Category: Sports

During the MLB All-Star game, a commercial aired for The Bigs, the new arcade-style baseball videogame. The following image graced our screen (the video of the commercial isn’t online, so I had to take a photo; sorry):

Sadly, I don’t even know where to begin with jokes about this image. So I need you, dear readers, to offer up your best/dumbest/most mean spirited captions for this image of Albert Pujols in a game called, um, “The Bigs.” Comment away!

Amy & I were clicking around the TV tonight when, on a whim, I stopped on Monday Night Raw. I saw Vince McMahon tearfully talking about all the contributions made by someone named Chris.

You never know when you see one of these if it’s just a bit. But it turned out that one of my favorite rasslers, Chris Benoit, was found dead in his home today, along with his wife and his 7-year-old kid. Right now, there’s no word on what transpired or how they were found, except that they weren’t shot to death.

The first time I saw Benoit perform, he had just come over to the WWF along with Eddie Guerrero (dead of a heart attack in 2005), Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn, who were known as The Radicalz (I found their politics to be quite mainstream). Eddie was the most popular of the four, probably due to of his latino appeal, but Chris could get anyone over.

Condolences to the remainder of his family.

If your Father’s Day cards have from five different postmarks, you may be a professional athlete.

(link courtesy of Deadspin)

It’s been 20 years since Bo Jackson’s rookie season with the Royals. My key Bo baseball memories:

• that mammoth home-run in the All-Star game, and
• an inside-the-park home-run that he ran in like Olympic sprinter-time.

Here’s that great Nike commercial.