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Rick Dempsey Would Like To "Domestically Violate" You

Posted May 09, 2007 12:50PM By Tom Fornelli (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Orioles, AL East, MLB Gossip, MLB Media Watch, Baltimore

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Maybe the Orioles should consider broadcasting their games on television sans the broadcast booth because it seems that all their current broadcasters do is cause trouble.

First there was the incident in which play-by-play man Gary Thorne said that Doug Mirabelli told him Curt Schilling's bloody sock was just red paint--and it's not like Curt Schilling would ever say anything untrue--and now Rick Dempsey is in trouble for cracking wise about domestic violence during the Orioles loss to the Indians on Tuesday.

Dempsey isn't normally in the booth, but I guess Jim Palmer had a couple of underwear ads to shoot so he filled in on Tuesday. In the third inning, Thorne and Dempsey were joined by Jay Gibbon's wife Laura Giuliani.

Laura was in the booth to promote some charity work she's doing to help fight domestic violence. Well, with Gibbons struggling through a season long slump, Dempsey thought he'd come up with a good way to get him out of it.

His wife should choke him.

"Laura, will this kind of help Jay in the domestic violence area? If he doesn't start getting a few more hits, you might grab him around the neck and rough him up a little bit," Dempsey said, according to The Baltimore Sun. "[Is] this money going to go to help him a little bit with maybe some of the hospital bills or something like that?"

To that, Giuliani replied, "I don't know, Rick. I don't think I'm encouraging that. I'm definitely not ..."

"Not going there?" Dempsey interjected.

"Not going there," Giuliani replied.

"All right, I'll domestically violate him if he doesn't start getting some more hits," Dempsey said, according to The Sun.

Video of the exchange can be seen at Can't Stop The Bleeding.

Here's hoping that Dempsey's idea of domestically violating someone is not along the same lines as that of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Though it's clear that Dempsey was only joking around, he picked a pretty stupid time and method to doing so, and he issued an apology afterward.

"I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone with my comments," Dempsey said, according to The Sun. "I was trying to bring some levity to the fact that Jay hasn't been hitting as well as he wanted to. ... It is a serious issue, and I didn't mean to make a joke about that at all."

Actually Rick, making a joke about it was exactly what you were trying to do. Still, I don't think this is that big of a deal, and neither do Dempsey's bosses at MASN who are also sorry for the remarks and have no plans to punish Dempsey.

Previously at the Fanhouse:
Gary Thorne Claims Schilling's "Bloody Sock" Was a Hoax

Tags: Curt+Schilling, CurtSchilling, Domestic+Violence, DomesticViolence, Doug+Mirabelli, DougMirabelli, Gary+Thorne, GaryThorne, Jay+Gibbons, JayGibbons, Jim+Palmer, JimPalmer, MASN, Rick+Dempsey, RickDempsey

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