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Who's the baseball fan? (cont.)

Posted: Tuesday June 19, 2007 12:22PM; Updated: Tuesday June 19, 2007 12:53PM
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Alyssa Milano, Tom Glavine
Alyssa Milano did NOT date Tom Glavine.
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It took three years, but TOUCH finally launched this spring. There are hoodies and jerseys and jeans and tops, and they're selling so well, the line's going to double next season. Milano still gets warm fuzzies when she sees girls in her clothes at Dodgers Stadium and she might just still squeal when she catches a fan in one of her designs on TV. MLB has the exclusive rights until August, but the NCAA and the NFL are already talking about Milano making lines for them.

Of course, nearly all the pub the line has gotten has been tied into her penchant for pitchers. Major League Baseball asked her if she wanted in on its MLBlogs community and with the first entry, the jabs started: "It was like, 'Oh right, Alyssa Milano cares about baseball because she slept with three baseball players.'"

So she hit back. With her publicist screaming "No!" in the background, Milano went ahead and blogged about her love life. She said there was a double standard, she defended falling for ballplayers and though she didn't name names then, she had no problem doing so with us. For the record, Milano did date Carl Pavano, Barry Zito and Brad Penny. Josh Beckett and Tom Glavine weren't quite so lucky. And by the way, Milano threw in, "I didn't pick them. They picked me. All three of them!"

She fully admitted it's a little weird that they were all pitchers. Heck, Milano full on laughed, "The weirdest part is probably that they were back-to-back-to-back. I mean, there was a distinct time between all of them, but there wasn't a musician thrown in there."

She's a cover girl, her 24-year old brother Cory lives with her and she's been single since January. She thinks it's funny when all those bloggers have her dating some other athlete, largely because, and here she sighed a little, "I'm not even interested in anyone." She does occasionally get irritated, though, like last week when an ostensible sports journalist asked her, "How many athletes have seen your tattoos." But right now, if there's anything Milano hopes she's doing with this attention and this blog and these Thursday nights tuned into baseball, it's saying, "Women can love this sport too. Women can know their stuff."

Sometimes Milano blogs off the cuff. Mostly she takes the time to write a draft and do some research. She's moaned about Grady Little's dawdling pitch-pulling (what Red Sox fan can't commiserate?), she thinks Jason Giambi getting called out for being honest is absurd, and she regularly goads her readers into lineup debates.

"I read all the comments," she said. "Sometimes I wish I didn't because I feel like I need therapy afterwards."

Milano's been to 11 ballparks and she's working on putting together trips to Wrigley and Busch this summer. Her parents' present to her two Christmases ago was a framed black-and-white of Jackie Robinson outside Ebbets Field and her ticket stubs from the inaugural World Baseball Classic have a spot of honor at her ranch northwest of L.A.

Milano just finished filming Pathology -- during which co-star and Angels fan Milo Ventimiglia accused her of emasculating him after a discussion of L.A. baseball -- and since ABC didn't pick up her latest pilot, she's busy meeting with writers. She's struggling to figure out which candidate she likes for 2008 and she thinks it's high time Ned Colletti found the Dodgers a big bat.

And after that, it was time to hang up the phone. There was a baseball game on.

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