YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE!

     Originally, I was going to write about how Target Field in Minnesota unveiled the first ever self-serve beer stand at their stadium, but this story, which I saw yesterday, pissed me off so much, that I need to vent about it. Then again, maybe I shouldn't poke fun at this chump since he seems to be suing people who make fun of him sleeping at a baseball game! Don't get me wrong. I know that baseball isn't the most exciting sport to watch at times like football and hockey are with it's non-stop action. But to fall asleep at a Yankees/Red Sox game? You deserved to be mocked and ridiculed on national TV. You literally fell asleep during baseball's biggest rivalry. Who does that? Why go to the game? Stay home and let someone who will enjoy the game have your seat!

     Anyway, Sleepy Dwarf, Andrew Rector has filed a $10 million dollar defamation suit against the New York Yankees, ESPN, it's play-by-play announcer Dan Shulman and the colorful John Kruk, who he claims unleashed an "avalanche of disparaging words" over his nationally televised nap. Wait a minute! How is it everyone else's fault that you fell asleep on national TV? If it's one thing that I hate more than anything, it's when people make their problems, your problem without taking any blame themselves. That's Andrew Rector. You fell asleep, pal! The Yankees, ESPN, Dan Shulman or John Kruk didn't make you fall asleep in front of 50,000 people. You fell asleep and now you're embarrassed about it. Too bad! 

     Rector admitted in the Bronx Supreme Court suit that he "briefly slept" during the April 13 night game between the Yankees and Red Sox, but Rector's typo-ridden suit says that Shulman and Kruk's "false statements" include suggestion Rector is "not worthy" to be a Yankee fan and "is a fatty cow that needs two seats at all time and represent the symbol of failure." The statement also said that Rector was made out to be "a confused individual that neither understands nor knows anything about history and the meaning of rivalry between Red Sox and New York Yankees." Um, yeah. I watched the video footage and didn't hear any of that. They made fun of the fact that he fell asleep in the fourth inning and how his friend was paying more attention to the game than him. No one called him fat or a symbol of failure. Regardless, the used-car dealer claims to have suffered "substantial injury" to his "character and reputation" as well as "mental anguish loss of future income and loss of earning capacity." His filing on July 3 also names Major League Baseball as a defendant. 

     Now, it's my turn to say something to Andrew Rector...You're an asshole! You fell asleep at a Yankees/Red Sox game and your making it everyone else's problem. You're wasting the court's time, the Yankees time, and ESPN's time. They didn't defame your character. You defamed your character because you fell asleep at a ballgame. Last I checked, that it public domain. You call asleep there, then you deserve to be mocked. Dan Shulman and John Kruk didn't say anything about you that the person next to you or behind you wasn't saying. Sorry you're feelings were hurt, but I fail to believe that it cost you any loss of future income because you were probably a hack used-car salesman anyway. I hope that the court is smart enough to see through this and that you're just looking for a quick pay day! Like I said, you're just an asshole looking to make your problems everyone else's! At the end of the day, you just have to remember, you snooze, you lose!

Take a look at the ESPN footage and let me know what you think: 

MALE MODEL MASTURBATES FOR ABERCROMBIE & FITCH

Sorry for the short week last week, folks! I'll let you know in advance now that this week will be a short one, as well, because I will be out of the country again, but I will try to do a blog like I did in Argentina if I can somehow find a hotspot to write from. Anyway, I was reading a couple of stories over the weekend that really disturbed me. One of them I will save until tomorrow. This one has to be told because I always hated this company since I was younger, and I hope that this case puts them away......Or maybe not!

Benjamine Bowers

 So, it turns out that a former Abercrombie and Fitch employee is filing a $1 million dollar lawsuit against his former company and a modeling agency, which he claims ordered him to strip naked and masturbate during a photo shoot so he could appear more 'relaxed'. Yeah, right! Ordered? What would've happened if he didn't do it? He wouldn't have gotten the modeling job? Unless, they had a gun to my head, I wouldn't strip down to nothing and masturbate in front of anyone....Well, unless the casting director was a super-hot female! Not the case here!

According to the lawsuit, Benjamine Bowers was referred to modeling agent Brian Hillburn by an Abercrombie casting director when he worked at one of the stores last year. Hillburn was said to have flown Bowers out to a photo shoot in Jackson, Mississippi, where he persuaded Bowers to masturbate nude in order to get a more 'relaxed' look for his modeling portfolio. The shoot allegedly took place on June 17, 2011, a little over a year ago. 

Brian Hillburn

According to Bowers, after he'd finished masturbating, Hillburn proceeded to expose himself and began comparing on the size of their penises. That would've been the final straw for me! Then again, I would never have let it go that far! Bowers says that he feels used and believes the photos were never intended to help his career, but instead were used to give Hillburn a cheap thrill! Ya think? Then again, how stupid do you have to be to actually strip down and masturbate just because someone asked you to? I don't think that Bowers has a case at all, unfortunately! The simple word of "No" would've gotten him out of the whole situation. The only reason for him to follow through with the request would be because there was a gun held to his head, which there didn't seem to be. There was no force involved and the act was done at his own risk.

Though, I really don't like Abercrombie and Fitch for its snobbery, I don't think that they're in the wrong here. This is not the first time; the retail chain had landed themselves in hot water over claims that it treated its employees unfairly. Back in March, Abercrombie and Fitch's Milan outpost was accused of punishing employees with push-ups and squats. In 2011, they came under fire for marketing and selling padded bikini tops to 7-year-old girls. That's ridiculous! And in 2005, they paid $40 million dollars in a class-action discrimination lawsuit to employees who accused the retail store of putting them in less-visible jobs because they didn't fit the Abercrombie "look".....And that's why I always hated them! Like I said, I don't think that this time Abercrombie is to blame! What do you think?