For the love of Vin Scully...I hope this is just a rumor.
After running into him at a Los Angeles Clippers preseason game, show business pariah Kris Jenner is looking to add a pretty heavy hitter to her stable of clients...Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Matt Kemp.
Yup, according to Terez Owens, Jenner has taken a shine to the outfielder and wants to manage his "off the field career".
"Kris sees Matt as a huge star off the field. She believes she can take him to the next level of endorsement deals," reports the sports gossip website. "Kris is giving her best sales pitch to Kemp, and also looking to add more athletes to her roster in 2013 with him as the centerpiece."
Yup, because we all saw how well that worked for Lamar Odom.
What do you get the Major Leaguer who has everything?
Well, if you're Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Matt Kemp...you buy yourselfa fistful of Mega Millions tickets.
But, hey, didn't Kemp just ink a new eight-year, $160 million deal this past off season? Yes. But when the jackpot is a whopping $640 million...even $20 million a year looks like a paltry.
I guess when you've already dated Rihanna, you're not scared off by a one in 176 million chance of picking the winning numbers and you're hoping lightning strikes twice.
In what seems to be a growing trend (or at least it's being reported more), you can add Matt Kemp to the expanding list of baseball players selling their multi-million dollar pads.
Apparently, the Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star is looking to unload his "fancy-schmancy LA condo" for a mere, wait for it, $2.5 million.
The swanky 2-bdrm, 2-bath pad, located at the glitzy Carlyle Residences, is 2700 sq. feet of AWESOME with marble baths, outdoor terrace and a GINORMOUS master suite.
Also included for your millions...a full service doorman, valet, climate-controlled pool, private elevator for EACH resident, wine cellar and round the clock concierge service...for all your late night Taco Bell cravings.
You can check out the property over at the Carlyle on Wilshire website. Not listed, however, are some of Kemp's fellow A-List neighbors in teh 78-unit condo...Bruce Willis and Larry King.
Sure, sure, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun took home the National League MVP Tuesday, but it was a prediction by second place finisher Matt Kemp and an obvious error by ESPN that are making the headlines.
First...the prediction from the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger.
"I'm going to go 50-50 next year. I'm telling you, y'all created a monster. I'm about to get back in the weight room super tough so I can be as strong as I was last year."
"Forty-forty is tough, so 50-50 will be even tougher, but anything can happen. I have to set my limits high so I can try to get to them as much as I can. I'm going to try for 50-50, which has never been done. I'm serious."
"If I don't (get there), it means I let y'all down and lied to you, and I don't like being a liar. I know y'all are over there thinking I'm crazy, but hey, I'm trying to take it to another level."
Awesome.
Keep in mind...the closest anyone has gotten to 50-50 was Alex Rodriguez (42-46) in 1998 and Alfonso Soriano (46-41) in 2006.
Now...the goof from the Worldwide Leader (courtesy of Brace Hemmelgarn).
Pretty cool of ESPN to tie the success of the Brewers to their neighbors to the north.
The only problem...Milwaukee and Green Bay are in Wisconsin and not, well, Minnesota, as shown.
I was certain that pop star Rihanna's relationship with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp was going to be this generation's (or at least BlackSportsOnline's) version of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe.
Okay...not really.
The story of their recent break up was, um, broken (I guess) by US Weekly, but here's some random information from, of all places, The Huffington Post:
The singer and Los Angeles Dodgers star had dated for nearly a year; they first got together in Mexico in January. Unfortunately, their hectic lives made it impossible to stay together.
"He just can't keep up with her crazy travel schedule," one source the magazine.
"Matt's sick of always following after her like a puppy dog all over the world. He wants something more normal," the source adds.
Apparently, the break is relatively recent; "It happened over the last few weeks," the source said. "She basically was just over it."
This is the point in the story where I'm supposed to make some lame Chris Brown reference, but I won't. Instead, I'll point out that the afore mentioned DiMaggio and Monroe marriage only lasted 274 days, so, you know...maybe the comparison is/was kinda apt.
No?
Perhaps distracted by his romance with the 22-year-old superstar, this past season was Kemp's worst since becoming a full-timer for Los Angeles three years ago. Hopefully for Dodgers fans, the 2009 Silver Slugger can raise his .249 batting average and lackluster production to something a tad more respectable in this, the last year of his contract.
And now...the obligatory link to Rihanna's "Umbrella" video.
