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Griffey JR doesnt WELCH on bets!!!

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CBSSports.com wire reports



CINCINNATI -- Ken Griffey Jr. owed Cincinnati Reds teammate Josh Fogg $1,500, and paying by check just wouldn't do.

So when Fogg arrived in the Reds clubhouse Wednesday, he found his locker filled with 150,000 pennies -- 60 boxes, each weighing 16 pounds and containing $25 worth of pennies.

"Basically, it's like having 60 bowling balls in your locker, only with no holes to pick them up with," Griffey said.

Neither player would say why Griffey owed Fogg the money. Griffey had threatened to pay it off in pennies, but Fogg didn't believe him.

"I'm going to take them out to the bullpen and count them," Fogg said. "I've got a lot of time on my hands out there."

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  • KarbKarb Posts: 557 ✭✭✭
    LOL!! I have always wanted to do that. Just not $1500 image
    Robert

    Hoarding silver and collecting history
  • I have always wanted to buy a new car and pay with pennies. The look on the dealers face would be priceless as the Brinks truck backed up to unload it.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Not sure if you can pay that amount with cents legally.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    I bet he could sell all that copper for more than $1,500!
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Only if the cents are those produced before 1982. If they are new coins then the amount of copper
    is minimal.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,868 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not sure if you can pay that amount with cents legally.

    Steve >>



    You can legally refuse to accept pennies as payment.
  • PROMETHIUS88PROMETHIUS88 Posts: 2,885 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ban both of them forever!!!!! Betting on baseball is ILLEGAL!! Just ask Pete Rose!

    What's wrong with the player's in Cincy?? Can't they learn from the past?
    Promethius881969@yahoo.com
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