Kevin Mitchell Sets the Record Straight About Whether or Not He Cut a Cat’s Head Off
By Mustafa GatollariSep. 15 2021, Published 9:47 a.m. ET
Sometimes the craziest rumors are unfold about public figures. And while the sector of sports has some verified city legends, like Doc Ellis pitching a no-hitter while tripping on acid, there are some moderately heinous ones that haven't been showed. Lately, persons are questioning if former primary league baseball player Kevin Mitchell did certainly decapitate a cat.
Did Kevin Mitchell decapitate a cat? The former Mets superstar spoke about it at the 'Extra Points' podcast.
While discussing the incident with sports media personality @TheCousinSal, Kevin categorically denied ever decapitating his ex-girlfriend's cat and expressed his unhappiness in former teammate Darryl Strawberry for "verifying" this story.
The tale is going that Kevin, in a "fit of rage," took a knife to a former girlfriend's cat and lower its head blank off.
Kevin said that after he was once a younger participant the story didn't bother him all that much most commonly because it used to be just a rumor or a loopy tale.
@TheCousinSal started the conversation via declaring, "It's a crazy claim, that a cat was decapitated at your hands. You're going to defend yourself here."
Kevin spoke back, "Everybody got a gimmick. Dennis Rodman wore dresses. That's a gimmick. It was all cool in the game when we were young. ... It was all fun. But when you start writing stuff in books and stuff that's not true and don't ask nobody about it then I got to defend myself.
"I'm a a lot older man and what's frightening about this is a couple of years in the past Straw used to be on a talk show with his new spouse," the World Series champion said.
Kevin then said that his former teammate stated that the story was accurate. Strawberry, while promoting his new book on HuffPost Live, said of the cat decapitation story, "That's a beautiful good story. I think it's lovely correct. Kevin Mitchell did do this. Kevin Mitchell, he is a different form of man."
Baseball great Kevin Mitchell sets the record straight about the crazy claim that he decapitated a cat.#OnceUponATimeInQueens #AgainstAllOdds @TheCousinSal pic.twitter.com/xq2VcOLAeK
— Extra Points (@ExtraPointsPod) September 14, 2021The purported feline decapitation was also referenced in Doc Gooden's 1999 autobiography, Heat, in which the pitcher wrote that both he and card show promoter Meade Chassky were with Mitchell when he killed the cat.
"Mitch took the knife to the cat and reduce its head off. Clean," he wrote. Doc didn't write whether or not Strawberry was present that night.
During his HuffPost Live interview, Strawberry went on to say about Mitchell, "He was affiliated with gangs somewhat a bit. I guess he figured that the female friend was performing a little crazy, so I’ll kill her cat. ... He reduce the cat’s head off."
Kevin cleared the air on the podcast and stated that he spoke with Darryl and asked him to recant his statement, He threatened that he could provide true stories of implied clubhouse debauchery that would grab headlines if Strawberry didn't comply.
Kevin Mitchell won a World Series with the Mets in 1986. He also cut his girlfriend’s cat’s head off during an argument.#MLB #Baseball #LGM pic.twitter.com/AvB0ebbkqw
— Greatest Show on Dirt (@greatestondirt) July 9, 2020Kevin also stated that from a practicality standpoint, cutting off a cat's head would probably be a bad idea, given how strong the animals are. He also said that he wouldn't want to potentially injure his hands and jeopardize his ball-playing career.
Mitchell, along with Strawberry, was a part of the infamous 1986 "Scum Bunch," the Mets team that won the 1986 World Series.
The Scum Bunch are the subjects of 'Once Upon a Time in Queens.'
The 30 for 30 documentary chronicles the development of the 1986 Mets team and their hard-partying and hard-playing ways that helped take them to the World Series championship victory.
It's 1986 all over again*!
* there's cocaine everywhere and Kevin Mitchell killed a cat #Mets pic.twitter.com/aDbJXU4qas
— Kevin Marshall (@KevinMarshall) September 26, 2015The ESPN docu-series has been receiving rave critiques and has introduced a ton of latest audience to a wild moment in sports activities history.
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