Griffey Makes TMZ

The magazine and website has this stupid video:
They acted like it was a big deal or something.

Hal McCoy has Griffey's reaction to the video:

For those who have seen the short video of Ken Griffey Jr. on TMZ’s celebrity web-site and wonder if he is angry or ready to file suit, fear not.

He laughed at it. And then he said, “TMZ, baby, I made it.”

The video shows Griffey and his actor friend, Tony Todd, leaving a Hollywood steakhouse Monday night. As he walks toward a cab, Griffey trips on a curb. The headline on the web-site says, “Stumbling Home,” implying that Griffey was inebriated.

Griffey doesn’t drink. He can’t. He knows the reaction his father had to alcohol. Ken Griffey Sr. didn’t drink, either. But after the Cincinnati Reds won the 1975 World Series, somebody coaxed him into sipping half a beer.

Next thing you knew, Senior was reclined on top of a dressing cubicle, giggling non-stop. And that’s why the Griffeys don’t imbibe.

“When I came out of the restaurant the guy asked me a dumb question,” said Griffey. “I guess he was mad when I didn’t answer. He asked, ‘What do you think of the Roger Clemens indictment?’ “

If you don’t go to the celebrities, the celebrities come to Dodger Stadium. Charlie Sheen and Rob Reiner are regulars. On Monday night, Desperate Housewives actor James Denton was on the field during batting practice.

And, of course, if you are a baseball celebrity and wander out to dinner, some foof with a camera is going to catch you picking your nose and pulling the underwear out of your crack.

Too bad they didn’t have web-sites and phonecams back in the ’70s.

One of my funniest memories of Dodger Stadium was back in the 1970s when Sparky Anderson did something I had never seen before nor have seen since.

In the top of the first inning, the Reds had a rally going and light-hitting third baseman John Vukovich was due up. Anderson pinch-hit for him - and he hadn’t even been on the field yet.

Vukovich was a bit miffed. As he walked up the tunnel from the dugout to the clubhouse, he used the bat he didn’t get to use in the game - knocking out every light bulb from dugout to clubhouse.