Sounds Like Someone May Be Filming ‘Bunnies in the Outfield’

Now for a baseball controversy that doesn’t involve steroids. It does involve impressive-looking bodies, though.

Pierce College’s Roundup newspaper revealed that Playboy’s Spice network paid the school $5,000 to use the Woodland Hills school’s baseball field for a promotional video.

Or, as a Spice spokesman put it, a video involving men and women who were “provocatively dressed.”

An editorial in the Roundup criticized the deal with Spice, saying, “Yes, Pierce needs the money. However, how far are they willing to go and what’s next?”

Naturally, the national media have taken notice. Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times wondered if the video would be called “The Bad News Bares.”

You can unload the ark: Fortunately, one online rainfall forecast spotted by Steve Offers of Northridge was way off (see accompanying).

Choices, choices: Patrick Coulter recently attended an LAPD graduation ceremony at its motorcycle training facility in Granada Hills and, “as we were leaving, we came to a fork in the road on the academy grounds” (see photo).

“I just knew, that whichever direction I turned, there would be a brand new motorcycle cop waiting to issue his first ticket.” I won’t say which way Coulter chose because I don’t want to open him up for prosecution.

San Diego’s two cents’ worth: Columnist Diane Bell of the San Diego Union-Tribune recently mentioned that a local newscaster complained that the new California quarter depicting naturalist John Muir (see photo) has no San Diego link (I think San Diego newscasters are sensitive to slights since the movie “Anchorman,” which depicted a clownish talking head in that town).

Anyway, Bell found that there is a link of sorts: Five of Muir’s direct descendants live in the San Diego area.

But while we’re at it, what’s L.A.’s connection to a coin that also shows a condor and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park?

There isn’t one unless you count the fact that Muir died in Los Angeles.

It was an ironic final destination for a man who treasured fresh air.

Then again, the year was 1914, so you can’t blame his passing on smog.

miscelLAny: Judy Goldstein of Reseda saw a lunch truck that advertised a pastrami sandwich with “muster.”

“Wasn’t sure if I should salute or not,” she added.

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