The Detroit Tigers are selling $20 bottles of dirt at their home opener

Mark CunninghamYou can buy just about anything at a major league ballpark these days, from two-foot-long chicken nuggets to a battalion's worth of pink urban camo. For their 2019 home opener, however, the Detroit Tigers are upping the ante with the most shameless display of exploitative capitalism since the Lehman Brothers: A literal bottle of dirt, retailing for $20 actual U.S. dollars. We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried, but clearly someone had to and that person should be thrown in prison forever.
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Allegedly the dirt came from the Comerica Park infield, but honestly who knows. It's just as likely the Tigers sent some intern down to Lake Michigan to scrape up a couple bottles of lead-laced grime for the kids. Then they slapped a label on the sucker and tossed it in the team store under “Opening Day Dirt Bottle.” A triumph a branding this ain't, but what else are you supposed to buy when you already ..

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Veteran MLB umpire behaves like a child, tells Houston manager A.J. Hinch “I can do anything I want!”

In my very limited research I just did this morning, I have deducted that veteran MLB umpire Ron Kulpa has been around the game for a long time. He made his MLB debut in 1998 and has gotten to the point in his career where he's worked multiple All-Star Games, eight Division Playoff Series, three League Championship Series and the 2011 World Series, one of the all-time great Fall Classics. That's a successful career any way you slice it.
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That said, Ron Kulpa is not a name I knew off the top of my head like I know Angel Hernandez or Jim Joyce. For Kulpa, that's a good thing. No ref or umpire ever wants to hear their name in the news the day following the game, though the way Kulpa acted on Wednesday night at the Houston Astros-Texas Rangers game, it's possible he did indeed want to hear and see his name all over the internet.
In the top of the second inning, Rangers pitcher Mi..

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