So you’ve got 4 fantasy teams and you think you’ve got a problem? At least you probably have never tried to get someone hurt to benefit your fantasy team like former Major League pitcher Tom Candiotti once did:
“It’s ‘92 or ‘93,” Candiotti says. “I’m playing for the Dodgers, Jeff Kent is with the Mets. I’m in a fantasy baseball league. I don’t have Kent on my team and he’s off to a torrid start and he’s killing me.”
The Dodgers are in New York to play the Mets. Ramon Martinez is warming up in the Dodgers’ bullpen to pitch the series opener. Candiotti strolls to the pen and, within earshot of Martinez, tells pitching coach Ron Perranoski, “Perry, I just talked to Bret Saberhagen, and Sabes told me that if Kent gets drilled his first time up, he’s mush for the rest of the series.”
First inning, Kent steps to the plate.
“Ramon just absolutely buries one in Kent’s ribs,” Candiotti says. “It was so bad that he went down on one knee, and he had to come out of the game. I sat there thinking, ‘What did you just do? You told a complete lie, you got this guy drilled!’
The best part of the story, says Candiotti, is that ever since that day, other Dominican pitchers started hitting Jeff Kent on a regular basis, including Ramon’s more famous brother Pedro. As Tony Kornheiser might say, that’s claaaaaaaasic.
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That is quite literally laugh-out-loud funny.
I thought you might enjoy, and while it was already on Deadspin on Monday and on the Junkies this AM, I figured it was worth repeating here.
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