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Carl Edward Everett (born June 3, 1971 in Tampa, Florida) is an outfielder in Major League Baseball. A switch hitter, he last played with the Chicago White Sox, and was on their 2005 World Series winning roster. He is currently a member of the Seattle Mariners. He throws right-handed and plays all outfield positions, and often is the designated hitter.

Playing career

He was the 10th overall pick in the 1990 amateur draft, selected by the New York Yankees, but he would make his major league debut with the Florida Marlins on July 1, 1993.

After being traded to the Mets, he had his first full season in 1997 with 443 at bats. He hit .248 that season, with a .420 slugging percentage.

He had his best seasons with the Houston Astros, hitting .325 with 27 stolen bases in 1999. That year, his .571 slugging percentage was in the top 10 in the league.

After being traded once again, this time to the Boston Red Sox, he had a career high 34 home runs in 2000. The Boston fans welcomed him at first, but their enthusiasm cooled after an incident in May 2001 when he gave the one-finger salute to Seattle Mariners pitcher Jamie Moyer after hitting a home run. Soon thereafter he was suspended for 10 days after starting an altercation with an umpire that included shoving. He began to slump and everything went down hill. Players began to dislike Everett, and he was soon traded to the Texas Rangers for Darren Oliver.

On September 2, 2001, Everett was the pinch hitter who ruined a near perfect game by Mike Mussina of the New York Yankees. Mussina had retired the first 26 Boston Red Sox and gotten two strikes on Everett before Everett hit a soft double to left center.

In three separate years, Everett has made his league's top 10 in the hit by pitch category.

On December 14, 2005, Everett was signed by the Mariners off of the free agent market to a one year contract for the 2006 season, with a vesting option for 2007. He will play designated hitter and back up the outfield positions.

Controversies

Everett is an outspoken man, and his remarks have proven controversial on several occasions.

Perhaps the best-known of these was his denial of the existence of dinosaurs. He was quoted as saying, "God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex." He also derided fossils of dinosaur bones as man-made fakes. In reference to these comments, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy dubbed Everett "Jurassic Carl". Everett, in turn, referred to Shaughnessy as the "curly-haired boyfriend" of Globe beat writer Gordon Edes, a nickname which stuck after ESPN columnist Bill Simmons started incorporating it into his work.

In 1997, Everett and his wife Linda were charged with abusing their two children, Shawna and Carl IV. The criminal charges, which stemmed from allegations that Linda had applied "excessive corporal punishment" and that Carl had chosen not to intervene, were ultimately dropped. A judge in New York Family Court, however, placed Shawna in the care of her maternal grandmother, where she currently remains.

Everett has also made controversial remarks about homosexuality. He once said that if he had an openly gay teammate that he would consider retiring, or, at the very least, "set him straight". In the 2005 season, he told Maxim that he has had gay teammates and accepted them, but, "Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. … I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay." . Other contemporary players, such as John Smoltz and Todd Jones, have made similar remarks expressing reluctance to play on the same team as homosexuals.

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