First of all, yeah, I KNOW it's not Tuesday, but as I explained
earlier, this blog did not exist on Tuesday, so let's
pretend it's Tuesday and enjoy a little Top Ten action! Today's topic celebrates the joy and hilarity that is baseball arrests - and much to our collective enjoyment, there is no shortness of criminals in the MLB!
Top Ten Baseball Degenerates
10)
Bondzilla: Juice and lying about it
9)
Pete Rose: Gambling (obv), tax evasion
8)
Jose Canseco: Steroids, domestic abuse, battery in a nightclub (teamed up with his brother for that feat - family bonding!)
7)
Sidney Ponson: Assaulted an Aruban judge, DUIs (that's plural) and subsequent jail time.
6)
Doc Gooden: DWI, driving with a suspended license, punched his girlfriend in 2005, violating probation - and, of course, a lotta drugs.
5)
Hank Thompson: Jewel theft at age 12, armed robbery, charged with murder (later dismissed as "justifiable homicide"), larceny, assault.
4)
Carl Everett: Child abuse (along with his wife), lots of altercations with umpires, homophobe, believer in the bible and honestly does not think dinosaurs existed.
3)
Darryl Strawberry: Domestic abuse (several times), illegitimate children, tax evasion, coke, failed to make child support payments, driving while under the influence of painkillers, filed a false report claiming his car was stolen... when really he had just misplaced it.
2)
Denny McLain: Failed to pay off a bet and had his foot stomped on by some mob members; later imprisoned for drug trafficking, racketeering, and embezzlement with Anthony Spilotro and John Gotti Jr.
1)
Ugueth Urbina: Convicted of attempted murder charges and was sentenced to 14 years in prison stemming from a 2005 incident in Venezuela.
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You forgot Vince Coleman throwing a firecracker in a kid's face :)
Plenty of olde tyme base ball players did some horrible things too, but I like keeping this list a bit more modern.