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Murder charge stuns SF Giants prospect's friends
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/22/09 | Nanette Asimov, John Shea

Posted on 09/24/2009 12:26:09 PM PDT by GSWarrior

Those who know Angel Villalona are stunned that the young San Francisco Giants minor league prospect - who they say is afraid of dogs and even carnival rides - has been charged with murdering a man in a bar in his native Dominican Republic.

Villalona, a first baseman with what scouts have described as enormous power potential, won a signing bonus of $2.1 million from the Giants in 2006, just four days after his 16th birthday. It was the most the team had ever paid for an amateur.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; dominicanrepublic; sfgiants

1 posted on 09/24/2009 12:26:10 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

Maybe the other guy threatened to put him on a carnival ride with a dog, and he just snapped......


2 posted on 09/24/2009 12:32:52 PM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

Well, the other guy would not get outa the chair.


3 posted on 09/24/2009 12:40:19 PM PDT by svcw (Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

Hee hee hee! I bet the other guy was stunned, too- albeit for a very short period. This story would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so sad. The ball player has a VIP seat in some dumpy bar in some backwater town? I mean, is it the third stool from the left or an elevated chair in the middle of the room? The bar was probably half empty with about twenty unused chairs, and old Angel walks up to some poor slob and tells him, “Hey, you’re sitting in my seat.”


4 posted on 09/24/2009 12:43:30 PM PDT by Krankor
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