2006- Olsen engaged in fisticuffs with former teammate, and now friend, Randy Messenger which resulted in a black eye for Olsen. Later in the same season he got in seperate dug out arguments with star third baseman Miguel Cabrera and Manager Joe Girardi.
2007- In his second full season with the club Olsen has decided to bring his "A" game. On the mound the young lefty is 8-7 with a 4.99 ERA (way to high for a national league starter), off the mound he has three separate incidents. This past June Olsen was fined a unspecified amount for flipping the bird to the great fans of Milwaukee. His Friday start marked his return from a two game suspension for fighting with teammate Sergio Mitre, who dared to give Olsen some encouraging words after Olsen's start.
After earning the victory in the Marlins 10-2 victory over the Reds on Friday, Olsen was pulled over at 3:40 am, or should I say police attempted to pull him over. Olsen ignored the police ran a stop sign, drove to his house, parked his car and sat on a plastic lawn chair. F.Y.I it's pretty classy to have lawn furniture in your front yard. Olsen, who I hope was wearing a wife beater, then set the scene for a classic episode of Cops.
As police wait for back up outside his home, Olsen waits in his plastic thrown, when police arrives chaos ensues. Apparently Olsen did not want to be arrested so he kicked on of the arresting officers, who subsequently zapped him with a stun gun(what I would give to see this). Finally, Olsen failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer. Olsen was released Saturday afternoon on 11,000 bond.
The Marlins need to send Olsen a message and send him to down to the minors the rest of the season. Cutting or trading him is to drastic at this point, this gives Olsen a opportunity to settle down focus on his life and get back to pitching.
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