Home Run Derby

The MLB Home Run Derby is right around the corner (literally – it’s on Monday).

Some of MLB’s top sluggers will be hitting lots of Home Runs in the Derby … but we thought it would be fun to take a peek at who these guys will be hitting “Home Runs” with AFTER the Derby.  Namely, their Wives and Girlfriends (WAGs).

Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge.

Without further delay … the WAGs of the 2009 Home Run Derby …

 NATIONAL LEAGUE HOME RUN DERBY WAGs

Deidre (Dee Dee) Pujols
wife of St. Louis Cardinals 1B, Albert Pujols

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Sometimes I scare myself. 

Within hours of my posting something about a potential playoff jinx of the Dodgers because of their unprecedented season-opening home win streak … MANNY RAMIREZ will be suspended for 50 GAMES by Major League Baseball as a result of testing positive for a performance enhancing drug. 

Whoa.  Manny’s absence will wreak absolute havoc in our little Home Run Derby contest … where 89 of 194 people took Ramirez in Group A3.  Say goodbye to the First Half Championship, gentlemen.

But it gets better … Manny wasn’t busted for steroids or HGH.  He was apparently busted for the kind of performance enhancing drug you use in the bedroom.   Let’s go to the anonymous source close to Ramirez …

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the substance is supposed to boost sex drive. It is not Viagra, but a substance that treats the cause rather providing a temporary boost in sexual performance, the source said.

Double Whoa.

I wonder how Manny’s wife, the lovely Juliana Ramirez, is going to feel about that little tidbit of information hitting the public airwaves? 

Because that news isn’t good for either of the Ramirez’ images.

So Roberto Alomar’s ex is suing the former ballplayer in a $15 million lawsuit, alleging that the 2010 Hall of Fame candidate has “full blown AIDS” and knowingly had unprotected sex with her.

Predictably, Alomar has denied the allegations, calling them “full of lies” and that he is in “very good health.” 

He has not said anything about whether he has HiV.

If the allegations are not true, I wonder if Alomar’s current girlfriend (Maripily Rivera) is the reason behind his Ex’s accusations.

From the Toronto Star:

Recent photos of Alomar show him to be presumably healthy. Shortly after his alleged breakup with Dall last October, reports in the Puerto Rican media linked him romantically with a high-profile model there, Maripily Rivera, described by some as that island’s equivalent of Paris Hilton. The pair, according to sources in Puerto Rico, went to Miami earlier this week.

Jilted ex?  New hot girlfriend?  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Rivera seems to think so …

Maripily Rivera claimed that when Dall broke up with 12-time All-Star Alomar in October, she told him: “I will destroy you.”

Picture from Vocero. 

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Congrats go to Boston Red Sox First Baseman (and 2008 AL MVP candidate) Kevin Youkilis and Enza Sambataro, who were married earlier this week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

So now officially, there’s yet another hot addition to the Red Sox Wives.  

And she comes with a bit of Red Sox pedigree … in 2004, she dated actor (and die-hard Sawx fan) Ben Affleck … but the glare from the paparazzi was a bit too much for her. 

Sometime during that same year, she met Youkilis.  They started dating in May 2006.

Sambataro is more than just an accessory for Youkilis’ arm.  She’s also on the board of Youk’s charitable foundation, Kevin Youkilis’ Hits for Kids. 

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