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Rick Santorum Reminisces About Meeting Longtime MLBer After Getting Peed On By A Dog

It sounded familiar, this story of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum having a dog pee on his lap (leaving a considerable stain) while campaigning long ago, and reacting to having a dog’s pee stain on his lap by… continuing to campaign as if a dog hadn’t just peed on his lap. Then I realized: of course it’s familiar. Why, I wrote about it myself. That was a while ago, though. Why’s that old story coming up again? Well, in addition to having a certain evergreen quality to it (dog pees on person = funny, always), there was a sports angle I’d been unaware of until today. Take it away, Rick:

The Kent Tekulve angle really ties everything together nicely. Who wouldn’t be so excited upon meeting the man who pitched in an eighth-best-all-time 1,050 games? Of course, while it would have been less witty, Santorum probably could have made himself look less weird by saying to Tekulve, “Look, let’s get this out of the way: a dog peed on me.” Because that’s the point here: a dog peed on Rick Santorum – pee he’s trying to leverage, through appealing to voters, into a better shot at the presidency. America.

[Big League Stew]

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