WooHoo! Photos Are Starting to Trickle In

The Great Hazing of 2007 has been a hot topic of late. When will photos show up? How funny did Matt Kemp look in the fat bikini suit? Did they really make Ethier wear a dress? 13 total Dodger rookies and sophomore players wore costumes and not one photo had yet escaped onto the internet- until now!

The Sons of Steve Garvey have the scoop of the year!

Right now they have 4 photos featuring Andy LaRoche, James Loney, Andre Ethier and Chin-lung Hu. They promise more to come later. And yes, Ethier was sporting a fashionable pink dress. Good Times!

On a side note: Doesn't Chin-lung Hu look a lot like the Asian acrobat in the movie Ocean's Eleven, Shaobo Qin?

2007 Dodgers Hazing Pics Link: SOSG:

You Da Man, Chad!

On Chad Billingsley's blog he provides a little bit of info about the Dodgers recent rookie hazing party.

A lot of people know about teams hazing their rookies and younger players. The vets had us do a little costume party after we finished the Chicago series. I was Robin Hood...no tights...got lucky. Other guys had it way worse, like Snow White, Popeye, a barely dressed fat woman, and others. When we got to San Fran. that night, the bus dropped us off about 6 blocks from the hotel, so we could show off our lovely outfits. It was quite entertaining. I'll work on getting some photos for all to see.

You will forever be a hero to this Dodger fan if you can show us some of those pics.

Chad Billingsley's Blog:

Ace Bailey Children's Foundation

Hockey Legend, Hall of Famer and former LA Kings Director of Professional Scouting Ace Bailey is being remembered on this solemn day.

Most of us still remember every detail from 6 years ago today. What time you woke up. How you first heard the news. What your emotional reaction was throughout the day. You remember the look on everyones face and the utter confusion in your own mind. September 11, 2001 was the kind of day that will forever be melted into your mind. You can never forget.

For the Bailey family and the greater hockey family in general many will be remembering Ace Bailey by paying respects to the foundation created in his name.

"But you have to make a concerted effort to bring happiness into your life. The suddenness of it all still defies comprehension. One moment you're saying bye to your husband at the airport and the next moment you're watching a plane he's on crashing into a building. It was all a little unreal. But something good has come out of the tragedy."

That something good is the Ace Bailey Children's Foundation, which has raised more than $1 million and helped refurbish a 6,500-square foot room that is now called Ace's Place at the Floating Hospital for Children at the Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston.

"It's a playroom for kids, and there is something there to do for kids of all ages," Kathy said proudly. "The older kids have air hockey they can play, and the younger ones have various toys and other things. Ace always loved kids. We always said he was a big kid who never grew up."

"...And it's really worked out well. The foundation is now going to help refurbish the neonatal intensive care unit at the children's hospital. The Boston Bruins and L.A. Kings have been very supportive, as have so many people."

Please check out the link to the Ace Bailey Children's Foundation.

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More Dodger Hazing Pics

Tony Abreu as Pocahontas

Matt Kemp?

Andy "The Clown" LaRoche

The Devilish Eric Hull

Hu The Sorcerer

Delwyn Young doesn't look happy as Snow White.

UPDATE: More Pics

Meleon the Tarzan ManSaito the SamuraiPirate Stults at your service

Dodger Pics

Not a picture to be found! How can this be? We have a world where everybody has a camera, or ones available at a moments notice. They paraded the team from Chicago to San Francisco. They walked through airports and the San Francisco city streets. Yet, not one picture has yet to show up. What's going on here?

Oh well. Since I was bored this morning I thought I would try my hand at photoshop to appease my funny bone. So here are my first five tries.

Billingsley as Robin Hood.Andre Ethier in hot pink.

Broxton is in deep meditation.

Russell "Nacho Libre" Russell

James "Popeye" Loney

I've been trying to figure out how to do Matt Kemp, but I don't know where to start. Fat suit in a bikini? Pecs and gluts are overly accentuated? It had a few other details not fit for a family newspaper?

I Want Pics!

All of the Dodger world is abuzz. The hazing ritual of dressing up your rookies in outrageous costumes during the season continues unabated. Even our own rising stars are not immune from the laughs and public ridicule that comes from being a Major League Ballplayer. Like the Sons of Steve Garvey, I eagerly await photos to share with all of the Dodger world.

Josh Rawitch of Inside the Dodgers shares a helpful list of players and their costumes.

Chad Billingsley as Robin Hood
James Loney dressed as Popeye
Chin-lung Hu dressed as a sorcerer
Tony Abreu dressed as Pocahantas
Delwyn Young as Snow White
Andy LaRoche in full clown attire
Russell Martin as Nacho Libre
Jonathan Broxton as a monk
Andre Ethier and Eric Hull in strange Vegas showgirl type outfits
and the kicker of them all was Matt Kemp, who was in some sort of "fat suit" with a bikini.

Pictures... I want pictures!!

UPDATE: The official Dodger blog missed some players. Have no fear though, Diamond Leung picks up the slack.

Jonathan Meloan - something Tarzan-like
Takashi Saito - Samurai
Eric Stults - pirate

UPDATE: Tony Jackson provides some funny quotes.

"I'm stepping on my dress," Dodgers outfielder Delwyn Young said, as he lifted the hem of his Cinderella costume off the clubhouse floor after the game.
Yes, it was time for that annual baseball tradition known as rookie hazing, and this time, because it wasn't done last season, even the second-year guys had to do it. A few had it easy, because they got nothing worse than Disney character outfits to wear on the team charter to San Francisco. Others had it worse. Matt Kemp was given a fat suit resembling the torso of a large woman in a bra and panties and a few other details not fit for a family newspaper.
"It doesn't bother me," Kemp shouted to everyone in the room. "It's San Francisco. I'm going to fit right in."

Now all I want are pictures.