MLB Investigating Andre Ethier of the Dodgers for Conduct at Batting Practice?
A reader passed along these photos of LA Dodgers’ outfielder Andre Ethier flicking off fans and photographers Monday at Chavez Ravine during batting practice prior to a game against Milwaukee. According to a source, Ethier’s behavior – he dropped F-bombs at photographers while children were nearby – was totally unprovoked.
A source claims the incident was witnessed by enough people that somebody must have complained – Ethier was practically begging photographers to take photos of him flicking off the fans – because Major League Baseball is supposedly looking into the matter. A source says Dodgers’ GM Ned Colletti and manager Don Mattingly were on the field at the time of the incident but isn’t sure if they witnessed the outburst.
Pat Courtney of MLB PR didn’t return messages at his office or on his cell phone.
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May 19th, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Never heard it called this. I’ve always been more of a flipping off kinda guy.
Is this like pop/soda?
/Team Pop
May 19th, 2011 at 5:20 PM
FLIPPING the bird.
/no simulated bat sodomy
//not interested
///no homo
May 19th, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Team flip and Team soda
May 19th, 2011 at 5:22 PM
Also Team Flip and Team Soda.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:23 PM
is flip a southern thing? we used flicking growing up
May 19th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Any story that has “totally unprovoked” in it, has to be good
May 19th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
You flip a bitch, you flick a bic, and you give someone the finger.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Don’t think so. Born in Chicago-hence the pop-and live in KC. Don’t get me wrong, we have our share of hillbillies here, but I wouldn’t consider it the south.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
no flip is a normal person thing.
/team soda
May 19th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
I used flip in WI growing up. Flicking off sounds like a some sort of foreplay. Isn’t flicking the bean some sort of innuendo?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:25 PM
It’s flipping off in Missouri. Does anyone have the map?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Team flipped.
Team Coke.
Team South.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Yea, I’ve never heard “flick”.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:25 PM
While I’ve heard “flick”, “flip” was the preferred nomenclature in New England.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
/does the middle finger with the cranking motion to the rest of the commenters
//longest slash comment EVAR!
May 19th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
What’s the punishment look like for flipping people off in batting practice? $5,000 fine? If that? Got to be lightweight, right?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Team Flick and Team Pop.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
why do somepeople stick their thumbs out when flipping people off?
never understood this.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Anyone here catch the South Park episode last night? Brilliant.
/oh, and Andre Ethier sounds like an ass.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
If ya have to ask then I cannot help you…
May 19th, 2011 at 5:29 PM
I’ve always thought the front facing middle finger was way more disrespectful than the traditional finger
May 19th, 2011 at 5:29 PM
I never understood the people that bent the rest of their fingers at the mid-knuckle.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:29 PM
Pop needs to jump headfirst into a volcano.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Flicking is what you do to boogers
May 19th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Me either. Got to give them the Tall Man. All finger.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
If ya have to ask then I cannot help you…
Just covering my bases.
/where does that expression come from?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Okay, here’s one that I had no idea there were differences around the country. What do you call it when something is diagonally positioned from something else?
/team catty corner
May 19th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
I had a bad experience giving someone the finger before. Driving down the highway and got cut off. Gave him the bird. A lunchbox was jettisoned from the vehicle and landed on my hood. Scared the shit out of me.
Sadly, there were no tasty vittles in the lunchbox.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
team kitty corner
May 19th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
/team catty corner
No, it’s kiddy/kitty corner.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
I’ll give an example of how I’d say it: Hey, you see that couch? It’s diagonally positioned from something else.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
/team kitty corner
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
That’s just a little irrational.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Heard it, understand it, don’t use it.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
/team catty corner
Kitty corner.
/team pop
//team flippin’ bird
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
well that just doesn’t make any sense at all!
/team caddy corner
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
I called it kiddie corner for the longest time. Then I was corrected. I’ve called it catty for a few years now.
You’re in Missouri. I bet all of your cars are referred to as vehicles.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
What kind of lunch box? And did it have a thermos in it too?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Oh Chief, for such a young fella you can be awfully serious at times.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Team This.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Also, I was referring to “covering my bases” when asking where that expression comes from. NOT flicking the bean. Just to be clear.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
And it’s kitty corner.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
same here. I also drank from a bubbler.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:34 PM
No, it’s kiddy/kitty corner.
well, my version is closer to the origin of the term.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:34 PM
They refer to car accidents as “car wrecks” or wrecks down here. I’ll never get used to that.
/NASCAR’d
May 19th, 2011 at 5:34 PM
Standard Igloo. No thermos.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
I think it’s more of you taking me really seriously. You always have.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
no no no
/team water fountain or drinking fountain
May 19th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Now that’s just fucking weird. Every time I hear that I think you’re drinking bong water.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
i had someone spit on my car, which was just fucking repugnant.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:36 PM
I’ll give an example of how I’d say it: Hey, you see that couch? It’s diagonally positioned from something else.
And I’ll give a real life example of how I would use it. Derek Jeter hits only ground balls and can no longer advance past that base that is diagonally positioned from third base.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
A million times this
May 19th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
The one and only time I flipped the bird at someone they followed me into the parking lot of the store I was going to. Watched me go in the store. I took my sweet ass time hoping they’d leave by the time I got out. Nope, they were still there. Scared the shit out of me. I made sure to time the lights right when I was leaving so they’d get caught at a red. Still look in my rearview mirror every now and then. He was in an orange Dodge Charger.
/never flipping anyone off again
May 19th, 2011 at 5:38 PM
im more of an elaborate, derogatory hand gestures man moreso than giving the finger. i particularly like my elbow grasping, “anal fisting” motion that just horrifies the rich wife, lexus SUV driving bitch who sits for 2 seconds texting when the light turns green.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Now that’s just fucking weird. Every time I hear that I think you’re drinking bong water.
/team bubbler
/team tyme machine
May 19th, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Or this…
May 19th, 2011 at 5:38 PM
bong water doesn’t taste all that bad…it’s just the smell that gets ya.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:38 PM
The Hernia-Lisk rivalry is starting to get good. I anticipate an Inferno Match at Summerslam.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:39 PM
im more of an elaborate, derogatory hand gestures man moreso than giving the finger.
I like to give the “Viggo Mortenson from Eastern Promises” gesture.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:40 PM
You’re right. It’s the person that drinks out of the can you’re spitting your dip into that gets the shaft.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Damn it, pentagon. I meant pentagon
May 19th, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Kitty Corner
You flick a booger. You flip the bird.
What’s with all the agro to the fans ? Mcdowell, Either, Cubs (they just suck)
May 19th, 2011 at 5:41 PM
oh my god, now that’s the worst. not only does it taste like a turd smells but the texture is just awful.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:42 PM
I’ve done it twice.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Spencer, describe the “anal fisting” motion….
May 19th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
oh my god, now that’s the worst. not only does it taste like a turd smells but the texture is just awful.
Nothing worse that waking up on a bus, reaching for your water and taking a big swig of someone’s spitter.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
oh my god, now that’s the worst. not only does it taste like a turd smells but the texture is just awful.
One of the worst experiences of my life was taking a sip out of the wrong coke can. Right up there with the young lass who seemed to want me to know how sharp her teeth were.
/shudders
//never again, never again.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Right up there with the young lass who seemed to want me to know how sharp her teeth were.
Vampires?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:46 PM
not only does it taste like a turd smells
This is what baffles me about spitters… YOU HAVE THIS IN YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, how do you not taste how vile it is?!!
May 19th, 2011 at 5:46 PM
I think speak for all of southern California when I say:
team flip/team soda/team kitty corner
May 19th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Badger, your history lesson for today. Click here for origin of flicking the bean.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
What’s the deal with people putting a “r” in Washington? Saying Warshington.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
What about waking up in a hotel room with a brown paper bag with a turd in it on your radiator?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Badger, your history lesson for today
Oh, I know what it means… I was just trying to be cute. Came off looking like a dumb ass. Oh well. It happens.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
This is probably the only time I can agree with something related to SoCal
/Team NorCal
May 19th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
first off, a guideline…slow is smooth and smooth is fast. you want to be clear with your gestures so each step seemlessly rolls into the next.
you gotta be next to her car, start by making a ring with your thumb and index finger, the international sign of the butthole. then make a simulated anal tract with your right hand and violently uppercut your left fist thru the hitting area. but the key is the ring at the beginning. gotta make sure you let em know it’s not gonna be comfy.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:49 PM
What’s the deal with people putting a “r” in Washington? Saying Warshington
I think that’s an Ohio thing. My grandma’s from there and she does this. Also calls a couch a “davenport.” Not sure if the latter is an Ohio thing or an old person thing.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:50 PM
i don’t dip for the taste or the buzz…it’s the pain of the pinch that i go for.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:50 PM
you gotta be next to her car, start by making a ring with your thumb and index finger, the international sign of the butthole. then make a simulated anal tract with your right hand and violently uppercut your left fist thru the hitting area. but the key is the ring at the beginning. gotta make sure you let em know it’s not gonna be comfy.
I was always a fan of the wanking motion/smirk while looking at the driver — but I may steal this one
May 19th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
It’s a Polish thing. My mom does it all the time. Warshington. Warsh the clothes. Wiiiiinsday (instead of Wednesday) etc. etc.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Also calls a couch a “davenport.” Not sure if the latter is an Ohio thing or an old person thing
Sounds like an alien thing.
i keed
May 19th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
that’s no ohio thing, lawya.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Thank god I have an office door because I’d be getting weird looks right now after the laugh I just let out reading this
May 19th, 2011 at 5:52 PM
Love the anal fist motion. I am going to greet a-hole drivers from now on using this. Thanks!
May 19th, 2011 at 5:52 PM
“Davenport is the name of a series of sofas manufactured by the now-defunct A. H. Davenport Company. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name “Davenport” has become a genericized trademark.”
/the more you know…
May 19th, 2011 at 5:54 PM
Team hot dog over team weiner.
/Still giggles at adults who say weiner.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:54 PM
i actually like the upstate new york way to say hot dog…red hot or white hots for brats.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:55 PM
also…
steamed hams? skinner, is that the aurora borealis in your kitchen?
May 19th, 2011 at 5:55 PM
My grandma called a refrigerator a Frigidare till the day she died.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:56 PM
My parents called all of our pacifiers “nookies” when we were kids. I still get a chuckle out of that.
May 19th, 2011 at 6:00 PM
My grandma called a couch a “davenport”, greatest generation my ass
May 19th, 2011 at 6:01 PM
lol.
May 19th, 2011 at 6:03 PM
We’ll be right back. No flipping.
/Hey now
May 19th, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Shoot the bird/flip off
Coke
Caddy Corner
And to express my distaste for a fellow driver? I have been known to remove the copenhagen from my mouth and fling it on a windshield….boy they hate that one.
May 19th, 2011 at 8:48 PM
Andre is just working on his sign language.
May 21st, 2011 at 12:09 AM
I love how a debate about the validity of Ethier giving someone the finger has turned into a discussion about regional vocabulary.
One thing I’ve discovered is that when you give someone the peace sign with the back of your hand towards them/the camera it’s the equivilent of giving them the finger in England.
Team Kitty Corner/Soda
btw I recently had a class with a kid from Iowa who would have dip in his mouth and spit into a gatorade bottle throughout class, our teacher used to say, “That is repugnant! Stop doing that.” It stinks too.