With the likelihood increasing that Jimmy Rollins will return to the Phillies and Rafael Furcal won’t be signing with the Brewers, beat writer Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel believes it’s likely that Yuniesky Betancourt will once again be the Brewers starting shortstop in 2012.
Let’s gauge the public reaction on that, via this sharply embedded YouTube video…
Reader Dawson Bergmann utilized his Twitter machine this afternoon to alert the present author to an image he’s (i.e. Bergmann’s) created using some combination of Photoshop and his imagination.
An image very similar to — although, I suppose, not precisely like — this (clicken to embiggen):
Might it be the start of a meme? Survey says “Possibly.” (Note: that the survey included a sample of only one person — that one person being the author — is immaterial.)
Hey, every baseball card, please make note of former NFL center Jim Langer’s 1979 Topps card:
From BillRipken.com via Coudal.
Earlier today, minor American author and disappointment to his parents Dayn Perry proposed to Kurt Suzuki how the latter might reach his daily quota of 4,000 calories in more colorful, debaucherous fashion. While Perry’s suggestion seems entirely original, some Serious Internetting has revealed that Perry actually stole his prescription directly from the late Harry Caray.
I’d say I was ashamed in him (i.e. Perry), but knowing how ashamed he already is in himself, I’ll refrain for the moment.
Legendary broadcaster and Italian-American in disguise Harry Caray was fired unexpectedly by the St. Louis Cardinals after the 1969 season. Rumors circulated that the reason for Caray’s sudden dismissal concerned an alleged affair that Caray was having with the daughter-in-law of Cardinals owner August A. Busch, Jr.
Caray spoke to those rumors later in life. And, while he doesn’t expressly use the word sex as a verb — like other luminaries such as Color Me Badd and Young MC — it’s obvious to anyone with a brain that Caray is thinking it.
It’s common practice for one, when dancing, to shake what his mama gave him. If the video here — from a Detroit-area benefit held in August — is any indication, Tiger reliever Jose Valverde is the sort to shake not only what his mama gave him, but also quite a bit of what he’s given himself courtesy a diet rich in lipids.
Choreographed dance handshake for Jeff Zimmerman and, it appears, Twitter-er RationalSport.
Watch and listen as Harry Caray (né Carabina), much like a male lion of the African savanna, chases English down, pins it beneath his ample frame, and makes quick, purposeful love to it.
Also like a male lion of the African savanna, Harry Caray is drunk.
Actor Jon Hamm is both (a) classically handsome and (b) if not expressly funny himself, at least a talented comic straight man. Which is to say, reader, that there are two reasons why I, personally, would derive some satisfaction from kicking Jon Hamm right in his stupid, handsome shins.
In a perfect world, Hamm would grow a third shin somehow, too, so I could kick him in that for narrating the dumb Cardinals World Series video, which will probably be so dumb that it’ll make everyone really dumb.
In conclusion, this guy:
As a Google Image search has quickly revealed, Ryan Barry — that’s Barry with an a — is an underwear model with a seriously devout gay following.
For all of Barry-with-an-A’s muscular muscles, however, I feel very comfortable in stating that Baltimore Oriole right-handed pitching prospect Ryan Berry — that’s Berry with an e, America — is more photogenic than both (a) his quasi-namesake and (b) basically everybody else.
Allow this click-and-embiggenable image (courtesy Gallery 2) to serve as Exhibit A:
Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse is popular among the country’s literati.
When it became clear that a certain hard-hearted colleague was unwilling to host my wife and me on the eve of our Thanksgiving-morning flight from O’Hare to Boston, necessity dictated that we find lodging in the vicinity of the airport. And when it became clear that the Holiday Inn and Suites in nearby Rosemont, Illinois, offered not only reasonable rates but counted among its amenities Harry Caray’s World Famous Italian Steakhouse, good sense dictated that we make a reservation there (i.e. the Holiday Inn and Suites) post-haste.
