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Former MLB player Mark Reynolds was known for smashing the hell out of a baseball during his 13-year career — with the slugger totaling 298 homers during that span — but he apparently wasn’t too bad at clubhouse board games either. That’s because, while talking to Evan Cohen and Mike Babchik on Mad Dog Sports Radio on Tuesday, Reynolds described the wild betting habits that he and his teammates took part in throughout his career; and it led to thousands of dollars being passed around.
According to Reynolds, he and some teammates would drop huge amounts of cash on simple games like Connect Four and Tic-Tac-Toe, while also tossing around dares that included some nasty AF concoctions — like chewed up cookies with chew wrapped around it. It’s all pretty interesting stuff, so take a look below at what Mark Reynolds had to share.
Per Larry Brown Sports:
ICYM #MorningMen w/ @EvcoRadio & @Babchik, former MLB player Mark Reynolds talked about what really went down in the clubhouse and which STAR teammate would bet thousands of dollars on connect 4!
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— Mad Dog Sports Radio (@MadDogRadio) April 14, 2020
“There’s been $1,000 games of tic-tac-toe. I’ve seen (Max) Scherzer and someone else battle for thousands of dollars in Connect Four, and there’s groups of people around watching. It’s crazy. It’s so much fun. Then you have the typical, here, eat this chewed-up cookie with milk and dip on it for like $500 to a rookie or someone. We had a bullpen catcher one year that actually made more money doing stupid stuff like that than he made doing his job.”
Reynolds said the grossest thing he ever saw was a guy eat a chewed-up cookie with milk and tobacco poured onto it. The deed was done for around $1,200, which is obviously a lot for younger players who are years away from making high-end salaries.
Uh, yeah, that’s disgusting shit. Then again, winning a few games of Connect Four at $1,000 a pop is a great way to pay rent and have some spending cash for those long road trips, so some of the younger guys who didn’t make much probably loved this underground betting scheme.
Given some of the wild hazing that MLB has been known to pull on rookies — which includes stuff like dressing up in costumes or carrying pink lunch bags around — the stuff Reynolds and some of his old teammates used to pull sounds a helluva lot more extreme.