Here's little fun fact you may or may not know about Carl Pavano and Brady Penny, the pitchers squaring off against each other in tonight's Tigers/Twins game: they both dated actress and noted baseball aficionado Alyssa Milano.
↵Milano dated Pavano for less than a year in 2004 and Penny for less than a year in 2005 before moving on to Barry Zito.
↵Milano is a huge baseball fan and once said that she used to date so many baseball players because she believes in the saying "do what you love." Milano is a Dodgers fanatic and wrote a baseball book, which features one of the hottest passages ever written by a woman:
↵↵↵"Other women dream of papaya facials and mango pedicures. Give me a hot dog, a pitchers' duel and a late-inning suicide squeeze, and I melt like hot pine tar."
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↵↵I'm not sure if Penny and Pavano ever pitched against one another before they dated Milano, but they have not matched up since -- let's hope it doesn't get weird.
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