Cool story on Dmitri Young

Apparently he has one of the most amazing baseball card collections in the world, including a slew of the only known Gem Mint rookie cards of Hall of Famers in existence.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-major-leaguer-dmitri-young-is-unlikely-owner-of-huge-rookie-baseball-card-collection-.html;_ylt=Ahz0UyhtvZrXJd.X0EzQLTsRvLYF

The story says he's selling the cards to start some kind of baseball school and charitable foundation, which is kind of sad and kind of cool. He talks about how his collection helped him through some rough times, when his cards were all he had to latch onto.

 

His brother has advised him to make sure the buyers don't Jew him down on the price.

 

Well, he also told Leyland to go fuck himself in front of the whole team when he was told he would be pinch-hit for following the rain delay, but never mind that.

Oh, and the domestic violence charge was against him, not the girlfriend. And he pled no contest, aka "guilty."

 

I also liked how there was no mention of his drug arrest in 2010: http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2010/07/ex-tiger_tiger_dmitri_young_ar.html You'd hate to ruin the fictitious narrative with facts.

But hey, he ate the tongue sandwich, as we were reminded 75 times.

 

"President Barack Obama will address the nation regarding his new jobs legislation on Tuesday. Obama, who wrote in his memoir 'Dreams From My Father,' that he used to experiment with cocaine, will say that the jobs legislation, which will first go to the House, aims to add 20,000 jobs ..."

Is it necessary to recount every last detail from someone's life CV when writing about them?

 

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Right. In 2006. But Young came back after that and won Comeback Player of the Year. Then nosedived again. At the least, it's poor phrasing by Henson. At the worst, he's using a creative timeline to tell the tale of a guy whose life is clearly still a yo-yo.

 

That comeback award was well deserved. It's hard to go a while year without punching a bitch.

How many people think he's selling the cards for charity and how many think it's because he's going broke?

 

Yeah, that's why I'm kind of leaning toward, "Sad."

 

Right. In 2006. But Young came back after that and won Comeback Player of the Year. Then nosedived again. At the least, it's poor phrasing by Henson. At the worst, he's using a creative timeline to tell the tale of a guy whose life is clearly still a yo-yo.
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Fair point, I can buy that.

 

That anti semitic post makes you not much better than Delmon Young.
What even is it suppose to mean?

You're really outdoing yourself these days LTL. First you offer bigoted observations on Zimmerman thread and now this.

 

It's not sad. All his problems are self-generated and self-perpetrating.


Oh and the cruel series of injuries which bedeviled him with the Tigers were almost all fat-man injuries: jammed ankles, pulled hamstrings etc etc. Put down the fork.

Although it did set up a perpetually-entertaining series of powder-puff fluff stories every January about how ole Dmitri had "worked hard all winter," had "lost 20 pounds" (sometimes it was 30 or 40) and was "coming to camp with a whole new attitude."

If you had added up all the 20, 30 and 40 pounds Dmitri was supposed to have lost every offseason, you would have needed a hydraulic crane to load him into the team bus. Unfortunately this was not far off the truth.