Thank the lord! I knew Ned Coletti was smarter than he looked. Finally, after months of enduring shittyness, the Dodgers traded Jae Seo away to the Devil Rays today along with the rotting AAA catcher Dioner Navarro for Mark Hendrickson and Toby Hall. Now that the Dodgers have no Korean pitchers on the roster, they can concentrate on winning some games here and there. Mark Hendrickson's mediocre at best, but he can't be any worse than Jae Seo was. And the addition of Toby Hall means the Dodgers will now be carrying three catchers which .... well.... doesn't make much sense, but at least we took the kimchi out of the jar!

And hopefully those two guys can contribute as soon as possible. The Dodgers got creamed again today by Fransisco Liriano and the Twins. Joe Mauer is absolutely beating the stuffing out of Dodger pitching and we can't seem to get anything going offensively against these primo Latin pitchers. Today's pounding was especially difficult to take. After seeing the Derek Lowe face in just the second inning, it was over. I turned off the TV and found out later that in fact, nothing much happened after that. The umpires should just make the Derek Lowe face the final scorecard in the game. Just spare us all the pain of finishing the game and send everyone home. Oh, and we get to face Johan Santana tomorrow! Whoopee!