Will Nomo have a repeat performance of 2002? Will
Gagne be as dominant a closer as he was in 2002? Will
Brown and Dreifort start 60 games between them? Will
they win 35 of them? Will Joe Thurston provide solid
defense at second? Will Roberts repeat his great
defense of Centerfield in 2003 like he did in 2002?
Will the Dodgers avoid an injury plagued year? If ALL
these answers are 'Yes', then I think 2002 is the year
the Dodgers meet the Yankees in the World Series. If
just one of them is answered 'No', I believe we will
be singing the mantra, 'Wait until Next Year' by
August.


--- Don Gumbert <degumb@...> wrote:
> Hi, just joined, just wanted to say I have been a
> Dodger fan for
> longer than I can remember, and you could probably
> care less, 'cuz
> you all have too :) Anyway, I had a "special
> feeling" about that '88
> club, and pretty much have the same feeling about
> this team as well.
> This club may be more talented than that '88 club
> (many Dodger teams
> since that time have been superior "on paper" to
> that club), but this
> year's team actually seems (to me) to have that
> intangible that the
> previous teams have not had. Don't want to sound
> like a "Cub fan"
> with the annual optimism they go through, but this
> team seems to have
> been working the last two years for this year. If
> Brownie & Dreif
> can do what they have done in the spring, the
> rotation should be
> solid. The bench looks solid with whoever they keep
> out of
> Coomer/Shumpert/Romano/Cabrera/Murray group(with
> Murray being the
> suprise, and even this Hundley seems to be an
> improvement over
> the "last Hundley", and even Larry Barnes has to go
> down after a
> solid spring. Anyway, to keep this short and not
> repeat what a lot
> of what you all know anyway, it looks to be a great
> season, and glad
> to be aboard. Only question I have is whether the
> team should keep
> Veras & send down Joe Thurston for a little
> while....
>
>


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