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Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

Centerfield Apr 01 2010 07:40 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 01 2010 07:44 AM

Fool anyone? Revisiting arguably the best April Fool's prank ever: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/featur ... nch_flash/

TransMonk Apr 01 2010 07:43 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

I hat this day.

metirish Apr 01 2010 07:48 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

Fucking bollox had me for a second.

Edgy DC Apr 01 2010 07:54 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

Totally swallowed the hook. As if Pelfrey would need to grow.

Centerfield Apr 01 2010 07:59 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 08:10 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 01 2010 08:25 AM

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.

G-Fafif Apr 01 2010 08:21 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

Ashie62 Apr 01 2010 08:44 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

soupcan Apr 01 2010 09:13 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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 Apr 01 2010 09:21 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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... Get all the sports news instantly. Dial 976-1313....

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 01 2010 09:23 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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 Apr 01 2010 09:42 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

Benjamin Grimm Apr 01 2010 09:45 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

Ashie62 Apr 01 2010 09:52 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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

G-Fafif Apr 01 2010 11:05 AM Re: Pelfrey Busted for HGH - Suspended 50 Games

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.