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The Smoking Gun kicks off the start of the baseball season with this video from Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain's DUI arrest in his home state of Nebraska last fall. Pulled over for speeding, Chamberlain tells a cop, "I came from Florida, and obviously I play for the Yankees." The Nebraska State Trooper asked Chamberlain, whose breath allegedly smelled of alcohol (there was an open container of Crown Royal in the passenger seat), about New York, to which Joba replied, "opening a door and saying please and thank you" doesn't happen in the Big Apple and drivers tend to cut you off, "They might hit you. It's a joke." And he also revealed he once met Yogi Berra in the locker room, "I go, 'Yogi, what the fuck are you doing here?" with Berra replying, "You know what? It's too cold for my old ass to be here." After the arrest, Chamberlain apologized to fans, "I intend to properly resolve this situation, and do not intend to be in such a situation again. My goal is to focus on pitching for the Yankees in the 2009 season."
DUI Joba On Rude New Yorkers, WTF Yogi
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*GASP* New Yorkers are rude?!
Joba's DUI and Donte Stallworth killing someone will be off the front pages in another few days. ARod talking steroids will still be fodder for another 20 months.
Gotta love this country.
Stallworth is going to jail for a very long time and baseball fans (especially Red Sox and Mets fans) will not let Joba off the hook.
Maybe one day I can be as classy as Joba Chamberlain, who was drinking a bottle of Crown Royal while driving.
I guess in Nebraska the folks are too polite to yell or scream when they are run over by a drunk driver.
To think of all the action he's been missing down the Jersey shore...
someone should tell Joba that revolving doors don't have to be held open
I appreciate that he planned well and was already wearing prison stripes - he may be wasted but he's still conscientious.
"My goal is to focus on pitching for the Yankees in the 2009 season."
Well, I guess one of their pitchers should... ZING!
The lack of manners or the lack of use of manners is one of the few things that really disappoint me about NY. I notice it every time we travel out of the city, it really is a shame.