "Wilted Tomato". Vin Sculley (apparently his chief apologist) at the beginning of the game said he was "rusty". So he's a RUSTY TOMATO.

Nice Grady,
Quote of the day(after the game in reference to the lineup):
"if you play better you'll see more playin' time"
As BT said Saenz was 1/21 now 1 for 25 in his recent at bats+ 1/9 now 1 for 13 against Doug Davis. That deserves playing time?
Ethier batted .400 in July but tonight was on the bench all night.
Somebody check the sportbooks across the nation to see if William Grady Little had any bets on ARI +125.

Ned Colletti has lost all respect for resigning this joke of a manager.

I have to give my neighbor Melodie credit for this line: "if Olmedo Saenz were on steroids, he'd be Tomato Juiced." I'm not recommending it, mind you, but I also would not recommend putting him in the line up because he needs "at bats"...not any more. Enough is enough...let's field the best team and stop experimenting?

Do you guys have a full list of Dodgers walk on songs? That would be great. I'm always interested in these kind of things. Wikipedia has a list of players and their walk-on music, but it isn't complete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_entrance_music

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