Donnie Baseball’s Wife Arrested
From the Evansville Courier Press, with a hat tip to BaseballThinkFactory.org:
Kim Mattingly, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers’s assistant coach Don Mattingly, was arrested over the weekend and charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct after she allegedly refused to leave her husband’s property.
The couple filed for divorce in November, and Don Mattingly announced last month that he would be moved from hitting coach to major league special assignment coach for the 2008 season because of family reasons.
According to a Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department probable cause affidavit, Kim Mattingly’s arrest came after Vanderburgh County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Mattingly home on Darmstadt Road on Saturday for a report of a family dispute “involving a person who refused to leave.”
When deputies arrived, Kim Mattingly, 45, allegedly said her husband had taken her phone and she wanted it back.
Don Mattingly told deputies he did not have the phone, so deputies informed her that he did not have the phone and that she needed to go through her lawyer for future dealings with him. She also was told to stay away from the property.
Hours later, deputies were called back to the home and found Kim Mattingly trying to leave. She was reportedly a passenger in a car. The officer said he told the driver to stop the car and ordered Kim Mattingly to get out.
She allegedly was unsteady on her feet, smelled of alcohol and “had an abusive attitude,” according to Howard.
This story ties back to the rumors heard by WasWatching.com back in 1996. Kim Mattingly’s mugshot:
Not the greatest moment for any family, I’m sure. Here’s hoping that Mrs. Mattingly and the Mattingly family are able to work this all out in a manner that’s best for them all.
While I understand what passes for news in this messed up world, this is precisely the kind of story that made me ill equipped for covering ‘ news.’
While I know you and many others are just doing their job, I respectfully disagree with publishing this in any medium, as I don’t see how any human benefits from detailed reporting of this sad situation. And the use of the pic, an old one too, is unsavory at best.
Ditto. Especially agree re the use of the photo.
Neither the greatest post you’ve made … really bad taste of your part. And, yes, why not, blame it on Cashman.
I agree…posting this picture was pathetic. Even if the story is worthy of mention, there was no need to include the mug shot. By doing so, you’ve committed a tasteless act of incredible proportions. Considering the time that has elapsed, I would have hoped better judgment would have prompted you to remove it, but I guess sensationalism trumps integrity in the blog world as much as the tabloids.