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Afternoon Shadows: Jay Bruce gets cut down to size
Big League Stew — A late day rundown of the baseball blogosphere ...  Jay Bruce may be a Reds super prospect, but his older teammates don't have any trouble reminding him where he stands. The latest hazing: Making him autograph the covers of a newspaper he appeared on, then instructing him to make deliveries to Dusty Baker and Junior Griffey, among others. It's better than getting traded to Japan, I suppose. [C. Trent Rosecrans] • Elijah Dukes says "you dead, dawg," only this time he says it (figuratively) to golf balls. It's all about baby steps with this Dukes fellow, isn't ...

The 1986 Dodgers Had A Camcorder
Toledo Newspaper » Matt Sussman —    Okay, I’m hereby convinced someone out there is going back in time and planting these videos in the 80s. That’s the only explanation for these countless music “videos” showing up in this decade, the Aughts. Sussman: how do these keep resurfacing Tuffy: satin floats That’s another theory. What do you think, Rick? “[gives ‘OK sign’] It STINKS!” ◼ Fark → YouTube Note: The damn thing doesn’t embed. What’s the point ...

Best Video … Ever? Dodgers’ Baseball Boogie
The Big Lead — Stop what you are doing right now and watch this video. It is called the Baseball Boogie, and it features members of the 1986 Los Angeles Dodgers (Mariano Duncan, Rick Honeycutt, Fernando Valenzuela, Pedro Guerrero, etc) singing and dancing. It’s a travesty that this video is unable to be embedded; otherwise, we’re sure this would be larger than the Super Bowl Shuffle. The level of production here, considering it was filmed in 1986, is incredible. From the satin jackets to the douchy dance moves, it is nothing short of fantastic.

THE '86 DODGERS HAD A LOT OF SATIN JACKETS
With Leather — I wanna say one thing before I get to this video, and that thing is this: Hey, people who upload videos onto YouTube then disable the option to embed the video, FUCK YOU.  What makes you so fucking special?  "Oh, my video is too sacred to appear on any other site, la la la, look at me I voted for Nader because I oppose the two-party system."  You're fucking assholes, you know that?  And you're forcing me to learn needlessly complex HTML skills that I'm going to forget in twenty seconds.  Die in a fire. *exhale*  Much better.  That said, this video ...

All-Time Low?
Sons of Steve Garvey — Since we've been commerating all time highs, this might be an all-time low. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JW7q0JzWaoY

BASEBALL BOOGIE BUNCH (Video)
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — BASEBALL BOOGIE BUNCH (Video) The 1986 Dodgers went 73-89. But at least they will forever be immortalized in this, the worst “Super Bowl Shuffle” rip-off of all time. Watching this video may cause nightmares, bed-wetting, aphasia, a loss of the will to live, cancer and quite possibly deafness when you rip your ears out to stop the pain. (video after jump)

Baron Davis Was Born To Roller Skate [Can't... Look... Away...]
Deadspin — Twenty two years ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers made a music video that could probably make Skip Bayless speechless. While my knowledge of what was hip back in 1986 might've escaped me -- at the time, the more pressing question was why running into solid walls hurt my forehead -- I can't imagine Orel Hershiser wearing a satin jacket was actually cool back then. Which means 22 years from now, we might look back at this video of Golden State Warriors guard Baron Davis roller skating to the tune of "Cool It Now" in that same strange light. Those sunglasses. Those shorts. That disturbingly low-cut wifebeater. Why ...

Dodgers 1986 Boogie Video
The Glory of Baseball — Your Favorite Dodger Players Like You've Never Seen featuring current Dodger Coaches: Rick Honeycutt Ken Howell Mariano Duncan Also: Orel Hershiser Jerry Reuss Fernando Valenzuela Mike Scioscia Dave ...

‘Do the Baseball Boogie Tonight’
Defensive Indifference — I’m sure someone else has run this on their baseball blog at some point. It might have even run on the FanHouse. Whatever. There are no words … except creepy. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Orel Hershiser is So White
Babes Love Baseball — Some of us may be old enough to remember this video, while some of us may still be under the legal drinking age. Sucks to be you guys. Take a stroll back in time with the 1986 Dodgers and The Baseball Boogie... which is almost as awesome as I Don't Dance. ...

Doing The Baseball Boogie: An 'Orel' History
Big League Stew — This oral history begins in the unforgettable summer of 1986, when the Super Mario Brothers struck a blow for Italian plumber rights and the Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears taught everyone how to shuffle. In Los Angeles, the Tommy Lasorda-managed Dodgers were getting ready to follow their '85 NL West title with a disappointing 73-89 campaign that produced only one lasting memory — "The Baseball Boogie." Although the players didn't know it at the time or even get paid for their efforts, the Dodgers' satin-jacketed team dance ...

YouTube: Baseball Boogie
Blue Heaven — Big League Stew was able to corner a few of the former 1986 Dodgers recently to ask about the famous video. You gotta check it out. It's has some great quotes. On Hershiser, Ken Howell said, "Well, his name is Orel, so come on, what do you expect? When I look back at that video, I think, "What move was he really trying to make?" He was dancing like he had roaches in his pockets." YouTube Link: choorel: Story Link: Big League Stew:

Disco Dodgers
Rakin' & Slashin' — While slumming on YouTube, I found this hilarious video from 1986. Are those Members Only jackets?! So the Disco Dodgers were making videos in '86, while NY had a parade. Parade. Video. Parade. Video. Hmmmm... From a commenter on YouTube, "Please, for the love of God, make it stop!"

The Baseball Boogie
Ladies... — A friend sent this to me and I am mesmerized.  It’s the 1986 Dodgers getting down with their bad selves.  It stars Rick Honeycutt, Ken Howell, Mariano Duncan, Orel Hershiser and Mike Scoscia.  I also think I saw Ed Begley Jr. in there somewhere.  It’s no I Don’t Dance, but it’ll do. ...

L-I-N-K-S: Clayton Kershaw’s Curveball Scares Children/the Elderly, Billy Crystal Signs with the Yankees, Goofy Dodgers 80’s Music Video–I don’t Get It
Baseball Mastermind — This, you have to see.  In Sunday’s Spring Training game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, Dodgers top prospect Clayton Kershaw (Baseball Mastermind’s #5 prospect)drops a 12-6 hammer on Sean Casey that will make your jaw drop. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video ————————————————- The New York Yankees have agreed to terms with Billy Crystal (yes, the ...

Blog-A-Roni: ‘86 Dodgers Do The Baseball Boogie
SPORTSbyBROOKS — The LADIES… dance over the remarkable sight of the 1986 Los Angeles Dodgers doin’ the Baseball Boogie . YOU BEEN BLINDED raises their bids (among other things), as a nude photo of Tom Brady’s gal pal Gisele is on the auction block . Trying to cope with the Pope’s new announcement , DEUCE OF DAVENPORT offers up their own seven deadly sins of sports . ODENIZED wags a finger at these Houston Rockets players imitating Dikembe Mutombo . FAN IQ tosses over a clip of Floyd Mayweather Jr. getting ready for Wrestlemania by getting thrown out of the ring by the Big Show . With such ...

Out of the Blue
Women Like Sports — The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of those iconic stadiums in sports. First opening in 1923, it was built for just under a million dollars. When the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn in the late 1950’s, this was their first home field. Another $950,000 was spent in order to accommodate the team. While they occupied it, the Dodgers hosted an all-star game and three World Series games. In fact, the attendance for each World Series game was over 92,000 fans, a record that still stands today. The stadium was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1984, just ...

Baseball Boogie
Robots Took My Medicine — I hope you don't blame me for being so late on the reports for the second game of Boston's season.  But if you saw the outcome of that game, you know there is really not a whole lot for me to say.  Rich Harden was superb, Jon Lester was not, and the Sox offense never bothered to show up (with the exception of Manny Ramirez, who hit a solo home run).  The final score was 5-1, and I'm not sure it was even really that close. Very soon, I will get into the swing of writing about two teams everyday for six straight months.  For now, I offers you just a few tidbits of news and notes. Now the Sox head ...

The Baseball Boogie
Brahsome - Care To Get Nice? — It’s a beautiful Friday in the universe and baseball season is upon us. That can only mean one thing. It’s time for the 1986 Dodgers and their off-off-off-broadway production of “The Baseball Boogie.” Share This

Pete Guerrerro Above Ground; Thanks State Farm!
SPORTSbyBROOKS — As a public service, State Farm would like to remind you that Pedro Guerrero is still alive (remember, Eddie Guerrero is the dead one). And that the honorable 1981 World Series MVP for the Dodgers and later star for the Cardinals is now the front man for the State Farm-sponsored Fiesta del Jonron Tour, a Cinco de Mayo celebration that is expected to draw as many as 500,000 Latino customers, PR NEWSWIRE ...

Dodgers of 1980s knew how to boogie!
Sports stories from Newsday — OMG. Like I wrote in the post below . . .

The best of YouTube: 1986 Dodgers
Randball — With so many glorious videos on YouTube, we’d like to start assembling some of the best. This one, sent to us by Fasolamatt, certainly is a nice entry point. The Baseball Boogie: This entry was posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am and is filed under Uncategorized ...

1981 Dodgers Appear On Solid Gold
FanIQ Blog — Since the Dodgers and Phillies are squaring off in the NLCS, it only seems appropriate that we bust out some of the ridiculous team songs that both of these squads did in the past. These things are truly pure nightmare fuel, but also awesome beyond belief. First up is the 1981 Dodgers' Jerry Reuss, Jay Johnstone, Rick Monday and Steve Yeager appearing on Solid Gold, which I guess was like Soul Train before Soul Train, except with much less soul. I honestly have no clue why they did this, as it's hilariously bad. ...

Worthy Video Repost: Baseball Boogie
Fire Ned Colletti Now — I know this has already been posted everywhere, but since it's the best baseball related video of all-time, it deserves its place on this site.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM
SULLY BASEBALL — I've got a dozen more of these to do and pitchers and catchers are already booking their flights. I can't stop now. Let's keep going. Today we look at the Dodgers... both in Brooklyn and in Los Angeles. For 15 years I lived in the New York where the Dodger's move from Brooklyn still is treated as a tragedy. It was the moment the heart of Brooklyn was ripped out and New York has been dealing with this grief to the point where they have built a park for the Mets that resembles Ebbets Field. Yet now I live in Los Angeles and last year was the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers arrival ...

Baseball Boogie - the 1980s were a different time
SULLY BASEBALL — Dear lord. Obviously still traumatized by Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark's homers in the 1985 NLCS, the 1986 Dodgers created this music video. They were clearly trying to capitalize on the 1985 Bears' Super Bowl Shuffle (which itself aged like milk.) But at least the Bears went on to WIN the Super Bowl. The storied 1986 Dodgers went 73-89. Keep in mind this was the clubhouse that the tough as nails Kirk Gibson walked into in 1988. &link; I wonder if they were still wearing those shiny pastel jackets.

He(ck) no, A-Rod ain't a Hall of Famer, Tommy Lasorda says
Big League Stew — VinScullyIsMyHomeboy (who doesn't feel like that?) dug up this nugget, where former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda goes on the radio to go off on Kingman's performance the Philly Phanatic Alex Rodriguez ...

The Sports Delorean:: The Satin Jacket
JoeSportsFan.com — Baseball is and always has been a game synonymous with the dog days of summer.  Considering that images like 100+ degree fumes radiating off the infield and shirtless monkeys pounding cold ones in the bleachers are intrinsically linked to the sport, it was a longshot that a form of outerwear could become one of its indelible fashion statements of the last 30 years.  But for those of us who lived through the 70’s and 80’s, it was common knowledge that, when things got a little nippy in the dugout on an inordinately cool summer night or a tense fall playoff game, there was only thing that was getting ...

The Latest And Not So Greatest In Team Anthems
Sports Radio Interviews — It seems like every few years when a team is on pace for a championship run, either some local musicians or the team puts together an absolutely terrible song.  If it’s terrible, you at least want it to be funny or somewhat catchy like “The Super Bowl Shuffle.”  I can still recite the Fridge’s lines from that song. The latest version of an awful team song is called “Rise Up” for the Cleveland Cavaliers performed by James Johnson & the JukeN Jazz Band.  It was launched on WKNR  in Cleveland last week.  It reminds of a song from the mid eighties with a ...

Morning Juice: Dodgers walk, do bases-loaded boogie, win
Big League Stew — This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call begins in Los Angeles, California. This is the city. Vin Scully's back yard, where nirvana can be ball four with the bases loaded, especially when the Giants are in town. James Loney ...

Friday Afternoon Nap - May 1st
TheScore.com Blog — It's May Day, and even though we don't really celebrate it here in this country, we can at least do something in the spirit of the day: not work. Here are some links and videos to help you with this noble endeavour. + How are they celebrating May Day in other parts of the world? Oh, the traditional way: rioting. [AFP] + More A-Rod juice: he had a clubhouse attendant put the toothpaste on his toothbrush for him. [NY Daily News] + Two grand for a brick? Thanks, Best Buy. [Consumerist] + Chris Berman has swamp ass. [With Leather] + It's Kentucky Derby weekend, ...

The Natural
Three Idiots on Sports — Photo: News 10 Now That's Syracuse Head Football Coach Doug "Goin' Yard" Marrone taking some cuts in the cage prior to the Binghamton Mets' battle with the Portland Sea Dogs tonight. Courtesy News 10 Now, here's a look at Doug smacking the ball around. How about some embed codes News 10? Anyways, Doug takes some decent cuts, and as a result Mets GM Omar Minaya immediately signed Coach to a 5-year, $125 million contract. All this baseball talk makes me want to boogie with the 1986 LA Dodgers. Super Bowl Shuffle, meet your ...

The Baseball Boogie Bunch
Mandatory Mustache — As the Mets square off against the Dodgers tonight, we felt we should include a video to recall a time when these two titans engaged in a deep seeded rivalry. Not a rivalry of the athletic variety, but a rivalry to lead the league in embarrassing music videos. It also serves as a reminder that satin was definitely the fabric of entertainment. ...

Caple: Catching up with the Baseball Boogie
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — Caple: Catching up with the Baseball Boogie YouTube isn’t fair. Orel Hershiser broke Don Drysdale’s scoreless innings streak record in 1988, and he did so in dramatic fashion by throwing 10 scoreless innings in his final start of the season. Could I find any of his 59 scoreless innings on YouTube? No. Hershiser won three games (and saved another the day after pitching seven innings) in the 1988 postseason, threw two complete-game victories in that World Series and was on the mound to retire the final batter in the Game 5 clincher. Could I find those games on YouTube? No. He won 204 games in his career, pitched in six ...

Speed Read: Former NFL LB Is A Calif. Murderer
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder in sports crime — O.J. Simpson still hasn’t found his wife’s killer but we can’t be assured that Dirk Nowitzki’s baby momma didn’t have something to do with it –  former NFL linebacker Eric Naposki is arrested for being the gunman who killed Newport Beach (Calif.) millionaire William McLaughlin. If you’re looking for more information on him, don’t check his former teams. The Patriots have already spiked his former alumni player page. ...

ModernTube: Orel Hershiser was also a voice that cared
Big League Stew — Last season, we probed the origins of the hilariously awesome "Baseball Boogie" with some of the key players from the mid-'80s Dodgers. To a man, Mariano Duncan, Rick Honeycutt and Ken Howell seemed amused — though not necessarily proud — of the rediscovered fame that the 1986 video has found on YouTube and the Internet.  This week, ESPN Page 2's Jim Caple finally caught up with another pastel-jacketed participant, though Orel Hershiser wasn't as fond of the experience. Here's what he told Caple: "It's like someone picking your nose ...

Le Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey French Open
Uni Watch — By Phil Hecken, with doubles partner Brinke Guthrie Last week I threatened promised you I’d be back with my doubles partner, UW West Coast Correspondent Brinke Guthrie, who’ll be joining me today for our “take” on the French Open, the tennis tournament beginning in Paris this coming Monday. This marks our third post together, so I thought you’d like to know a bit more about =bg=. Here’s a brief look at the gentleman who’s playing the ad-court for this post. Phil Hecken: So, how you did you become interested in uniforms? ...

Confirmed: the Mainstream Sports Media is worthless
JoeSportsFan.com — At least in cardboard form they are.  Just like their teammates during their playing days and the guys they cover for a living now, the one thing that virtually all MLB players have in common is that their baseball cards aren’t worth anything but a few cheap jokes. Enjoy a Media Circus edition of the Worthless Cards. Unconfirmed Player Note: Karros was never at ease in a Dodgers uniform knowing his smallish helmet could potentially crush his man-made helmet perm. Player Note: All summer long, Harold Reynolds wanted nothing more than to ...

Morning Juice: Gigantic super being tosses two-hitter for Rays
Big League Stew — This and every weekday a.m. during baseball season, let's rise and shine together to recap the most recent diamond doings. Roll Call starts in St. Petersburg, Fla., where a flying saucer landed, let Jeff Niemann ...

Yardwork: Lincecum and Oswalt Dominate, Halladay Doesn’t
The Big Lead — According to the New York Post, Carlos Beltran’s career could now be in jeopardy. It’s getting really, really ugly. If a bird craps on Johan Santana’s face during his wind-up tonight, temporarily blinding him, you shouldn’t be the least bit surprised. Giants 10, Cardinals 0: The Giants would probably prefer that there be no All-Star break with their ace on such a hot streak. Tim Lincecum has thrown a complete game in three of his last four starts, including last night where he simply dominated the Cards lineup for two hits and eight strikeouts. ...

Hardball Heroes: Orel Hershiser
More Hardball — Hardball Heroes is More Hardball's version of the Hall of Fame. Players who qualify for this distinction must have demonstrated exceptional athleticism and sportsmanship on and off the field, however are not likely to be recognized in the Hall of Fame. This month, we celebrate the awesomeness that is Orel "Bulldog" Hershiser. Best remembered for his stellar 1988 season, excellent control on the mound, and a wicked sinker, Orel Leonard Hershiser IV made his Major League debut on September 1, 1983 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was soon given the nickname 'Bulldog' by coach Tommy Lasorda in the hopes of ...

The Definition Of Regret
Jimmy Scott's High & Tight —  

On the “30 for 30″ Cutting Room Floor
JoeSportsFan.com — Just five weeks in, the new 30 for 30 documentary series has proven to be one of the more promising developments to come out of the programming department at ESPN in quite some time.  It seems that there is something about a well put together, intriguing documentary that trumps watching Woody Paige act like a moron on an episode of Around the Horn every time.  Who could have guessed? But for every one of the 30 documentaries that ESPN selected for this project, we have to believe that there were several that didn’t make the cut.  And thanks to our inside sources roaming the halls in Bristol, JoeSportsFan.com can ...