Melissa Lima

Melissa Lima is Jose Lima’s wife.

Melissa shot into internet super stardom in 2004, when she accompanied her husband, then a pitcher for the Dodgers, as he sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.

It isn’t exactly shocking that this photograph nearly crashed the interwebs, but the account of exactly what happened is pretty interesting.

As Ump Bump tells it, MLB.com initally put the photo on their site in its full glory, but quickly cropped Melissa out of it after Jose got upset about the type of attention his wife was receiving. It was already too late, of course, as her picture was on every sports forum on the planet.