A Look Back: May 2007

Taking One For the Team

May 24, 2007

AP-Lou Hatcher Not since the premiere of "Brokeback Mountain" or Andy Harrison's KA bid night has anyone seen another take it up the butt quite like the Cubs, Biscuits, Purple Rain, Gaywads and None of the Above did last week. "It was pretty nasty," Rousers manager J.P. Vinson said of his whipping of the Gaywads, "the worse part was I got the feeling (Whitaker) kind of liked it." Vinson's Rousers continue to make fantasy baseball look easy holding steady in the top spot, and keeping the Otters in check. Experts blamed the Baton Rouge Biscuits loss this week on "ego" after Skipper Joey Abel called his team a "heavyweight" and likened his club to Ralph Macchio. Macchio commented this week, "That guy Abel violated about 10 different copyright laws and furthermore defamed my Karate Kid character by making such a comparison." Abel's office was said to have hired Boozehounds publicist Harry Jazzercize as his lawyer for the trial. Peter Gammons named the Merecats v. None of the Above as Game of the Week due to the brother v. brother headline. "I think Billy (None of the Above manager) will play psychological warfare in this one and win," Gammons said last night, "his 'big brother' tactics will ultimately prevail." Last season Sam Kirby pitched Roger Clemens after older brother Billy claimed that Sam was "too much of a pussy" to do so. Clemens was pitching for the Astros affiliate in Lexington at the time and consequently was unable to score any points for the younger Kirby.