Posted on 05/22/2014 7:08:19 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Dodgers prospect Alex Guerrero was the victim Tuesday of a Mike Tyson-like ear chomp by triple-A teammate Miguel Olivo, according to Guerrero’s agent, Scott Boras.
Guerrero, a Cuban infielder who is in the first year of a four-year, $28-million contract, was scheduled to undergo plastic surgery to reattach the part of his ear that was bitten off by Olivo in a dugout altercation, Boras said.
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Mike Tyson plays baseball now?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
This shows one of the nice things about baseball. The biter will likely be weeded out before ever getting a shot at the big show.
Ya, I started thinking about the Mike Tyson ear biting. Geez..... what the heck????
ah yes. I remember that Mike Tyson. There was a Mike Tyson baseball player.
One of those questions people sometimes talk about, is different people with the same name. Which one comes to mind first?
When someone says Paul Simon, do you think of Paul Simon the Senator, or Paul Simon the singer?
Kenny Rogers — the baseball player or the singer?
Michael Myers — the actor from Wayne’s World, or the villian from the Halloween movies?
Bob Welch the pitcher or Bob Welch the Pop musician
Howard Johnson the baseballl player or Howard Johnson the restauranteur? Milton Bradley the baseball player or the game creator?
Dominican (catcher) vs Cuban (infielder) trash talking teammates.
Didn’t Jon Voight take a chunk out of someone’s arm?
good ones.
I remember Howard Johnson the ballplayer, couldn’t believe his parents gave him that name. Ditto with Milton Bradley. People with such names will always get reactions from people because of their names.
There was a politician years ago in New Mexico named Jack Daniels. Don’t know if he was a big drinker, LOL.
Does or does? Convict or convict?
An interesting list of “Heteronyms.”
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html
Scott Boras, the Baseball Cancer.
The guilty party is Miguel Olivo, a former major leaguer, passed ball specialist as a catcher for the Seattle Mariners. He was prone to swing at low and away pitches. The Mariners don’t miss him, but he was never known as a clubhouse cancer.
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