Happy 45th Birthday to Billy Ripken; he of the 1989 Fleer f*!$@*! card* fame.
In addition to celebrating the anniversary of his birth, we would really like to celebrate this impressive achievement of photographic tomfoolery but we can't because you see, to this day, Billy will not admit that he did this little stunt on purpose. That is cool and everything but while Billy really fooled that photographer and several Fleer employees up the line, we are not so gullible here.
There is absolutely NO WAY that Billy Ripken just picked up some random bat that was lying around that just so happened to have a very clear obscenity written on the knob in fresh black marker and then just so happened to hold it just right during the photo shoot so that those two little magic words (or is it just one compound word?) could be seen in all their glory on the 1989 Fleer card. Umm, sorry. No way.
Billy, the statute of limitations has long since passed on this whole thing so I think you can safely admit to your mischievous little caper here. If you do, we could at least give you like a "thumbs-up" or something but you have to admit to this first. We don't just celebrate accidental things that happen to people here, you know.
Now are you sure you don't have something to tell everybody about this?
*Yea, we got the "censored" version above. Family-friendly site, you know.
2 comments:
Kevin,
Thanks for being a family friendly site.
Billy did an interview with CNBC's Darren Rovell explaining "how it all went down."
For more info on the card visit billripken.com.
Mark,
Thanks.
I think I had seen that last year and chalked it up to only a partial weasily admission on Billy's part.
Well let's put it this way. He is making progress as he apparently started with a "targeted by teammates" version and now has "upgraded" the story a little.
If he ever gets to a version which includes his intent, then he gets a thumbs-up from this corner.
Kevin
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