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We have received another FIRST-HAND REPORT from an attendee of last night’s Congressional Baseball Game during which Congressman Chip Pickering’s metal bat hit some guy in the face and made him bleed everywhere. It is so FIRST-HAND, this report, that the source was the person who actually held a towel to the guy’s mauled head to stop the bleeding! According to this person, Chip Pickering was not trying to hurt this person when he hurt this person. Oh!
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Actually, that report is wholly incorrect. I was sitting directly behind the guy in the third row who was hit, and I was the only one who got blood on them because I was holding a blanket to his head to try and slow the bleeding until the medical personnel arrived on site. Pickering stood looking appalled at what just happened and actually looked like he was going to enter the stands to make sure they guy he hit was ok, but medical personnel arrived and he was told to continue playing. Feel free to email me if you need more details than this.
Oh, and it was the bottom of the 5th and the office of the attending physician responded.
The guy who was hit, whose name is Brian, btw, was a young guy who had never been to a baseball game before (i gave him a rundown of all of the rules of the game during the second inning), and did not stand up and realize he was bleeding all over everyone. He was dazed and tried to stand and I pushed him back down in his seat and held the blanket to his head to help staunch the bleedingAnd the whole incident was CLEARLY accidental. The bat just slipped. Happens all the time.
“Wholly incorrect,” hmm? We were certainly incorrect in the headline, which said the injured fellow was an “old” man. That was something we typed at first (we write headlines before anything else ha ha!) because it’s usually old men that get injured. But alas, he was so young that he’d never actually BEEN to a baseball game — and now will probably never go to another, considering his one experience involved a Republican Congressman hitting him in the head with a thick piece of metal. But maybe he’s black and can sue!
Otherwise, yes, we are pretty AWARE that Chip Pickering did not intentionally chuck said piece of metal at the young newbie for bloodsport. He is not Dick Cheney. But it’s funny (and tragic!) either way and, speaking for ourselves, we wouldn’t want to keep laughing and playing if we knew we had just destroyed some guy and PARAMEDICS had to come. But we are not necessarily Republicans, either. It “happens all the time,” sure (well actually — does it?), but usually not with Congressmen we’ve always mocked, and when it does happen, posts on Wonkette shall ensue, the end.
is that sass i detect?
That’s what you get for hanging around Repugnantcans looking for ManBlo.
I didn’t mean you, Wonkette, were incorrect, just that the person who reported to you what happened was
I hear Dick Cheney always plays baseball with a shotgun.
Ok, first Brian BTW only bleeds on the one guy, then in the next paragraph, he’s bleeding all over everyone again. This email is wholly incorrect.
No, he wasn’t old. People just look older when their FACE IS EXPLODING IN BLOOD.
Hmm…teaching him the rules of baseball? My girlfriend hates baseball more than I hate feet and even she knows the rules. I say bullshit.
Actually my post says he DID NOT stand up and bleed all over everyone
Nope, not bullshit, he didn’t even know what a walk meant.
But then, no need to believe a first hand account.
Cinderella: Fine. I’ll take your word for it.
So anyway, do you know Spinderella?
nancy drew, girl reporter, is not satisfied….
golly gee Pops, didnt ya ever consider that there might be a secret spy code message inside the bat, and that the whole thing was staged to look like an accident?…
after all, who ever heard of anyone who’s NEVER been to a baseball game before?…thats like saying youve never had ice cream!……hes gotta be foreign…maybe French!…or even German!!!!!!
I think it was a PR move to get his image rebranded from “Skanky Philanderer of Lobbyists” into “Athletic Wild Man”. Sports figures get more leeway than Republican pols who cheat on the suffering mother of their adorable children.
Boy, am I glad that Chip Pickering’s gay lover wrote in to set the record straight!
Oh! s/b Ow!
Any major league team which doesn’t maintain a .325 average of spectators batted out, is considered for application to the American Woman’s Baseball League.
Is this person asserting that because the victim didn’t know the rules of baseball he deserved an aluminum Louisville Slugger to the skull? How well do you have to know baseball to be safe? What if you don’t know Bob Gibson’s lifetime ERA, or can’t recite the Infield Fly Rule? Comin’ at ya, terrorist!
“Happens all the time?” So they’ll be handing out free helmets and mouth guards to folks at Nationals games?
I would’ve thought Chip ol’ boy had a tighter grip.
Nope. Still a douche.
I was at the game as well and was sitting several rows behind and to the side of where the man was hit. I don’t remember exactly when the incident occurred, but I do remember it was in the middle of the game. I think the outrage, at least from the section where I was sitting, was that Pickering could so quickly go back to playing the game after he may have just seriously injured someone. Whether or not the man looked like he might be ok, I think most people would stop what they were doing to ensure they were doing anything they could do. I don’t care if he’s a doctor or not. While Pickering may have seemed a little upset in the couple minutes following the incident, he had a responsibility to come over and do everything he can to help. He could have talked to the people sitting around the man. Find out who he was and where he was being taken to. It seemed utterly callous and inappropriate for him to get right back to the game when he realized the man wasn’t dead. Not only that, but the image of him laughing and enjoying himself made that point even clearer It was clear where his priorities were. I agree that I don’t think this is a scandal. It’s just actions that are in very poor taste for anyone, especially a public figure. The original report had some details about the innings wrong and was blocked from much of what happened after the man was hit, but I don’t read anything \ that was incorrect. Pickering stood there and did nothing after hurting someone accidentally. He continued to played the game and appeared to have a great time. His reputation as an asshole is reenforced. case closed.
And seriously, whoever argues that it is somehow the responsibility of the spectator to expect things to be flying through the air if they attend a baseball game clearly did not understand the situation. Pickering was in the On Deck Circle, meaning that the spectator would be focusing on the the pitcher and the batter. That point would be valid if the person batting lost control of his bat or hit a ball into the stands. However, the spectator was watching the game, and should not be responsible for a flying bat coming from an individual who isn’t technically in the game at that point. In 20 years. of playing competitive baseball, I have never seen a person lose control of the bat (especially a metal bat which has a rubber grip) while on deck. Whether or not the spectator understood the game or not, it was not his responsibility to protect himself from flying bats from anywhere but the batter.
Dke197: Yeah really, that’s like telling a victim of sexual assault that they should have gotten out of the way of that flying penis.
Dke197: I agree with your post completely, but there isn’t enough snark. Next time, more snark, okay?
This is just another case where a trunk monkey would have come in handy.
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Who’s Chip Pickering? He looks like a Morlock.
vicuna: Close enough, he’s from Mississippi.
nietzscheprojectile: BIG SALE ON TRUCK MONKEYZ!!!11!!!!1!!
Well sure it was an accident!…but I bet he’ll think twice before he bad mouths the president again!
anabellum: Are you kidding? With the value of the dollar what it is, the only people who can enjoy outings to amusements in this country are foreigns, swaggering around with pocketsful of lire and Deutschmarks and whatnot. I went to a Yankee’s game a month ago, and was surrounded by three Canadians and a Brit. The Canadians were explaining things to the Brit, who had never seen this version of rounders before, and I would occasionally chime in to clear up bad information (in Canadian baseball, you only get three downs, and receivers and backs are allowed to be in motion toward the line of scrimmage).
Dke197: he had a responsibility to come over and do everything he can to help
Or at least, maybe sign the guy’s cast.
the spectator … should not be responsible for a flying bat
You get too close to soulless vampires, and you have to expect trouble from their little pets.
Oh! Baseball bats.
Lazy Media: This is why I’m going to Albania on vacation this year. The Lek is less than the dollar. Yay. Raki for everyone!!!
It’s not fair, Chip Pecker’s got 3-5-7 full-metal jacket hair. You can hit that bitch with a tire iron .
baseball? no one died? no one got laid?
can we move on to whore diamonds please.
kthx
Is the witness sure that it wasn’t a 4′ hardening penis, ricocheting to the stands? Because those things can be REALLY hard to dodge at times.
(and BOY am I apologetic to the poor, concussed bleacher bum when it happens)
When you’re in the slot, there’s a bloody blanket you cunt face.
Boink!
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