The Left Field Pavilion

Last post for this blog

2010-10-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

The LFP has moved on over to a world Press blog. This will allow you to see the pics without any type of blur and in their original size. I also took down the main LFP site. So if you go to that site it will redirect you to the new one. I hope to have the links and everything else moved over in a day or two. I hope you enjoy the new site and all the features from the old main site in one place.

Here is the link to the new site.

Thank you for your support and I hope the site continues to grow even more next season.

Matt begins offseason workout in London.

2010-10-05T21:01:00.000-07:00

Story

Erskine remembers the 55 WS

2010-10-04T18:57:00.000-07:00

Story from NY Times

Good Luck Brad

2010-10-04T13:11:00.000-07:00

Just our way of saying thanks

2010-10-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

More Organ for 2011 please!

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2011 Prediction

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Enough of this idiot

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Bison attacks

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Smoke um if you got um

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Just remember

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Frank in the bot of the 9th

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Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt watches from his field level owners' box as the Los Angeles Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks during the bottom of the ninth inning of their baseball game, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, in Los Angeles. The Diamondbacks won 7-5.

Yeah Frank that's the same look on my face, when they said due up in the bottom of the 9th is HU, Theriot and Johnson

Ely get's bit

2010-10-01T22:50:00.000-07:00

The LFP blog will be moving

2010-10-01T14:00:00.000-07:00

I will be switching over to a world Press blog format and will be removing the main LFP site. The new blog will have all the features from the main site available on the same page with the blog. There is still a lot of work to do, so it will be a week or so till it takes over as the LFP.com. In .he mean time here's a preview. All the links are working so feel free to click on them.

http://www.thelfp.com/blog/

The Woodpecker gets it.

2010-09-30T20:58:00.000-07:00

VSIMHB has the link

Thank you

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I want to thank everyone who has come here over the last year for helping this site grow. Hopefully we can grow the site even more next season.

Matt promises to pay back the fans.

2010-09-29T19:24:00.000-07:00

"I've got to pay the fans back, man," Kemp said. "They deserve it. They've been mad at me all season. I've got to do something for them, something special. We all do. Read it here

Weaver works his magic

2010-09-29T18:11:00.000-07:00

Once again Jeff comes in to clean up the mess left behind by the bull pen. One pitch and inning over.

Stick it Troy

2010-09-29T02:29:00.000-07:00

End of the road

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Beard > Mullett

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Told you so

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SHOVE IT DINGER!

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2010 STRIKEOUT LEADERS

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Later Preston

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Little Mattingly was sent packing today.

Guess that will teach you to Tweet about your dad getting a promotion before the Spin Dr's get a chance to make the announcement public.. With your .194 BA. at IE. I can see you've been listening to your father.

What a waste of a #1 Draft pick

I feel for Billingsley

2010-09-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

Poor Chad pitches a masterpiece only to have Joe Torre shit on it by bringing in his confidence building projects.

Get well soon John

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Thanks for letting us share your dream.

LA's Lone Star

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Samurai

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Little less time with the WoodPecker

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and a little more effort pecking balls with your bat please.

Congrats Jamey You deserved it.

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Happy Birthday Tommy

2010-09-22T13:33:00.000-07:00

My fave Tommy pic of all time.

Congrats Jamey

2010-09-21T22:59:00.000-07:00

This award is given to the only player still playing his heart out every game and AB. Thanks Jamey for not giving up.

Team Jamie goes full Nuke

2010-09-21T13:32:00.000-07:00

Lawyer admits to swtiching documents

I can't believe it's been 30 years.

2010-09-21T03:00:00.000-07:00

No crosswalk is safe! It's ALL in play!

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Jamie's driver strikes woman with SUV

AJ saves the day

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Dodgers emerge from the rubble

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Win in the 11th

Not quite Welcome To The Jungle

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Songs to replace Don't stop Believin'

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What are you suggestions?

Haven't we seen this all before?

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It didn't work then and it's not going to work now.

My take on the events of yesterday

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Why all of a sudden did Joe feel the need to make announcement? As I watched the proceedings yesterday. One thing kept running through my mind. Why now? He can't wait till the end of the season or till the team was eliminated like he said? Several things about this stink to me. No matter what you say about Torre's in game management. The man above all has class. I do not think the events scheduled yesterday were very well thought out. It looked rushed. Everyone in the room looked scared and was trying to say the right thing. It was not the way I figured Joe would go out. What happened in that room looked like it was thrown together at the last minute. With no planning or class what so ever for a guy deserving of way more than what he received.

I'm not Oliver Stone, but I am a very good judge of people and body language. I believe the only reason for that dog and pony show was not to say Joe is leaving and Wallach just got screwed like Mike Scioscia. But to knock the bomb that O'Malley set off out of the news the day before asap. Say what you want. It was a huge story on all the newscasts in LA but was quickly brushed aside for the Torre stepping down story.

Frank can deny and claim people support him. Times put up a poll on their site and it shows otherwise.

Those are not the numbers the Spin Dr's are looking for. I'm sure the numbers go much higher than that small sample and will continue to grow higher the longer the McCourts drag this team through the mud.

Frank is right he don't have to sell the team. no one can force him. He is also wrong in assuming that the team will draw the numbers it has in the past. The fans do have a say and can express their displeasure by not attending games or buying season tickets. When FOX owned the team. They could absorb the losses. Frank can't and he knows it. His lawyers now it, and so does Bud Selig, So remember to just say NO the next time a ticket rep calls wanting you to support his greed. If the fans stick together we can force a change what ever the Judges decision.

Dodger Talk

2010-09-17T17:42:00.000-07:00

I find it funny that after last nights loss to the Giants. Not ONE caller said a word about the O'Malley statement. I have not listened to the show since they got rid of Bob Harvey. Who was outstanding by the way. No matter how hard the PR machine tries to down play all the dysfunction of the organization. The truth will always come out. Maybe, just maybe if they were truthful from the start. They would not have the backlash that is growing day by day.

Donnie gets the keys.

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St Peter at the gates of Heaven.

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Bill does manage to find a nut now and then.

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The nut

Walter is smiling

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Peter says GTFO!

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1959 Retros

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I'll do some more later today. Just needed to take a breather tonight.

$4.5 million worth of fail.

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His face says it all

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They grow up so fast

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Meet the new Boss

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Barry Zito quote of the day.

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Watching the Giant feed tonight. They had a camera in the dugout as Zito walked down the steps. As he slammed down his glove he uttered the above phrase.

Tommy says

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He gets my vote

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I was skeptical about his signing, but he gives 100% for nine innings.

Dodgers fall back to Earth

2010-09-12T21:48:00.000-07:00

after two game streak

9-11 and what it means to me.

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This picture hangs on the wall under a plaque that was given to my dad for his years of service.

I had just returned home from taking my kid to school, and sat down to watch MSNBC to see what was in the news that day. When a report came in about a plane hitting one of the trade center towers. At first they didn't know what size plane and details were still coming in. As I continued to watch the live broadcast a second plane hit the other tower. Then reports of a third plane hitting the Pentagon in DC. I was in shock. How could this happen to my country.

As I watched the feed from NYC my thoughts were on the first responders. I am the son of a fireman. My father was on the Dept for almost thirty years till he retired. I have a younger brother who is on the Dept also. I was never big on ladders so I built fire trucks for American LaFrance. I grew up spending a lot of time in a firehouses. The other fireman were like a second family to my brothers and I. We would be there and a call would come in and they would go. Never knowing what is waiting for them at their destination. Even though you know what they do for a living. You always expect them to return home from work. I'm sure most, if not all families who lost members there expected that also.

When the first tower came down I was in total shock. Even more so after the second tower fell. Listening to the air tank alarms going off was sickening to me, as I knew each one belonged to someone. I could only imagine the horror that they faced that day.

In the weeks that followed. They would show the funerals for the fallen firefighters. They reminded me of my fathers funeral. He died just fourteen months after he retired. Over the years he would take some part time jobs driving truck to deliver paper and financial reports to NYC for a local printing company. One night he stopped by the garage I was in working on my race car and asked if i had wanted to go along to the WTC. I was never in them, so I said yes in a heartbeat. I remember how tight those streets were and him saying that he was glad he would never have to navigate his fire truck through there. Years later my younger brother took a job driving a truck for another printing company here. My father would fill in for him when he was scheduled to work his shift at the firehouse. One day just like any other day. I heard my father leave for work. He was driving for my brother that day. I received a call at my work at 3 PM saying my father had had a heart attack and they were taking him to the hospital.

When I arrived at the hospital. My brother showed up along with the fire truck that my father used to drive. As we all got out of our vehicles. We asked each other why are you here. The guys my dad worked with were there because the fire alarm went off inside the hospital. We told them that we were there because our father had a heart attack and was in the ER. They rushed to reset the alarm as my brother and I went into the ER. It was too late. He was gone. I guess his spirit set off the alarm and brought us all together as his way of saying good bye. That is why 9/11 is special to me in many ways. It reminds me that these brave men and women put their lives on the line everyday and how fragile life is.

It was after my father had died that I took a job building fire trucks. I built the Ladder trucks for Los Angeles and for many other cities and small towns. When I was on the line. One of the things I would do was put my dad's initials and badge number on the trucks somewhere to sort of watch over them. So when you see a LTI American La France truck go by you wherever you live. Chances are it has my dads initials and badge number on it somewhere.

So tell those special people in your life how much you love them everyday, because sometimes you never get a chance to say goodbye.

5 - 4 - 3 -2 - 1

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Kuo Bat Flip bobblehead

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Make it so

What me worry?

2010-09-09T22:06:00.000-07:00

2011 Fan giveaways

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LA Law night. Every fan gets a poster and business card of Frank's lead attorney Steve Susman

Only a no class manager would do this

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With a player that has waited 15 years for his first official ML AB.

Only a no class organization does this

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I'm sure all 20,000 fans enjoyed it.

Joe doing some reading

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Time to go

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Look what I found!

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1989 UD Gibson

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Few more

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Sorry for no post last night.

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I'll try to get something up later today. Got caught up doing a 1989 Topps template for another blogger. Here is a pic of the template with James.

Watch the not so great highlights

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Click here to play if player does not load.

Just believe in yourself.

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The Brostrich strikes again

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Someone teach this man a change up

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You messed it up kid.

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Popular Hot Rodding

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Click to see it in full res.

Smoookin!

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No longer past due.

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Baaahhhhh

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Some of Jon Soo Hoo's greatest shots.

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LA Times website

On sale now

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GTFO you broke bastards!

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I'll be back

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Same old story

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On this day in Dodgers history

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August 31, 1950— Gil Hodges of Brooklyn Dodgers hits four homers and a single in a game against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field. The Dodgers and the HOF Veteran committee need to get their shit together and do right by this great player. He's been ignored for far too long.

I think we found a catcher.

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Victory

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Ready or not

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The new shirts are in.

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Sorry for the delay. The Black Fear Factor shirts will be in later this week. Most other designs that were out are now back in stock also. Visit the store here

Manny being Manny to the end

2010-08-29T00:11:00.000-07:00

Manny Ramirez looking for extension if traded

Please Manny and do whats right for the team. They never gave up on you, but after watching your AB tonight. It sure as hell looked like you gave up on them. You are only making it harder on the team and for yourself if you let your agent pull this shit. Are you afraid that no one will sign you in the off season like Barry Bonds? If so, you have no one to blame but yourself the same as him.

Torre wears the LFP's In Beard We Trust shirt tonight

2010-08-28T00:45:00.000-07:00

Tony Jackson reports

Beard leads the way

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Just a reminder

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LA's new trial of the century starts on Monday.

Shirts update

2010-08-27T07:55:00.000-07:00

Will be picking them up later today and will have them available in the LFP store on Saturday. The order was not that big so they will go fast.

Friday night starters

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Dodgers turn it up

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It only took six pitchers and the party continues on to Colorado.

The Evansville Hustler

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This rounds on me

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Dodgers slam six doubles in 5-4 win over Wolf

A movement has started

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Story from Curbed LA
selldodgers.com

Lightning Rod

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