Matt Garza’s $30,000 ALCS Championship Ring Has Been Stolen

All, Baseball Tim Ryan February 1st. 2012, 1:52pm

The home of Cubs starting pitcher Matt Garza was reportedly burglarized some time between January 26 and late yesterday morning. According to the Fresno County police report, among the pricey items taken in the heist was Garza’s 2008 ALCS championship ring. While the sentimental value of owning such an irrelevant ring rivals that of a Push Pop, the fact that it’s worth $30,000 surely raises the level of concern.

Sheriff’s detectives are currently investigating the burglary while Garza lives with the reality of another lost season as a Chicago Cub.

[via FresnoBee]

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62 Responses to “Matt Garza’s $30,000 ALCS Championship Ring Has Been Stolen”

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BFFredo Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 1:57 PM
while Garza lives with the reality of another lost season as a Chicago Cub.

Could be worse…he could be a Royal.
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jthussler Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 1:57 PM
That’s what you get for living in Fresno.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Could be worse…he could be a Royal.
Or on the Astros.
/we’re keeping our the team name
//just signed Livan Hernandez to a minor league contract
///lets out long sigh
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 1:59 PM
what does the 9 = 8 on the ring mean?
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spencer096 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 1:59 PM
i wonder if the rays earmarked a bunch of yankee profit sharing money to pay for the rings.
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Tim Ryan Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:01 PM
i wonder if the rays earmarked a bunch of yankee profit sharing money to pay for the rings.
Not sure, but the Indians purchased a giant pair of Fundies with their share.
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phillymantis915 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:02 PM
17 more days…17 more days…
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Some Random Old Retired Dude Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:02 PM
From Wikipedia:
The mantra 9=8 (spoken as “nine equals eight”) was used by the Rays during the 2008 season. The phrase was originally created by manager Joe Maddon while riding his bike after the 2007 season. The meaning of the phrase was that if nine players play nine innings of hard baseball everyday, that team would become one of the eight teams who qualify for the playoffs.
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Tim Ryan Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:04 PM
The phrase was originally created by manager Joe Maddon while riding his bike after the 2007 season. The meaning of the phrase was that if nine players play nine innings of hard baseball everyday, that team would become one of the eight teams who qualify for the playoffs.
Jesus. Was he riding the bike for three days?
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ohheelyeah Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:04 PM
7 ate 9?
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:06 PM
nice /JMorris Old Dude.
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SouvenirCity Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Can’t wait to steal Jacob Turner from the Tigers for this guy.
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Some Random Old Retired Dude Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:08 PM
nice /JMorris Old Dude.
Keep the banner high!
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BFFredo Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Or on the Astros.
At least with the Astros he can stop by Arandas Bakery and get himself some Mexican cakes or go get some kickass Thai or Vietnamese food.
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Mantis Toboggan Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:09 PM
17 more days…17 more days…
A few players go down to Florida to play catch. Jarring.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Can’t wait to steal Jacob Turner from the Tigers for this guy.
Please do. Demand Castellanos too.
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Cowboy Mike's Red Hot Ricochet Barbecue Sauce Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:10 PM
What was the potential new Astros name?
Also I think there needs to be a TBL parody account in the form of a 1930s noir detective.
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Also I think there needs to be a TBL parody account in the form of a 1930s noir detective.
Race Williams621
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:17 PM
What was the potential new Astros name?
Crane didn’t throw out any actual options. He just floated in a press conference that he was looking into a name change and then he mentioned their original name, the Colt .45s, in passing. But apparently fan reaction was against it, and so Crane sent out a video to season ticket holders earlier this week saying that the name would change.
The Astros will, however, almost certainly have new uniforms in 2013.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Race Williams621
I have no idea what this means but I still laughed.
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phillymantis915 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:19 PM
A few players go down to Florida to play catch. Jarring.
More exciting then a bunch of 17 year olds signing a letter saying which football team they’ll more than likely won’t start for a year.
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St. Bear Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Crane didn’t throw out any actual options. He just floated in a press conference that he was looking into a name change and then he mentioned their original name, the Colt .45s, in passing. But apparently fan reaction was against it, and so Crane sent out a video to season ticket holders earlier this week saying that the name would change.
The way I heard it, he said in an interview that he’s interested in doing whatever he can to increase fan engagement, up to and including a name change if that’s what the fans want. Then the media took that and ran with it, and voila, a week later you get stories that he’s looking to change their name.
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:21 PM
“Answering to no law but his own, quick to kill, brutal, violent, hard-talking, yet loyal to a fault, Race will never be a thinking man’s detective. In fact, Race is almost defiantly illiterate, as though that’s a further sign of his toughness.”
Naturally with this description, and the first name Race, I thought of you.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:21 PM
The way I heard it, he said in an interview that he’s interested in doing whatever he can to increase fan engagement, up to and including a name change if that’s what the fans want. Then the media took that and ran with it, and voila, a week later you get stories that he’s looking to change their name.
That was the gist of what I read by Richard Justice. I think he just learned his first lesson about floating an idea during a press conference. I salute his attitude though.
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johndewar Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:22 PM
More exciting then a bunch of 17 year olds signing a letter saying which football team they’ll more than likely won’t start for a year.
Or, might fail out.
Or, might transfer.
Or, just might not be that good of a football player to begin with.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Naturally with this description, and the first name Race, I thought of you.
Thanks Billy.
/puts cigarette out on ATL’s forehead.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Or, might fail out.
Or, might transfer.
Or, just might not be that good of a football player to begin with.
I follow recruiting to an extent and I consider it very important to a team’s success, but when my friends get into a lather over one recruit or another, I simply go back over the last 5 recruiting classes and point how many players are either not on the team, didn’t qualify in the first place, or are riding the bench in the middle of depth chart oblivion while a two star LB they never paid any attention to is leading the conference in tackles for loss.
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YYSA Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Race Williams621
I think you went to deep for the commentariat there. Probably want to go with something more for the masses. Like LookattheseTittys621
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:28 PM
I think you went to deep for the commentariat there.
So you’re saying I should stick to the kiddy pools then?
Noted.
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Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:29 PM
More exciting then a bunch of 17 year olds signing a letter saying which football team they’ll more than likely won’t start for a year.
most of those kids are probably 18 or 19.
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Property of Sallie Mae Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:29 PM
/OT
P90X is no joke
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:31 PM
I think you went to deep for the commentariat there. Probably want to go with something more for the masses. Like LookattheseTittys621
Now that’s an alter ego I can get behind. In celebration, here’s some titties.
NSFW
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scripty Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Race H. O’Tibble
His pappa was a stablemate at Saratoga but fell into trouble with Duffy the Snake and The FSV Mob. His momma was a shy lady fresh in from the old country, doing Old Man Ryan’s laundry at night for an extra nickel a week. Race had visions of owning his own cab stand one day until that saucy dame came and threw a monkey wrench into the whole kabootle. Her name, was Mulva.
See our first hard boiled thriller, “H is for Hardapple” at the Nickolodeon this week!
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:32 PM
P90X is no joke
So is a concentration camp. I wouldn’t recommend either unless your willing to go all in.
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:32 PM
40 killed by soccer hooligans in Egypt
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squawkbox Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:33 PM
More exciting then a bunch of 17 year olds signing a letter
I absolutely hate national signing day.
A bunch of adult men with hard-ons for HS football players and 18 year-old kids stroking their own egos. I’d like to know how many of these kids actually do one of two things:
1) Make it in the NFL
2) Actually get a degree
/bitter’d
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Broccoli Beef Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:33 PM
I think you went to deep for the commentariat there. Probably want to go with something more for the masses. Like LookattheseTittys621
Spencer had the best one… whinylittlebitch621
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YYSA Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:33 PM
So you’re saying I should stick to the kiddy pools then?
Noted.
/ATL_Baiter
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:34 PM
A bunch of adult men with hard-ons for HS football players and 18 year-old kids stroking their own egos.
Took the words outta my mouth.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:34 PM
1) Make it in the NFL
2) Actually get a degree
They aren’t necessarily being signed because they can play at the NFL level. They are mostly being signed because they can play well at the college level.
More of them get a degree this route than they would without a scholarship.
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Property of Sallie Mae Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:35 PM
So is a concentration camp. I wouldn’t recommend either unless your willing to go all in.
Well, I thought I was going all in at the gym, I thought wrong. I don’t think I would recommend a concentration camp in any fraction of in, all or otherwise.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Spencer had the best one… whinylittlebitch621
JMac, whom WWoS has apparently taken to calling McTibble for reasons that I’m not clear on, actually gets credit for starting that in the first place.
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arkbadger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:36 PM
Now that’s an alter ego I can get behind. In celebration, here’s some titties.
the airbrushing team at playboy should be getting paid millions, because that barely resembles the centerfold if I remember correctly.
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:36 PM
I don’t think I would recommend a concentration camp in any fraction of in, all or otherwise.
Disagree. Where are parents who have kids with ADD supposed to send their kids?
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:38 PM
the airbrushing team at playboy should be getting paid millions, because that barely resembles the centerfold if I remember correctly.
That may well be, but those are still some quality tits.
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Broccoli Beef Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:39 PM
JMac, whom WWoS has apparently taken to calling McTibble for reasons that I’m not clear on, actually gets credit for starting that in the first place.
No no no, there are no points for calling you a whiny little bitch. The true art is taking that and creating a name out of it.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:39 PM
This discussion including concentration camps > NBA awards, questions and predictions through 1/3 of the season.
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:40 PM
concentration camps
Eagerly waits for ms to link some tittays….
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WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Useless/throwaway comment of the day.
Despite the pub given to Sanchez, Stafford, Freeman, the Patriots now boast the first TWO quarterbacks from the 2009 NFL draft to reach the Superbowl (Mallet, Edelman)
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ATL_Badger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Despite the pub given to Sanchez, Stafford, Freeman, the Patriots now boast the first TWO quarterbacks from the 2009 NFL draft to reach the Superbowl (Mallet, Edelman)
Yeah.
Nobody cares.
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VladimirCrouton Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Mallet? He was drafted last year.
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arkbadger Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Despite the pub given to Sanchez, Stafford, Freeman, the Patriots now boast the first TWO quarterbacks from the 2009 NFL draft to reach the Superbowl (Mallet, Edelman)
Mallett was just drafted last year.
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YYSA Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:43 PM
No no no, there are no points for calling you a whiny little bitch. The true art is taking that and creating a name out of it.
Agreed. For example SG will get no points for jck40cryerfan
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WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:44 PM
JMac, whom WWoS has apparently taken to calling McTibble for reasons that I’m not clear on
This will catch on, mark my words!
He was called TBL, then went to Jason McIntyre, and referred to as McIntyre a few times. I abhor the J-Mac/A-Rod style nicknames, so I thought the phoneticized (?) verision “McTBL” would be a nice compromise.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:45 PM
No no no, there are no points for calling you a whiny little bitch. The true art is taking that and creating a name out of it.
Good point. You like beef curtains.
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WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:45 PM
Mallett was just drafted last year.
Shit. I thought of it because I ready a story about Mallet making it. I meant Hoyer (who was undrafted but in that class.
Hoyer and Edelman are the first two QBs from the rookie class of 2009 to make the Superbowl. Thanks ark.
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squawkbox Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Useless/throwaway comment of the day.
Your new meme?
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WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:48 PM
And depending on if he was on the roster or the PS at the time, Graham Harrel takes the honor anyway. Fuck it, I tried.
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squawkbox Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Great … another dunk post.
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ms621 Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:48 PM
He was called TBL, then went to Jason McIntyre, and referred to as McIntyre a few times. I abhor the J-Mac/A-Rod style nicknames, so I thought the phoneticized (?) verision “McTBL” would be a nice compromise.
Ah I see.
/farts
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squawkbox Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Ah I see.
/farts
Thanks for emptying the room.
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MaddMatt Says:
February 1st, 2012 at 3:33 PM
What’s an “ALCS Championship”?

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