The D'Bags/Poolgate Thread

Report: Dodgers player boasted of urinating in Diamondbacks pool at Chase Field​

David Brown 1 hour ago Big League Stew​

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As reporter Tony Jackson writes in his blog, new information coming to light regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers taking their NL West-clinching celebration into the Chase Field pool this past week takes the story to "a whole different place."​

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Jackson says that at least one Dodgers player urinated in the pool and loudly boasted about it. Jackson also says indications are that "multiple" players peed in the neo-iconic pool, which is just beyond the outfield fence in right center and really ties the stadium together.​

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Gee, wiz, guys. Really? Dodger blue, not Dodger yellow.​

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After reportedly asking the Dodgers beforehand not to celebrate outside of the visitor's clubhouse, the Diamondbacks raised a fuss about the pool party. A group of Dodgers, perhaps 10-15 — possibly realizing that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint — defied the request. Afterward, D-backs utility man Willie Bloomquist, without even getting into any possible micturating, said the Dodgers acted "classless." A few locals in the lapdog portion of the media agreed and, on the whole, the D-backs looked like whiners.​

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Instead, now it's the Dodgers who look bad. And all of them have urine on themselves, even if they didn't participate in the Great Chase Field Tinkle. Like a disappointed parent might with their child, Jackson shamed the heck out of them:​

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Any Dodgers player or players who urinated in the Chase Field pool on Thursday also defaced the Dodgers name. They may have thought they were pissing all over the Diamondbacks, but really, they were pissing all over the Dodgers, and everything the Dodgers are supposed to be about. They were pissing all over the legacy of this franchise and the jersey they wear every night, although apparently they don’t wear it quite as proudly as some of their predecessors from previous generations, or as proudly as some of their teammates still do today. They were pissing all over the legacies of Sandy and Jackie and the Duke.​

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He's right. Even though it doesn't take much of an imagination to have guessed all along that someone might have peed in the pool, boasting about it — to the point that peeing in the pool becomes the reason you dived in to begin with — is disgusting. Figuratively and literally. Marking territory in that way should be for animals.​

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Hopefully the joke is on the Dodgers, and the pool's filters were turned off while the game was still going on, so they got little kid urinary sediment all over themselves. It would serve them right. By peeing in the pool, the Dodgers ruined what seemed to be a spontaneous celebration. Not cool, guys.​

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tony jackson's take...​

BREAKING A PROMISE AND CORRECTING AN ERROR​

by Tony Jackson | dodgerscribe​

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I agonized over whether to write this. For one thing, I vowed on Twitter a few nights ago not to write another word about pool-gate, and this is me breaking that promise. For another, it makes me look like I’m doing a 180 on a hot-button topic, but you know, guilty as charged, I guess. Because when the whole controversy emerged over whether it was appropriate for several members of the Dodgers to have celebrated their clinching of a division title last Thursday in Arizona by jumping into the Chase Field swimming pool, I was too quick to jump to conclusions. I was too quick to assume this was just the Diamondbacks whining, looking for any reason to take offense at something, when all the Dodgers really did was just engage in a spontaneous expression of their joy over having won the division, without being motivated in any way by the thought of rubbing anything in the Diamondbacks’ faces.​

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In the past 48 hours, however, I have talked to various people about this subject. And I have come to the conclusion — a much better-informed conclusion this time — that I was dead wrong.​

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The reason I am doing an about-face here is that it has come to my attention that one of the Dodgers players who jumped in the pool — and I will do him the favor of leaving his name out of this for now — openly and loudly bragged after leaving the pool about having urinated in it.​

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To me, that takes this to a whole different place. It takes it from a giddy, spontaneous celebration to an ugly, disgusting display of utter classlessness.​

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There also are indications that MULTIPLE Dodgers players urinated into the pool, but I can’t tell you that with any certainty. It’s just what I’ve heard. What I can tell you is that it was only a handful of guys — maybe eight, give or take — who ran out and jumped into the pool. It would be presumptuous to assume that every one of them had the same thoughts running through his brain. Maybe there were some who really were just celebrating, nothing more. Maybe there were others who meant it as a direct slap in the face to the Diamondbacks.​

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I’m also told that one Dodgers player, upon leaving the pool and heading back to the clubhouse, said to a ballpark security guard, “This is OUR house.” Which apparently was meant as some sort of diss, but it kind of falls flat because it doesn’t really even make sense. The fact the Dodgers were wearing road grays that day and celebrating in the VISITING clubhouse would seem to suggest that it wasn’t, in fact, their house.​

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Anyway, it’s also worth noting that the vast majority of Dodgers players opted NOT to go jump into the pool. They had their reasons, but I would assume many of them opted out simply because they weren’t comfortable with the message it sent, or how it would look, or how it might be interpreted by the Diamondbacks. I would assume many of them just opted not to jump into the pool out of respect for the other club.​

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Perhaps I’m old and out of touch, but I remember when, if a team won a championship, that team’s fans and players were happy because THEY won. Maybe this is a commentary on where we are as a society, but these days it seems like people are happier that THE OTHER TEAM LOST than they are that their team won. I don’t get that. I probably never will.​

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But to summarize, I’m just going to say this — and yes, this time, I hope this really is the last thing I’m going to write on this subject:​

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There was a time when it meant something to wear a Dodgers uniform. It was a uniform that was worn with pride. It was a symbol not only of sustained excellence on the field, but also of a quiet dignity and professionalism. Back when it was worn by the likes of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. Steve Garvey and Dusty Baker and Rick Monday and Ron Cey and Bill Russell. Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges and Duke Snider and Pee Wee Reese.​

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And yes, Jackie Robinson, who endured more adversity to wear it and wore it with more dignity and grace than any other man ever has.​

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If there is one thing that really does set the Dodgers apart from the Diamondbacks, an expansion team that only came into the league in 1998, it’s that the Dodgers have a century of storied history to point to. Walk through the halls of Chase Field, and all the historic photos date back less than two decades. Walk through the concourses and halls and tunnels of Dodger Stadium, and the historic memorabilia dates back more than a century.​

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There is one large photo on a wall outside the Dodgers clubhouse, a black-and-white that covers the entire wall, of a bunch of Dodgers players seated on a dais, in full uniform, in front of City Hall, celebrating one of their World Series titles back in the ’60s. Last winter, while all the stadium renovations were going on, someone — I’ve been told it was construction workers, but who knows? — decided, for whatever reason, to deface that photo. They wrote initials on some of the players and even drew beards and mustaches on one or two of them. It’s not in a place where the public can see it, but still, it’s a piece of Dodgers lore that someone disrespected. They defaced the photo, and they defaced the Dodgers name.​

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Any Dodgers player or players who urinated in the Chase Field pool on Thursday also defaced the Dodgers name. They may have thought they were pissing all over the Diamondbacks, but really, they were pissing all over the Dodgers, and everything the Dodgers are supposed to be about. They were pissing all over the legacy of this franchise and the jersey they wear every night, although apparently they don’t wear it quite as proudly as some of their predecessors from previous generations, or as proudly as some of their teammates still do today. They were pissing all over the legacies of Sandy and Jackie and the Duke.​

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And that’s the saddest part of this whole episode. Because in their zeal to disrespect the Diamondbacks, the only people these players really disrespected was themselves.​

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just curious where everyone stands on this
yeah, i get possibly going too far (although i think it's fucken hilarious, given what hypocrite, crybaby cunts the entire d'bags organization has been)
but tony jackson saying "they were pissing all over the legacies of sandy and jackie and the duke" was a bit much imo
c'mon tony... lighten the fuck up

 

lmfao
they're not even the #1 franchise in arizona
and who conducted this poll?
ah yes, espn magazine... that bastion of credibility
and they (evidently) considered it such a lofty accomplishment that they, themselves, chose to not even tweet about it
no, they left that to the d'bags who -- class organization that they are -- promtly and proudly (shamelessly) self-promoted themselves
too bad espn magazine didn't publish what the criteria was, now we'll never know!
but appartently having a pool and finishing 2nd -- 10+ games back -- carries a lot of weight

Arizona Diamondbacks ‏@Dbacks 19 Sep ​

The #Dbacks have been ranked the #1 franchise in MLB and #6 overall in sports in @ESPNMag's Ultimate Standings.​

10:08 AM - 19 Sep 13​

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this

this

and, especially, this

 

you are allowed to choose multiple suspects if you desire...

from the "we-dont-swim-in-your-toilet" thread...

 

i created a poll to determine the culprit(s)...

http://www.dailysportspages.com/index.php?threads/poll-who-peed-in-the-dbags-pool.5282/

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perhaps kemp?

 

would only let me put so many names
so i went with other

 

okay, this pic might expose more than was reported
appears young is pissing on dee and punto -- who are making out
if true, we might need to ship those homos to a more accepting locale...

 

more homo shit
punto lusting for kershaw's ass
skippy getting jealous