Thursday, September 23, 2010
Congratulations to the Twins!
Let's hear a big cheer for the Minnesota Twins for clinching the American League Central Division and ensuring that The Mouth and the rest of his Dirty Hose will be watching the MLB playoffs in front of a TV set.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Vive le France! Vive la Loi Contre des Burqas!
The French Senate today passed by a landslide 246-1 vote a law prohibiting women from being forced to wear the demeaning full-body and face covering garment known as the burqa.
Sexist, controlling pigs who force their wives and daughters to wear such garments in public will face one-year jail terms.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the burqa is ''not welcome in France'' and National Assembly President Bernard Accoyer said, ''The full veil represents in an extraordinary way everything that France spontaneously rejects.''
A national poll by the Pew Global Attitudes Project earlier this year found that the French public backed the ban by an 82-17 margin. Similar polling in Great Britain, Germany and Spain also shows public support for burqa bans there, too.
Monday, August 16, 2010
An All-Girls Team Spanks the Boys at Cooperstown Dreams Park, 19-0
Hell hath no fury like a winless all-girls baseball team.
After dropping their first three games in the annual youth baseball tournament at Cooperstown, New York, the WBL Sparks, the only all-girls team to ever compete in the tournament, took out their frustrations today on the Massapequa Cyclones, spanking the all-boys team in a mercy-rule, game-shorted, 4-inning contest by the score of 19-0.
Chelsea Baker got the shutout for the Sparks, a touring all-girls baseball team made up of female players from around the country.
Congratulations to Chelsea, as well as to her teammates: Michaela Carper, Abbey Donovan, Alyssa Rose Freeman, Jade Gortarez, Rachel Jones, Sara Lopez-Wheeler, Casey McCrackin, Kristen Moldovan, Nylah Ramirez, Jasmine Siegal, Shae-Lynn Simpson, Allie Spinney and Hannah Zamore.
While the boys got their pants beat off them in the game, Chelsea was also losing clothes. Her Plant City (Florida) Little League jersey is going to the Baseball Hall of Fame!
The only girl in her league, she posted a 12-0 record with two perfect games. When she wasn't whiffing the boys at the plate, she was playing third base, belting out five homeruns, posting a .604 batting average and helping lead her team to a 29-1 record.
In four years as a pitcher in Little League play, Chelsea never lost a game. ABC News recently chose her as their 'Person of the Week', with video clips showing her sending boys away from the plate in tears after striking out against her.
Chelsea compliments her near 70 MPH fastball with a knuckleball that her catcher describes as 'nasty' taught to her when she was only 8-years old by former major league pitcher Joe Niekro, who was helping coach Chelsea's little league team.
Just how good is Chelsea?
Keith Maxwell, a hitting instructor who played five years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and 12 years in professional baseball said, ''This is probably going to be the first girl to play Major League Baseball. And I don't say that lightly.''
With her jersey inclusion, Chelsea, 13, now has the distinction of being the youngest baseball player to be honored by the Hall of Fame.
After dropping their first three games in the annual youth baseball tournament at Cooperstown, New York, the WBL Sparks, the only all-girls team to ever compete in the tournament, took out their frustrations today on the Massapequa Cyclones, spanking the all-boys team in a mercy-rule, game-shorted, 4-inning contest by the score of 19-0.
Chelsea Baker got the shutout for the Sparks, a touring all-girls baseball team made up of female players from around the country.
Congratulations to Chelsea, as well as to her teammates: Michaela Carper, Abbey Donovan, Alyssa Rose Freeman, Jade Gortarez, Rachel Jones, Sara Lopez-Wheeler, Casey McCrackin, Kristen Moldovan, Nylah Ramirez, Jasmine Siegal, Shae-Lynn Simpson, Allie Spinney and Hannah Zamore.
While the boys got their pants beat off them in the game, Chelsea was also losing clothes. Her Plant City (Florida) Little League jersey is going to the Baseball Hall of Fame!
The only girl in her league, she posted a 12-0 record with two perfect games. When she wasn't whiffing the boys at the plate, she was playing third base, belting out five homeruns, posting a .604 batting average and helping lead her team to a 29-1 record.
In four years as a pitcher in Little League play, Chelsea never lost a game. ABC News recently chose her as their 'Person of the Week', with video clips showing her sending boys away from the plate in tears after striking out against her.
Chelsea compliments her near 70 MPH fastball with a knuckleball that her catcher describes as 'nasty' taught to her when she was only 8-years old by former major league pitcher Joe Niekro, who was helping coach Chelsea's little league team.
Just how good is Chelsea?
Keith Maxwell, a hitting instructor who played five years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and 12 years in professional baseball said, ''This is probably going to be the first girl to play Major League Baseball. And I don't say that lightly.''
With her jersey inclusion, Chelsea, 13, now has the distinction of being the youngest baseball player to be honored by the Hall of Fame.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Thelma & Louise II: Avatars of Pandora (Trailer)
You've just got to love YouTube and the creative talent it has encouraged.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Loser Allows Foul Ball to Hit His Date
Some guys can't catch foul balls. And others simply don't have any balls.
In a video that has now gone viral across the net, a guy the other night at Minute Maid Park in Houston jumped out of the way of a foul ball hit off the bat of the Houston Astros' Chris Johnson during the 4th inning of a game against Atlanta. The result? The line drive nailed his girlfriend, Sarah.
A FOX announcer covering the game said during a replay on the telecast, ''Chivalry is dead.''
His partner then added, ''Maybe he couldn't catch it, but he screwed her.''
A roving Astros reporter then interviewed the (soon to be ex?) couple on the spot during the telecast while the game was still on. She berated him, too.
The guy's lame excuse? That he, Bo, lost the ball in the lights. Yeah, right, buddy. That's why you jumped out of the way.
''When you lose it next time,'' the reporter told him, ''you should go towards your girlfriend. Protect her. Don't go the other way like a little chicken.''
Sarah told the reporter, ''As soon as we got here and I saw where we were sitting, I said 'Baby, I'm going to get hit.' He said, 'No, you won't. I'll catch it if you do.' We just had this conversation and sure enough, the ball comes at me. He just bailed.''
When the reporter then told Sarah that perhaps that's a foretelling of the future, that her boyfriend won't be at her side, Sarah said perhaps, not so tongue in cheek, ''Maybe I do need to reconsider this.''
Watch the video.
In a video that has now gone viral across the net, a guy the other night at Minute Maid Park in Houston jumped out of the way of a foul ball hit off the bat of the Houston Astros' Chris Johnson during the 4th inning of a game against Atlanta. The result? The line drive nailed his girlfriend, Sarah.
A FOX announcer covering the game said during a replay on the telecast, ''Chivalry is dead.''
His partner then added, ''Maybe he couldn't catch it, but he screwed her.''
A roving Astros reporter then interviewed the (soon to be ex?) couple on the spot during the telecast while the game was still on. She berated him, too.
The guy's lame excuse? That he, Bo, lost the ball in the lights. Yeah, right, buddy. That's why you jumped out of the way.
''When you lose it next time,'' the reporter told him, ''you should go towards your girlfriend. Protect her. Don't go the other way like a little chicken.''
Sarah told the reporter, ''As soon as we got here and I saw where we were sitting, I said 'Baby, I'm going to get hit.' He said, 'No, you won't. I'll catch it if you do.' We just had this conversation and sure enough, the ball comes at me. He just bailed.''
When the reporter then told Sarah that perhaps that's a foretelling of the future, that her boyfriend won't be at her side, Sarah said perhaps, not so tongue in cheek, ''Maybe I do need to reconsider this.''
Watch the video.
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