What do you think of this "Anchorman" parody starring ESPN TV hosts?

ICYMI: Here's the much anticipated 'Co-Anchorman' spoof you've all been waiting for pic.twitter.com/ykt341sqlK

— His And Hers (@HisAndHers) September 27, 2016

Yes, it's pretty amazing, the introduction in particular I am very fond of.  However, as a whole, I'm actually a little disappointed.  It's basically the entire scene from Anchorman reenacted word-for-word.  Sure, I like the authenticity, but where is the creativity?  I would have preferred they try to do things along the lines of what happens in the movie that also relate to them being sports personalities.


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I wonder how foolish the Nationals feel now for shutting down Stephen Strasburg back in 2012?

In 2012, I wrote a blog titled The Washington Nationals are out of their freaking minds.  At the time, they had the best record in baseball and were likely World Series favorites.  Washington voluntarily shut down Stephen Strasburg after 159.1 innings in an attempt to keep him healthy for future seasons.  Without their stud pitcher, the Nationals lost in the Division Series to St. Louis and blew a chance to win the first championship in franchise history.

A year later, the Nationals missed the 2013 playoffs and Strasburg spent some time on the DL.

In 2014, Washington won the National League East, Strasburg was healthy and threw a career-high 215 innings, but the Nats again fell in the NLDS, this time to San Francisco.

Last season, the 2015 Nationals failed to reach the postseason and injuries limited Strasburg to 127.1 innings.

And now, in 2016, the Nats are back atop the NL East, but once again they'll enter the playoffs without Strasburg, who's battled a sore elbow and hasn't pitched effectively since August 1.

How's that plan from 2012 looking these days?


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Awesome Old Video Clip of the Week: David Ortiz's first home run with the Red Sox

I don't even know where to begin to attempt to write some sort of David Ortiz career retrospective, so on the day of his last regular-season game, I'll just go with this:

In his sixth season with the Twins, a 26-year-old Ortiz hit 20 homers and drove in 75 runs in only 412 at-bats, but Minnesota released him anyway in the fall of 2002.

Ortiz's Boston career began as a platoon player, splitting time with Jeremy Giambi.  Big Papi's first Red Sox home run, the 59th of his career, didn't come until April 27, 2003, in Boston's 25th game of the season:



Ha, remember J-Lo and Ben Affleck?  They were the story that day in Anaheim--nobody on the planet could've guessed Ortiz would slug another 482 homers in a Sox uniform (and 17 more in the playoffs).  Ortiz didn't go yard again until May 24th of that year, game No. 48.  In fact, following a 6-4 win over the Tigers on June 26, Ortiz had a total of just three home runs for the 45-32 Red Sox.

However, after finally winning the full-time DH job, Papi blasted 28 dingers over Boston's last 85 games in 2003 (for a total of 31 in 448 at-bats), and the rest is history.


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Is Arnold Schwarzenegger making fun of himself with this "missile poisoning" line? I can't even tell...

Watch this Mobile Strike (a cell phone game) commercial with Arnold Schwarzenegger:



"Target now out of sight" is a perfectly cheesy Arnold-esque line, that one I get.  But "Call the doctor, looks like you have missile poisoning"?  What does that even mean?  Obviously it's trying to be bad on purpose, but it's so bad that that doesn't work.  It's not funny in parody-of-itself Sharknado kind of way, it's just confusing.  Although, the fact that it prompted me to write a blog probably means it accomplished its goal.  That's a real mind-eff right there...


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Red Sox reliever Robbie Ross Jr. starred in Entourage movie as kid who used to see dead people?

Everybody remembers Haley Joel Osment from his role in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense:



Not as well known, however, is the fact that he played a major role in 2015's Entourage movie:



Osment's character in Entourage is basically the identical twin of Red Sox pitcher Robbie Ross Jr.:

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Koji Uehara tries to 'save' as much champagne as possible, NESN flouts the FCC

Putting aside the fact that the Red Sox likely blew their chance at home-field advantage throughout the postseason last night (their surprising loss, combined with the Rangers' comeback win puts Boston 1.5 games back in the race for the AL's best record with four to play--and Texas owns the tiebreaker, so the Sox would have to go 4-0 or 3-1 and hope the Rangers finish 1-2 or 0-3), the division-clinching celebration in the locker room was quality entertainment.

My two highlights:

1. NESN's complete disregard for standard FCC regulations regarding profanity.  Here's a very small sample:

Don't put the volume on if your kids are watching. https://t.co/huJAcQMoX2

— Mark Van Deusen (@LucidSportsFan) September 29, 2016

2. Koji Uehara's unwillingness to let any partially filled champagne bottles end up in the trash (or recycle bin), despite also dumping exorbitant amounts of bubbly all over his teammates:

Koji does not believe in wasting champagne. https://t.co/dpRukzln3s

— Mark Van Deusen (@LucidSportsFan) September 29, 2016

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Would you partake in a yoga class on surfboards?

Obviously I realize that those are giant paddle boards pictured, and if you know what you're doing the chances of falling off of one are pretty slim.  Still, this just seems like a bad idea.  Yoga is supposed to be relaxing, right?  Attempting to balance on a surfboard in Boston Harbor sounds fairly stressful to me.  I get the feeling all of these people are trying to act all calm and collected, but really they're nervous as hell.


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