Grady Little sneaks into Dodger Stadium, kidnaps Joe Torre, makes today's lineup himself

I like Grady Little as a person, but he's just not a good manager, as Dodger fans and (especially) Red Sox fans can attest. While managing the Red Sox, he had the, um, knack for replacing his key hitters (Ortiz, Manny, Nixon, etc) for pinch runners/defensive replacements in like the 6th/7th inning only to have their spots in the order come up 10 minutes later at a critical point in the game. And as a Dodger manager, his running gag was resting 8 of his starters on a given day instead of spacing out their rest over the course of the week, leading to situations where like Ricky Ledee would lead off and Mark Sweeney would bat cleanup. I mean, it got to the point where you really believed that his thought process was, "Brandon Webb's pitching against us today? Fuck it, we're going to lose anyway, might as well give Kent, Drew, Furcal, and Ethier all the day off and let them rest up for the World Series." Just stupid, crazy strategy. Again, like Grady as a person, but oh so glad that he's not managing my favorite team anymore.

Or is he? Lineup for today's game:

2B Hudson
RF Ethier
LF Manny
1B Loney
CF Kemp
3B Dewitt
C Ausmus
SS Castro
Pitcher's spot

Ugh. Well, at least the Dodgers are going against some poor Colorado schmuck like Pedro Astacio or Mike Hampton, right? Wrong. They're facing Aaron Cook, the only Rockie starter who doesn't give up 19 runs a game. In fact, last year he put up one of the best seasons ever by a Coors Field-hampered starting pitcher (16-9, 3.96 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, .287 BAA).

The Grady Watch continues.