Two Odd Stories of Baseball Players

1. Up and coming prospect leaves baseball for the priesthood

From Jon Paul Morosi @ Fox Sports

"Outfielder Grant Desme, one of the Oakland A’s top prospects, has decided to retire from baseball in order to pursue the priesthood, multiple sources told FOXSports.com.

An A’s official confirmed Desme’s decision this morning, saying the 23-year-old is “serious” about the big career change.

Desme is leaving baseball at a time when his fortunes seemed to be rising fast. He batted .288 with 31 home runs and 89 RBIs in 131 games last year. Then he starred in the Arizona Fall League, where some of the game’s top prospects compete each year.

Baseball America ranked Desme as the team’s 8th-best prospect after the season. He seemed likely to play at Class AA in 2010.

Desme, a Bakersfield, Calif., native, was the 2007 Big West Player of the Year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. "
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Will the monks be singing "How do you solve a problem like Gra-ant?" come Spring, when the bluebirds are warbling above the freshly cut grass of a baseball diamond, and Grant keeps missing Vespers because he's chasing flyballs in the meadow?

2. Does this mean MLB Teams now have to include -Picking Up Superstars from the Drunk Tank at 7:30am and Taking Them to Winchell's- on their Monster.com GM vacancy posts?

"police came to Cabrera's house and picked the All-Star up and took him in for questioning, leaving Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski to pick him up from the station at 7:30 AM Saturday morning."
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Fascinated as I am by the Baseball Celebritocracy, these have to be the weirdest stories about the people in the game I've read this offseason. No, Rihanna dating Matt Kemp or a mystery restraining order between Matt Kemp and his ex-girlfriend do not come close.