This photo was posted by the Big League Stew yesterday over on Yahoo! It is unfortuantely very blurry but it is BJ Upton getting a smooch from what would appear to be his girlfriend after the Rays clinched the American League pennant.
This brings me directly to a story I was told this past weekend about BJ’s brother Justin of which this photo reminded me.
Apparently, Justin was partying on Cape Cod this summer while the Diamondbacks were in town playing the Red Sox. Justin, like many other great MLB players, has ties to the Cape Cod League. He apparently misses his friends so dearly that the night before the team had a game with a 7:05 start, Justin was out until 4 in the morning partying it up with some Cape girls. He was so fond of one of the females that he offered to fly her out to Arizona to come visit and see him play.
That is awesome. To be able to just fly a prospective girl out, across country after just meeting her at some random party. We are talking about a 21 year old kid with a $6 million contract. Must be unreal.
Justin has yet to live up to his #1 overall pick potential or his brother’s unavoidable future superstar-dome but he has shown flashes. But hey, it’s the little things in life like playing drinking games in Harwich, Yarmouth or Orleans. Or just offering to fly women all over the country, women that you don’t even know their last name.
Again this story is second hand but doesn’t it seem very likely to have happened? I know I’d do the same if I was Justin.
I’m sure this story is true… his brother does the same thing (offer to fly girls down to Tampa) after meeting them at bars… especially when he’s home in VA… i’m just saying.
It’s just sad that this poor girl in the photo probably thinks she’s special. I’m sure he has ways of making it up to her after he cheats on her every other weekend. She’s gotta get sick of hearing it… but I suppose she believes it everytime. Guess he CAN mack it.
The cool thing about Upton hanging out with those cape girls until 4am is that he went 0-5 against Wakefield the next night.
I dont know the uptons at all, but by me also having two brothers playing pro ball one which is in the minors and the other one in the actual league, I find this kind of thing sad. But at the same time a guy, regardless if their pro athletes or not, will only do and treat a female to the extent of what the female allows them to do and treat them. Really, this is always expected from male athletes who makes millions because they never get told “NO!” and females dont have standards for them to uphold. I see this allllllllll the time and all i do is (SMH)