Suzanne Peirce claims she was attending her sister’s wedding at The Golden Inn in Avalon on July 17, 2010 and was poolside with the Phanatic, who was “engaging in various antics” during a comic routine, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Common Pleas Court and first reported by Courthouse News,

The Phanatic suddenly picked up both Peirce and her lounge chair and tossed both into the pool, according to the suit….

This isn’t the first time the Phanatic’s been accused of being too fanatical: in 2010 the Daily News found he’d been sued at least three other times in the last decade, once for hugging someone too hard. In 2010, a woman attending a Reading Phillies game with her church group claimed he sat on her legs, making her arthritis act up and ultimately led to a knee replacement, a lawsuit alleged.

– Jason Nark, Philly.com.

You’re going to want to click through and read this one. Apparently the Phanatic wasn’t even a part of this wedding, he was just hanging out at this hotel on the Jersey Shore doing his thing, which of course includes chucking unsuspecting women into pools.

To the Phanatic’s credit, he’s probably under a lot of workplace-related stress, what with (presumably) getting intentionally vomited on and offered sex for tickets all the time, plus having to suffer through whatever Cole Hamels chose for his warmup song every fifth day, plus having to put out fires between Jayson Werth and Chase Utley in the clubhouse, plus now having to pretend to actually enjoy watching Jonathan Papelbon carry on in the ninth.

But then there’s a lot about the Phanatic that suggests he’s part of the problem. Case in point: He has been sued at least four times this decade.

Via Howard Megdal.

Carlos Beltran enjoys sleeping, had a pet monkey, and lists Armageddon among his favorite movies.

Hat tip to James K.

Last month, Startup and his Sugar Land teammates became the first relievers in almost two decades to ride to the mound in a bullpen cart when the Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League started using one. It isn’t just the biggest development for bullpen cart fans since Tom Berenger drove one in pursuit of Rene Russo in “Major League,” it’s also the best news for the U.S. automotive industry since the turnaround.

“The reaction has been amazing,” Skeeters vice president Christopher Hill says. “You don’t really know what to expect; and the first time it rolled on the field, a bunch of people stood up and started applauding. It was really cool. I like seeing the fingers pointing to it. You can always tell when someone is at the park for the first time because they’ll be tugging at the person next to them and pointing to the cart.”

– Jim Caple, ESPN.com.

Click through and read Caple’s whole entertaining article about the Sugar Land Skeeters’ use of the long-abandoned bullpen cart to shuttle relievers into games. Pitchers’ confusion over etiquette is pretty hilarious, as is the image of fans giving the bullpen cart a standing ovation upon seeing it for the first time.

One of the issues Caple cites with the return of the bullpen cart is its inherent dissonance with the entrance-music phenomenon, but that seems easy to settle. Instead of blaring metal, guys on teams with bullpen carts just need to pick chilled-out driving music. Low Rider is the obvious choice, but Slow Ride and Little Red Corvette also probably work.

Zoo with Roy’s 10-year-old correspondent Awesome Emma interviewed Cole Hamels about his charity work, his bedtime and ice cream. Then Hamels looked at some embarrassing photos of Cole Hamels.

There were a lot of great names on late-80s baseball cards: Oddibe McDowell, Chili Davis, Ted Power, Dickie Thon. But none of them seemed as consistently funny now or then as Billy Jo Robidoux, who it turns out was somehow not from Louisiana. Dave Gawkowski writes a tribute to Robidoux’s career and cards.