Dodgers Blue Heaven: May 22, 2014

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Bye Bye, Miguel Olivo - Twitter filled with Olivo Jokes

As the saying goes, "don't let the door hit you in the rear end."

Following up on the incident from a couple of days ago, that resulted in immediate surgery for Alexander Guerrero, the team has officially cut ties to catcher Miguel Olivo. Per a Dodger press release that is short and direct:

Today, the Los Angeles Dodgers released catcher Miguel Olivo from their roster.

The Dodgers now have 39 players on their 40-man roster.

As you likely know, a scuffle broke out on Tuesday in an Albuquerque Isotopes game between teammates Miguel Olivo and Alexander Guerrero. Words were said, fist were thrown and a catchers mouth made contact with an infielders ear.

Olivo went "full-Tyson" and now he is out of a job.

Check out my post on the incident here.

These tweets made me laugh:

Alex Guerrero's gonna be happy to hear Olivo got released. Happy to hear. Hear. This joke is about his ear.
— Vincent (@VRP723) May 22, 2014

@4lisaguerrero tasteless joke in 3,2,1: Olivo defended his actions saying "do you know how hard it is to find Cuban food in Salt Lake City?"
— LakerSteve (@LakerSteve) May 21, 2014

I heard this joke coming RT @DodgerManny58: I wonder what made Miguel Olivo so EARitable?
— _JorgeS9 (@_JorgeS9) May 20, 2014

What an idiot. #miguelolivo's probably getting an earful of criticism from the press! I bet his coach even chewed him out!
— Navid Awesome (@navidsworld) May 22, 2014

Best graphic ever!

Say it ain't so, Miguel Olivo. pic.twitter.com/GbgJ9OrAA6
— Brady Phelps (@LobShots) May 20, 2014

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2014 Panini Prizm Baseball - The Dodger Base Cards

Yesterday was the official release of Panini's newest Baseball card set - 2014 Prizim. It is arguably the shiniest card set in the hobby today. As you may know, Panini does not have a MLB card license, so there are no team logo's. Of special note, there is an Eddie Murray Dodger card in the set, as well as, a Mike Piazza insert card (I'll show that later on).

Below, I share all of the Dodger base cards that can be found. As always, there are numerous parallels available of each card; including some phenomenal looking die-cut cards. Card #206 of Clayton Kershaw is short-printed and includes an "Outstanding Pitching Award" notation. I assume this is in reference to him winning the Cy Young. Does that mean not having a MLB license also means you can't use the official names of the MLB awards that are given out? Weird, eh?

Dodger Base Card Checklist

#19 Matt Kemp #24 Zack Greinke

#27 Hyun-Jin Ryu #28 Yasiel Puig

#54 Adrian Gonzalez #82 Carl Crawford

#99 Clayton Kershaw #123 Hanley Ramirez

#158 Eddie Murray

Base SP Highlights Set Checklist

#206 Clayton Kershaw

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Blog Kiosk: 5/22/2014 - Dodger Links - Some Dodger Odds and Ends

Erisbel Arruebarrena joined the Dodgers last night, for the first time. He is welcomed by hurler Hyun-Jin Eyu in the photo above, pic via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2014.

Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider tells us of a story in Dodger Insider Magazine featuring several unknown Dodger memorabilia items. It includes several videos featuring team historian Mark Langill describing them to us.
Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Lasorda, Hough to represent Dodgers at Draft." The draft starts on June 5th.
Eric Stephen at True Blue LA writes, "Steve Cilladi seized his opportunity with Dodgers."

The Dodgers have a new face in their bullpen in 2014, but he's not a pitcher. Steve Cilladi, 27, is one of the bullpen catchers, and is really a jack of all trades in his first year as a major league coach.

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"I never really had the talent to make it to the big leagues, and I understood that after my first year," Cilladi recaled. "I just made the conscious effort to take this wherever it leads me, and just gain the valuable experience of being a minor league player and see if it turns into something afterwards."

Via Paul Hagen at MLB.com, "Dynamic Puig continuing growth on the field."

"If you work hard, hopefully you'll have success. That's one thing I've done. I don't think I'm in awe of being in the Major Leagues now. I feel like I belong. I've done the things I need to do. When you face Major League pitching it's never easy. You have to make adjustments and that's what I'm trying to do to compete. I just love playing baseball."

I kid you not! Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Miguel Olivo wanted to be like Mike Tyson, without the ear biting." Eric shares a video of Olivo mentioned this. BTW, Miguel Olivo has been placed on the suspended list, via a Dodgers press release:

Today, the Albuquerque Isotopes, Triple-A partner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, placed catcher Miguel Olivo on the suspended list. Olivo, who is on the Dodgers' 40-man roster, will remain suspended pending the completion of an investigation into the dugout altercation during yesterday's game at Salt Lake.