August 07, 2006
Chorizo, We Hardly Knew Ye
The newest addition to the Brewers racing sausage family is on the shelf for marketing reasons. David Brown suspects something else.
MLB says it needs to formally study El Picante for permanent use, much as it would any fresh mascot, logo, color change, team meat, etc. If Pico, in 12-18 months, passes muster(d) he will return to the majors.
That's what baseball says.
They aren't saying everything. What might they be hiding?
Only, perhaps, the biggest drug scandal to rock sport since the one from a couple of days ago, is all.
In the wake of recent doping allegations in baseball and elsewhere, it wasn't surprising Sunday to learn that Pico the Sausage tested positive for levels of silicon dioxide 11 times the legal limit allowed by the World Racing Association of Professional Sausages.
Will these scandals never end? :-)
Posted by David Pinto at
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The steroid scandal is really bad for baseball, but this Chorizo thing is TOTALLY ridiculous! It makes MLB look like a bunch of morons. They have to study a new sausage 'mascot'? WTF?!?! It's a racing sausage, for god's sake!
Someone please tell me that I am just missing the joke here...