July 25
L.A. Daily News
columnist Vincent Bonsignore
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The one-game suspension Joe Torre served this past week had at least one positive effect. It allowed the Dodgers skipper to sit in general manager Ned Colletti's suite during his team's game against the San Francisco Giants, providing the Dodgers' top two bosses a rare chance to watch a game together. They used their time wisely. "We talked," Torre said. A lot, as it turns out. Somewhere over the course of Chad Billingsley's complete-game shutout the conversation veered to the Dodgers' strengths and weaknesses, what was working for the club and what wasn't as it prepared for the final two months of the season. The timing could not have been better, the good and bad of the Dodgers easy to"