Filed under: Angels, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants, Padres, Yankeeso. Stephen Strasburg has a clean health record going for him as he attempts to rebound from a shoulder ailment. (He will miss his next start, scheduled for Sunday, and could be shut down for up to 10 days.)
In his three years at San Diego State, Strasburg reported no arm problems. "None. Zero. Nothing," Aztecs coach Tony Gwynn told FanHouse on Wednesday. Gwynn said that adjusting to pitching every fifth day, rather than every sixth or seventh day, is part of the rookie's current challenge.
o. Dodgers manager Joe Torre told me something I never heard from San Diego Chargers coach Norv Turner over the past 12 months, even after the Bolts' mistake-riddled 17-14 playoff lost to the underdog Jets last January.
"I screwed up," Torre told West Coast Bias this week, saying he was wrong to remove pitcher Vicente Padilla from a recent game. Turner needs to read from Torre's playbook. If the Bolts play as if poorly prepared, he'd do himself a favor by taking some of the blame, instead of putting it all on the players like he did after the loss to the Jets. Torre has four World Series rings that speak to his humble leadership.
o. Talking to Torre on Tuesday, I kept thinking of cooking oil.
A baseball man close to the Dodgers said Torre, 70, is exhausted this summer to the point of being "fried." Torre's response?
"Fried is not on my diet. You could say broiled. Or grilled." He added, "I get weary at times, yeah, but it's not that I get weary of baseball."
A hard day in Los Angeles, he added, is easier than an easy day in the Bronx Zoo. "Those last three years there were brutal -- it was everything other than managing the game," he said. "It's been fun here." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Commentswilson tennis
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