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August 24, 2005
Got A Sense Of Humor?
If you've ever spent even one game in a baseball dugout before or during a game -- be it at the Babe Ruth level, high school, college, or the majors -- you know that ribbing, practical jokes, and sophomoric humor are not only a rite of passage, they remain the coin of the players' realm long after they've established themselves. Stupid dares are like fraternity initiations. They're harmless, and they've been part of the game since players had to have "day jobs" because being a ballplayer didn't pay all that well.
Someone should remind the Florida Marlins' organization of how baseball camaraderie works behind the scenes, because they clearly left their sense of humor in the backseat of a cab on the road somewhere. The Marlins suspended an unidentified batboy for six games today. His "crime?"
He tried to complete a dare from former Marlin and current Los Angeles Dodger Brad Penny, by drinking one gallon of milk in one hour without throwing up.
Understand that we're not talking about an underage kid slamming a beer on a dare or anything like that. We're just talking about a kid drinking some milk.
Penny offered the batboy $500 if he could drink a gallon of milk in less than an hour before Sunday's game without throwing up. Penny told the paper the boy drank the milk and didn't throw up, but didn't finish the gallon in the allotted time frame to win the dare.
Can anyone tell me what impediment drinking milk causes to a person's ability to do his or her job? Is there some milk intoxication thing that I never figured out as a kid? (Hell, who needs glue or cough syrup... we got milk, man!)
So, for drinking milk in the clubhouse, a kid gets a six game suspension. Wow, he's almost up to what Rafael Palmiero served -- ten games -- for taking illegal steroids. So I guess it's safe to say that in the Florida Marlins' eyes, drinking milk is 60% as bad as taking steroids.
Freaking idiots.
Comments
We've got CHOCOLATE milk, man!!!!!
Posted by: Brent at August 25, 2005 09:45 PM
