How Some Non-All-Stars Spent Their Break

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July 17, 2013

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Yasiel Puig: Defecting from the United States back to Cuba, where at least he might make an All-Star Team.

Shin-Soo Choo: Fulfilling his South Korean military service.

Jacoby Ellsbury: Getting injured.

Josh Donaldson: Trying to poison Jim Leyland by figuring out a way to get him addicted to little white sticks filled with dangerous substances that will kill him.





 

Jeremy Blachman is the author of Anonymous Lawyer, a satirical novel that should make people who didn't go to law school feel good about their life choices. Read more at McSweeney's or elsewhere. He likes e-mail.

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rustyspatula
10 years ago

Wait, so it was Josh Donaldson who wrote that letter to the NYT Magazine’s Ethicist column?

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Jeremy Blachman
10 years ago
Reply to  rustyspatula

Ha, indeed it must have been. I read that column, but forgot all about it when writing this.

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rustyspatula
10 years ago
Reply to  Jeremy Blachman

ICYMI for other readers: even though Leyland probably doesn’t need to be coerced into lighting said sticks on fire, Donaldson’s action is unethical.

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