Mark Grace’s Second DUI in 14 Months Leads to Leave of Absence From Announcing Booth

All, Baseball, Booze, Heavy (Alleged) Drinking, Media Gossip/Musings Tim Ryan August 25th. 2012, 7:00pm

Arizona Diamondbacks color commentator, Mark “slump buster” Grace has taken an indefinite leave of absence from his announcing duties.

While it was first reported that he would be taking some time away to seek “personal assistance,” the less vague version is that Grace was arrested for a DUI on Thursday night, the second time he has been picked up for driving drunk in a little over a year. To cap things off terribly, he was also driving with a suspended license and without the ignition interlock device that he’s required to have due to his booze adventure last summer. Bonus points for the superb mugshot though, Gracie.

This obviously goes without saying, but CALL A CAR SERVICE next time. They really aren’t that expensive and Grace has plenty of money to spring for one. Having said that, hopefully he can get things together for himself and return to the booth soon. It would be a shame if he were gone for good.

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful change of pace to see owners care for players in the same manner the Diamondbacks are looking out for Grace? Then again, he doesn’t play anymore, so his presence at the ballpark isn’t necessary. Remember, if you’re not contributing to wins, you definitely have time for rehab.

[via Awful Announcing]

Previously: Yankees Pitcher Michael Pineda Arrested On DUI Charges
Previously: Braves Reliever Cristhian Martinez Becomes Latest Pitcher Arrested for DUI
Previously: Bobby Jenks Got a DUI at 3:43 AM and Was Charged with Hit-and-Run, Too
Previously: Former MLB No. 1 Overall Pick Matt Bush Arrested After Hitting Motorcyclist in Hit and Run DUI
Previously: David Wright is in New York With Team Doctors and the Mets Bullpen Catcher Was Charged With DUI

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48 Responses to “Mark Grace’s Second DUI in 14 Months Leads to Leave of Absence From Announcing Booth”

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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:07 PM
Holy fuck. I had a DUI a long while back, and I learned my lesson. I now always either have a DD or pony up and take a cab. Why can’t these current and former athletes who have made millions and millions of dollars not take a freaking cab or hire a car for the night? It blows me away when these guys get DUIs.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:13 PM
What’s the officer, problem?
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KC Resident Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:13 PM
It blows me away when these guys get DUIs.
He was probably slumpbusting and didn’t want his wife to know about it.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:33 PM
slumpbusting
I looked at that website. Those were some pretty funny quotes on there. I do fail to see how banging the fattest ugliest chick you can find can help you improve in anything.
Mark Grace likes ‘em skinny but he never turns down a fatty.
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KC Resident Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:36 PM
I do fail to see how banging the fattest ugliest chick you can find can help you improve in anything. Meth
Excuses for mistakes during boozing are interesting.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 7:59 PM
Excuses for mistakes during boozing are interesting.
And endless.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Or plentiful I guess would be a better word.
Friend: You wouldn’t believe what you did last night.
You: Well, actually I would, I just wouldn’t want to admit it.
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sweett310 Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:17 PM
Mark Grace: Legend
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:24 PM
He asked me where this came from and I gave him the whole chain and all he wanted was for me to be sure to let you guys know that he does not recall asking her to marry him .. .. .. .. but upon further inquiry he admitted that he could have.“
/Rick James’d
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:37 PM
Just poured my 4th manhattan. Last time I drank this many it was a rough morning the next day.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:38 PM
/Rick James’d
I’m rich Bitch!
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:38 PM
History time: Back in the old days, England was running out of space for all of their dead bodies, so they decided to start reusing coffins. They realized after digging some up that every once in a while one would have scratch marks on it. Come to find out, the lead that was in the cups they used would seep into their alcohol, and that combination would put them in a come-like state for a while. So they found out they’d been burying certain people alive.
To alleviate this, they started to run string from a bell which ran through the coffin and was tied to the person’s wrist before they were buried. They would then have someone sit in the grave yard overnight to listen for what would come to be known as “Dead ringers.” This is also where the term graveyard shift comes from.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:40 PM
I’m calling bullshit Monster. Old wives tale
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:41 PM
I don’t know. Makes pretty good sense to me. But the moral of that story is this: Do you realize how fucking bored I am at work? I end up reading stupid shit like that on the internet.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:44 PM
Where the saying piss poor and didn’t have a pot to piss in came from, dead ringers and saved by the bell, I’ve even been informed by everyone’s favorite baseball commentator that banging the fattest ugliest chick you can find can help you achieve success in your profession.
/Team no fatty
//Destined for a lifetime of failure
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:46 PM
Now you’re just confusing me. Or else I’m thinker than I drunk I am.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:48 PM
Do you realize how fucking bored I am at work?
I know how that goes sometimes. I am the only person in the entire country who does what I do, and there are a lot of days when I have absolutely nothing to do.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Or else I’m thinker than I drunk I am.
If you decide to get behind the wheel, the words from comment 2 will be coming out of your mouth.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:50 PM
If you decide to get behind the wheel
Made that mistake once, never again. I’m at home on my couch.
/I’m super cool
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:51 PM
I am the only person in the entire country who does what I do
Didn’t know used car sales was such a lucrative business.
21
resolutedefense Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:54 PM
What I love about the West Coast, by the time shit gets poppin and goes on TBLAD time for me to bounce
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Didn’t know used car sales was such a lucrative business.
More money in used cars than new cars. Should clarify, I’m the only one at my company who does what I do, selling directly to businesses. No more retail for me.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:55 PM
What I love about the West Coast, by the time shit gets poppin and goes on TBLAD time for me to bounce
I miss the west coast.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:56 PM
time for me to bounce
Where you bouncing to resolute? Anywhere interesting?
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resolutedefense Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Where you bouncing to resolute? Anywhere interesting?
Too many law school girl friends, too many birthdays
/First world problems
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Too many girlfriends? First world problem? I don’t see how that’s a problem, unless you ain’t packing heat. That would explain that.
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KC Resident Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:05 PM
string from a bell
Stinger Bell!
/Some half assed Whitlock column.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:05 PM
Smallie who do you sell your cars to? I don’t know if you told me before. Said to businesses, what do you mean?
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:07 PM
/Some half assed Whitlock column.
Never heard of him.
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sweett310 Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:08 PM
To alleviate this, they started to run string from a bell which ran through the coffin and was tied to the person’s wrist before they were buried. They would then have someone sit in the grave yard overnight to listen for what would come to be known as “Dead ringers.” This is also where the term graveyard shift comes from.
Know I’m late to the party, but I heard that same tale when I was younger, only the one I heard was specific enough in that there was a writer walking through a cemetary when he heard a bell ring. When he went to check on it, the name on the tombstone “Dracula”, and the writer in the cemetary was Bram Stoker.
Complete bullshit, but when I heard at age 12 I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Complete bullshit, but when I heard at age 12 I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
It helped me pass a minute and a half at work. That counts for something.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:12 PM
If you guys could see my internet history from throughout the day, you’d be amazed at the vast variety of random shit I look at.
If my boss could see my internet history I’d probably be fired.
/Prints work internet history
//Leaves on boss’ desk
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:12 PM
Smallie who do you sell your cars to? I don’t know if you told me before. Said to businesses, what do you mean?
I sell to any and all businesses who own vehicles for company use. A lot of construction, HVAC, plumbing companies, delivery companies, etc. Basically any company who needs to buy vehicles, i try to sell them.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:15 PM
It helped me pass a minute and a half at work
When I really have nothing to do, I just leave. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s easy to get away with because I technically don’t have anyone to report to. I also have the advantage of being 10 years in.
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sweett310 Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:17 PM
If you guys could see my internet history from throughout the day, you’d be amazed at the vast variety of random shit I look at.
I spent a good 2 hours here yesterday at work. Cool art gallery that only does pop culture pieces. I bought a couple last night.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:19 PM
sweet tea. are you in MD or is the 310 something else?
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sweett310 Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Random numbers. I live in the ass-suck that is the south.
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Smallie Bigs Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:24 PM
I live in the ass-suck that is the south.
Nothing wrong with living in warm temperatures year round IMO
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:25 PM
When I really have nothing to do, I just leave.
I would if I could, but I have to be here. I don’t look up anything inappropriate really, depending on who you ask, because they block pretty much everything. It’s just the fact that we’re not supposed to be surfing the internet. When there is actually work coming in, it takes 100% priority. But I’m not going to sit here and twiddle my thumbs staring at a blank screen for the 6-7 out of my 8 hours here that I don’t have anything to do. To borrow two words from Sweett they can suck my ass.
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sweett310 Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Except when hurricanes come around.
Oh, and racist, bible-touting, rednecks shouting “Roll Tide”. Been down here 4 years, and never get used to that.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Oh, and racist, bible-touting, rednecks shouting “Roll Tide”.
So you’ve met Mullet?
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:29 PM
310 something else?
Isn’t Maryland 410, or is there also a 310?
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:44 PM
I spent a good 2 hours here yesterday at work. Cool art gallery that only does pop culture pieces.
That stuffs pretty cool, but I don’t know if I could spend two hours there. I guess I must be addicted to talking about whose football team is worse (mine or smallie’s), beer, cassette tapes and fart jokes.
/TBLAD’d
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:46 PM
And crazy SIL’s.
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Monster is Meth Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 10:50 PM
Roger Clemens threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings?
/TEST HIM!!!!!
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A.P. Says:
August 25th, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Mullet would do all that if not for him stalking olympic gymnasts
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captain_spalding Says:
August 26th, 2012 at 12:59 AM
Mark Grace Dui
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
/cub fan
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captain_spalding Says:
August 26th, 2012 at 1:01 AM
Roger Clemens threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings?
/TEST HIM!!!!!
Spaceman not impress
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/slideshow/Bill-Lee-wins-professional-game-at-65-47955.php