Why Joba Needed the Beer Goggles

Yankees phenom Joba Chamberlain got arrested for DUI in Lincoln, Nebraska with a blood alcohol level of .134.
Turns out he may have been drinking himself into a stupor in order to help him enjoy some of Lincoln's finest hos. He was on his way home from the "Night Before Lounge" after already having down a couple of Grey Goose drinks at another bar.
But it may have been a Red Sox fan that really sent Joba over the edge.
The NY Post reports that another fellow degenerate at the strip club said "Too bad you didn't play for the Red Sox. Otherwise, you wouldn't be sitting here in a strip club in Nebraska."
That set Joba off, literally, as he set off in his 2006 BMW 750i, despite pleas from his friends that he was not ok to drive.

Joba in the Box

Papa Poop and I were doing our monthly ritual of opening some baseball cards when we struck gold in a box of 2007 Bowman Chrome.
He got very excited when he pulled a Joba Chamberlain rookie autograph. The card came out late in the season right when Joba was hot, creating a flurry of activity for it, because at the time no other company had a Joba card.



But I did even better, pulling a red refractor Chris Carter. Bowman Chrome has several different versions of its cards. There is the regular card, a refractor (numbered to 500), an Xfractor (225), blue refractor (150), gold refractor (50), orange refractor (25), red refractor (5) and superfractor (1). So they only made 5 versions of the card I got. Red refractors are so rare Beckett doesn't even list a price on them. And who the hell is Chris Carter? At the time I didn't know but he is a slugging first baseman in the White Sox system who is considered a top prospect. Carter's regular card is worth $3, meaning his red refractor is worth at least 100 times that.



After discussion with Master Bates and Papa Poop we decided to put both of the cards for sale on eBay.

What's Bugging the Yankees?

Game 2 of the Yankees Indians series will go down as one of the most memorable playoff games ever thanks to a swarm of bugs that descended on the field during the 8th inning.
Joba Chamberlain may have let the bugs bug him as he blew the lead and the Yankees eventually lost the game.
But the big loser was the manufacturer of Off bug spray. That stuff does not work. They emptied the entire can on Joba and 15 seconds later the bugs were camped out on his neck again.

Jeter Wanted to Be Dorothy

The Yankees got creative with their rookie hazing this year, forcing their rookies to dress up as characters from the Wizard of Oz.

Joba Chamberlain is dressed as the Lion, Ian Kennedy as Dorothy, Shelley Duncan as the Scarecrow and Phil Hughes as the Tin Man.


Joba Chamberlain's wheelchair bound father, Harlan, must have been crying again after seeing his son like this.


Chase Wright, the good witch.


Ian Kennedy definitely got the worst of this. I wonder which veteran he pissed off. But his Dorothy costume is very authentic right down to his Toto and his ruby red slippers and shopping bag from the Apple store.