Can't believe there isn't one of these yet, so here it is.

The less at bats for Nomar and Pierre the better. Glad Colletti didn't screw up this offseason like the last one.

How's this for a batting order?

1 - SS - Rafael Furcal (B)
2 - C - Russell Martin (R)
3 - RF - Matt Kemp (R)
4 - 1B - James Loney (L)
5 - 2B - Jeff Kent (R)
6 - CF - Andruw Jones (R)
7 - LF - Andre Ethier (L)
8 - 3B - Andy Laroche (R)
9 - P

Anyone know the likely batting order?

I would be happy to see Nomar cut and Pierre traded. However, Pierre is untradeable with his fat contract and terrible spring numbers (not to mention that he sucks, anyway).

The lineup is intriging; I hope A.Jones losed a few pounds and returns to form.

I am quite worried about the pitching, however. Beyond Lowe and Penny, I am quite worried. Also, Penny tends to fade later in the year.

It's also the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

As I understand it, they are doing a tribute to each decade for each month or something like that.

So the 50's in April which I would assume would include the 59 championship team.
60's in May.
70's in June so expect to see a lot of Garvey, Cey and guys like that.
80's in July which should be quite good I guess including Gibson and Hershiser as well as the 81 team and Fernando, etc.

I might be wrong on exactly how they are doing this but I remember hearing them announce something like this during a broadcast last year.

One wonders if after 50 years of Dodger baseball in L.A. whether Vin Scully will choose to retire following this season. It might start to feel like the timing would be right to step down after a long tribute type season like that.

Also, I went to 2 games at Dodgertown the past couple weeks in their last spring in Vero Beach. Good times.

sounds cool

Are you going to the game at the Coliseum? I hear tickets are really expensive. I might fly in for that.

Who are they gonna cart out for the 90's? Kevin Malone and Darren Dreifort?

me?
I've never been to any Dodger games in Los Angeles.
I forgot that they were doing a game at the Coliseum. That's pretty awesome.

Mike Piazza
Eric Karros
Hideo Nomo
Raul Mondesi
Ramon Martinez
Brett Butler
Todd Worrell

lineup needs more juan pierre.

- During the 1990s, the Dodgers set a record with five consecutive National League Rookies of the Year: Eric Karros (1992), Mike Piazza (1993), Raul Mondesi (1994), Hideo Nomo (1995) and Todd Hollandsworth (1996).

- At age 22, right-hander Ramon Martinez became the youngest Dodger to win 20 games since Ralph Branca. Martinez also tied Sandy Koufax's club record with 18 strikeouts against the Braves on June 4 at Dodger Stadium.

- July 14, 1995: Ramon Martinez tosses a no-hitter against the Marlins, walking one and fanning eight in the 7-0 victory at Dodger Stadium.

- "Fernandomania" also had one last hurrah as Fernando Valenzuela pitched his only career no-hitter on June 29 against St. Louis.

- Brett Butler, the center fielder who set a National League record with 161 errorless games.

- Piazza spent 5 1/2 seasons in Los Angeles, rewriting the record book.
He set rookie records with 35 home runs and 112 RBI in 1993
- Piazza later set Dodger single-season records in 1997 with a .362 batting average, 40 home runs and a .638 slugging percentage.

- Nomo burst upon the Major League scene in 1995 after a successful career with the Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japanese Professional League. As the first Japanese player to appear in the Majors since San Francisco's Masanori Murakami in 1965, Nomo went 13-6 with a 2.54 ERA and a league-leading 236 strikeouts. He also started the 1995 All-Star Game at Texas. In 1996, Nomo pitched his first career no-hitter at the most unlikely site in baseball -- Colorado's Coors Field -- a 9-0 victory on September 17.

- In 1994, Chan Ho Park made history as he was the first South Korean-born player to pitch in the Major Leagues. Along with Darren Dreifort, they became the 17th and 18th players since the First-Year Player Draft began in 1965 to make their professional debuts in the Majors.

- Mondesi became one of the most productive outfielders in Dodger history. He is the only Dodger to record at least 30 steals and 30 home runs in the same season, having accomplished the 30-30 plateaus in 1997 and 1999

- July 29, 1996: Tommy Lasorda announces his retirement as manager and becomes a vice president.

- Aug. 3, 1997: Tommy Lasorda inducted into Hall of Fame. No. 2 is retired by the Dodgers Aug. 15.

Fenando would be there for the 80's; Lasorda 80's. Maybe Chan HO and Hollandsworth.

What do you like about Pierre?

I pretty much think he sucks. No OBP, no power, no fielding. Also may be the worst in the league at judging balls hit in the air, which can be quite funny. He's never even has that good of an SB%.

If you have a copy of BP laying around read his blurb. Sunk Cost is the summation.

I'd take Eithier every day over Pierre. also furcal is a much better lead off hitter.

oski - Pretty sure Lasorda can be around for every month or every day if the Dodgers would choose to use him that way.
Just because they will use him on the 80's tribute stuff doesn't mean they can't use him again. I assume he would also be there for the 70's stuff along with Garvey, Cey, Sutton, Tommy John, whoever they might happen to bring in.
So why not for the 90's also to mark the 'end of his great managerial career and induction into the Hall' or however they want to describe it?

Fernando is a broadcaster for the Dodgers on spanish TV I believe so he would be around too. So they will honor him for the 80's and then if they want to bring him back down there in recognition of his no-no then that wouldn't be tough to do.

he is terrible and i'm a giants fan.

It'd be great if Lasorda could cuss out each decade's team in the parlance of the day.

another - Lasorda's language/style hasn't really changed.
The insults he would use in the 60's are probably the same insults he would use in the 80's are the same ones he would use today.

who's gonna be starting rotation for the beginning of the year?