Dodgertown: Baseball's Petting Zoo?
by tobias on Mar 17, 2008 6:50 PM PDT
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PrintFrom ESPN.com, this AP article is about the closing of Dodgertown.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3298918
"In an era when spring training has become big business, [Dodgertown] was more like baseball's petting zoo, where players were encouraged to chat with fans and sign their balls."
I just want to know how someone who writes for a living, can come up with a sentence like that and not know something's wrong?
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Dang
I was predicting that this Diary would somehow have to do with Hillenbrand and his not so secret dream house. You win this round, tobias.
He is Vengeance. He is the Knight. He is Dave Righetti. PRAY TO HIM!
An aura of strength wafts off me...
I planned that post seven moves in advance.
That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!
Tobias - All I am do is applaud.
With that Tobais, will you sign my balls.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Mar 17, 2008 9:08 PM PDT reply actions
It's like the Jim Rome show the other morning after Lasorda was on and fans from other teams were e-mailing in and saying how great of an "ambassador" he is.
What?!?!
This fat layabout and his cronies gathered together under the guise of the "Hall of Fame Veterans Committee" only to sit on their collective asses and watch a real ambassador in Buck O'Neil pass away when they had so many chances to do the right thing and give him his day in the sun. But Tommy, like his Dodgers, just can't do anything right when it comes to clutch situations/decisions now a days.
Yeah and if Dodgertown is a petting zoo then I hope all the parents get their kids to the doctors afterwards. Lord knows I wouldn't want any youngins touching Kent, Bradley (back in the day, but still today), Lasorda and Penny. That group might require all the required anti-viral, plus now VD stuff for you know whom.
I hear the Rays are moving in there...I'd just say burn the place to the ground, salt the earth and begin anew!!!
it's always noonan somewhere
salting their lands
I have long said that we should kill the dodgers, slay their sons, impregnate their wives, and plow salt into their lands. Some might say that's a bit harsh, but be honest: when was the last time you had to take any crap from the Carthaginians?
Glad to see you're on board. Let's call this Plan A.
Anyone else think the Justice League of National is more strategic & interesting than the Justice League of America?
by Mayor of 311 on Mar 17, 2008 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
All I ask is to ride into battle on a steed made of fire, and after the mass hysteria and bloodshed calms down I can ride away with Andre Ethier unscathed.
Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 17, 2008 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to film a viral commercial with Tommy falling down the steps and asking for Life Alert...but I'm on the other end and I tell him, "not until you reject the Dodgers and say 'Barry Bonds and the Giants make good kin'". And if he doesn't say it, well...he's screwed and I'll play "the Call" in a repeating loop.
it's always noonan somewhere
Or
You could also just ask him to "I love my dead gay son."
You'll get the same fun result!
He is Vengeance. He is the Knight. He is Dave Righetti. PRAY TO HIM!
by howtheyscored on Mar 17, 2008 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I've fallen and I can't get up....
My adopted son Matt Downs. He's sort of like Bill Mueller without the "two flap" helmet.
Who attacked Tommy?
Wasn't it Vladimir Guerrero, in the All Star game a few years back (when Vlad was still an Expo)?
Another reason we should've signed him!
That's all I can stands, I can't stands no more!
Request.......... begrudgingly granted.
Anyone else think the Justice League of National is more strategic & interesting than the Justice League of America?
by Mayor of 311 on Mar 17, 2008 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
To the victor go the spoils!
Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 18, 2008 7:02 AM PDT up reply actions
But be careful. One second on your steed of fire, and Andre will have scorched junk.
Anyone else think the Justice League of National is more strategic & interesting than the Justice League of America?
by Mayor of 311 on Mar 19, 2008 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
MONGOL GENERAL: "Conan, what is best in life?"
CONAN: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
"I been waitin' a long time for this! I been waitin' since the f**kin' amateurs!" --WILL "THE THRILL" CLARK
by Josh from Hollywood on Mar 17, 2008 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Rome writes e-mails to himself...allegedly.
Lasorda is just some fat old perv who likes to sit around watching girlie porn with hookers.
I lost interest in the HOF years ago, when they pulled the bullshit on Orlando Cepeda back in the 80s. The White Ass media made him do the "yes massah, no massah" shit for years to "rehabilitate his reputation. Cepeda was, is and always has been an awesome dude. That Buck O'Neill was never admitted during his lifetime. That they would accept a defaced baseball that represents the greatest record in American Sports, was the last straw. That they will admit broadcasters and sportswriters yet keep out or threaten to keep out 3 of the greatest hitters of all time, in Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, and Barry Bonds, is about the stupidest thing in the world. Nobody with the stature of any of these three have ever been banned by the NFL, NBA, NHL or even Nascar. Only in the MSM driven stench of Baseball's HOF. Who the fuck gives a shit anymore? Really. Its totally ethically bankrupt.
by E Ticket on Mar 17, 2008 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Jim Rome is his own crutch...allegedly.
Rome's ego is the size of the Inland Empire and his man-crush for Lasorda is bigger than that of every pedophile Catholic priest yearning for young alter boys. I've never seen a personality that needs to tie his radio show into all of his tv incarnations, just for the verbiage. But you have to admire the runt for keeping the dead rat on his face for all these years even after it's come in-and-out of style three or four times. The people who groom that thing should get a razzie though, because that disaster looks like it jumped out of a 1950's monster movie MST3K's Tom Servo would explode at if he watched for 10 minutes.
it's always noonan somewhere
by sectionop92 on Mar 17, 2008 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I think if Lasorda and Rome were chicks, they would probably be lesbian lovers and make porn in front of full-length mirrors...allegedly.
by E Ticket on Mar 18, 2008 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Which one would be the dominant and which one would be the submissive? Maybe Tommy would be the submissive if you paid for an all-nighter at Olive Garden and Uno's. But Rome...you'd probably have to give him a tube of cookie dough and get a little Asian girl to walk on his back to get him ready for the "main event". Then put a bottle of Jack Daniel's in the room and tell whomever is in control that the safety word is "Fernando" and let them go at it with each other.
it's always noonan somewhere
by sectionop92 on Mar 18, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
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