The D-List: 2010 July Week 3

AJ Burnett - After leaving a game in the top of the third inning against the Tampa Bay Rays, Burnett told trainer Steve Donohoe that he cut his hands bracing himself after falling down the dugout stairs at Yankee Stadium. However, a couple of days later he addmitted how he really hurt himself: Clearly frustrated after allowing three runs over the first two innings of his start this afternoon, Burnett went into the clubhouse and pushed a pair of plexiglass lineup holders on the wooden double doors leading into the showers with great force, causing both of his palms to be cut. So he's a D-Case for the way he got injured and for lying about it with another lame way of getting injured.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Yankees-Burnett-changes-story-after-lying-about;_ylt=AgdR2gjfenwCbgP7Deg2xLgRvLYF?urn=mlb,256604

BP - With the debacle of one of the worst oil spills ever, you would think that BP would want to avoid anymore bad publicity. Apparently the BP press team does not see it quite this way. BP has now confessed to Photoshopping some of its oil spill press photos. Seriously guys, Photoshopping images? And doing such a poor job at it that it is obvious that the images are altered? Who thought that this was a good idea?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38333456/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/?gt1=43001

Man Smuggling Monkeys into Mexico Airport - A man was stopped by airport security because of a mysterious bulge in his tshirt. When asked what he was hiding he tried to deny having anything under his shirt. When security strip searched him they found 18 monkeys, 2 of which had died.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/man-caught-smuggling-monk_n_652326.html

Fox News - Reports have surfaced about the Taliban training monkeys to shoot American soldiers. While I can neither confirm nor deny the legitimacy of this story, I can confirm the ridiculousness of the last 30 seconds of this clip where on Fox & Friends a photoshopped picture of a monkey holding a handgun is displayed to let the American public know what one of these monkeys might just look like.
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/32572626/fox-news-flash-7-13.htm

Nick Saben - For the pot calling the kettle black. He called NFL agents pimps when we all know coaches are the real pimps.

Russian Parasailing Company - for forcing a donkey to parasail off the coast of a South Russian beach amidst a crowd of people which included children who were brought to tears over the cruelty of the incident…all in the name of a poorly planned advertisement stunt. The donkey was kept in the air for 30 minutes and then fell into the water where it struggled to stay afloat for 10 minutes.
http://www.salon.com/news/trending/2010/07/20/russia_parasailing_donkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata&v=g4csnNFVBGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata&v=H5n4LhGreNI

Good Day New York (on Fox) - for this god awful interview with Thierry Henry following his signing with the New York Red Bulls’ MLS soccer team. The interview began with an I’m Ron Burgundy? type moment as the male co-host clumsily asked/stated/clarified with Thierry that he was in fact playing for the New York Red Bulls and that they were in fact New York’s soccer team (“You have just, uh, joined the New York Red Bulls, correct?…Congratulations…that’s our soccer team here?”). Things quickly got worse as the female co-host asked about just winning the World Cup, when in fact France had actually fallen apart like a soccer superpower never had before (see: D-Case of the Month of June Recipient: France Football). Then to wrap things up the co-hosts awkwardly introduced Thierry to the “Bronx Cheer” (which is booing) and wished him good luck on the upcoming season which is actually already well under way.
http://soccer.fanhouse.com/2010/07/21/thierry-henry-suffers-through-awkward-interview-on-fox-morning-s/