Padres outfielder Brian Giles is being sued by his former girlfriend, Cheri Olvera, who’s seeking $10 million in damages for an alleged history of physical and verbal abuse during their seven-year relationship.  Yikes.

Olvera claims that in 2002, Giles beat her while she was pregnant with his baby. Olvera later miscarried. Goldstein said Olvera doesn’t blame Giles for that miscarriage, but he said she does blame Giles for another miscarriage. He said that earlier this year, she became pregnant again with Giles’ baby. According to Goldstein, Olvera lost the baby after Giles allegedly threw her down a hallway.

I’m not a legal expert, but I’d think that abusing your girlfriend on-camera (see video) isn’t the best thing to do.  Some people might also suggest that abusing your girlfriend at all is a bad idea. They probably have a point there.

After reading this USA Today article from a week ago about the Giles brothers (Marcus and Brian), suddenly Greg Maddux peeing on teammates doesn't sound quite so strange. It's really too much material for one blog post; I kind of just want to put the entire profile in block quotes. But here's a taste:

"I'd be in (former manager Bruce) Bochy's office having a serious meeting and Brian would come in there fully naked, showing his batting stance," the GM [Kevin Towers] says. "He's normal except for the tanning booths, shaving his body and walking around with no clothes. One Giles is enough. I'm not sure if I can handle two of them."

Also revealed in the story: the brothers shave their bodies in the shower together in part to disturb pitcher Chris Young; Brian jokes that his parents work in the sex industry; Marcus claims that he hasn't put on makeup since he was five ("when [he] wanted to be a little girl"); and Brian says that his family won a karaoke contest when he was young because his mother's breast fell out of her shirt.

Listen, I don't pretend to know what it's like in a major league clubhouse, and I definitely understand that nudity is a part of locker room humor, but you just don't make jokes about your mom getting naked on stage. Unless, you know, she's a trick-ass ho. Then it's cool.

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