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8.  Encouraging Batboys To Partake In Milk Challenges — In 2005 then-Florida Marlins pitcher  Brad Penny offered the team’s batboy $500 to partake in the “milk challenge.” For those unaware of what that is — and we’re jealous of your ignorance to this — it’s where the participant has to chug a gallon of milk  in less than 60 minutes without puking.  Unsurprisingly, the batboy failed the challenge, not because he barfed, but because time ran out. So the kid forfeited the $500. And when team officials caught wind of he stunt they suspended the batboy six games.

Penny told the Miami Herald:

“It’s kind of ridiculous that you get a 10-game suspension for steroids and a six-game suspension for milk,” Penny told the Herald.