TIL in 1973 two players for the New York Yankees held a press conference to announce they were swapping families with each other (wives, children and their dogs)
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Posted May 8, 2023, 2:43 AM UTC
A proud moment for women, children, and pets everywhere as they realized just how much they meant to their "owners"
Surprisingly, Peterson and Susanne Kekich are still married 50 years later.
Ahhh the long con
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The Dollop has a podcast episode all about this.
Number??
Pretty sure it's ep #123 - The Yankee Pitcher Swap
Honestly probably better than the rumor wheel that would have started if they had done so privately.
It's gonna be ride when opening lime this
York Sports Sex-Scandal Hall of Fame has an impressive roster, back to when Babe Ruth reputedly missed half the 1925 season with the clap. Patrick Ewing, Mike Tyson, Lawrence Taylor, David Cone, Isiah Thomas, and Marv Albert are just a few of the city’s best-known sports figures to splat across the back page on accusations ranging from statutory rape to bull-pen masturbation and cross-dressing toupee loss
Mike Tyson was convicted of rape, LT was caught with an underage prostitute, Marv Albert was forcefully biting a hooker. David Cone was accused of masturbating in front of women.
That's a far cry from Isiah Thomas who was accused of harassment by a employee after she was fired. And not even in the ballpark with Patrick Ewing who had consensual sex with a couple of strippers.
Ewing may have been dumb but how is that news
And the stadium organist played "Layla" the whole time.
Nice
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This is now known as doing “a Shania Twain”
“On May 15, 2008, it was announced that Twain and Lange were separating after Lange had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud.[69][70][161][162] Their divorce was finalized on June 9, 2010.[163] On December 20, 2010, it was reported that Twain was engaged to Swiss Nestlé executive Frédéric Thiébaud, Marie-Anne's former husband.[164][165][166] They were married on January 1, 2011, in Rincón, Puerto Rico.[167”
So that's what it feels like to be a woman. I was never quite sure what she meant.
The best thing about being a woman, is everybody gets to have a 'little fun'
She also finally knows who's bed Mutt's boots were under I guess.
SB Nation do the best coverage of this story. Look them up on YouTube.
Now THAT is a Yankee Swap
Ricky Bobby ?
"Honey, sorry, but you got traded to the Kekichs. Pack your bags and see the GM in the morning, he'll have all of the details for you."
One of the couples is still together, the other broke up pretty quickly.
Those poor kids.
“Don’t make anything sordid out of this,” said the 31-year-old Peterson, a twenty-game winner in 1970 who was then living with Kekich’s wife, Susanne, in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The 27-year-old Kekich agreed. “Don’t say this was wife-swapping, because it wasn’t,” Kekich said. “We didn’t swap wives, we swapped lives.”
Trading your kids was pretty sordid , sorry there, Fritz
Wives will deal with it , figure it out etc , pets usually don’t care as long as you feed and love them … but how do you tell your kid they got “traded” …..
In the early part if the 1900’s my great-granddad and his best friend did this.
Well, actually they became ex-best friends because the men got into an argument at the bar/dance they and their spouses attended together. The reason has been long lost, but the men left that night with the each others wife and lived the rest of their lives with them.
I met my great-granddad a couple of times in the 1970’s. He was in his 80’s then, I was a kid. He was the last of the four still living at that time. My two main memories of him was 1) his hands were still so steady he would smoke a cigarette without ever flicking/losing the ashes, 2) he named one of his dairy cows after one of his grandson’s wife because he didn’t like her.
Would have loved to have gotten to know that man, lol.
He's technically right, they didn't swap wives, their wives traded husbands (everything else remained equal)
Damn, Yankees.
Wife and kids fine, but swapping your dog?? Stone cold.
They probably wanted to keep the dogs with their original kids. I mean, you don’t want to traumatize them. /s
Yeah, the last thing I'd want is to traumatize my dog