Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

[Centerfield]

Fool anyone?



Revisiting arguably the best April Fool's prank ever:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2000/07/24/finch_flash/

Edited April 1, 2010 by Guest

[TransMonk]

I hat this day.

[metirish]

Fucking bollox had me for a second.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Totally swallowed the hook.

As if Pelfrey would need to grow.

[Centerfield]

I logged on today thinking Google had really changed their name to "Topeka".

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fooled.

But-- and I mean no offense, CF-- that's no great achievement. After the pop-up, the missed third-base bag, the Wagner deal, the Beltran secret surgery, the Reyes thyroid, and the array of storm clouds big and small that have shadowed this team's fortunes, hell, I steel myself when I see portentious-looking Mets graffiti.

Edited April 1, 2010 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Good one, CF. I needed a laugh after learning about the latest Mets' marketing catastrophe in the making, reluctantly documented here.

[ashie62]

Didn't fool me. But part of me was hoping it was true and some other arm would step up for 50 games.

[soupcan]

Really? Do you guys not check your calendar at some point during the day?

I give you an 'A' for effort CF, but I was not taken in.

[dgwphotography]

Nah - not taken in at all... Now if that was a more believable name, like Reyes after the thyroid problem, you probably would have gotten me.

April first always makes me remember, fondly, the exploits of Sidd Finch. I just loved how George Plimpton hid "Happy April Fools Day" in the first letter of each word of the opening paragraph...

I also remember, not as fondly, that same date in 1987, when Doc was suspended the first time. I remember getting a call from one of my coworkers, and not believing him because I thought it was a bad April fools joke. Then I got the bad news from Sports phone...

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

G-Fafif wrote: Good one, CF. I needed a laugh after learning about the latest Mets' marketing catastrophe in the making, reluctantly documented here.

No Luis Tomatillo?

Nicely turned, sirrah. And thankfully, not nearly as ultimately depressing as last year's, which left one-- or me, at least-- with that waking-up-from-a-happy-dream-about-an-old-flame-only-to-find-it's-just-a-dream feeling.

[MFS62]

I knew it must be a joke.
After all, isn't HGH supposed to improve performance?

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Unfortunately, I clicked before I even read the entire name of the topic, so I read "April Fool" before I read "suspended."

[ashie62]

MFS62 wrote: I knew it must be a joke. After all, isn't HGH supposed to improve performance? Later

Bada Bing*

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Good one, CF. I needed a laugh after learning about the latest Mets' marketing catastrophe in the making, reluctantly documented here. No Luis Tomatillo? Nicely turned, sirrah. And thankfully, not nearly as ultimately depressing as last year's, which left one-- or me, at least-- with that waking-up-from-a-happy-dream-about-an-old-flame-only-to-find-it's-just-a-dream feeling.

They haven't given up on that series, BTW. The 2009 bobblehead will be an unidentified ligament.