I invite you all to go to the kitchen, grab some tinfoil, make a hat out of it, and put it on. We are going to be getting into a deep dive of the conspiracy theory of when Kevin Costner "slept" with Cal Ripken jr's wife and caused a "power outage" which delayed a game and kept Ripken's streak alive. Lets break this down from a fundamental standpoint.
On August 14th 1997, The Baltimore Orioles cancelled a scheduled game against the Seattle Mariners due to a power outage at Camden Yards, the Orioles home stadium. Nothing too crazy right just a little power outage. But there was no bad weather, there was no other power outages in the Baltimore area, and there was no reason given for the power outage. Now thats a little fishy, but things like this do happen. Cal Ripken had already broken Lou Gehrigs streak of consecutive games played.
That last sentence is important because Ripken was towards the end of his career and at the age of 36 is starting to get nagging injuries that were not keeping him out of games, but are hindering his play. The day of the game, Cal Ripken Jr walked into to Kevin Costner banging his wife to the fullest extent. Cal and Kevin would then get into a fistfight, which I mean that is the only reasonable thing to do in this situation if you’re Cal. You ever get into an actual fist fight, punching someone in the face hurts your hand a lot, like really bad. This happened to Cal and he banged up his hand about as bad as Kevin banged up his wife.
Let's take a step back here. How do Mrs. Ripken and Kevin Costner know each other? Kevin Costner released the movie Dances with Wolves in 1990 and Cal Ripken jr. and his wife were there for the premier. Cal would often invite Kevin over to hangout and play pickup basketball with the homies and became quite good friends. Kevin at the time was in between marriages and as a movie star in between marriages, what else are you supposed to do? Let's see what we are woking with here before we go any further.
Yeah this is giving me Carmella Soprano vibes. Let's just say Kevin Costner has a good taste in women. Who is making that barking sound? Oh wait thats me.
So why would Cal Ripken jr. force the Orioles to cancel a game to protect a record he already broke? Because Cal was the golden boy of baseball. He never had any controversy and he played through the entire steroid era without any accusations. Any controversy inside or outside of baseball would spoil an entire life of being baseball's golden boy. The game was cancelled an rescheduled to be a double-header the next day. While waiting to see if the game would be played or not, no one saw Cal Ripken in the dugout or the field. He was in the tunnel waiting for the game to be canceled. When Cal noticed a photographer in the tunnel coming to the dugout, he quickly hid his hand.
What does Cal have to say on this situation? Well he was asked publicly about it and I will copy and paste the whole quote and you tell me if this guy is full of shit or not.
“It’s easy to check the facts of that one. I remember it very well. The bank of lights went off and Randy Johnson was pitching for the Seattle Mariners. And we were deciding what to do about that. Was there enough visible light out there to actually see a guy throwing over 100 miles per hour? The bank was just over our dugout. And I physically went out and tested it for the umpire. I was in discussion with the umpires. I was definitely there, I was ready to play. I definitely was there. And I’m sure I was on camera a number of times being out on the field.”
I have lied my way through life, some may consider me a bullshitter. As every bullshitter knows, you can't bullshit a bullshitter, and as a bullshitter, I call bullshit. This sounds like a guy who is too busy worrying about if the guy banging his wife does it better than him. But that is just me.
The Orioles played the double-header the next day and Cal played in both ends going a combined 2-4 RBI,BB and was pulled in the later innings of the second game. Maybe his hand was not hurt and Kevin Costner did not bang his wife and the power did go out by complete coincidence. But all rumors have a little bit of truth in them. Cal and his wife Kelly would divorce in 2016, almost 20 years after the "incident".
Costner would also deny any claims that he banged Cal's wife. He called into a radio show in 2001 as the day before the host were discussing weather or not Costner did the deed. Costner said that he only talked to Ripken's wife for 10 minutes in his entire life and they only met twice. It should also be noted that before this incident in 1997, Kelly Ripken and Costner would sit together at Orioles games to watch Cal play. Once again, cannot out bullshit a bullshitter.
You tell me whether or not Kevin Costner banged Cal Ripken's wife which resulted in Cal hurting his hand which resulted in the Orioles purposely destroying electrical equipment to make the game delayed long enough to be moved to the next day. You may now take off your tinfoil hat. Make sure you share with a friend who also likes random baseball conspiracy theories.
That is today's Tea, with T
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