Did you hear that? Wait, stop moving...stop breathing (your mouth-breathing might scare it away), it kinda smells like it...stop moving! Yep, if you look (slowly) around the corner, it's the weekend. Don't you dare scare it away or I will find you.
Today is Friday and I will be mixing in some more links to very interesting and cool sports stories so that you can not only read about them but view what I am talking about (with my commentary of course.)
1. I am a big fan of the Howard Stern Show. I have listened to him for a long time and find the format of the show entertaining and creative. The production manager Gary Dell'Abate (Dell-Ah-Bah-Tay) who is both an instrumental part of the show's production and a target for ridicule time and time again has been noted for one of the worst opening pitches in baseball history (this is a known fact...like gravity) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfLIyT8HExY I saved you the hassle of having to watch a Domino's Pizza commercial on MLB.com, jerks. Anyway, it's fantastic. If you didn't know about it, now you do...you're welcome. BUT WAIT!!! relax Gary, it's fine, really it's fine...because (also at a Mets game, pattern developing...Mr. 50 Cent got a little wild with his first pitch as well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FHj53QBHY Not a good throw and made more awkward by the lefty-ness of it all (sorry southpaws). The thing is, and this is what I love about the Howard Stern Show is that you're only as ridiculous or on the hot seat as you can be for that moment. They cast such a wide net that you can feel safe letting yourself take some criticism because it'll be on some tomorrow, and that's the best. Keep it light.
2. (This happened Thursdsy night) You know it's bad when a play in sports makes it to CNBC and it's not curling (they love curling coverage and so do I). But this one made it on to their mid-morning coverage and was pretty special. It involved Ryan Raburn (Detroit Tigers OF/INF) figuring out how to get the baseball back into the infield as quickly as possible after a base hit down the LF line. Just watch, it explains itself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnm9l54KWjw It's not pretty, but it gets worse - http://deadspin.com/5796016/heres-your-mlb-play-of-the-season-as-ryan-raburn-assists-a-home-run So there's that too. I am sorry to say this but maybe, just maybe he is some how involved in a point shaving/baseball reverse version of that. (Thanks to YouTube and Deadspin for those links.) And I really do think Ryan Raburn just got the bad end of two very unfortunate plays. You don't make it to the major league in any sports and not know how to play...it's just sometimes...it seems like you don't. Ryan Raburn has played 9 years in major league baseball = not too shabby.
3. Before I get into other things there is one more link and then I'm done - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaYuxTj4yh4 OK, so the quality is toilet and I am pretty sure the telecast was hard to hear, but hey that's Mariah Carey throwing out a first pitch in high heels and a very, very shiny jacket. It is what it is.
4. On to more local sports, today as was brought to the forefront of my brain by my fellow Mets fan Ed - the Good Ol' Mets are possibly thinking about putting in a referendum to the Wilpons to have the GM think about pursuing, if they can find the dough and scour the farm system (which they can) for Colorado Rockies SS Troy Tulowitzki. He is a phenomenal player when healthy but that's just it, how do you gauge how healthy an injury prone player can be? I think that this calls for replacing all human baseball players with robots. It makes all the sense in the world. Broken down half way through the contract? Wrench, oil and maybe a little side action and the robot is back. Done! This whole human thing is kinda looking silly. My advice to the Mets don't leverage the farm, you don't want it to be a let down. Last link (I think it works here) - http://www.cc.com/video-clips/aot4gb/futurama-bean-machine apologies for the commerical beforehand but I couldn't another link.
That's about I have for today. If you are still reading and you have any great nicknames you have for sports players or celebrities, I would like to start a contest for who have the best. Doesn't have to be dirty in nature (yes there are a lot of Sanchez's out there) but the more creative the better. Not everyone is named Jerricho "Cotch Man Doodle" Cotchery.
Have a great weekend and...
Happy Watching!
-Shaun
McBean!!
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