Maybe everything Towers touches turns to dung because he touches it long after it's already been digested and has lost all nutritive value.

Dodgers make a nice series of errors with totally unnecessary throws.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.js ... y_36078567

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielders Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig got into a verbal altercation in the dugout during an 11-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night at Coors Field, a disagreement caught by the Rockies' TV cameras.

Kemp, who had struck out earlier in the sixth inning, was seen pursuing Puig the length of the dugout and yelling in his direction before manager Don Mattingly stepped between them and Kemp turned and walked up the tunnel toward the clubhouse.

Puig had walked during the inning, in which the Dodgers scored eight runs.

Kemp and Mattingly wouldn't reveal the topic of the disagreement, but it's possible Kemp was upset that Puig, one of the Dodgers' fastest runners, didn't take third base on Adrian Gonzalez's single to right field just before Kemp batted.

Mattingly made it sound as if it wasn't the first time tempers have flared among Dodgers teammates this season.

Several sources have described the clubhouse atmosphere as "dysfunctional."

86-64 dysfunctional; only one win behind Washington for the most wins in the NL.

1972 Oakland A's

The bass player in Puig Destroyer, Ian Miller, plays in a band called Kowloon Walled City. He and I have been running a baseball and music-centric blog, Twitter feed and podcast [Productive Outs] for the last three years or so. Last season, Yasiel Puig made his major league debut for the Dodgers and got off to this crazy hot start: everyone was talking about him and he was a great player on the field but one of the drawbacks was that he was a completely batshit crazy, out of control, just super aggressive player and it kind of rubbed some people the wrong way.

Anyway, on a podcast last season when he got called up to the majors, Ian and I were talking and because we're both fans of Pig Destroyer I was like, "Someone should start a baseball-themed metal band called 'Puig Destroyer.'" After we finished recording, Ian mentioned, kind of joking, "Hey, we should do that." Later that night, I sent him programmed drums for what ended up being our first song; eight or nine days later we had our first EP up on Bandcamp; and two weeks after that Yasiel Puig actually heard one of the songs at the MLB Fan Cave in New York.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/10/andrew-friedman-to-leave-rays-join-dodgers.html

Rays GM Andrew Friedman leaves for post with Dodgers.

Byrnes is the front runner for their GM job. That'll make a pretty formidable front office.

Josh Byrnes, the former general manager of the Diamondbacks and Padres, is seen as a leading candidate for the top executive job under new club president Andrew Friedman with the Dodgers, league sources said.

Byrnes is viewed as a strong possibility to get the coveted job, as sources familiar with the situation say his experience is viewed as a plus for a storied, big-market team with heavy media coverage and add that his philosophy aligns with that of Friedman. The pair are also said to be fairly close, though a prior relationship had been less than obvious.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon ... t-friedman