I was going to react to the lunacy of Ned Colletti calling out Matt Kemp, and then Chad had to go make a flow chart about it and render anything I had to say irrelevant. So instead, I thought I’d see how far down the list of reasons why the Dodgers are in last place ”Matt Kemp is a mediocre baserunner and outfielder” is. Hint: it’s not very high.

1. Frank McCourt.
2. Jamie McCourt.
3. The club broke camp with not one but two Ortizes.
4. Ramon Ortiz is still with the team despite a 6.39 ERA.
5. Ramon Ortiz has been allowed to throw more innings than any reliever.
6. Ten Dodgers have as many or more innings pitched than Jonathan Broxton, supposedly your relief ace.
7. Broxton has thrown 38 pitches in the last 13 days, proving that Torre truly does not understand how to run a bullpen.
8. Joe Torre is intent on sending Ramon Troncoso to his death.
9. Eric Stults was sold to Japan for absolutely no good reason at all.
10. The team has played just six home games so far.
11. Randy Wolf and Orlando Hudson were allowed to walk in the offseason without so much as an arbitration offer.
12. Vicente Padilla was the only signing for the pitching staff.
13. Jamey Carroll was the biggest free agent acquisition of the winter.
14. Jamey Carroll is your backup shortstop.
15. Jamey Carroll has a .603 OPS with underwhelming defense.
16. When just one starter (Padilla) went down, John Ely was the best you could do to replace him.
17. Padilla, Manny, & Jeff Weaver all hit the DL on three consecutive days.
18. Hong-Chih Kuo missed most of April with an arm injury and has pitched just 0.2 innings.
19. Ronald Belisario couldn’t get himself to camp on time.
20. George Sherrill was a disaster for nearly the entire month.
21. Chad Billingsley has been consistently inconsistent.
22. The pitching staff has the 5th-worst ERA in baseball.
23. When the hitters hit, the pitchers fail – and vice versa.
24. Charlie Haeger hasn’t lived up to expectations.
25. Rick Honeycutt has nothing of value to offer a struggling staff.
26. James Loney still has zero homers, and a .312 OBP.
27. Rafael Furcal has missed time with a strained hamstring.
28. Blake DeWitt has shown a good eye, but has just one extra base hit through the first month.
29. DeWitt’s been a “work in progress”, to put it mildly, on defense.
30. The entire defense has been atrocious, with the most errors and worst fielding percentage in baseball.
31. Garret Anderson – hitting .135 – is supposedly your big bat off the bench, and no steps have been taken to replace him.
32. Ronnie Belliard is your backup first baseman.
33. Though he’s performed well, Casey Blake no longer has the power of the beard.
34. Joe Torre is seemingly more interested in his horses than his baseball team.
35. Half the team was forced to go to Asia for a money-making venture.
36. The lack of home games means no Vin magic.
37. Ned Colletti calls out his best player as being the biggest problem.
38. Matt Kemp has shown indifferent defense and subpar baserunning.

And so on. But, Ned’s right. Your All-Star center fielder who’s leading the league in homers really is the biggest problem here.