Long story, but I caught a Yankees - Dodgers spring training game in Ft. Lauderdale in March 1981.

We were standing by the 1st base line, and some guy kept on screaming at Steve Garvey: "Garvey, you're a bum!".

I guess he was.

There was a lot of talk about Garvey entering politics around the end of his career, but at the age of 74, you gotta think that ship has sailed.

As far as him being recruited by both Republicans and Democrats up and down the state, well, there's a lot of lying in politics.

There was a lot of talk about Garvey entering politics around the end of his career, but at the age of 74, you gotta think that ship has sailed.

This is pretty young for Washington, really!

But a Republican in California, he has a better chance of starting first base for the Dodgers next year.

Sure, California has a senator who is 400 years old, but at least she had the sense to start her political career in her thirties.

He could probably win the primary just with votes from his own kids.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers icon Steve Garvey is considering running for the open U.S. Senate seat in California as a Republican, a move that would immediately upend the 2024 race,

No, it wound't.

according to several GOP state party insiders and operatives

Who are lying. They just want a Name to run as a sacrificial lamb.

who requested anonymity

To avoid being mocked for saying Garvey entering the race would up-end it all.

THE THREE WORST THINGS A PERSON CAN BE:
1) A Nazi war criminal
2) A child molester
3) Steve Garvey.

He could probably win the primary just with votes from his own kids.

Actually no.

I think you're erroneously assuming they'd vote *for* him. I haven't kept track since 2016 - events and age have mellowed me, even in my hatred of the nazi child molester - but pending any reconciliations since then, he would lose that demographic pretty handily.

I think it's kinda funny that we make jokes about Steve Garvey, who has a total of 8 kids as if that is a huge number.. my mom has 6 (mind you it's just two dads, her first husband died when she was in her early 20's) now my brother, who we make fun of all the time, has a profile that matches Garvey (a total of 6? kids not counting a miscarriage---well not really a miscarriage, his gf was hit by the car as she was walking home--by 3 different women--the miscarriage would have been the 4th)

Of course the real joke about Garvey isn't the number of kids, it's the number of mothers, especially outside of marriage for a guy with a 'conservative' reputation. (same with Herschel Walker and others, it's not the kids, it's the joke that they push an ideology or at least pretend to, and then violate it. I mean we make jokes about Nick Cannon too, but because he's not this religious nutter pusher, we don't do it with the same malice)

It's quite a bit more... something... than a wee bit of infidelity. I'd have to look it up but I vaguely recall it was something like impregnate the nanny, leave your wife for the nanny, get engaged to the nanny, cheat on the nanny, break off the engagement to the nanny, etc. There's more, I believe, but like I said - I stopped watching and time makes fools of us all.

Last I recall, our man Stevie was on trial for peddling some kind of herbal supplement that gets advertised on stuff like Newsmax.

He's a man of many moral talents.

Probably lacks the AM radio talk DJ and/or gameshow hosting experience to be taken seriously...

It's quite a bit more... something... than a wee bit of infidelity. I'd have to look it up but I vaguely recall it was something like impregnate the nanny, leave your wife for the nanny, get engaged to the nanny, cheat on the nanny, break off the engagement to the nanny, etc. There's more, I believe, but like I said - I stopped watching and time makes fools of us all.

He joined a long list of people like that, including beloved Robin Williams,

People have been calling him Senator Garvey since the 70s.

Pretty much everyone in Georgia knew Herschel Walker's name. How many non-baseball fans north of Calabasas remember Garvey's?

Garvey has the perfect personality and ethics to be a GOP politician.

As I recall, the issue with Garvey was that his private life was very much at odds with his public image. At one point, voters actually cared about that sort of thing.

Much like John Schmidtz, he was simply ahead of his time.

It's quite a bit more... something... than a wee bit of infidelity. I'd have to look it up but I vaguely recall it was something like impregnate the nanny, leave your wife for the nanny, get engaged to the nanny, cheat on the nanny, break off the engagement to the nanny, etc. There's more, I believe, but like I said - I stopped watching and time makes fools of us all.

You know what they say, marry the mistress and you create a job opening.

Stevie was a massive jobs creator BITD...

If Amazon existed and dabbled in mistresses, they'd probably have had put a fulfillment center near wherever he was living at the time.

They need to make sure he meets all the prerequisites for a Republican nomination. Sure, he has the non-Christian lifestyle, but he must preach Christianity at the same time. And has he come out to announce which groups of people he hates and will attack yet? We need to know such things. And last, but not least, he'll still need to fail a civics test. Then he's all set!

I wonder what Glenn Burke would say about Garvey's candidacy. If, you know, he were still alive.

S.I. Hayakawa elected at 70 or 71; unseated John Tunney (son of boxer Gene Tunney; if Harry Greb had beaten Tunney, would John still have become a senator), I think.
19. One doesn't have to wonder too much about what the late Don Sutton would have said since he once punched Garvey in the face. But, how accepting would Garvey be of Burke; are there public statements Garvey made; don't recall. It was the case that Lasorda did not accept his son's sexuality. Garvey was a good looking fellow married to a good looking young lady, but if I had to pick a senate candidate, I'd take Wes Parker.

15. Schmitz name from the past; Mary Letourneau's father.

I wonder what Glenn Burke would say about Garvey's candidacy. If, you know, he were still alive.

As I had never heard one way or another I did a search, and it seems Steve Garvey was one of Burke's best friends on the Dodgers.
Oddly enough, along with Sutton (and Dusty, though I think that was pretty well known).

From a 1982 Inside Sports article:

"Lasorda told me, 'We're tired of you walking back and forth in the dugout like a mad tiger in a cage. We're sending you to Oakland, where you can play more.' He was nice about it but he was detached. It was as if they couldn't wait for me to leave, but they were being careful so there wouldn't be a scene. I walked out of his office and the whole locker room was dead. Steve Garvey and Don Sutton, two of my best friends on the team, had tears in their eyes. Garvey and me had always gotten along great. He taught me how to tie a tie, he gave me hats and T-shirts, he sat next to me on the team plane and he made me promise to play for him if he ever had a football team.

whoa !

not sticking to the pre-set narrative won't win you many friends here in 2023.

"nuance" left this building years ago....

S.I. Hayakawa was 70 when he started his one term in the U.S. Senate. He ran as an outsider and also at a time when Republicans were a political force in California, which has not been the case since Arnold Schwarzenegger left office. I'd be very surprised if the general election race for Senate ends up being two Democrats.

Kamala Harris beat another Democrat, Loretta Sanchez. Dianne Feinstein beat Democrat Kevin De Leon, currently serving on the LA City Council in disgrace. Feinstein in her current health status is better than De Leon.

Current Senator Alex Padilla beat a Republican in the general, mostly because the Democrats didn't field any other candidates of note. And even though the guy who lost to Padilla got 4.2 million votes, I doubt anyone knows who he was. It was Mark Meuser.

It would take a mind boggling high level of political ineptitude for the Democrats not to hold onto Feinstein's seat in 2024

So he's going for the Jim Bunning route to the HoF?