This baseball fan is a Dodger Dog to his bosses
Fired twice for ditching work to attend a baseball game? How’d that happen? “My bosses warned, ‘Don’t even ask about taking any more time off,’” Dodgers fan, Rick Gottesman, 57, told the Los Angeles Times. “So I didn’t even ask. And they canned me.” Gottesman is not easily deterred. He and a friend recently walked to beat the traffic to Dodger Stadium — from Sherman Oaks, 22 miles away.
HEADLINES
•At SportsPickle.com: “Report: Sixers open to using No. 1 pick on player who is both good at basketball and not injured.”
•At TheKicker.com: “Bowling alley forced to close after visit from U.S. shot-put team.”
LEAVE ’EM LAUGHING
San Diego International Airport is employing clowns and circus performers to cheer up passengers frustrated by slow lines and security checks. Apparently they got the idea while watching the Atlanta Braves board a flight out of town.
NEXT STOP: SIBERIA
“Russian sports minister does about-face and admits their athletes were doping, saying that he’s ‘ashamed of them,’” noted Fark.com. “On a related note, his funeral is scheduled for next week.”
THE HEAT IS ON
Researchers say April was the 12th straight month of record global temperatures. Forget a cold day in hell — it’ll be a hot day on Earth when the Cubs finally win the World Series.
QUOTE MARKS
•Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) WorldHerald, after Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor got an eight-game suspension for punching the Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista: “In other news, he’s just been named NHL Player of the Week.”
•Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg, after Tiger Woods hit three shots in the water in his first public golfing appearance in months: “This is what happens when you train with Michael Phelps.”
•RJ Currie of SportsDeke.com, on corpulent Mets hurler Bartolo Colon hitting his first career home run last Saturday, at age 42: “As of early this morning, he was rounding second base.”
DOUBLED OFF?
Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon — married for 21 years with four children — is being sued for child support by a woman who says he fathered two kids with her, the New York Post reported. Which certainly isn’t what Ernie Banks had in mind when he said, “Let’s play two!”