Jason Schmidt is starting for the Dodgers tonight. For God's sake, the last time he started a game for the Dodgers, nobody had ever heard of Twitter, the Jonas Brothers, or the Tampa Bay Rays. People still used Myspace! I mean, come ON!
Still, the Dodgers have to try to get something out of their $47 million investment, although I'm not entirely sure what they can hope for. Schmidt is now 36 years old, and has barely limped his way through a few months of pitching to minor league hitters to get to this point. It'd be a miracle if he could survive five innings again at the major league level, let alone make any kind of discernable impact. Maybe Ned Colletti's hoping that he can throw a no-hitter, win the deciding game of the World Series, or come off the bench in the ninth inning to hit a two-run walkoff homer off Mariano Rivera with two bad legs? I'm not sure. The wise "baseball move," of course, would be to cut Schmidt loose and give someone like Scott Elbert or Josh Lindblom a shot at the fifth starter job, but neither of those guys even make $470,000, let alone ten times that, so fuck all that noise. I guess I seriously have to hope that Schmidt does well. Hell, if the LA Clippers can trade Zach Randolph without having to include Blake Griffin and their next 17 lottery picks, anything's possible.
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