Another Youtube

I know some people have already watched this one but I cant risk someone not seeing it. Mullet head got walloped and pwned. Sounded like a gunshot. Look at the look on the punchers face as shes winding up, then the double fast walk away. Check out the old lady at the beginning too. Love this clip so much. Rlol

Evil Eye

Colombia Soccer Brawl

Check out this crazy clip from a brawl in a soccer game in Cololmbia Sunday that left 80 injured, including 18 with stab wounds:

Soccer is nuts. The fight started after the ref failed to call a penalty kick late in the second half. One team’s coach came out and hit the other team’s coach and all hell broke loose. Read more here.

Matt Walsh, Chuck Norris and The Wire finale

First off, a farewell to The Wire. That last episode was perfect for me. I was very nervous the ending was going to piss me off, but it was terrific. It’s a shame I got into the show so late and had to speed through seasons 1-6 since October. Now that Sopranos and The Wire are done forever, and the writer’s strike cancelled this year’s 24 and Entourage, I’m hurting for non-sports TV. I got South Park back in business this Wednesday, but other than that, I got nothing. Any suggestions are welcome.

Now, to the links:

If you get a few minutes, make sure you check out the today’s feature the Globe did on Matt Walsh, the former Patriots video assistant prominently involved in the ongoing Spygate drama. Walsh, as reported by multiple media outlets, is close to reaching some sort of immunity agreement with the NFL so he can tell his story, which both he and his lawyer have indicated contains damaging material against the Pats.

Excellent work by the Globe. This is why you still need newspapers. The internet and TV are great and all, mostly for their instantaneity, but newspapers are the only media where I guy can spend a few weeks making calls, traveling and doing some actual investigative journalism.

The story on what he did to his roommate’s girlfriend at Springfield College is priceless. Worth the read alone. Enjoy.

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For all you Chuck Norris fans out there, and I know there’s plenty, here’s a picture tribute detailing the facts and/or legends about “our nation’s greatest hero.”

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Finally, I know this site has been circling the internet like crazy and there’s a 85% chance you’ve already seen it, but it’s so good that this is for the other 15% who haven’t: stuff white people like.

I wouldn’t read all of them completely, just do a scan through. I LOL’d at “The Wire,” “Study Abroad,” “Apple products,” “The Daily Show/Colbert Report,” “Making you feel bad about not going outside,” and my favorite on the list: “Irony.” List should just be called Stuff People at BU like. I thought of hundreds of kids I went to college with when reading this thing.

Manny Buys Pedroia a Rolex; Handryers suck

Can’t stand hand dryers in public restrooms. Nothin’ beats a good ol’ paper towel. I think a hand dryer is the only technological advancement that actually made a process slower. Takes a minute+  to fully dry your hands with that thing when a paper towel takes 10 seconds tops. Seriously, can you name any other technology that slows something down? I can’t. Even the old brown paper towels you used in grade school dry things quicker, and those things were barely paper at all – one step down from tree. If you spilt a beaker in science class, you were screwed. Just had to keep dabbing away with that non-absorbant sheet. Eventually you’d just have to let it sit there and slowly soak up like it was a piece of oak.

Loving hearing people slowly incorporating new, professional voice recordings for their voicemail inbox. Gone are ‘Hey, what’s up…” or “Yo, you know who it is…” or a corny R&B or pop song or something. Now that people are entering the profession (read: whack) portion of life, it’s only: “Hi, you’ve reached [insert full name]. I’m available to take your call right now, but if you leave a detailed message, I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.” Funny to me when you hear someone’s changed message for the first time. Always laugh.

Manny bought Dustin Pedroia a Rolex for winning Rookie of the Year. Promises to get him something else if he hits over .300 again. Love that man.

The ads in the AIM info boxes are really starting to bother me now. Pretty soon they’ll have ‘em right in the damn IM window. No shame here. Remember those ads that would just start playing videos or bumping tunes without prompt? Those were the worst.

YoTD – Battle at Kruger

This Youtube of the day is long, but one of the most amazing things Ive ever seen. This could be made into an entire documentary. If nature and animals interest you in the slightest, watch this thing and love it.

Pujols Injury and Appreciation

I was posting this for my fantasy baseball league last night and figured the blog readers might want to get the low down on the Pujols injury anyway. I did some research and asked Richie to help me understand it. I actually might interview Rich and ask about sports injuries then post that next week. He’ll have his doctorate in physical therapy or some stuff soon. Anyway, back to Pujols, here ya go.

Pujols has the torn ligament in his elbow (the UCL), which would require Tommy John surgery to fix. (Tommy John is UCL reconstruction by transferring a tendon from another part of the body). But the tear of the ligament has been there for awhile and hasn’t gotten much worse so they want to put that off as long as possible.

The real problem is the discomfort from the stuff around the UCL. It looks like bone spurs, maybe some floating cartilage, and it seems to be getting worse. To fix this they can go in for an arthroscopy, which is a minor surgery to clean out all the trash floatin around, and he would be back in a couple weeks or so. Why not do this? Maybe they don’t want to because it would just be a big band aid and still leave him with the torn ligament. Maybe they know Tommy John is coming soon enough and they will clean it all out during the reconstruction.

It looks like they are going with the third option. Just treat the symptoms. Keep the pain and swelling under control and have him gut his way through it. They will see if the ligament or spurs worsen to where they need to just blow it up, reconstruct the thing, and get him ready for ‘09.

The guy played like a hall of famer as soon as he entered the majors. There was no development curve. He posted an OPS over 1000 as a rookie. Thats extremely extremely rare. Hes a lifetime .332 hitter. He is the best hitter we have ever seen outside of Bonds. Hes not a better fantasy player, but hes twice the pure hitter A-Rod is. In 2006 he missed 20 games, but still hit 49 HR. That year he K’ed only once more than he homered, 50 times. He slugged .671 and threw in a gold glove for good measure. (How about this secret stat, he stole 16 bases in 2005.)

I love the rare low strikeout power hitters. Pujols is unique in that his approach is more about line drives up the middle and gap power, but hes so strong that those balls can, and do, leave any part of the ballpark. Im focusing on 06 because it was his best year, but he hasn’t struck out 70 times since his rookie year.

2006 HR Leaders

Ryan Howard _____58 HR / 181 K
David Ortiz _______54 HR / 117 K
Albert Pujols ______49 HR / 50 K
Alfonso Soriano ____46 HR / 160 K
Lance Berkman ____45 HR / 106 K
Jermaine Dye _____44 HR / 118 K
Travis Hafner _____42 HR / 111 K
Jim Thome _______42 HR / 147 K
Carlos Beltran _____41 HR / 99 K
Andruw Jones _____41 HR / 127 K
Adam Dunn _______40 HR / 194 K

Aramis Ramirez, Sheff, Carlos Lee Vladdy are the only other guys who are able to come close in terms of power/low K’s. The thing with them is they are all, for the most part, free swingers. Pujols and Bonds are the only guys you’ll see who dont strikeout, pump bombs, and have extreme plate discipline. How do you get guys out when they do not chase bad pitches but also dont swing and miss at pitches in the zone?

St. Maarten Will Take Ya Head Off

Some day I need to stand under this thing. Here is your youtube of the day.

Couple quicks…

-Texting and driving is more common than adults realize. That stuff is not safe. Maybe as bad as driving drunk or asleep. Ive been practicing the no look Matt Damon in The Departed text. It can be done.

-You know you car dance a little. When you really have to jam out the arms, shoulders, and torso are movin. Feel like its kinda good too huh. Now what I want to know is if people confined to a wheelchair dance, and do they dance like healthy people car dance?

-Woww Snickers ice cream bars are unbelievable. Replace the regular filling with ice cream and the caramel doesn’t freeze? Things are out of this world. Get one and you’ll probably never go back to any other convenience store ice cream. I saw Sull eat one the other day and as hes finishing he says “wow I could eat two more”. Later on, diff place, Retta eats one and says “I could eat three of those”. What a treat.

Spring training is upon us. Lets remember not to put to much stock in it though. Realize that players are just getting the rust off and working on the basics. Don’t get too worried if the Sox, or your fantasy team players aren’t doing so well.

“I’m just trying to put some good wood on the ball, see some good pitches, work on my timing and get my foot down. It’s crazy. We’ve got 25 games left. I’m trying to pace myself…. I’ve never seen a baseball card with spring training stats on it. I don’t want to be Cactus League MVP. I don’t want that trophy. Y’all can have that. I want that World Series ring.”–Tori Hunter

Links

-I love animals. This pisses me off.

-I need to grab a hybrid soon.

-Ovechkin scored his 50th goal. Here comes the boom.

-Give Ronald Jenkees a few minutes of your time. Hes re-diculous.

-Wolfie

The Problem with Facebook Apps and Brett Favre Retires

What happened to Rachel McAdams? Besides being absolutely gorgeous, and in my personal Top 10, she had a 15-month period in 2004-05 when she was absolutely on fire, with big roles in Mean Girls, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers. She was at the top of her game. Every guy loved her and girls didn’t mind her either because of The Notebook and her cute role in Wedding Crashers. I thought she was gonna be a star. Guess Red Eye was a bad idea.

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How much do you hate moving your car for someone to get out of a driveway or something? I know I do. It takes literally 45 seconds, but when you’re throwing on those shoes and reaching for those keys, I swear it feels like I would rather do anything else. Especially in the winter, too, when you have to throw a jacket into that mix.

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Retta and I were talking about it the other day, and he actually thought about posting something here himself, but got a little nervous of the female response. Well I’ll do it for him: how whack are Facebook applications? Things are a chooch meter, the more you have the bigger tool you are. Girls sending you Patriots’ fans apps 3 days before the Super Bowl. Bumper stickers with alcohol and slut jokes. Comparing hotness of people. What type of mixed drink are you? LOL C’mon now. I ignore all those things. Are me and Retta wrong about this?

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Brett Favre retired today. Pretty sure it shut down ESPN. Specials on every channel that have right now. I can’t get away from it. Pretty sure Skip Bayless almost just broke down on First Take. Guy’s spewing Favre propaganda right now. Funny how he bounced right after the Pats resigned Moss. Sorry pal, but he’ll stick with Brady.

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Every week I update email accounts for my weekly newsletter I send out every Monday for my job with Soccer New England. I cope/paste emails my boss sent me from people who used to subscribe to the print magazine, advertise with the magazine, or anyone who had some sort of affiliation with. I have about 10-12 huge word docs with hundred of emails – all about 4-5 years old, mind you.

A lot of the time I have to delete most of them after I send a test email because the address doesn’t exist anymore, stuff like old AOL screenames when that was all the rage and accounts from servers that don’t exist anymore (like Adelphia and Media One).

So…other day I’m doing my usual copy/paste routine and a certain email address jumped out at me: kgceltics@aol.com. What theeee? This was 5 years ago. Who knew about this? Who is this messiah? Well I racked my brain for a bit (probably too long considering I should have been working) and couldn’t figure out what else this could stand for. KG initials? I got nothing. I thought about the soccer team Celtic, but why the “s” then? If anyone has any ideas, please comment below. Or if you have AOL, give me a quick info search.

Ortiz Rides A Sidecar and The Whitest Kids U Know

First thing’s first. If you haven’t yet seen the best picture I’ve seen this week, check out David Ortiz riding in a sidecar during Wednesday’s trip to DC. This pic is from the Boston Herald. Get ready to LOL:

 Is he the man or what?

 Second thing I got for you is gold. My buddy introduced me to the Whitest Kids U Know, a sketch group that had a show on Fuse and apparently is a pretty big hit on the internet, so you may have already heard of them. Anyway, I checked out a few vids, and this one made me laugh the most:

Here’s one more explaining the “true” assination of Abe Lincoln. Who would have thought:

In sports news, Pats resigned Tedy Bruschi and Kelly Washington, and there’s nothing new on the Randy Moss front. As for Asante, he’s scheduled to meet with Philly today. This must be a dire time for Eagles’ fans because they announce his visit (along with a pic) on the front page of the team’s website. Relax.

In hoops, looks like Cassell is ready to come here. Too bad we already got PJ Brown, so we can’t bring in Spree too. Damn it.