Kevin Costner and Cal Ripken : snopes. Claim: In August 1. Baltimore Orioles deliberately created a lighting malfunction before a game to keep Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak intact. Example: [Collected via e- mail, 2. Cal Ripken, Jr. was allowing Kevin Costner, the actor, to stay at his house, following the wrap of "The Postman".
One day, Ripken left for Camden Yards to play in a game. Somewhere between his home and the stadium, Cal realized that he had left something back at his house, and turned back to retrieve it. Upon arriving at his home, he found Kevin Costner in bed with his wife, Kelly. Cal then proceeded to beat the crap out of Costner, to the point that Costner was unable to make any publicity opportunities for a time.
Cal then called the Orioles, and told them he wouldn't be coming in to play that day. Upon hearing this, the owner reminded Cal about his streak, telling him The Streak would end if he didn't play that day.
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Cal told him it was impossible for him to come in, so there went the streak. Reportedly, the owner told him not to worry, because he would take care of it. That night, the game was cancelled due to "electrical failure" with some lights on the field. The caller [I heard this rumor from] said that there was no problem with the lights, that everything else, including the hotels and restaurants that are part of Camden Yards, worked perfectly. The next day, the lights were fixed, Cal was able to play, and the streak stayed intact. September 1. 99. 5, Baltimore Orioles infielder Cal Ripken, Jr.
Lou Gehrig back in 1. Ripken would go on to play in a total of 2,6. September 1. 99. 8.
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Ripken's most remarkable of streaks was that he started every game (i. In other words, Ripken didn't even come close to missing a game during his streak — except, as the rumor cited above claims, for one evening in August 1. Ripken was unable to make it to the park for that day's game due to the fallout of having caught his wife in bed with another man, and a mysterious malfunction in the lighting system (allegedly one deliberately created by an Orioles employee) forced the cancellation of the game and thereby preserved Ripken's streak.
A game between the Orioles and the Seattle Mariners scheduled for 1. August 1. 99. 7 was cancelled due to lighting problems, but there was nothing "mysterious" about the incident. A ground fault interrupt kept tripping the circuit breaker each time the lights in the right- field bank were turned on, and the game's 7: 3. P. M. starting time was pushed back. That the businesses surrounding Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore did not experience similar problems is not strange, as Oriole Park is on a separate portion of the city's power grid.) The crew finally got the right- field bank of lights working by 8: 4. P. M., but about 2.
Umpire crew chief Al Clark finally postponed the game at 1. P. M. after determining that shadows at home plate created unsafe playing conditions, a decision that was influenced by the fact that fireballing pitcher Randy Johnson was scheduled to start for the Mariners. Given that Johnson was a left- hander who threw extremely hard, and the lighting outage occurred on the first- base side of the field (i. Johnson's hand as the southpaw threw towards home plate), the risk of serious injury to a batter was deemed too great to allow the game to proceed.
The. contest was cancelled and made up as part of a double- header the following day. Shortly afterwards, a conspiracy rumor was concocted from this scenario which involved actor Kevin Costner, who had a long- standing friendship with Cal Ripken, and rumors of marital difficulties between Ripken and his wife Kelly. According to that rumor, Ripken caught Costner in bed with his wife on the morning of 1. August 1. 99. 7, and the shock of that betrayal left Ripken too emotionally distraught and/or too sore and bruised from brawling with Costner to show up at Camden Yards for the Orioles' game with the Seattle Mariners that evening. Some versions of the legend even maintain that Ripken couldn't make it to the ballpark because he had been hauled off to jail for assault.) In order to preserve the tremendous publicity value of Ripken's consecutive game steak, Orioles management quickly arranged for someone in the Camden Yards facilities crew to create a 'malfunction' that would prevent the day's game from coming off as scheduled and providing Ripken with a much- needed day off to recover from his ordeal. Kevin Costner and Cal Ripken, Jr.
Costner's film Dances with Wolves and began what Costner described as a "burgeoning friendship." Before a game during the 1. Costner took batting and fielding practice with the Orioles, played catch on the sidelines, went through stretching exercises in the outfield, and batted and took grounders with Ripken. Costner was often seen taking in Orioles games from the stands at Baltimore's Camden Yards, sometimes sitting with Ripken's wife, Kelly. In late 1. 99. 7, gossip began circulating to the effect that the Ripkens had separated, Cal was staying with a teammate, and a divorce was imminent. The rumors included claims of infidelities on both sides, with the male interloper named as anyone from "an Orioles trainer" to Costner (who at the time lived about an hour from the Ripkens' ranch). From such rumors was the "mysterious game cancellation" legend concocted back in 1. Whether the electrical outage was "mysterious" or not, it wasn't concocted to keep Ripken's streak alive by forcing the cancellation of a game he would otherwise have missed.
News reports of the day's events prove Ripken was present at the ballpark, suited up and ready to play, and both fans and reporters noted him sitting in the dugout and playing catch along the sidelines. Ripken himself addressed the rumor in a 2. NPR. 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 1.
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.
And the funny part about it was we all decided it was better that we play that night, because the next day would have been a Sunday day game, and Randy Johnson would have been throwing out of the stands, and in day games he's much harder to see. So we all decided that we were going to go. Evidently [Mariners manager] Lou Piniella told Seattle a little different story that the game wasn't going to go, and they started leaving the ballpark, so we didn't have that option after all. We scheduled it for the next day, and we played. But I definitely was there. And I'm sure I was on camera a number of times being out on the field.
When this legend was repeated by a couple of hosts on Fox Sports Radio in June 2. Costner called the show the next day to deny it and tell the hosts that if they had claimed the story was true, "I was going to take your heads off." Costner maintained at the time that he had met Ripken's wife only twice in his life, that he had probably spent no more than 1. Ripkens' home. (Since Costner had been noted sitting in the stands for whole games with Kelly Ripken, his "1. Whatever Kevin Costner's relationship with the Ripkens might have, Cal and Kelly are still together (they celebrated their silver wedding anniversary in 2. Costner didn't make some Machiavellian maneuvering on the part of the Orioles necessary to keep Cal from missing a game.
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Whatever Happened to Jaye Davidson, Star of 1. The Crying Game? Remember Jaye Davidson? Twenty years ago, the Riverside, CA native was front and center in the 1. Oscar race, nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the role of Dil.
В in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. He wound up losing to Gene Hackman’s evil Unforgiven. В sheriff. The bulk of Awards Line managing editor Anthony D’Alessandro’s 2. Stephen Woolley and Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein miraculously managed to get the press to keep the film’s gender- bending plot twist a secret. But there’s also this tidbit: Davidson never plotted an acting career in the first place.
A prolific role as the sun god Ra in MGM’s scifi film Stargate followed. At one point during Cannes 1. Davidson was attached to a Steven Seagal action title Cousin Joey opposite Mickey Rourke (which was never made). Largely, Davidson remains MIA with IMDb reporting his last acting credit as a Nazi photographer in the 2. The Borghilde Project.
Per Woolley, “I think he’s in Paris. The last I heard, he was really happy. This is not a knock on Riverside per se.
But if we’d started out in that corner of California as Alfred Amey and wound up in the City of Lights, we’d be pretty happy too. Read D’Alessandro’s full piece. В here. Update (December 5, 2. For a week- long look at celebrated film and TV sex scenes, New York magazine collected the thoughts of The Crying Game. В star Stephen Rea. He had this to say about Davidson’s disappearing act: “I don’t know what happened to Jaye. I think he made a couple of movies and found that it wasn’t for him.
He was quite young, and he was really brilliant in the movie.”“Maybe Jaye had second thoughts — “Oh, why did I do that?” You know yourself that the film world can be tacky and repulsive in lots of ways. Maybe anything he was on after that just seemed stupid. I certainly thought he could’ve had liftoff in a very big way because he was an extraordinary figure, and the world had become ready for ambiguous sexuality or transgender experiences. But maybe he just didn’t want it.”. Photo courtesy: Miramax].