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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Andruw Jones was arrested early Christmas morning for battery outside of Atlanta, as reported by Capitol Avenue Club.
Jones, a 17-year MLB veteran outfielder with 10 Gold Gloves and five All-Star appearances to his name, was arrested by the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department at around 3:50 a.m. The circumstances surrounding his arrest are unclear.
Many had been clamoring for Andruw to make more contact, but not THIS kind of contact…
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1. Tripon Posted: December 25, 2012 at 01:10 PM (#4332236)Thanks for allowing me to warm you up. Your next comic is very well known nationally, having appeared in theses threads many times, please give a big round of applause for....
That's what I was thinking. If he's playing for Somerset (or Bridgeport or Long Island) maybe he can move back into his old apartment from his pinstripe days. Or he could attract the Newark Bear's 601st and 602nd fans.
No. Buttering a turkey.
The Newark Bears left the Atlantic League a few years back. They're now in the Canadian American Association, along with the Nashua and Atlantic City teams who made the same move from the Atlantic League.
As noted in threads devoted to topics like tasering people for running on the field, athletes are an orders of magnitude bigger threat to civilians than civilians are to athletes. You're seeing a subset of that abject fanboyism in action here.
Nor is it the right term to apply to the pose of put upon faux-weariness at the world.
[tough crowd]
You're right. I should've wrote, "Sparks flew, and Andruw gets zapped, charged with battery and put in a dry cell. I'm shocked."
I got nuthin'.
Is Andruw still going to the Hall of Fame?
Certainly not. A true Hall of Famer waits until after he's inducted to pull stuff like this...
My reply is always the same: "Only the things you care about the most."
Like "Andruw Jones signs with the Marlins"?
Now you're just crossing the line.
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