Loading ...From the Enquirer’s website:
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Brian Shackelford was arrested early Thursday on suspicion of third-degree sexual assault.
The 29-year-old player was arrested shortly after midnight at Miller Park, where the Reds played the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said
“It’s an ongoing criminal investigation,” she said, without giving further details.
Sgt. Michael Damian said Shackelford was still jailed Thursday morning.
No other details were provided.
What’s left for our bullpen? Someone dying?
I guess Milwaukee police feel sorry for us and are trying to help us out?
Very sad.
Wisconsin’s sexual assault laws. Wanted to see what third degree was.
Did they charge him with multiple counts? Because he screwed the Reds too. Way to go.
so he raped someone? good lord, get him the f off the team. i hope it’s not true for everyone’s sake, buti doubt the cops would arrest him without some clear evidence, and he at least needs to be gone until it gets resolved.
I hope the Reds do the right thing and sit him down until this is cleared up one way or the other. The way the Phillies let Myers go out and play after beating the crap out of his wife was ridiculous.
OK. This is bizarre. How long after the game did this happen? It couldn’t have been too long. Was he pitching with a boner?
people on marc’s blog have mentioned that the reds might not be able to do anything to him because of the union’s due process rules. If this is true, it’s total crap.
There is no way that he should pitch with rape charges hanging over his head, and the reds shouldn’t have to play a man down because of him. If they can write berevement rules into the CBA, they can include a way to get people off the roster when they’re awaiting trial if the club wants to.
in my experience it’s been pretty easy not to get arrested, and for minor things like freel’s fight it gets resolved in a matter of days and wouldn’t really hurt the player much.
it happened the night before is what i’ve read. he got arrested at the stadium right after the game, which means i guess they were waiting for him.
That makes a lot more sense.
So what is Shackelford’s marital status?
Apparently, this bullpen is cursed!
That explains the shot of Narron talking to him in the dugout after the game. It was very odd because it was right after Standridge had blown it and it made no sense for Narron to be talking to Brian right then.
Cary,
Maybe the conversation went something like this. “Brian, there’s a couple of men carrying steel bracelets waiting for you in the lockeroom. Make sure you don’t leave the clubhouse in that uniform. Oh no…don’t worry, they’ve got an orange jumpsuit waiting for you.”
Maybe they were waiting for him during the game and he found out before he went out for that last inning and he couldn’t concentrate. He did well in the inning he pitched before that.
Anyway, maybe it’s just the baseball gods trying to help us out with our bullpen woes. At least Eddie Guardado can’t be as bad as what we have now. Hopefully he’ll return to last year’s form, but it seems like he’s just another reliever faltering without the roids.
scratch the first part of what i said. i confused shack with standridge for a minute.
Is the police spokesman this guy?
Article from Marc Lancaster and the Post with more on the Shackelford situation.
I have known Brian for 16 years, this is not the Shack I grew up with. If anyone read the Milwaukee newspaper write up on the situation it seems pretty clear this woman knew exactly what was going to happen when she decided to go to his hotel room and take off her clothes. I wouldn’t go to a guy’s room and shed my clothes and expect him to think I didn’t want sex. You get what you ask for. If she didn’t want to have sex she shouldn’t have went to a man’s room she didn’t know and she sure shouldn’t have stripped her clothes off. I think it’s just a ploy to get money from him. His family has been through hell the last 4 years and he did not need this on top of losing his mom and brother. I do think it is time for Brian to grow up and use his brain and not do some of the things he does. I pray for him and his family and I hope he starts thinking before he does some of the stupid things he does. I wish he would remember where he came from and be the person he once was. Good Luck Shack! We are behind you down here in McAlester and hope everything works out for you.