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“Buxom Blonde” strikes out at World Series
One game into the World Series, they are the two most talked about pitchers linked to the Philadelphia Phillies:
Susan Finkelstein and Cliff Lee.
One you can hit on — one you can’t.
Lee put on a one-man show Wednesday night, handcuffing the New York Yankees in a 6-1 Phillies win. The left hander threw a complete game, striking out 10, walking none, the run he gave up was unearned and, for good measure, he even caught a ball behind his back.
Finkelstein’s cuffs came Tuesday night after her pitch — an ad for World Series tickets — came out on Craigslist.
“DESPERATE BLONDE NEEDS WS TIX — Diehard Phillies fan—gorgeous tall buxom blonde — in desperate need of two World Series Tickets. Price negotiable— I’m the creative type! Maybe we can help each other!”
An undercover cop met with the 43-year-old married University of Pennsylvania grad student in a suburban Philadelphia bar, allegedly, stating that he and his brother had World Series tickets for sale.
According to the cop, Finkelstein offered to perform sex acts on both of them, saying “Well, I’d rather have two tickets and I could take care of both of you.”
That got her busted on a prostitution charge.
Finkelstein claimed Wednesday she was just flirting with the undercover cop.
“I was hoping maybe I could get a cheaper price flirting with him,” she said on the satellite “Opie and Anthony” radio show. “You know, batting my eyes. It’s not unheard of….It was him who brought the whole thing up anyway.”
As she told Inside Edition: “If I can flirt with someone and maybe get cheap tickets, more power to me.”
Finkelstein claims she was a bit smitten by the cop, who was “kind of cute,” she said: “They sent out the good-looking, blonde, kind of Marine guy.”
Finkelstein may be in luck after all. A Philadelphia radio station and a car dealership have both offered her free tickets to Sunday’s game.
As for the charge — which sounds a little like looking-for-some-pub police work here — her lawyer hopes to get the charges reduced, if not dropped altogether.
Throwing a bit of a curve ball himself, lawyer William J. Brennan said Finkelstein is just “a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever.”
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By Debracgr
February 8, 2010 12:34 PM | Link to this
quite interesting post. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you hear that some chinese hacker had hacked twitter yesterday again.
By FordFairlane
November 8, 2009 4:54 PM | Link to this
I would have approached her with a radiator hose in my pants and see her expression then.
By Howard
October 29, 2009 9:12 PM | Link to this
Hmmm…not too bad. If I’d had tickets to unload I would have negotiated with this “nice lady.”