For the Dodgers, depending on who they end up giving the Fathers.

Anything can happen come October (as Dane Cook hellishly reminded us all last year forty-seven BILLION times). This, plus getting Manny makes the Dodgers a dangerous team to play over 5 or 7 games.

they would be in 4th place in the Central, 13 games out.

Ned “The Genius” Colletti obviously has the budget to sign anyone, no matter the cost, or how stupid. Greg Maddux, at the end of the line cashing checks, is not going to make that big of a difference to them, imo.

Look at Coletti: He loves the senior circuit – A. Jones, Jason Schmidt, Nomar, Jeff Kent, etc. – and now he sign Maddux – again. The team has no reliable closer. They can’t hit consistently – and they sign Manny – the Dodger equiv. of Sammy “Me Me”.

Greg Maddux is one of the great ones. I wish we had him when it mattered, the 2nd time. Now, he’ll give a decent performance every couple starts as a 5th starter on a mediocre team.

I would think with the Dodger’s vaunted farm system that they could have filled in with a #5 with someone who could equal a 4.00ERA – Dodger stadium is also a more hitter’s friendly ballpark (except not at night so much) than Petco.

I hope Greg has fun at least in LA, in their run.

to get the Dodgers in the playoffs. If they make it, their first opponant will most likely be the Cubs at Wrigley. I like our chances.

both having a solid few weeks and blowing past the suddenly putrid nl least poseurs.

then the cubs can face the mets/phils/or marlins in a 5-game series if they win the nl central. the mets lead the snake by only 3 in the loss column.

Well I did not get home till midnight last night and I saw the ESPN crawl that a trade was being "reported " and waited up till it was confirmed. I e mail regularly with two equally crazed Maddux fans ( trust me one is actually more crazed than me) and both had predicted this. The first said last week Penny would go on the DL ( before he even started FYI) and the 2nd that the trade would happen this weekend. Well it took Ned two extra weeks to get this done but I blame the cheap ass McCourts. Stories out of San Diego were that the Dodgers wanted the Padres to pay ALMOST ALL OF HIS SALARY which was nuts.
For the record Maddux has been pitching great lately both at home AND on the road. He thrives in Dodger Stadium and the fans treat him like a rock star ( they arrive on time and wait till he leaves to leave at least when I went in 06). I think he will give the Dodgers the edge to win the West but be careful what you wish for in terms of opponents. The D’Backs do have two very dominant starters but the Dodgers have excellent young pitchers and a MUCH better bullpen.
One other downside for the Cubs is the Padres 4 game series against Brewers in Sept just got even easier to win ( however I hear Estes will be back shortly to join the rotation).
I hope Russell Martin has learned not to play cards with Maddux was beating the crap out of him within a few hours of getting to LA the last time ( not a good idea to play poker with him anyway). You can expect food fights, farting contests and all variety of gross humor in the Dodgers clubhouse now and believe it or not it seems to help teams stay loose. I really hope Madog and the Dodgers work out so well they decide to try it again next season.