Shawn Chacon is somehow worse at gambling than he is at pitching

A warrant has been issued for Shawn Chacon after he tried to pass $150k worth of bad checks at Caesar's

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Just a little hilarity for the afternoon

EXECUTE: It's the Clutch thing to do

by Andrew Martin on Oct 2, 2009 12:15 PM MDT reply actions

I wonder if he really didn't have the money,

or it just worked out that way.

"Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball." -Pete Hamill

by Bryce on Oct 2, 2009 12:33 PM MDT reply actions

Lemme guess....

he won at craps nine times in a row, and then couldn’t find the table with the next 10 throws.

by BroJB on Oct 2, 2009 12:49 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs

That is a great headline BTW :)

by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2009 12:55 PM MDT reply actions

I can't lie

I basically stole it from deadspin

by ch3cooh1 on Oct 2, 2009 1:17 PM MDT up reply actions

This sounds like a pretty sad story.

Seems like he’s headed down the Denny McClain route.

by J. Henry Waugh on Oct 2, 2009 1:02 PM MDT reply actions

Well...

except that Shawn Chacon was never nearly as good as Denny McLain.

The Coors Effect: Now humidor-enhanced!

by Tom (RFTN) on Oct 2, 2009 4:49 PM MDT up reply actions

question:

who the hell accepts $150 grand worth of checks?

"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when Ubaldo is throwing fastballs by you."

by The Lodo Magic Man on Oct 2, 2009 4:40 PM MDT reply actions

Caesar's Palace?

Anyway, Chacon “earned” $2 million in 2008 (and $14 million over his entire MLB career, per B-R) so they probably assumed he was good for it. You or I would probably get laughed at if we tried to write $150k worth of checks.

The Coors Effect: Now humidor-enhanced!

by Tom (RFTN) on Oct 2, 2009 4:53 PM MDT up reply actions

Caesar's Palace or Little Caesar's?

The Coors Effect: Now humidor-enhanced!

by Tom (RFTN) on Oct 2, 2009 4:49 PM MDT reply actions

That’s a LOT of pizza!

by Rather Dashing on Oct 2, 2009 5:42 PM MDT up reply actions

Interesting that he did this in March.

Chacon didn’t pitch his first game of the season until June, while with the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affilate of the Oakland A’s. Boy, if he had racked up these debts while with the River Cats when they visited Las Vegas in late June, you would have figured he would have been in more trouble than he’s already in.

by CM85 on Oct 3, 2009 2:45 AM MDT reply actions