Did Michael Barrett run out from backstage and sucker punch him?

Of course, the next logical step is for AJ Daulerio to be the new muscle on "Montell", right?

The title of the episode was "HELP! My rookie pitcher has the ass!"

wow I hope Springer had to give-up less to get A.J. Pierzynski than the Giants did (Nathan, Lirano and Bonser).

The most shocking part of this post is finding out the extent of the overlap between the Deadspin audience and the Jerry Springer audience. For shame, people.

I'm home sick with the flu

That means - I'm unemployed and watch this show everyday...

Stay classy, baseball.

Wait, who won the World Series again?

So how will this affect his fantasy value?

Atleast he's not wrestling anymore

Talk to the hand, A.J., okay? You don't know me!

"So AJ, tell me, how did you feel when Ozzie called you a Mama's Boy and a fag and said that you couldn't beat Yadier Molina in a footrace?

Wait. Don't tell me how you felt. Why don't you tell Ozzie himself? He's here right now! C'mon out Ozzie!"

This is how I imagine this going. No?

I hear Shawn Kemp handles the paternity tests on Maury.

Wow, the AJ's are really slumming this week...

It's good to see Pierzynski shoring up his white trash fan base.

Next stop: bailiff on Judge Hatchett

Today on Springer, American League catchers and the crosstown rivals who sucker punch them.

When Jeff Weaver was in Detroit, he did the same thing. Although I remember Weaver did it more as a joke.

Nope, he's still wrestling, in fact, he's supposed to wrestle on a pay-per-view in the next month or two against David Eckstein. I shit ye not. The moral of this story:
Real Life Asshole = Excellent Wrestling Bad Guy
(The Kevin Federline Corollary)

Please let this be the last time I see "Chicago White Sox" and "Jerry Springer" tags used together.

I've always wanted to be Judge Judy's cabana boy.

Haters! You're all just jealous. You're telling me that you wouldn't want to be on hand for this?

There aren't two more related things around than Springer and pro wrestling. Both are loosely scripted and involve plenty of fake fighting, including use of chairs as weapons. And in the Venn diagram of their audiences, the intersection of the set of "Jerry Springer Viewers" and "Pro Wrestling Viewers" approaches 90% of the respective sets.

hi, i just want to get my jerry beads

Dicks don't know they're dicks. That's why they're dicks. Dicks who know they're dicks aren't dicks. They're assholes.

I didn't even know Springer was still on. Wasn't Jamie Presely in Ringmaster? Couldn't she have done another Poison Ivy sequel instead?

Denis, they slut her up pretty good in My Name is Earl.

Russ Springer has a talk show?

In a post about Jerry Springer, somebody used the term "Venn diagram". LOVE this place.

He was in attendence at the TNA pay per view last month and he and Dale Torberg beat up somebody.

He was in the crowd with Torbert 2 weeks ago.

Yes I watch TNA on Thursday nights. I have no shame.

I've always wanted to be Judge Judy's cabana boy.

I don't know if this is true or not but someone told me that Judge Judy's bailiff used to play for the Patriots.

yeah, it's Drew Bledsoe.

Now if we could only get Brett Tomko on the show, then things would get really interesting.

Can we get a now ruling from the MLB Commish's office now so that they just come out and say, "Yeah, we suspended A.J. last year not because of anything he did, but because we think he's a dick. I know we give Barry Bonds a free ride on this one, but he hits a lot of home runs."

I love A.J. and all of his antics. As a Cubs fan, I would love to have him on my team.

I don't know if this is true or not but someone told me that Judge Judy's bailiff used to play for the Patriots.

And Belichick would (has?) hit that.

GHABB,Y - When AJ puts Eckstein in the sleeper hold, then I'll deem him a wresling bad guy. You could always tell a heel turn with the sleeper hold.

Thanks, 289. Yet again, something on Deadspin I can't unsee.

Since no one else has done it yet:

no, YES

AJ almost makes baseball exciting.

Almost.

(Note: Every hockey and soccer thread is full of some moron taking time to comment about something they don't even like, so why not baseball? I can be that moron. Any baseball thread I'll chime in with something about baseball being gay, boring, only enjoyed by those with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ... that kind of thing. Basketball threads too. Not football though; anyone who doesn't like football is clearly a member of whatever stereotyped group of people it is you dislike the most ... for me it's Peruvians ... lousy food and hiking loving bastards.)

Hes not the first MLB player to guest bounce. Jeff Weaver back in his Detroit days also did his part in separating furious trailer trash from each other.