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08-31-2004 02:30 PM |
Gonna Play Hard Every Day, and The Good Lord Willin', Everything Will Work Out Fine.
The Game giveth, and The Game taketh away.
In the same season where baseball game footage proved an accused criminal to be innocent of the charged crime (at least for that day), it appears that Our National Pastime can be a cruel mistress as well.
Anyone who has watched Ferris Beuller knows that when you're on the lam, you might be able to evade exposure by catching a home run ball in the stands, but granting the post-game interview with the local TV station is probably a poor idea. - While the man who caught the ball, Charles Baker, a 27-year-old Oxford man, was being interviewed on television Monday, police in Oxford recognized him as someone wanted by Miami University police.
"We had some people call our communications center," said Sgt. Stephen VanWinkle of the university police.
The fugitive from justice may have been thinking ahead, but apparently forgot that the interview would be carried in the box-with-the-funny-pictures, not radio. - "I asked him his name and he said, 'Dave,'" said Fox Sports Net's Chris Welsh, who interviewed Baker. "I said, 'Dave What?' He said, 'Smith.'"
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