“I went up 9 [pounds],” Jasperson told MLB.com’s Thomas Harding.

"Also, I haven't taken a dump since April."

I think the problem might tend exactly the other way, given that much grease and onion. I believe Dmitri Young implied as much with his "running down your leg" comment. That said, if I were around that clubhouse in my 20s or 30s this would have been something I'd contemplate.

"They're better than Geno's, they're better than Pat's," Hanel said.

But are they better than Tony Luke's??

cheesesteak-devouring contest in the bowels

heh

What a wonderfully baseball thing.

There's a video of three Angels (including Ohtani) trying to bounce a baseball up onto a dugout step and trying to get it to stay and not roll off. Boys being boys. Ohtani won of course

In one of his books Tim Kurkjian has a story about the steps leading from the playing surface in the Metrodome up to floor where the locker rooms are. There were several sets with landings in between and every time he was in town Ripken would try to make it in the minimum number of strides possible. For a long time his record was seven until a teammate tied him, and then he went back down and worked on it until he managed six.


Here's former Twins beat writer Jim Caple talking about it:
"Beyond a doubt the greatest feat I've seen is Cal Ripken climbing the Metrodome stairs leading from the field to the clubhouse in six strides. Let me tell you, it's a LONG, high staircase, with four landings and like 28 steps. Ripken turned going up it into a contest to see how many strides he could do it in and he eventually got it down to six.

Current Twins have heard this repeated as legend and they don't believe it's humanly possibly but I saw him do it one day and then he showed me exactly how he goes about it. and when he described it, I could tell that in addition to being a great athlete (and he was), he also put unbelievable thought and planning into whatever he did. I mean, this was a contest guaranteed to twist an ankle, but Ripken did it every time he was in Minnesota, regardless of the streak. People say he put the streak above everything else, but he didn't. It was incredibly important to him but he didn't worry about it or let it stop him from trying something risky athletically."
-- Jim Caple

Put me in coach!

The Phillies are just going to let all these visiting team chow hounds hold the record? Sad.

The Mets set the collective team record with 103 during a rainout on April 30 2014. I was curious how they did the next game. They flew to Colorado and dropped the first 3 games of a 4 game series to the Rockies.

ETA: The Mets were 15-11 while pounding those cheesesteaks. That would end up being the high point of their season. The lost 8 of 9 following the feat.

Detroit Tigers All-Star

Boy, you don't see those words in that combination much anymore!

Dmitri Young later got diagnosed with diabetes. Not saying the cheesesteaks specifically did it, but those kinds of eating habits certainly didn't help.

Maybe Dmitri got it from years of eating Fruit by the Foot.

They definitely need both players and non-players categories.

The Phillies are just going to let all these visiting team chow hounds hold the record? Sad.

I so would love to know what John Kruk could have done in this contest back in his Philly days!