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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Wednesday, February 11, 2009Brian Giles is an IdiotBrian Giles has now countersued his former girlfriend -- the one who claims he battered her -- alleging that she abused him.Look, there is absolutely nothing funny about domestic violence, so I'm going to break form here and eschew my usual snark. Thank God, then, that there is something else of note in the story besides the ugly abuse allegations: He also seeks the return of a diamond engagement ring he said he gave to her on Christmas Eve 2005 that is valued at $107,952. Brian, according to the clearly unbiased people at DeBeers, the guidelines for an engagement ring is two months salary. You made $8.33 million in 2005, which means that you should have laid out something on the order of $694,000 for that ring, you miserable cheapskate. Am I right ladies? Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 12:07pm Comments
Matt in Toledo said...
Am I the only whose future wife would have been furious had I dropped two months’ salary (pre- or post-tax) on a ring? Well, maybe not furious but probably not happy once she was with me on the hook for the credit card bill. Posted 02/11 at 04:57 PM
Craig Calcaterra said...
Sara—it was totally an ironic “am I right, ladies.” But if you feel the need to cybernoogie, cybernoogie away. And for the record, I didn’t spend that much on my wife’s engagement ring. In fact, she doesn’t have one because we got married when we were 20 and 21, had no money, and thought that furniture and food was a better use of resources. I did get her a ten-year anniversary ring, but it wasn’t two months salary either. Posted 02/11 at 05:09 PM
Sara K said...
I can definitely see the irony in a baseball blogger asking for “the ladies’” opinion. (crickets chirping…) When my husband and I were engaged, we didn’t bother with a ring. We figured that the money we’d spent on Crown Royal during the courtship was investment enough. ; - ) Posted 02/11 at 05:17 PM
RoyceTheBaseballHack said...
Re: Sara K’s “Investment”.... See - now that’s what I call, ‘Trickle down Economics’, that will work for everyone. Posted 02/11 at 06:18 PM
Jason @ IIATMS said...
from Ron White: You know those DeBeers commercials? They’re starting to say more what they actually mean. First it was, “A diamond is forever.” Then it turned into, “Diamonds… Take her breath away.” Then they changed it to, “Diamonds… Render her speechless.” Next it’ll be, “Diamonds… That’ll shut her up…” Posted 02/11 at 06:37 PM
TC said...
My fiance’s ring was bought at a cool little knickknack shop outside of Philadelphia for a 2 digit price tag. She paid for it. I was there, but it was her cash. Two months salary? No thanks. Posted 02/11 at 07:05 PM
Melody said...
My engagement ring was given to my husband by his grandmother, a very sweet woman who’d been married to her late husband for almost 50 years before he died of cancer. It actually did cost about 2 months salary, since both of us were taking turns on unemployment at the time… damn economy! That’s what I get for working in social services. Re the early comments (Ron, etc) regarding domestic violence, it makes me angry to see those assumptions about “most cases” being found to be baseless, or how “easy” it is for a woman to simply claim that she’s been assaulted. Having worked as a domestic violence counselor for two years in NYC, I can vouch for the fact that there are FAR FAR more legitimate cases that go unreported and/or unprosecuted. It’s a difficult crime to prove, and a complex and wide-reaching problem. I wish it were better understood, and I wish the automatic assumption weren’t that a woman is making up a story when she reports that she’s been assaulted. Posted 02/11 at 07:22 PM
Ethan Stock said...
I have known Craig for nearly 20 years and I find that math discussion sequence ending with “Um, sorry. I’m a moron” so perfect that I’m almost tempted to let it stand. But latter Craig’s self-admitted moronicity aside, I must defend the correctness of former Craig’s first statement against attacks of math-nerdism. Craig wrote, “on the order of $694,000” which as we all (cough) know, technically means within one order of magnitude, or between $69.4K and $6.94M. So Craig, in a moronic kind of way, was correct. —Ethan Note: I am using K here in the metric ‘kilo’ sense and not in the base-2 2^8 sense. Posted 02/12 at 01:13 AM
Ron said...
I actually bought an engagement ring from DeBeers, in South Africa of all places. I spent slighty less than a month’s salary. A lobotomy would have been cheaper and lasted longer. Posted 02/12 at 03:56 AM
Tony said...
Brian broke the rule. You NEVER propose during a gift giving period like a birthday, Valentine’s Day, or Christmas. The reason being is that there is case precident that during those periods an engagement ring is considered a gift. During all other days, the ring is part of a contract. No marriage, contract is broken and the ring must be returned. Posted 02/12 at 11:27 AM
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Part of the mentality that leads me to be enough of a baseball fan that I hang out on geeky blogs such as this also makes me the type to not wear jewelry, not know the answer to this question, and have to squelch the urge to cybernoogie Craig for assuming that I should know this because I happen to have a uterus.
But yeah, Giles is being an asshat.