Dodgers Blue Heaven: Blog Kiosk: 9/7/2013 - Dodgers Links

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Blog Kiosk: 9/7/2013 - Dodgers Links - Kemp Shut Down

Here's an early peek at the September issue of Dodgers Magazine featuring Hyun-Jin Ryu and Yasiel Puig on the cover. Pic via @Dodgers on twitter.

"Dodgers' prospect Julio Urias finishes great and surprising debut season," via Dustin Nosler at Feelin' Kinda Blue.
Check out this incredible tilt-shift photograph of Dodger Stadium taken from far above, via Reddit WillHaney.
"Stadium countdown: Dodgers' renovations a hit," via Joe Mock at USA Today.

"Stan (Kasten) wanted us to do as much as we could as fast as we could," (Janet Marie) Smith says. "In a five-month period, 160 permits were pulled for all of the construction projects we had going on at once."

"The Dodgers left long ago, but a Manasquan man keeps Brooklyn in his heart," via Barry Carter at NJ.com. (Hat Tip: JP Hoornstra at Inside the Dodgers)

The room, about the size of a study, has something on every wall. Dodger year books show no signs of yellowing behind frames. He even has a Dodger line up card and advertisements of ballplayers, like Whit Wyatt, hurling a fastball with Chesterfield cigarettes displayed. The year they won the 1955 World Series, a lower tier ticket cost $7.35. He has a copy of that, too.

Matt Kemp's rehab is not going well. Via a series of tweets from David Vasseg.

Matt Kemp felt tightness in one of his hamstrings and has been shut down "indefinitely"
— David Vassegh (@THEREAL_DV) September 6, 2013

Mattingly in Kemp "I'm not ready to concede anything, but at some point we run out of time"
— David Vassegh (@THEREAL_DV) September 6, 2013

This makes me feel really sad. I hope Kemp can recover. For more information check out Jeremy Warnemuende story at MLB.com, "Kemp shut down with hamstring problems".

"He's not having a very good couple of days here," manager Don Mattingly said before Friday's opener vs. the Reds. "He felt some hamstring stuff yesterday, so he didn't hit today. I would say he's slowing his roll a little bit."

Chris Olds at Beckett provides a very early sneak peek at 2014 Topps Gypsy Queen cards. Check out a couple of Dodger cards below, and more preview pics here.