You've probably heard about Josh Hamilton's alcohol relapse by now. What you might not have known is that former White Sox slugger Frank Thomas, who ruined the 2006 ALDS by homering twice in Game 1 for the A's, is now hawking a brew called Big Hurt Beer (24 oz, 7 percent alcohol ... that's a big hurt, indeed).

What do these things have to do with each other? Well, nothing except for a pair of amusing (and surely unintentional but poorly timed) back-to-back tweets from Frank Thomas just a few minutes apart (thanks to Howard Sinker for passing these along):