Free JC -- The Tee Shirt
You ask for it and we deliver. After hearing the horrible news last night of J.C. Romero's 50 game suspension due to "negligence," we went and created these tee shirts which you can purchase right here to show your support for the winner of games three and five of the World Series. The creative is due in large part to Mr. P. and his lovely lady friend. So think of them and us every time you sport your FREE JC! tee at a Phils game this year in protest of MLB's horrible decision to suspend the world's greatest middle reliever.
This is our first attempt at putting a tee shirt together and we've yet to see one of these bad boys in real life, so we're not entirely sure how the image translates to cotton.
There are a few different shirt options for you to check out here and they all have our website URL logo on the back. So then everyone sitting behind you at the game knows you get your sports information from a bunch of dudes in the basement in their underwear.
>>Free JC tee shirts [Cafe Press]
what's great is that if you get the one without Romero on it, you can reuse it at reinactments of the Stations of the Cross at your next Catholic service. Kill two birds with one stone.
Down with Dong Lien/Pontius Pilot!
Wait, his first name is Dong?
Posted by: ill | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 07:48 AM
Maybe to avoid the jesus shirts it should be free Juan Carlos
Posted by: ahorrow | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 08:43 AM
do all proceeds go to the phillies to get a new reliever?
Posted by: T.J. | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 08:53 AM
These are also available for purchase at GNC.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 09:37 AM
on the back: with every $50 purchase at GNC
Is he still signing autographs at the Cherry Hill GNC this week?
This suspension is ridiculous. 50 games? It really is absurd.
Posted by: rick | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 09:42 AM
There's nothing wrong with getting your sports news from guys in their basements in their underwear!
Killer shirts btw.
Posted by: Loqiel | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Replace "in the basement in their underwear" with "in their mom's basement in their underwear"
Posted by: Tartan69 | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:32 AM
That shirt is perfecrt
Posted by: Leroy | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:53 AM
JC should come out to Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' for now on. And the shirt would've been better with a Che'-style look.
Posted by: Take it deep | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:08 AM
suspension will be overturned. mark it
Posted by: heathcliff slocumb | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:16 AM
JC is going to be the healthiest and freshest left handed reliver in the majors come June. I guess that's the only silver lining I can really pull from this. F YOU BUD SELIG!! I BOOED YOUR A$S ON NATIONAL TV.
Posted by: jay | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:21 AM
I would just like to point out that if the Rays had won the World Series...and one of their middle relievers took the place of Romero in this "scandal"...you would all be calling for a lifetime ban
Posted by: John | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:26 AM
It looks like the movie poster for "Platoon." Which in this case is somewhat appropriate.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:27 AM
@John: I would like to point out that you couldn't be more wrong. A screwing-over is a screwing-over, period.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:28 AM
@ Cham: Yeah, JC did screw himself over by thinking a testosterone enhancer wouldn't create a positive test for abnormal levels of testosterone. He should have just stuck with NO-Xplode or something. Have you read the label on this stuff?
http://anabolicminds.com/store/1347.html
Posted by: John | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:37 AM
suspension will be overturned. mark it
Posted by: heathcliff slocumb | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:46 AM
@John: The bottle that J.C. purchased over the counter at GNC, according to him, did not have the warning label that appeared on the bottled MLB purchased later. (Whether that's true or not is a matter for further investigation.)
Also, the Players Association told their players that these supplements were within the acceptable limits of what was tested by the league.
The letter informing the players that the supplement Romero took was in fact on the banned list did not arrive until November.
Romero took the supplement to not one, but two different nutritionists, who both said it checked out OK. J.C. got a second opinion at the advice of Dong Lien.
The league wanted Romero to admit he knowingly used a banned substance that he thought was not banned in the first place.
So if Romero was informed that what he was taking was acceptable for use, and passed the scrutiny of two different nutritionists, then how can you say he wasn't screwed over?
He got a fifty-game suspension for basically being honest and sticking to his principles.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Great! My Free UU shirt was getting threadbare.
Posted by: SJF | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:09 PM
how does this substance policy have an credibility anymore? Why does baseball even have a system? Bud Selig, arbitrators, educated men, how can this happen? Free JC for sure. 'Smoke a Bud' with Seligs old tired face in the background is a nice addition to the T-shirt sale--someone that knows anything about designing should make it. send most of the profit to a charity in puerto rico in honor of JC.
Posted by: will.H | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:19 PM
These shirts are awesome. I'm definitely ordering one later.
Posted by: Stevek | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:47 PM
@ill: BEST COMMENT EVER!!!!!
@John: clearly you didn't read either article
@ill: BEST FRIGGIN COMMENT EVER!
Posted by: MPR529 | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Why isn't he appealing? If he's so innocent and won't admit guilt, why not fight? Hard to free JC if he won't even help his own case.
Posted by: Matt F | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 02:06 PM
if i had money id sooooooooo buy one of these
Posted by: Hummer | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 03:17 PM
Game 51: Sunday, May 31 vs. Washington, 1:35 pm
Posted by: MikeY | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 04:14 PM
I have a feeling JC's suspension will be overturned on Easter.
Posted by: Pistols at Jawn | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 08:22 PM
Excellent shirts. Major League Baseball really dropped the ball on this one.
An online petition has been started as well. Here's the link if anyone wants to sign:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/romero16/petition.html
Posted by: J | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 09:15 PM
That logo is kind of busy, how about something like this that uses the Phillies font.
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2053/jctshirtbn6.jpg
Get them here - http://www.cafepress.com/Section143
Posted by: Red State | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 09:37 AM
I like the current logo, but maybe put his arms raised picture under the "Free JC" letters, instead of behind them?
I guess the picture being behind the letters kind of symbolizes that he's behind bars or something, but I think it'd look better the other way.
Posted by: MikeY | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 10:00 AM
You know, although we have yet to see what he has, you gotta like that we signed Gary Majewski now. Inserto, pretty much, defacto.
Posted by: chriszak | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 at 05:53 PM
I like the design, but we can has buttonz plz?
Posted by: silence dogood | Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 02:00 AM
Another shirt. I think that Selig needs to feel the heat. He was presented with evidence from the company that makes the stuff that it does cause false positives. he didn't want to here it. He's a vampire
get a t-shirt made that has photo of Selig with fangs and above it " And you thought Dracula worked nights ? " FREE JC
Posted by: Danielle the Phillies Nut | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 03:10 PM