Why not to be Steve Garvey, part 54243

Maybe his biggest problem though is looking like a het Rex Reed.

At least he doesn't pull the McCartney Grammar of "In this ever-changing world in which we live in"

Classic.

The line is "But if this ever-changing world in which we're living", ffs.

Makes sense to me.

I think he says the latter, even though the former would be more sensical.

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/index.php/mr-steven-garvey-vanquisher-of-ninjas/

He shoulda stuck with that role.

LOS ANGELES – Steve Garvey, the former iconic first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on Friday was fired by the team for his aggressive and public attempts to buy out embattled owner Frank McCourt.

Twice in recent weeks Garvey has taken his plans to the media, first to Fox, then to ESPN radio. In April he told the Los Angeles Times he’d formed an investment group that included billionaire Ron Burkle, although later he confirmed a Yahoo! Sports report that he’d overstated his financial relationship with Burkle. He has enlisted former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser as part of his prospective management group.

In spite of heavy debt, an ongoing dispute with Major League Baseball and last week’s bankruptcy filing, McCourt has said repeatedly he would not sell the Dodgers.

Though he drew a regular paycheck from McCourt and had been asked by the club to cease efforts that would undermine McCourt’s ownership, Garvey continued to seek community and financial support.

Garvey, 62, worked for the club’s marketing and community relations department. From 1969-1982, he batted .301 with 211 home runs and 992 runs batted in for the Dodgers and played on four World Series teams.

In the early 2000s, Garvey had a series of financial setbacks and left behind a trail of unpaid bills.

so he's the LA version of Lenny Dykstra ...

all i wanted was a ballclub...just one ballclub...and he wouldn't let me

Garvey, known as "Mr. Clean," seemingly had a "clean" personal life during his early playing days. Manager Tommy Lasorda once commented, "If he ever came to date my daughter, I'd lock the door and not let him out."[18] In the mid to late-1980s, however, Garvey engaged in a series of over-lapping relationships. He fathered children with multiple women that led to him being the subject of national ridicule.[18]

At the age of 22, Garvey married Cyndy Garvey, "a prospective medical-school student, who dropped that ambition to be at Steve's side as he pursued his baseball career."[18] They married in 1971. They had two children, Krisha and Whitney. Following a tempestuous marriage, she left Garvey for famed composer Marvin Hamlisch.[18] (Cyndy would later claim Garvey "gave me away" to Hamlisch after a private two-hour conversation.[18]). Cyndy did not go on to marry Hamlisch. Garvey was already romantically involved with his secretary, Judy Ross.[18] The couple divorced in 1983.

Judy Ross didn't know that Garvey was also seeing CNN correspondent Rebecka Mendenhall.[18] While seeing Judy Ross and Mendenhall, Garvey then began seeing San Diego medical products sales representative Cheryl Ann Moulton.[18] Garvey discovered in July 1988 that Cheryl Moulton was pregnant with his child, a pregnancy Garvey subsequently claimed was intentional on Moulton's part, but without his "consent."[18] (It ultimately took a court order before Garvey paid child support to Moulton.[18])

Mendenhall gave birth to a son around October 1988. Although Moulton was pregnant with his child, Garvey proposed to Rebecka Mendenhall because of what he termed her "ultimatum" in November 1988. Judy Ross asserts that during this period—engaged to one woman who had just had his child, and having a child with a second woman, Garvey then told Ross that he wanted to marry her instead, and told Ross that he had broken up with Mendenhall.[18]

In January 1989, less than two weeks after announcing his engagement to Mendenhall, Garvey became involved with a fourth woman, Candace Thomas, whom he met at a benefit for the Special Olympics. He broke up with Mendenhall, but she insisted that they meet one last time. During this "meeting," Mendenhall became pregnant for the second time, only two months after she gave birth in October 1988.

Over the next few weeks, Garvey and Candace Thomas began a whirlwind courtship that included trips to the inauguration of President George H.W. Bush and the Super Bowl.[18] Rebecka Mendenhall, unaware that Garvey was romancing a fourth woman and believing she and the former All-Star were to be married, then discovered she too was pregnant with Garvey's child.[18] This was to be Garvey's third illegitimate child in a row in only a matter of months. The women supposedly found out about each other and their pregnancies, when Garvey bought the same four gold pins from Tiffany for each woman for Christmas and they compared notes.

When these details became public, Garvey became the object of comedians' jokes and satirical bumper stickers ("Steve Garvey is not my 'Padre'") as his post-baseball political ambitions were widely seen to have disappeared under the weight of three illegitimate children and multiple engagements and girlfriends.[18] Garvey, in the midst of what he later termed a "midlife disaster," sued Cyndy, his ex-wife, for access to his two children.[18] His daughters, who found his protestations of affection insincere, testified in court that they did not love their father and did not wish to see him.[18] (Cyndy was briefly jailed for her refusal to allow Garvey access to the girls.[18]) Under the shadow of multiple lawsuits and damage to his reputation, Garvey lost business opportunities, declared himself broke, and found himself paying half his monthly television earnings in child support.[18] He and Candace Thomas married in 1989, and had three children, Ryan, Olivia, and Sean.[20] The same year he married Candace, Cyndy Garvey published a tell-all book in which she revealed the details of her marriage with Steve.[21][22]

In all, Garvey has eight children with four different women; two with his first wife Cyndy, two with Rebecka Mendenhall, one with Cheryl Moulton, and three with Candace Thomas Garvey.

Hardly a surprise:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4032312-steve-garvey-mulling-bid-for-feinstein-senate-seat/

Thanks to many before him, can't see his active social life being much of a problem in 2023 (even as he, no doubt, preaches family values and such).