Getty Images This one’s … odd.
But thankfully fairly innocent.
From Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times comes word that Rays pitcher David Price was nearly assaulted outside of a Tampa restaurant Friday after confronting a man who was relieving himself on the 26-year-old left-hander’s car.
No one was injured — not Price, nor the man.
Here’s the full run-down of details from Topkin:
After filling glasses as a guest bartender for manager Joe Maddon’s charity event at Tampa’s 717 South restaurant Friday, Rays pitcher David Price walked out to find a man relieving himself on the door of his car.
The man apparently didn’t take kindly to being interrupted — he pushed Price and took a swing at him, but Price said he wisely avoided confrontation, joking he was too quick.
“I was,” Price said, “relieved with how it turned out.”
Price stands 6-foot-6 and weighs over 225 pounds, so he’d match up well in a brawl with a majority of the people on this planet. But the man apparently scurried off after failing to land a single punch.
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- drunkenhooliganism - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:34 PM
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Guy was drunk and couldn’t hit a good pitcher, any chance the perp was james loney
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- churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:45 PM
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From earlier reports, it appears Loney has no problem hitting people while drunk. It’s when he’s sober that he has difficulty…
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- clydeserra - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:58 PM
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where do you get drunk fir Loney?
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- hittfamily - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:06 PM
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Where do you get drunk if you’re Loney?
Parked on the freeway apparently.
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- randygnyc - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM
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This obviously one of this occupy wall street criminals pissing on what was surely a VERY expensive car. The fact the coward ran away is no surprise to me.
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- Reflex - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:48 PM
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Huh? Where does that comment even come from?
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:18 AM
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No. One of the “occupy crowd” probably was paid a very minimal wage to wash it off though.
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- purnellmeagrejr - Dec 11, 2011 at 8:01 AM
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please do not pollute my HBT with your political crap – I’m sure you’ll be able to find another board with pinheads similar to yourself to display your ignorance in front of.
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 10:22 AM
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Pinheads???
Please don’t pollute my HBT with……..Bill.
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- cur68 - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:37 PM
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Whew. A urine/MLB related post that didn’t result in reputations being tarnished or career’s being stinkbombed.Kinda glad to see this, actually.
Way to go David Price for not getting into a fight with a random pi$$er. Urine washes off, but assault charges and attendant lawyers require tomato juice, a stiff brush and a lout of scrubbing…wait, that’s skunks isn’t it? I always get wrongful legal suits mixed up with skunk stink.
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- sfs1 - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:42 PM
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Good thing it wasn’t the guy who stole his AK.
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- churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:46 PM
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So are you saying it was a good day?
-Ice Cube
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- indaburg - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:47 PM
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Longoria had his AK stolen, not Price. Get your pistol packing Rays straight.
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM
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AK-47 aren’t pistols indaberg. They are WMD’s. I don’t understand how a weapon capable of firing 30+ rounds of ammo in 3 seconds can be considered anything other.
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- Old Gator - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:47 PM
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What a pisser.
Hope it wasn’t Dontrelle Willis again….
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- hittfamily - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:00 PM
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Wow. A pro athlete at a bar in the offseason, and he was the sober rational one in an altercation. Very wise David!!!
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- JBerardi - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:17 PM
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But did they test the pee for PEDs?
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- theonlynolan - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:46 PM
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David Price went onto say that he was pissed off but that’s always better than being pissed on.
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- shaggylocks - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM
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Was Price one of the Rays that had his apartment broken into during Spring Training? Some people just can’t catch a break.
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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Yeah. He lived with Evan Longoria and Reid Brignac. Of the three, I would say it is Reid Brignac who can’t catch a break.
Hey Reid, Evan got dinner last night, and I got it the night before. Your turn. Steak, lobster—Whatcha thinking?
Sphaghetti-o’s.
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- marinersnate - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:18 AM
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“Sphaghetti-o’s”
With or without the ‘sliced franks’?
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:29 AM
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I would guess without, because if David wanted to slice a wiener, he would have done it Friday night.
Oh snap!!!
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- philwauke - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM
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He always blames his problems on the reliever.
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM
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nice
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- Detroit Michael - Dec 11, 2011 at 6:20 AM
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“I was relieved,” Price said. Apparently, so was the attacker.
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- hittfamily - Dec 11, 2011 at 10:25 AM
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finally got the pun huh?
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- lookatthefarside - Dec 11, 2011 at 11:55 PM
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In the end, both men were relieved.
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- hittfamily - Mar 14, 2012 at 12:38 AM
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