A great topic for the next session of the Speculation Station: Exactly how famous do you have to be to get upset when somebody doesn't recognize you? And once you've reached that level of fame, how famous do you have to be until only other famous people will do?

Some baseball guy named Larry Jones tries to sympathize with the greatest all-around sports hero of his generation in today's Dugout, after the jump.

The Dugout

	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: How you doin' there, Broken Arrow?
	e5_rod:
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: Don't get so down on yourself, it's tough to be famous.
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: Take me for example. I seem like a pretty normal, down-to-Earth kinda guy, right? Well, I had an 18-month affair with a Hooters waitress that destroyed my marriage.
	e5_rod: /sniffles
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: And hey, I'm not really that famous! I can't imagine what it's like to be you. Who would ever hope to understand you?
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: You can't marry a normal girl, you've got to find a girl who knows the pressures and knows what a struggle it is to be a beautiful millionaire.
	e5_rod: /blows nose on $100,000 Woodrow Wilson bill
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: But Madonna... man, that must be cool, huh? She's been hot for like, 50 years!
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: I tried to hook up with a celebrity once, and it didn't go so well.
	Online Host Last year in the Daytona 500 Party Chatroom!
	FrancoeuAmerican: I can't believe they let Cal Ripken Jr. drive the pace car.
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: yeah he just kept driving around and around in circles until somebody pulled him aside and made him stop.
	FrancoeuAmerican: And Big and Rich did such a great job with the national anthem, I especially liked it when Cowboy Troy dropped in to hip-hop about the "United States of Izzay"
	FrancoeuAmerican: And then he rhymed it with "gettin' biz-zay," which was awesome
	FrancoeuAmerican: And Nicholas Cage was there! Man! I wish I knew a single f***ing thing about racing so we could keep talking about this
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: yeah did dick trickle win, I wasn't paying attention
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: Oh man, the best part was Kelly Clarkson "saluting america" with a medly of her hits that have nothing to do with America
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: She can salute my America anyday, that girl is built like a dump truck
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: (is that how Sisqo phrased it)
	FrancoeuAmerican: gulp! I dunno, but here she comes right now! Look!
	Online Host BehindTheseHazel_IMs has entered the chatroom and is walking toward AChipOffTheOl'_erJones
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: She's not carrying a plate of wings! W-w-what do I do??
	FrancoeuAmerican: shhh be quiet here she comes
	BehindTheseHazel_IMs: hay yall
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: oh, ah, ahem /puts out hand Nice to meet you, I'm-
	BehindTheseHazel_IMs: /puts camera in Chipper's outstretched hand hay can you take a pitcher of mee'n mah friends? thane kew!
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: ehhh
	FrancoeuAmerican: lol harshly owned, she has no idea who you are hahaha
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	e5_rod: /sniffle what did joo do
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: Welp! There was nothing I could do! I just realized that sometimes folks make mistakes and you've got to move on with your life.
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: and when we got back to the clubhouse I got our GM to send Francoeur down to our half-A minor league team to make him think about what it means to laugh at another man's sorrow
	e5_rod: haha maybe kyle farmsworth woul like to spen the fall playingk for the weedsport yank sox
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: And my story isn't even the worst. What about when Jim Thome hung out with Michael Jackson?
	WordUpThome: WACKO JACKO
	WordUpThome: WACKO JACKSON
	WordUpThome: WACKSON JACKSON
	LazyPunchline: Do you want to go ride trains? I've got a lot of really cool stuff, we could-
	WordUpThome: MICHAEL JACKO
	WordUpThome: WACO JA
	WordUpThome: JACKO
	LazyPunchline: I'm bored, I'm gonna go over here and eat some cotton candy
	WordUpThome: MICHAEL "JACKSON" JACKO
	AChipOffTheOl'_erJones: And what about the time when the Young Brothers hooked up with Taco?
	SteakGrowsOnDmitri: gimme dem ritz
	Taco: you'll have to wait a moment I'm about to put some of them on
	SteakGrowsOnDmitri: ya playin righ
	DudeYerGettinADelmon: f**k da ritz crackas brah this brothas name is tacos
	SteakGrowsOnDmitri: fa real
	SteakGrowsOnDmitri: tacos is ya shoot name, fa real
	Taco: uh actually my-
	SteakGrowsOnDmitri: ya starten ta give me a syndrome boy
	DudeYerGettinADelmon: /throws bat at Taco's head, knocking him unconscious
	DudeYerGettinADelmon: puttin on tha hits

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