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MLB uses Quentin and Greinke brawl as a Valentine's Day card punchline

This is a really weird tweet to be coming from the official MLB Twitter account, right?

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Why would they think Zack Greinke throwing a baseball at Carlos Quentin and igniting a fight that would lead to a broken collar bone and eventually a suspension would be a good punchline for a Valentine's card? You don't literally need a punch in a punchline.

I keep staring at it and wondering if I'm missing something.  I mean, maybe if at some point in the fight they accidentally kissed, but I'm pretty confident that that didn't happen.  I don't get it.  I am fairly certain it's not funny, even in a non-politically correct sort of way.  It also lacks a level of sexiness, what with Greinke's rear end front and center.  So what's it doing on a Valentine?

I feel bad for the intern that probably posted it.  People are without a doubt going to get (or act) offended and (s)he will get  into a butt load of trouble.  I'm just imagining if we had posted this fake card.  It'd be another Valentine's Day Massacre. I don't even want to think about it, it makes me nauseous.  Then again, the Dodgers posted a veiled threat aimed at the Padres in a Ron Burgundy tweet immediately after the fight, so maybe everyone will just agree it's hilarious.  It's hard to say how the internet reacts to these types of things.

UPDATE:

As I'm writing this the tweet was deleted.  Let's pretend it never happened.  Here's a screen cap, so we know what to forget:

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