Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 17, 2006
For Whom the Belle Tolls

Following up on this morning's post, it looks like Albert Belle is in a heap of trouble:

The police probable cause statement said that Belle's former girlfriend discovered a Global Positioning System tracking device that had fallen off her car on Jan. 26. Believing that Belle was responsible, she called police, who began an investigation.

The unidentified woman told investigators that for several months Belle "had been showing up everywhere she went [the store, on dates, the gym, etc.]," the probable cause document stated. The woman asked Belle if he had placed the tracking device on her car, and he initially denied it.

But on Feb. 3, he left her a message apologizing for "doing all that tracking stuff," the statement said. A later recording had Belle threatening the woman, telling her she needed to hire a bodyguard for protection and that she "would never know what hit her," the statement said.

What is it with baseball players leaving incriminating evidence on answering machines? For all Albert's faults, I always heard he was intelligent. I guess it doesn't extend to threatening people on tape.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:26 PM | Crime | TrackBack (0)
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I'm not sure that anyone really cares about Albert Belle anymore....not since his name popped up briefly throughout the whole steroid scandal thing, at least.

Posted by: stat man at February 17, 2006 04:48 PM

The funniest part — if there can be a funny part to a stalking story -- is this passage:

Reached by The Associated Press on Friday morning, Belle declined to comment on the case.

"You didn't write a story about my Hall of Fame induction," Belle said. "You guys never report the good stuff that I do."

Do you think Albert thinks he was elected to the Hall of
Fame? Was he planning on showing up to the ceremony uninvited? Too bad the reporter couldn't follow up that one.

Posted by: Ding Dong at February 17, 2006 06:25 PM

Please, please, please put an Albert Belle reality TV show on the air.

Posted by: Josh at February 17, 2006 10:31 PM
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