Twins CF Torii Hunter might find out the hard way what you can and can’t do in baseball.
See, Mr Hunter sent a “Thank You” to the Kansas City Royals the other day, in appreciation for when the Royals swept the Twins’ AL Central rival Detroit Tigers in a three-game set back in September 2006. The sweep helped the Twins win the AL Central.
Attached to that Thank You note were four bottles of Dom Perignon Champagne. He made the promise back in September. That seems pretty nice of Torii, now doesn’t it?
However, that runs afoul of a Baseball Rule, Rule 21-b to be exact
The rule states, “Any player or person connected with a Club who shall offer or give any gift or reward to a player or person connected with another Club for services rendered … in defeating or attempting to defeat a competing Club … shall be declared ineligible for not less than three years.”
THREE YEARS? That could be some expensive bubbly. The Royals did not open the Champagne and have agreed to return the four bottles to Minnesota. The Twins and Hunter all said they didn’t know about the rule.
I seriously doubt that the MLB will suspend Hunter for his act of generosity towards the Royals. But I wouldn’t be surprised in he gets a fine for it. Because the MLB doesn’t want to stop one of its premiere centerfielders from playing.
The story was Broken by the Cheaters Guide to Baseball.
I wonder if the NFL has this kind of rule?
Didn’t the Packers go all out a couple years back when the lowly Arizona Cardinals upset the Minnesota Vikings on the last weekend of the 2003 NFL Regular Season – allowing the Packers to go to the playoffs? IIRC – they gave Nate Poole the key to the city of Green Bay.
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