The witness list for Sonia Sotmayor’s hearings next week was just released . One strange surprise, former New York Met David Cone.
If you don’t know about Cone-y, he’s the Bob Saget of baseball. He looks innocent, but he’s actually very dirty.
“Last week three other women brought an $8.1 million suit against Mets pitcher David Cone, charging him with various sexual outrages, including masturbating in front of one of them in the Shea Stadium bullpen in 1989. This woman says that as she left the bullpen Cone told her, "You’re a big baby. You’re not invited to showtime anymore." Cone and his accused teammates deny the allegations. In angry support, 31 Mets players have declared they will no longer speak to the media.” [true]
And if that doesn’t convince you to do a Google search before you invite a Majority witness to testify for you – this might:
“Cone is routinely called a leader of the Yankees. One of his boredom-breaking practical jokes has become legendary: Cone told a clubhouse kid to take a cardboard box to one of Cone’s friends on a visiting team and ask the player to autograph the baseballs inside. When the player opened the box, he found not baseballs but a pile of Cone’s crap.” (NY Mag)