He's Just a Teeny Little Super Guy

yeah, so now i have to post the teeny little super guy... all because i posted a barq's commercial (johnny?) leading to freakin smoothie posting a brisk iced tea commercial... that somehow reminds of this JA from 'the street'....

i think this should be the littlest tune when he comes to bat. "snap your fingers here i come!"

You tell 'em johnny..... you tell the world

barq's has bite!

for absolutely no reason this commercial randomly popped into my head today... i remember absolutely loving this thing when it came out... and thanks to the magic of youtube, it was super easy to find... and much to my surprise, it was a young nick swardson as the barq's cart guy.... pretty sure no one else liked this commercial as much as me (big shocker) and therefor no one would get it when i would either repeat "whadaya mean barqs has bite?" over and over again, or asked "johnny?" to no one in particular when i could not see where a sound or voice was coming from..... followed by the "oh, hey man!" when you finally spot it/them (my favorite part of the commercial)...

SC high schools to make bass fishing a sport

High schools in South Carolina are bidding to make fishing an official high school sport, with teams, leagues and varsity letters. And with pro tournaments and television shows about fishing making it more popular than ever, some say it’s time for schools to recognize the activity as a full-fledged sport.

“Fishing is a very demanding sport, both physically and mentally,” said Sisk. “It’s very tough. “We aren’t going out and doing two-a-days as far as practice goes, but it’s eight-hour days. “I heard that throwing 150 casts is equivalent to throwing 100 pitches in a game,” said Fishing Club member Carson Morgan. And, according to their coach, serious anglers often make 500 casts in a day.

Fish on

The South is backwards in many ways, but occasionally I just sit back in awe of its brilliance. Making fishing a varsity sport is a tremendous power move I cannot applaud with enough enthusiasm. If chess, cheerleading, and golf make the cut there is no reason at all to deny fishing especially since I guess these guys have stronger arms than most MLB pitchers. (They can apparently hurl like 5 games in a row without tiring.)

I always hated how smug the golf team was in high school and college...it was such a scam. I had friends on the golf team and THEY knew it was a scam. They drank their ass off playing golf for four years - and although we all hated them for it, what we really could not stand is we didn't think of it first. Well, I feel like even the golfers will be shaking their heads at the fishing team - essentially this will be a school sponsored drinking team. Awesome.

Jebus is a Jet!

with god on our side it will make up for rex ryan

gotta love the jets... they "withdraw" from the peyton manning sweepstakes because "we believe in mark sanchez"... they give his a stupid contract extension.... then immediately deal for tebow as soon as he becomes available ... inviting a surefire QB controversy as soon as tebow does anything good for the jets....

espn's sportsnation already has a poll up, and 54% of the over 50,000 votes say tebow should start over sanchez.... this is why the jets are the jets.... hbo needs to re-up the jets on hardknocks, ASAP.

Ovechkin's NCAA Bracket

Kentucky and Alabama in the Finals...with a lot of tic-tac-toe in between

Just another reason why Ovechkin is the most entertaining DC-area athlete of my lifetime. His on-ice performance the last few years is a debate for another time - this guy's off-ice antics continue to kill me. He's like a combination of Borat, Kenny Powers, and Drago.

(Another shameless rip from The Sports Bog)

"Three best things about Alex Ovechkin’s NCAA tournament bracket.

1) He signed the bracket “OVI8” at the top.
2) He picked Alabama to advance to the title game, against Kentucky.
3) He decided it was more of a dot-to-dot style arrow-filled maze than a straight bracket."

Sen. Chuck Grassley thinks History Channel sucks at History

The history value of the Swamp People is lost on the Senator.

I think I mostly agree with Chuck Grassley here - there is a significant portion of programming on The History Channel that has gone totally haywire. It used to be if there was total crap on everywhere else, I could feel pretty confident about blindly tuning into the History Channel and being mildly to extremely entertained. Well, that time is over. I went over to the History Channel website and took a look at their "regular programming". Egad. American Pickers, American Restoration, Full Metal Jousting, Pawn Stars, Cajun Pawn Stars (?), Ax Men, Mudcats, Swamp People, Top Shot, and Top Gear. I have watched several episodes of 'Top Shot' and can vouch for its quality, and I've DVR'd all of the Full Metal Jousting episodes (I don't even have to watch that to know its great)...the others (unless Mudcats is some redneck spin-off of Thundercats), uh, are you kidding me? Even if they are semi-decent shows their inclusion on the History Channel is, well, as Chuck says so eloquently, "I used to get history. Why do we have such a channel when it doesn’t do history.” Exactly, Senator.

There is the Wildman...and everybody else.

I have no doubt there is probably some fantastic unintentional comedy associated with "Swamp People" and "Cajun Pawn Stars", but there is no way they beat out what I've seen on Animal Planet's "Hillbilly Handfishin'" and "Call of the Wildman". Its impossible. The 'Wildman' might be one of the most underappeciated personalities on tv right now...he probably deserves his own post at some point.

I've never even seen FMJ but its clearly the best the History Channel has to offer.

Usually I'm more inclined to defend The History Channel, but in this case I'm throwing in with Grassley. The History Channel has fallen on hard times. As Chuck notes at the end, "When I signed up for the History Channel on my satellite service, I expected to get history,” he said. Instead, all I see are people chopping wood or driving trucks on an icy road.” Okay, well, I'm not sure the good Senator understands how cable packages work but the point is made - history nerds, old people, grumpy politicians, and me want our history back.


*Great job of Grassley to completely undermine his position at the end of the article by admitting he actually likes "American Pickers". What! Chuck, you jerk...

**It also seems like "Ancient Aliens" gets a ton of play - what the hell is this about? As far as I can tell the "experts" interviewed on this show seem to think that the events of "Battlestar Galactica" actually happened or something? Okay...

Crazy Cult Kickin New Flava in Craig Mack's Ear

So remember craig mack?... well according to a site called mediatakeout.com, it looks like that crazy SOB is now in a crazy ass cult.

you gotta check out this audio clip of this nutty cult leader... wow... "I stomped ya, sir!!!"...."what d they call that? wiki-peg? wiki-pig""

testify, craig! i would trust this guy too:

Long Beach throws party for giant rock

"In Rock We Trust"?

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- The 340-ton boulder being transported from Riverside County is inching closer to its final destination at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On Wednesday, Long Beach hosted a party to celebrate the rock. The theme of the party is "I Want to Rock With You." It kicked off at noon on Atlantic Avenue at 36th Street, where the rock has been parked since it arrived Tuesday night.

It's an inanimate carbon rock! YAY!!

This is really something I'd just assume would happen in Florida, but its nice of California to remind us from time to time they can be equally if not more insane than the Sunshine State. Its not been confirmed, but I'm assuming there will be a parade in honor of the rock in which the rock will be riding in its own limousine. A cover on Time magazine is probably right around the corner.

Pants have "sexist" washing instructions?

Laundry is 'her job': Pants have sexist washing instructions

I don't get it. Barnett was already cleaning the house, then she gets bent out of shape about doing a load of laundry? Seems like she already had a solid grip on what her cleaning responsibilities are around the house. I'd even venture a guess she was already in the process of doing the laundry when she discovered this "outrage". Why else would you be checking the washing instructions inside a pair of pants? Unless your name is Danny Tanner, its something nobody would ever do.

It would be like reading the instuction manual on a new lawnmower and at the end it said "OR just hire a couple of Mexicans - its their job". Those guys are the best. No harm in telling it like it is.




"And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets
branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed?"
- Bill Maher

am i crazy or is this the coolest islander fan irish shirt ever?

if you are an islander fan and irish, this is a must have. no question about it.

buy it baby!

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Carlos Beltran Fixes Jonny Beak's beak...

nice beak

So this story is pretty old... but i am still not sure how more hasn't been made out of it.

As we all know, Jon Niese has one of the more impressive shark fin honkers in all of sports. Jonny Beak's schnoz looks like a mutated version of jeromy burnitz's hook. it wasn't pretty.

When beltran was on the mets, he apparently (and jokingly) offered to pay for the plastic surgery to fix Niese's Nose....

this offseason, Niese took Beltran up on his offer. (why not)... his beak is still impressively huge, but at least its straight now.

moleymoleymoleymoleymoleymoley

the one thing that should be much more of a topic(and maybe it was, and i've just missed it) , is how many people were talking behind beltrans back about the fact that he should probably look into getting that ridiculous growth removed form his head... you know this had to happen - its probably the one thing the mets players enjoyed the most last season, after beltran was traded. openly ripping on his lack of self awareness.

for years i rememebr joking that the mole had to be the source of all of beltrans powers... or that he had some sort of reebok sponsorship for 'the pump'.... but the fact is, there is no reason he still has that thing.

how many times do you think that nut tim byrdack dropped this line in the clubhouse:




whatever the reason for this whole story, the end result is that beltran still has his mole, and jonny beak still has a huge schnoz....

can't wait for baseball season.

Um... Groupon is really on top of their shit...

got an email from groupon with some great deals today. this one is by far the best. $5 for $10 at MJ armstrongs... i mean, i had no idea Armstrongs was re-opend, you know - after they were shut down this past december.  what a comeback!

and who is the chef idressea seck? is he/she behind the sweet potato fries they used to have at armstrongs?  i'll have to ask for him/her when i swing by later tonight.

Pysch Returns: You Know That's Right!

c'mon son

Nothing better than flipping on the DVR and seeing a new episode of Psych show up....

the spring premeir was a sollid way to come back, with the inclusion of carey elwes' 'despereaux'.  though i have to admit, the despereaux episodes are not the strongest psych episodes, it was still great to have the show back.  mainly because lassie, jules, henry and woody all take a back seat.... though woody never disappointing.

keeping a sixer of heineken in one of the morgue refrigeration units = priceless. "It's 9 am somewhere, right?"...

this episode has a 'raiders of the lost ark' style treasure hunt, and a cameo from john rhys davies to boot.

next weeks appears to be a 'shining'-like tale of lassie's new apartment. aka: its gonna be awesome, whaaaaaat!?