Aloha said it best, I have hope but no delusions the 2012 Dodgers will be more than a slightly above .500 club. But we have competent management in place, who is looking to build through the farm system and not dole out phat contracts. That’s enough, for this year at least, to make me satisfied with whatever effort we get from the last Dodger team with McAsshat’s fingerprints on it (yes, I know some bad contracts will continue).

that being said Pujols had done nothing to make the Angel fans embrace him.He whined about the billboards with El Hombre on them,he blasted the hitting coach instead of talking to him private and then makes a snarky comment about Scosia when benched Saturday.For a guy making as much as he is he’s producing some Bobby Bonilla like results so far.

You know, smoking does’t actually kill. I know there are tons of studies that show it over and over again, to the point where it seems like an absolute truth. But, I mean, my Grandpa smoked from the time he was 14 until he was 93, so smoking didn’t kill him.

Now, you may say my statement is ridiculous. But sir, it is just as stupid as what you just said. Many people have done many studies to shows a vast majority of players start to decline very rapidly in their early 30s. Of course there are exceptions, but exceptions do not prove the rule.

I think that discussion would be more relevent if Pujols was hitting .265/.330/.430 or something. At this point, his numbers as so atrocious that it’s well beyond a mere decline in skills. When he stops hitting 2008 Andruw Jones, then we can see how good of a ballplayer he still is.

Amazing. He’s had this golden boy image for so long, completely above all the steroids chatter, but all it takes is a slow start (in a new, harder league by the way) for everyone to be convinced he came here with a forged birth certificate. Unbelievable.

this early decline. Last year was supposed to be an aberration.

Last year was his worst year statistically, and he was still 26th in fWAR [5.1], 14th in wRC [148] and 17th in wOBA [.385]. People need to stop acting like he went from Barry Bonds to Yuniesky Betancourt. He went from the best player in baseball to now one of the best.

A scant 48 hours ago those same fans were booing him, kicking him while he was down. But today, they’ll show support. Typical bandwagon, fickle fans.

Oh come on, fellow Yankee fans have been pulling this crap for years with Arod. In fact they still boo him if he goes into a slump even though he practically won the WS in ’09 single-handedly.