Baseball legend considering US Senate bid

[Jilly_in_VA]

You'd have to go back a generation — to 1988 — to find the last time a Republican candidate won a U.S. Senate race in heavily Democratic California. This time, the party might get an MVP on the ballot.

Baseball legend Steve Garvey, who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, is meeting with voters and senior GOP officials as he weighs a potential 2024 Senate bid in a race that already has several prominent Democratic contenders in the field. He appeared at a recent fundraiser for Republican Rep. Michelle Steel in Orange County, where he signed baseballs and talked about his potential candidacy.

“He is seriously considering entering the race,” said veteran consultant Andy Gharakhani, who is advising Garvey.

The 74-year-old Garvey had an 18-year major league career. He was National League MVP in 1974 and retired from baseball in 1987.

Garvey has flirted with the possibility of entering politics before, including after his retirement from baseball, when he teased a possible U.S. Senate run but never became a candidate.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/baseball-legend-steve-garvey-us-senate-bid-california-99766254

I don't know what gives him the idea he's qualified. Oh wait, I do too---Tommy Tuberville. 'Nuff said.

[ZonkerHarris]

1. HARD PASS on that asshole. Old white man should read the room.

[Autumn]

2. Just what the senate needs. A pampered 75 year old jock

[tirebiter]

3. Fuck the Dodgers.

[calguy]

8. Yeah! Right on!

I wouldn't be so against his candidacy if he'd have played for the Oakland A's.

[regnaD kciN]

4. If I recall, he had been touted for a post-baseball political career since the '70s...

Everyone expected him to run for something as soon as he retired, but he got hit with a scandal in the form of several paternity suits at that time. Interesting that he’s willing to try now, when he’s in his mid-‘70s and, frankly, few voters would remember him as the one-time star of the Dodgers and Padres.

Anyway, baseball and the Senate are generally a bad fit. Anyone remember Jim Bunning?

[dem4decades]

5. Jim Bunning anyone? Just another baseball Republican jerkoff. Already been done.

[rsdsharp]

7. I was going to bring him up.

At least Bunning is in the Hall of Fame. I guess Garvey was on a World Series winner; and four losers.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Sod off. nt

[sdfernando]

9. Nope! Nope! Hell Nope! /NT

[usonian]

10. But 74 is too old. I'm 74 and never hit anyone or anything

and never stole anything, not even a base.

Besides: look what the internet says:



A commodity.

[brush]

11. He doesn't have a chance. What the hell is he thinking?

I see he's still a self-centered jerk. It's just now he's a 75-year-old, self-centered jerk trying to win a Senate seat in deep blue California, a seat already occupired, btw,, by an age-challenged Senator whose staff has to perform her duties for her.

[LakeArenal]

12. GOP sure knows how to entice the youth vote.

Yay… another rich old unqualified white guy!!!

[BHDem53]

13. In his own mind.

[czarjak]

14. Rich. Old. White Guy.

R perfection.

[quaint]

15. Steele is my district. Horrid. Garvey would be worse.

[Retrograde]

16. With CA's jungle primary system

there's a good chance he could end up on the Nov. 2024 ballot for senator. There are currently 3 good Democratic candidates for senator - Lee, Porter, and Schiff - and they could easily split the Democratic and Non-affiliated votes, giving Garvey a chance. Don't underestimate the value of name recognition - that's largely how Arnie ended up as governor.