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[quote=Anonymous]The rumor has resurfaced in the form of a podcast I just learned about. I haven’t listened. Is anyone following this? I’m surprised the Ripkens and/or Costner haven’t tried to shut it down. Of course, I heard Costner tried that once by going on air and it didn’t go well. How much, if any, of this rumor is true? Was the outage legit? https://www.vulture.com/2021/11/the-rumor-podcast-ripken-costner-urban-legend.html “On August 14, 1997, the Baltimore Orioles baseball game against the Seattle Mariners was postponed because some of the lights at Oriole Park at Camden Yards didn’t properly turn on. This much isn’t in dispute. But the reason for that light malfunction is at the center of a salacious, widespread urban legend that’s been passed around by sports fans for decades. Here’s the short version of it, all of which you should read with the word “ALLEGEDLY” blinking over it like a TV-studio applause sign: As the story goes, on the day in question, Orioles legend (and squeaky-clean baseball icon) Cal Ripken Jr. caught his wife in bed with actor Kevin Costner, got in a fight with Costner, and was so banged-up that he couldn’t play in that night’s game. So then, according to the story, the Orioles somehow caused a minor power outage in the stadium, so as to postpone the game until the next day and preserve Ripken’s record consecutive-games-played streak, which then stood at a remarkable 2,431 games.”[/quote]
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