LATEST STORIES FROM SONS OF STEVE GARVEY
Ubragg and Rafael Furcal
23 days ago by
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Those of you who had been keeping up with this season's highly competitive PCS know that the ultimate winner, ubragg, opted for the Rafael Furcal bobblehead as his prize. Well, ubragg was kind enough to send on pictures from the other side.
Wrote ubragg: "BTW, I attached...
The Best Deadspin Halloween 2009 Costume
23 days ago by
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Where have I seen this image before?
Oooooooh, yeah. That's right!
Thanks to Deadspin (and Scott S.) for brightening my day.
World Series Game 5 Thread: NYY @ PHI, 5p
23 days ago by
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Johnny Damon stealing two bases in one play last night. An overshift for Mark Teixeira brought third baseman Pedro Feliz to second on Damon's first steal. Reliever Brad Lidge failed to cover third and Damon advanced easily for another steal.
Clifton Phifer Lee (1-0, 0.00) vs...
Behold the Beauty and Grace of World Series Baseball
23 days ago by
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1: Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images; 2, 3, 5 & 6: Al Bello/Getty Images; 4: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Your Own Medicine
23 days ago by
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2009 NLCS, Game 4:
2009 World Series, Game 4:
Both games put the losing team down 3-1.
Overexposed and Underconditioned
24 days ago by
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Chad Billingsley and Russell Martin aren't the only ones yearning for the glory days of 2008. Big League Stew brings us this surprisingly un-gritty comment from the Phillies' Cole Hamels after his Halloween-night shellacking:
"I can't wait for it to end...
Who Are We to Judge?
24 days ago by
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A traditional Philly kid, first posted at Deadspin. Is this really different from our own rabid family audience. (Pic courtesy of SoSG's third favorite Nebraskan, "Todd.") PS - Welcome back, Lidge.
P&A Issue #22: Victory!
25 days ago by
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Congratulations to SoSG readers ubragg, golem, drewdez (and fanerman, who commented but didn't contribute) on successfully and collaboratively solving P&A Magazine issue #22! I got the email from the editor this morning, our submitted answer was correct!
I've taken down...
Happy Halloween from Sons of Steve Garvey
25 days ago by
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Last year: Happy Halloween from Sons of Steve Garvey
We've replaced our readers' Game Thread with a poem. Let's see if they notice
25 days ago by
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The daisy follows soft the sun,
And when his golden walk is done,
Sits shyly at his feet.
He, waking, finds the flower near.
“Wherefore, marauder, art thou here?”
“Because, sir, love is sweet!”
We are the flower, Thou the sun!
Forgive us, if as days...
At Least One Dodger Is at the World Series
25 days ago by
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Jeter: David J. Phillip/AP; Victorino: Elise Amendola/AP
The McCourt Divorce Saga: A Musical Interlude Recap
26 days ago by
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Why read the myriad articles on tmz, when you can get your updates in another medium?
This week, Jamie McCourt reponded to Frank McCourt's opening salvos with a voluminous legal document to respond to her initial firing as Dodgers CEO outlining a chronology of how she was apparently...
P&A Issue #22 WIP Thread
26 days ago by
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Here you go, PCS fans: SoSG's effort to collaboratively solve P&A Magazine Issue #22, and hopefully do it quickly enough to get in the top 10 finishers (individuals or teams). Here's what to do:
1. Buy the new issue of P&A Magazine on this site. Issue #22 releases...
While Dodgers Owners Bicker, Giants Sign Players
26 days ago by
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Sure, oft-injured Freddy Sanchez, who played only 25 games with San Francisco after coming over from Pittsburgh midseason. Sanchez, who had shoulder and knee problems this year, batted only .284/.295/.324, the last of which (slugging average) is almost 100 points lower than his career...
The Ethier Difference Is Clutchability
26 days ago by
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Congratulations to Andre Ethier, who won the Pepsi 2009 Major League Baseball's Clutch Performer of the Year presented by Pepsi, which SoSG reader Josh S pointed out happens to be sponsored by Pepsi. The award, won by fan vote, reflects Ethier's six walk-off hits this year...
Untitled
26 days ago by
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Okay, enough of you are interested, so let's try this. And though ubragg has graciously offered to bring this blog into the late 2000s by setting up a googledocs site on which we could collaborate, I want to use this issue as a test run to see if there are enough of us who are...
Those Philly Fans Are Such Nice People, Part 2
27 days ago by
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From "Phillies Fan Finkelstein Gets Tickets To Game" at MyFoxPhilly.com:
Susan Finkelstein gets free World Series tickets from a radio station, just days after the Philadelphia woman is charged with offering sex for tickets.
Radio DJ Chio from Wired 96.5 confirmed to...
World Serious Game 2 Thread: Utleys @ Jeters, 5p
27 days ago by
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A.J. Burnett (0-0, -.--) vs. Pedro Martinez (0-0, -.--).
Watching the World Series without the Dodgers is like watching your ex-girlfriend marrying George Clooney: You should feel joy, but you really feel mostly impotent bilious rage. So we'll understand if you want to pop in...
Those Philly Fans Are Such Nice People
28 days ago by
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And so discreet, too! Especially the ones who use Craigslist ads to offer sex for World Series tickets:
PHILADELPHIA -- A lawyer for a Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex for World Series tickets says she is "a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever."
Lawyer William...
World Serious Game 1 Thread: Phils @ Yanks, 5p
28 days ago by
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CC Sabathia (0-0, 0.00) vs. Cliff Lee (0-0, 0.00).
Well, here we are: another World Series featuring neither the Dodgers nor the Angels. Still, we're baseball fans, and this is the last call for baseball before we descend into an off-season filled with accusations, allegations...
Manny's Back
28 days ago by
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(Get it? "Manny's back"?)
Manny Ramirez will be back with the Dodgers in 2009, having exercised his option to return for the fee of $20M, according to True Blue LA / Jon Heyman's twitter feed. Man, I feel uncomfortable citing twitter feeds; however TBLA is...
Caption Contest
28 days ago by
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"You can photoshop a skirt on my body, just don't photoshop it on my head." (repeated 20 times)
photo in case you can't read the bottom right corner: Big League Stew
Remember All Those Kids Dodger Fans Ruined By Signing Manny Ramirez?
28 days ago by
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Jamie McCourt, quoted in the LA Times on November 26, 2008:
Would Dodgers fans react negatively if the team were to pay big money to free agents when the nation's economy is in sharp decline and many Americans are losing their jobs?
That was the question posed by Dodgers President...
Jamie Fires Back: Perusing Today's Court Filings
29 days ago by
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A cavalcade of McCourtian posts hit TMZ in the last couple of hours.
First, Jamie wants her job back, or at least all the perks that come with it:
Here are the benefits Jamie is requesting:
- travel by private jet
- 5 star hotel accommodations
- travel expenses - Unlimited
- business...
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