Taiwan Trip Turning Terribly Tragic

To paraphrase SoSG regular Josh S. during the Game Thread for the rained-out, canceled Dodgers game in Taiwan: So, let's recap this trip: A loss. A canceled game. National hero Kuo scratched from his only appearance with elbow soreness. WHAT A FANTASTIC IDEA THIS WAS. And about that sore elbow of Hong-Chih Kuo: TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Hong-Chih Kuo said he "almost cried" when he told the Dodgers training staff that his elbow was sore again, and the news didn't do manager Joe Torre any good, either. Torre had to scratch Kuo from the start of his life Saturday night at 10 p.m. PT, a chance to pitch one inning in front of his mother against an All-Star team from his native Taiwan. "It's nothing major -- he wants to pitch," Torre said of Kuo, whose elbow, operated on four times already, has no margin for error. "But if something happened in front of his home crowd ... We think it's normal Spring Training stuff, but can't take a chance."...