Saturday, July 12, 2008

Crazy like a Hull?

Reports have questioned a recent trade between your DHD and the Vancouver Tuques. The scrutiny doesn’t involve money changing hands or uneven talent, but the identities of two players involved.

Pitcher Dmitri Hull and OF Gene Fox, both acquired by Honolulu in the deal, just happen to look very, very similar. In fact, the two have been mistaken for brothers on numerous occasions, and have even battled rumors that they are THE SAME PLAYER! Visually, the only real difference between the two (aside from six years of age) is Fox’s diabolical goatee, which is also rumored to be a paste-job.

After extensive research and information from numerous sources The Big Island has the answer. Fox and Hull are not the same person, but amid the recent accusations have discovered that they are brothers. They share a mother, a jock-sniffer from East St. Louis named Phyllis, but each received chromosomes from a different famous father.

Dmitri Hull, the elder of the two, is the spawn of NHL great Brett Hull. Reportedly, Phyllis “pulled the goalie” back in 1980, when Brett Hull was only 16 years old. Nice work, Brett!

Meanwhile, Gene Fox is discovered to be the son of late comedian Redd Foxx of Sanford & Son fame. Apparently Redd was still getting the job done as late as 1986 when he fathered his youngest “big dummy.”