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Indians’ Sizemore blames theft for racy Web photos

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Steamy photos of the Cleveland Indians’ Grady Sizemore have popped up online, and the All-Star center fielder complains they were stolen from his girlfriend’s e-mail.

Sizemore tells The Plain Dealer of Cleveland that the nearly nude pictures were meant only for her. He told the newspaper Sunday night that legal action is being taken.

A Web site still featuring a dozen photos of Sizemore in various states of undress Monday morning also posted a note from a Major League Baseball investigator asking that they be taken down. The message said the pictures were stolen from a personal computer and directed the site to preserve any related records in anticipation of a criminal complaint.

Repoz Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:40 PM | 68 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:47 PM (#3398959)
This article is useless without pictures.
   2. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:48 PM (#3398960)
I tried to think of a quip involving a twist on the word "Sizemore," but it simply can't be done.
   3. Craig Calcaterra Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:50 PM (#3398961)
Your're welcome:

http://gaysocialites.com/2009/11/here_are_the_sexy_pictures_of_1.html

Don't ask me how I found that. You probably don't want to know.
   4. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:57 PM (#3398962)
Don't ask me how I found that. You probably don't want to know.

Isn't Sizemore one of bbc's favorites?
   5. AROM Posted: November 30, 2009 at 01:59 PM (#3398963)
It's a publicity stunt, people.
   6. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:00 PM (#3398964)
Is he in the best shape of his life?
   7. Steve Parris, Je t'aime Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:01 PM (#3398965)
How did Kaz Tadano hack into Grady's girlfriend's email?
   8. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:06 PM (#3398968)
shockingly, "gaysocialites.com" is blocked by my work.
   9. Harry Balsagne's transparent jealousy Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:09 PM (#3398969)
The mug of tea is hilarious.
   10. Craig Calcaterra Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:11 PM (#3398970)
Seriously: if you're ever a guest at Sizemore's house, bring your own coffee mug.
   11. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:11 PM (#3398971)
If he's a gay socialite, where's his penny-farthing bicycle and red velvet swing?
   12. snapper (history's 42nd greatest monster) Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:20 PM (#3398972)
It's unbelievable given the history of these things that famous people keep makinf these phots/videos and then are shocked, shocked when they become public. If it's not a PR stunt, he's a moron.

Listen people, if you don't want naked photos/videos fo you/your wife/your girlfriend/etc. to circulate, don't make 'em in the first place. Otherwise, the odds of them getting out eventually are like 98.7%.
   13. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:22 PM (#3398973)
Listen people, if you don't want naked photos/videos fo you/your wife/your girlfriend/etc. to circulate, don't make 'em in the first place. Otherwise, the odds of them getting out eventually are like 98.7%.

Meanwhile, shootyerotique.com has yet to get a hit. I'm getting killed, dammit.
   14. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:46 PM (#3398981)
I don't think people want to see racy pictures of me.

My wife has stated numerous times that she thinks we should get dressed to take the garbage cans out to the curb or whatever; in my opinion a sleepy shirt and sweat pants are good enough. If the neighborhood kids complain, my plan is to say, "Behold! The ravages of time!!!!"
   15. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:48 PM (#3398984)
When I access the site, why does it say, "Welcome back, CRAIG CALCATERRA" on top of the screen?
   16. Craig Calcaterra Posted: November 30, 2009 at 02:58 PM (#3398987)
When I access the site, why does it say, "Welcome back, CRAIG CALCATERRA" on top of the screen?


Damn. I thought I had logged in with my usual ID: "IheartBradyAnderson."
   17. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:06 PM (#3398991)
Meanwhile, shootyerotique.com has yet to get a hit. I'm getting killed, dammit.
Something tells me "shootyerotique.com" just became a Googlewhack
   18. Win one for Agrippa (haplo53) Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:17 PM (#3399002)
"I blame the internet and the return of swing music."
   19. Sheer Tim Foli Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:18 PM (#3399003)
Something tells me this is going to be a legendary thread. And I haven't even clicked on any of the links yet.
   20. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:19 PM (#3399004)
Something tells me "shootyerotique.com" just became a Googlewhack

What's a Googlewhack? In this context, it sounds kinda gross. (Nice one for the Hammers, BTW.)
   21. Lassus Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:25 PM (#3399005)
What's a Googlewhack?

Ha ha, you're old.
   22. CraigK Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:26 PM (#3399006)
What's a Googlewhack? In this context, it sounds kinda gross. (Nice one for the Hammers, BTW.)

A google search quote that returns only one search result.

It's kinda self-defeating because as soon as someone finds a Googlewhack, they post it on the internet, it becomes another listing on Google, and stops being a Googlewhack.
   23. robinred Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:27 PM (#3399007)
This will bbc's all-time favorite thread, if she doesn't faint looking at the pictures and is actually able to post.
   24. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:34 PM (#3399010)
(Nice one for the Hammers, BTW.)
Indeed. I would have preferred they didn't mail in the defense in those last 20 minutes, but I suppose it is hard to defend to the death when you're up 5-0. Going to be a tough next couple of games though, Man U, at Birmingham and (in a big one) at Bolton.

PS:
Ha! Take that, people who thought you were getting an interesting thread, here comes the soccer talk!
   25. asinwreck Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM (#3399012)
Behold the happiest women in the world (or, at least, northeastern Ohio).

The message board just got wind of this news and is initially a split between those concerned with his privacy and those saying (and I quote) WOW.
   26. Susan Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:49 PM (#3399015)
1) I question the erotic judgment of anyone who calls those photos "steamy."
2) Nice body, boring bathroom, and a limited imagination. (And this from a woman who spotted young Mr. Sizemore when the Tribe brought him up at the end of the 2004 season for about 40 games and has often pondered her own quips on the name "Sizemore.")
   27. Gold Star for Robothal Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:53 PM (#3399019)
That rear-view shot of Sizemore and the bowl of cake batter can not be described.
   28. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:55 PM (#3399021)
I'm not looking unless there are centaurs involved.
   29. rfloh Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:56 PM (#3399022)
Heh, not sure why they're bothering to try to get the pics taken down. By this time, pretty much everyone who wants them has probably DLed them, and can put them up on multiple sites all over the world.

He should just embrace their release.
   30. Lassus Posted: November 30, 2009 at 03:59 PM (#3399023)
boring bathroom

I admit I wondered why he was taking these pictures in an East Village studio apartment bathroom.
   31. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:00 PM (#3399024)
What the hell is he doing with that Care Bear stuffed animal? That should be illegal.
   32. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:08 PM (#3399031)
Does "gaysocialites.com" have a mailing list or whatever? I'm thinking of immaturely signing people I don't like up for repeated emails from them.
   33. Repoz Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:15 PM (#3399040)
You realize we might lose our bonafide SABR Charter over this!
   34. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:17 PM (#3399044)
nude AND beano cook
   35. LargeBill Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:21 PM (#3399048)
Doesn't matter how famous or rich someone is, most folks start with zero judgment. By the time they reach the age of majority most folks have some degree of good judgment. If you rated judgment on a 1 to 10 scale with 10 equaling never doing stupid stuff that could haunt you later, then less than 1% clock in at 10. Most in our early 20's probably enter adult life at a 2 or 3. Then after stupidity bites us (DUI, bad break up with someone on wrong side of the crazy scale, bad investment, misuse of a power tool, etc) our carefulness usually spikes. After this, hopefully for him, Sizemore's judgment should improve. For most folks that's how we mature. When stupidity hurts, you get smarter. That isn't universal. Some folks never catch on that they have some measure of control over the embarrassing crap that comes their way.

Any of you with teenagers should understand that just being told various things are bad ideas does nothing to deter the young and brave. Young people either need to feel the pain for themselves or know a friend/acquaintance who did "X" and got a bad result to believe that precautions make sense.
   36. rfloh Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:21 PM (#3399049)
1 guy, 1 cup?
   37. Susan Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:21 PM (#3399051)
Sizemore's ex-girlfriend's last name is "Banger" and still nothing on the pun front?
   38. HCO, Transgressive Herbivore Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:28 PM (#3399058)
This is hardly a catastrophe for Sizemore. A few people saw him nearly-naked. BFD.
   39. akrasian Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:28 PM (#3399059)
If he was really trying to impress his gf, shouldn't he have put the toilet lid down first before taking the photos?
   40. TerpNats Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:33 PM (#3399065)
Sizemore's ex-girlfriend's last name is "Banger" and still nothing on the pun front?
Was she Goldie Hawn or Susan Sarandon? (If Goldie, then Grady and Alex Rodriguez may soon be relatives by law.)
   41. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:36 PM (#3399069)
Sizemore's ex-girlfriend's last name is "Banger" and still nothing on the pun front?

Grady's got his ronnie woo-woo in a cup of teabagged water, and we haven't had any wordplay there, either. A golden age of maturity has tragically descended upon us.
   42. cercopithecus aethiops Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:46 PM (#3399083)
Actually and unfortunately, it's Binger, not Banger. Brittany Binger. Miss June, 2007.
   43. Cris E Posted: November 30, 2009 at 04:56 PM (#3399096)
I'm glad we have the off-season where we have time to investigate news events like this. They bring us together in ways that actual baseball cannot. For example, SABRSusan has been with us most of the year and was finally prompted to post by Grady's naughty bits. So welcome Susan, welcome Miss June, and hello shootyerotique.com. You know, one good thing about Shooty's low profile is that the office smut filter won't catch me for at least a week.
   44. Susan Posted: November 30, 2009 at 05:00 PM (#3399101)
Actually and unfortunately, it's Binger, not Banger. Brittany Binger. Miss June, 2007.

I guess the writer at Gay Socialite was as eager for a good pun as I was...
   45. winnipegwhip Posted: November 30, 2009 at 05:02 PM (#3399103)
The photos were downloaded from Carl Monday's I.P. address.
   46. base ball chick Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:30 PM (#3399182)
the pic of brad ausmus wearing only a surfboard was actually hottern any of grady's pics

i personally would be VERY happy to help grady, uh, pose
   47. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:32 PM (#3399186)
I didn't think that this thread would fall off of Hot Topics today. But BOOM - there goes the dynamite!
   48. CraigK Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:41 PM (#3399201)
Searching for Brad Ausmus pulls up this:

http://www.beloblog.com/KHOU_Animal_Attraction/2008/05/2009-astros-pla.html

Brad Ausmus and puppies. The ultimate aphrodisiac.
   49. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:44 PM (#3399203)
Here's a fun couple.
   50. andrewberg Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:44 PM (#3399206)
I'm just going to hope she hyphenates her name if they get married into Banger-Sizemore. Not sure what her "size" would be, but I'm sure we could figure something out.
   51. Howie Menckel Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:45 PM (#3399207)
In case it wasn't clear from the Ausmus comment, No. 46 is indeed baseballchick.....
   52. TVerik Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:53 PM (#3399220)
Screenname history, my friend!
   53. zonk Posted: November 30, 2009 at 06:54 PM (#3399221)
You are all confusing the googleads AI monster...

It's now alternating between duraflame logs and civil rights in baseball novels.
   54. Susan Posted: November 30, 2009 at 07:01 PM (#3399233)
A search for Brad Ausmus also pulls up this: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:oGKensveXi2qDM:http://asmp.org/culture/bestof2008/Seale/BradAusmus.jpg

Can you surf, Brad? Does it matter?
   55. Vida Blew Over the Legal Limit Posted: November 30, 2009 at 07:28 PM (#3399263)
With a rare combination of speed and Sizemore


Nice little typo in the article there.
   56. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim Posted: November 30, 2009 at 07:54 PM (#3399294)
Typo, or a slip of the tongue?
   57. Obi One Kenobi Nil Posted: November 30, 2009 at 08:02 PM (#3399301)
What's a Googlewhack? In this context, it sounds kinda gross. (Nice one for the Hammers, BTW.)

A google search quote that returns only one search result.

It's kinda self-defeating because as soon as someone finds a Googlewhack, they post it on the internet, it becomes another listing on Google, and stops being a Googlewhack.


If anyone hasn't watched it find a copy of Dave Gormans googlewhack adventure, you'll laugh. alot.
   58. phredbird Posted: November 30, 2009 at 08:03 PM (#3399303)
i keep getting brady anderson and grady sizemore mixed up. too bad. i was hoping to see those cool sideburns again.
   59. Lassus Posted: November 30, 2009 at 08:31 PM (#3399327)
i was hoping to see those cool sideburns again.

Damned mug!
   60. smileyy Posted: November 30, 2009 at 09:25 PM (#3399386)
So when Grady calls up his ladyfriend, she's not going to get much more than a cup of coffee?

She must be glad when the rosters expand to 40 men? (I don't even know what that means, but it sounded topical...)
   61. phredbird Posted: November 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM (#3399420)
The mug of tea is hilarious.


brings a whole new meaning to the term teabagging.

*rimshot*
   62. chemdoc Posted: November 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM (#3399433)
(insert "Grady is the straw that stirs the drink" reference here)
   63. Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: November 30, 2009 at 10:29 PM (#3399434)
I mean, I feel for Grady in that he didn't want these pictures to be public, and they've apparently been made public through explicitly criminal action. That's too bad. On the other hand, it certainly is the case that if you're a celebrity - and even if you're not - you shouldn't place documents or photographs on the internet in any way unless you're ok with the consequences of these documents or photographs being made public. This in no way exonerates the ######## who make these things public, but it's got to be how we engage with photos of our naked bodies.

On the third hand, damn. Damn.
   64. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: December 01, 2009 at 12:44 AM (#3399590)
Not buying it. That fourth picture -- that's Grady, that's a coffee mug, that's a Thunderstick... what is that thing on the right? Is that a midget?

And that other one, the one with the panties on his head, I couldn't even take that picture without really hurting my el...


...bow.
   65. RMc is the loyal supporter of the MLB event Posted: December 01, 2009 at 07:01 PM (#3400261)
BTW, looking at these photos proves that you're gay. Not looking at means also proves you're gay.

Carry on.
   66. Bronco Posted: December 01, 2009 at 07:17 PM (#3400288)
You'd think Polaroid would make a comeback by marketing directly to celebrities that wanna get freaky deaky with a camera but don't want hackers to out their freaky deaky side. I see a missed opportunity here.
   67. robinred Posted: December 01, 2009 at 07:21 PM (#3400300)
I think having a guy named "Bronco" on this thread is appropos.
   68. base ball chick Posted: December 01, 2009 at 09:12 PM (#3400442)
RMc is the Commissioner of Baseball Posted: December 01, 2009 at 01:01 PM (#3400261)

BTW, looking at these photos proves that you're gay. Not looking at means also proves you're gay.

Carry on.

- or even worse, you just might could be a straight woman. Those People for some reason, LIKE to look at pics of hot guys

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