“Cardinals’ La Russa arrested after he’s found asleep at the wheel”:
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was arrested Thursday for suspicion of drunken driving after police said they found him asleep inside his running sport utility vehicle at a stop light.
The 62-year-old La Russa gave two breath samples and was determined to have a blood alcohol content of 0.093%, Jupiter police said in a statement. Florida’s legal driving limit is 0.08%.
Undercover officers first saw La Russa’s SUV partly in an intersection around midnight and not moving despite several green lights, police said. Officers knocked on the vehicle’s window and La Russa did not initially respond.
The SUV was in drive and running, with La Russa’s foot on the brake, police said. When he eventually woke up, the officers asked him to get out of the car.
He was arrested and booked in the Palm Beach County jail on the misdemeanor about 4 a.m., according to police and jail records.
La Russa declined to comment while he was outside the clubhouse in uniform hours later at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, where he planned to manage a spring training game against the Florida Marlins.
From his home in Miami, former A’s star Jose Canseco, who is planning a book on baseball players and the culture of alcohol abuse, claimed to be unsurprised, noting that he used to “shoot Peppermint Schnapps into [his one-time manager] Tony’s ass” before games.
“[Pitching coach Dave] Duncan, too,” Canseco said. “Though because he was a Manhattan guy, he required a shot of rye and a second shot, of sweet vermouth. Then he’d ask me to stick a cherry in his squeakhole, but I let McGwire take care of that bit of unpleasantry.”
You’re a sick puppy, Jeff.
*laughs*
Guess you had to be there.
What is it with SUV’s?
BTW: Anybody seen the ‘dillo lately?
CLICK
I was with you until “squeakhole,” Jeff. I swear.
At least you didn’t call it a browneye, right?
Passed out at .093? Hell, that’s just getting warmed up! Billy Martin would drink that punk under the table. For that matter, Britney Spears would drink him under the table.
Robert, better squeakhole than chocolate starfish.
REHAB!!!!!!
And the days they get longer and longer
And the nighttime is a time of little use
For I just get ugly and older
I get juiced on Mateus and just hang looseTony’s new theme song
You’d get drunk enough to fall asleep at a stoplight if half your World Series winning pitching staff defected too.
Will you forgive me if I skip Mr. Canseco’s book about fruit and LaRussa’s unwinking brown eye?
Damn Patriot Act!
Hey, now…
Don’t be baggin’ on my Cardinals!!
BornRed isn’t entirely a political statement for me, y’know…
TW: Heh. Or I might have to get medical36 on yer ass!