If you think watching a minor league baseball game is boring, just try working at one. Here’s how the guys in the booth for the Trenton Thunder break-up the mind-numbing monotony.
Wow, even this chick thought that was a pretty funny practical joke.
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There’s cage fighting and then there’s gay fighting and rarely do the two ever mix. But gay-cage fighting is exactly what a crowd of Little Rock spectators got when they showed up to an event called “Blue Collar Brawlin” back on June 5 which was actually an elaborate gag for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film entitled Bruno.
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat fame. …
Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named “Straight Dave” would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.
The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Producers said “there would be a romantic embrace,” Holland said. “They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling — two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty.”
An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.
The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”
Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel.
So, the fight wasn’t real; big deal. According to Lyoto Machida, neither was the Forrest Griffin-Rampage Griffin fight.
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[GlobeAndMail.com]: Arkansas fight fans fall for Baron Cohen stunt
Michael Jordan and Larry Bird wish they could sink HORSE shots like these.
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In the world of sports, there is nothing riskier than making that big trade. Then again, trades can also be extremely rewarding. Just think of how much thought, struggle and heartache goes into each trade you make in your fantasy league and then add the pressure of million dollar salaries, job security and team chemistry. It piles up quickly. So, with so franchises exercising extreme contemplation and deliberation, how do they make such horrible deals sometimes? It’s tough to say, but it happens, and the The Sports Muffin has the 10 Worst MLB Trades in Recent Years to prove it.
9. St. Louis Cardinals trade Dan Haren, Kiko Calero, and Daric Barton to the Oakland Athletics for Mark Mulder.
8. Oakland Athletics trade Mark McGwire to the St. Louis Cardinals for T.J. Matthews, Blake Stein, and Eric Ludwick.
7. Tampa Bay Devil Rays trade Bobby Abreu to the Philadelphia Phillies for Kevin Stocker.
6. New York Mets trade Scott Kazmir and Jose Diaz to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Bartolome Fortunato and Victor Zambrano.
5. Texas Rangers trade Chris Young…and Adrian Gonzalez to the San Diego Padres for Adam Eaton, Akinori Otsuka, and Billy Killian.
4. Seattle Mariners trade Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek to the Boston Red Sox for Heath Slocumb.
3. Montreal Expos trade Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips, and Lee Stevens to the Cleveland Indians for Bartolo Colon, Tim Drew, and cash
2. New York Mets trade Nolan Ryan, Don Rose, Frank Estrada, and LeRoy Stanton to the California Angels for Jim Fregosi.
1. San Francisco Giants trade Francisco Liriano, Joe Nathan, and Boof Bonser to the Minnesota Twins for A.J. Pierzynski.
This isn’t exactly recent history, but there is no way we could talk about bad trades without reminding everyone how the Red Sox dealt Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920 for $100,000 and a $300,000 loan!
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[The Sports Muffin]: 10 Worst MLB Trades in Recent Years
There are so many horrible logos in the world of sports that we could probably establish an entire hall of shame for the goofy designs. But that would take more effort to create than actually went into the logos themselves and that just doesn’t seem right to us. Luckily, we can eliminate about 4,000 disasters right off the bat because the fellas over at InventorSpot.com came up with The Top 10 Worst Sports Logos.
9. Portland Trail Blazers (Too long)
8. Boston Red Sox (1950-1959)
7. Cleveland Browns (1950-1959)
6. New York Islanders (1995-1997)
5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976-1996)
4. Denver Nuggets (1982-1993)
3. Chicago Cubs (1916)
2. Anaheim Mighty Ducks (1996)
1. Detroit Tigers (1927-1928)
We’d also like to submit the new Tampa Bay logo for consideration.
In other news…
[The Victoria Times]: “Hey, we’re not fat! We’re just big boned!”
[Cousins of Ron Mexico]: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a big mofo! Scratch that, it’s just Big Mo’.
[East Coast Bias]: Greatest tennis match ever? Hell yeah, it was!
[Mr. Irrelevant]: John McEnroe agrees with us, but we didn’t get to hug Roger Federer
[YouTube.com]: Dude, shut the hell up!
[Bleacher Report]: Sorry, but there’s no love for the 1985-88 Miami Hurricanes football team
[Lion in Oil]: It’s still not too late to win an opportunity to make Adam Morrison cry
[MMAImpact.com]: Melvin Guillard must not get paid by the hour
[JoeSportsFan.com]: First, a man gets pregnant and now this
[MediaTakeOut.com]: Shhhh, Shaq’s sleeping
And finally, Tiger Woods introduced the world to Cablinasians. Unfortunately, Blasians wound up with this spaz.
Ahhhh, so, this is what an audition tape for ABC’s Wipeout is supposed to look like.
We all knew that when Brett Favre tearfully said goodbye to the Packers and the game of football, he’d eventually be back. Of course, we thought he would at least sit out one season before getting the itch again, but news sources are now revealing that No. 4 might be showing that infamous childlike enthusiasm sooner rather than later. Since word broke, most people have been focusing on why Favre shouldn’t return, but not flatusyahu.com, they’ve got Ten Reasons Brett Favre Wants To Play Football Again.
2. The reality that Eli Manning has the same number of Super Bowl rings is too much for him to bear.
4. Wants to be able to tell grandchildren that he played for Sesame Street’s Mr. Noodle.
5. Safer to deal with the Madden jinx on the football field than on the farm.
6. Apparently, he always liked the smell of the astroturf at the Metrodome.
7. After consulting the Farmer’s Almanac, he decided 2013 is a bad year for Hall-of-Fame inductions.
8. Cash is tight when the There’s Something About Mary sequel is put in turnaround.
9. Enjoys tearful retirement pressers so much, he wants to make them an annual event.
10. According to Favre, Vikings owner Ziggy Wilf is “just like my neighbors down in Mississippi”.
And, of course, the obvious reason for returning: more Brett Favre boogie!
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[flatusyahu.com]: Ten Reasons Brett Favre Wants To Play Football Again
Ron Artest does it horribly. Kobe Bryant does it girly. Tony Parker does it unintelligibly. And Shaquille O’Neal does it hilariously. Yup, we’re talking about rapping and the NBA players who love to attempt it. Like anything and everything else the pros do, up-n-comers of the game want to be exact replicas of their favorite stars. Take Tennessee recruit Bobby Maze for example. He obviously idolizes this NBA rap superstar.
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[Sports Crunch]: Tennessee Recruit Bobby Maze Tries to Rap
Remember way, way, way back in the day when you and your friends all gathered around the television set for a good, clean day of food, football and booze, then, suddenly, it was all ruined made even more awesome because of some nipple slippage rippage during the game’s halftime performance? You guessed it, we’re talking about Super Bowl XXXVIII. As male adults, we all loved it. However, the parents of younger children were far less excited about the whole ordeal; in fact, many were downright outraged. So, can you just imagine the hellish fury that would be unleashed if this were to happen in America?
The network’s owner, Sky, blames the mix-up on a technical problem. The feed was intended for a different channel. “We apologize for any offense which may have been caused,” spokesman Tony O’Brien tells The New Zealand Herald.
TVNZ reports that regulators have received at least one formal complaint about the incident.
“(I was) horrified! It is not the sort of thing I want my 12-year-old to see on TV,” Lorraine Watts tells ONE News. “It was a full blown sex scene.”
“Full blown sex scene,” you say. Hmmm, did one of the participants happen to be named Mr. Boston?
On a side note, VH1’s “I Love Money” is gonna be CRAZY!
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[USAToday.com]: Oops: Station airs pornography in place of rugby match
[Steady Burn]: Kids Rugby Broadcast Accidentally Spliced with Porn
If you watched the instant classic between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on the Wimbledon grass then you know all about the celebrities in attendance. Well, you at least know that Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani were there because the cameras showed the power couple at least once every ten minutes. However, you might have been too star struck to notice the “others” who showed up to the matches.
The faceless mutants have a penchant for A-list celebrity bashes and have been spotted at Elton John’s White tie ball and Harrods summer sale, opened by Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall.
With a membrane of skin stretched tightly over their eyes, noses and mouths, the alien-like figures were most recently snapped ‘watching’ a match perched on Murray Mount at Wimbledon.
Oh, those were aliens!? We thought those faceless freaks were this dude and Joan Rivers.
In other news…
[EBSports.net]: Batter, and penis, up!
[The World of Isaac]: God bless, America and God bless, American flag bikinis
[Cuzoogle.com]: Troy Tulowitzki joins an elite club
[The Caveman Network]: Rampage whooped by UFC’s new light-heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin
[The Sports Muffin]: The American League’s flubs and snubs
[FilteringCraig.com]: The Nets aren’t the only club looking to sign LeBron James
[The Big Lead]: Epic, epic, epic Wimbledon final on Sunday
[SportsAgentBlog.com]: It’s all about the mo-ney!
[The Sports Hernia Blog]: MLB unveils the new logo for Tampa Bay
[CalBearsShop.com]: The Golden Bears football team gets a new wardrobe
And finally, freestyle swinging.
