[bigboydan]

Maybe it's just me but shouldn't he be putting all his energy into playing baseball instead of pulling a practical joke like this?

Griffey Pays Off $1500 Debt In Pennies

Hal McCoy of the DAYTON DAILY NEWS has the funny financial report of Griffey giving pitcher Josh Fogg back the $1,500 he owed him in the most inconvenient way possible.

Fogg arrived at his locker Wednesday morning to find the bunches & bunches of boxes, with exactly 2,500 pennies in each container. Upon seeing his debt repaid this way, all Josh could say was, “That’s good, Griff, real funny. Kick me when I’m down.”

But Griffey apparently warned Fogg that he would fulfill is I.O.U. in such an irritating way:

“I’m a man of my word,” said Griffey. “When you owe a man $1,500, you pay him. You can’t do a whole lot with pennies, can you? Just think, each box weighs 16 pounds so Fogg has 60 bowling balls in his locker.”

That would explain why Junior’s always on the disabled list - he keeps hurting himself hauling around such heavy collections of coins. Time to find a Coinstar at the nearest Kroger, Ken.

In the meantime, what’s Fogg going to do with his plethora of pennies?

“I’m going to take them to bullpen and count them because I have a lot time on my hands.”

There’s a lesson to learn in all this - never lend Ken Griffey Jr. any money, unless you own a penny arcade. But with an $8.2 million salary, why does he need a loan in the first place?

[SBR Lou]

Why does he need a loan? Must've been out at a strip club or something and pissed through all the cash he had on him and the pitcher covered something for him..?

[Charlotte]

thats not nearly as bad as taking a shot to the eyes then getting slapped with 200 rolls of canadian dimes. YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT NICKY!