I would do a trade for Kemp if the Dodgers eat the majority of the salary. He can be somebody you can platoon over the years at DH as well.

If you have DirecTV, the Storm Chasers are playing on channel 221.

Some guy named Mortenson for us is sucking ass.

Jason Adam was promoted to AAA.

Welp... that's enough minor league baseball for me. LMAO

They wont trade kemp unless they get something in return. Its Ethier and Crawford that will be released or traded. Dodgers are going to call up Joc Pederson very soon. Ethier's playing time has dimished alot lately. Kemp has played in just about every game but 1 in the last month or so.

After I did the math on his salary, I realized how ridiculous the trade sounded. Kemp is due $107mm over 5.5 years. The Dodgers would have to eat about 1/3 of his salary for the Royals to afford it. And then, the Royals would be paying him between, 12 to 13 million per year. That's a lot but considering what Butler's option is for next year it'd be a steal. But, the Dodgers aren't going to eat 1/3 of his salary.

Kemp hasn't been healthy and awesome in a few years. Also his #'s are decent but not worth 12 mill

Perfect then. We'll just wait, go dumpster diving, and pick up someone who's free while the Dodgers pay 100% of the salary.

I imagine it would be ethier who's on the chopping block. He and Crawford have performed at similar levels with the bat, but Crawford offers more skills and is owed more money over a longer contract.

Probably easier to move Ehtier for some sort of return, and definitely easier to stomach cutting him if necessary.

Are you kidding me? I missed that news. He was a great guy. One summer day, in 77 or 78, (and it was hot as F) several friends and I arrived at the stadium to line up for GA tickets ($ 1.50 at that time).

In those days of consistent sell outs or near sell outs, you had one or two guys station themselves at the gate and one or two station themselves at the GA ticket booth which was located in RF or LF depending on where you sat. The ticket sales for GA started 90 minutes before the game. Once they opened, you bought tix, rushed them to your friends, who then rushed for the front row of GA, saving your seat.
On this day, it was over 100* easily. We arrived at noon to stand in line for a series with the BOSOX (maybe) And we took turns going into the shade to cool down.
As I was walking in the shadows all down the RF line I pass the players entrance and sit down. No players were around as they usually didn't arrive until 4pm. As I'm sitting there a nice man walked up and asked if I needed a drink. I said "Sure". I thought he was going to give me glass of water. Instead, he takes me into the players entrance into the stadium and into the clubhouse. He opens a fridge and hands me a coke. Asks me if I want to look around. So he introduces himself as "Al". I knew immediately who he was. So for an hour or so I wander around the empty clubhouse looking at uniforms and wishing I could ask for a jersey. Was too frightened tho. Honestly, I was hoping he would ask me if I needed a job as a clubhouse attendant. But I was overwhelmed and mortified just to be there. It was a great experience. I had no camera, nothing. Those would have been such great photos.

Anyway, he walked me out and every once in a while Al would exit the RF bullpen before a game and we would exchange waves. To give me, a young kid some of his time on a hot day was just a very nice thing to do.

I made a lot of acquaintances at the stadium in those days. The beer men, the ground crew, the bullpen crew and pitchers. So many great memories.

RIP Al.

Awesome story, and most likely an even awesome-er memory. That's boyhood dream-type stuff there.
Wow

I remember the days of getting in line early for right field GA. I never go there early enough for front row, but there were always the same cast of characters seated there. i remember a couple we called can head (he had a baseball cap with a Budweiser can sticking out of it) and Santa Claus. They always had a bunch of chants they used every game.

Good times...

Loved seeing santa in GA. God that brings back a lot of memories.

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Those were good times. I remember my older brothers taking me to games in RF GA. I think tickets were $2 (??) back in the 70's, but don't completely recall.