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Article: You never sausage a flap; Pirates player fined $432 for mashing Brewers' mascot.(SPORTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2003
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Byline: Mark Hartsell, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The charge: assault with a baseball bat.
The victim: a 6-foot Italian sausage running by the visitors dugout, considered to be unarmed and delicious.
The verdict: guilty, sort of.
The beef ended yesterday after prosecutors in Milwaukee decided not to charge Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon with assault for bopping a sausage mascot with his bat during a game against the Brewers on Wednesday night.
Instead, Simon was cited for disorderly conduct and fined $432.
The swing seen 'round the nation took place at Miller Park after the sixth inning, when the Brewers ...