In honor of Brian Wilson‘s return to baseball as a member of the Dodgers, here’s a classic commercial from ESPN that revealed the horrible truth about Wilson’s beard and it’s dark powers:
Remember, children: Brian Wilson’s beard is weird
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Picture of the day: The World Tour comes to Japan
I was so sure that Japan was going to beat Puerto Rico that I had been planning on having this photo of the 1913-14 World Tour players from the White Sox and Giants with members of Japan’s Keio University… whoops. Oh well, still an interesting picture, with John McGraw, Tris Speaker, Jim Thorpe, Sam Crawford and Buck Weaver in it. So, from the Library of Congress Flickr feed, here is the photo:
If anybody in Japan would like to blame their team’s loss on my blog (I mean, between this and yesterday’s article on how Pokémon had an episode that seeped with Japanese baseball references, I seemed to have been tempting fate), go ahead.
With apologies to SI, this week’s sign of the apocalypse
Sports Illustrated often has a feature where they point out a sign of the apocalypse. Deadspin also does this occasionally, mainly to point out how SI’s sign is mild compared to actual world events.
I, for one, nominate this:
Pablo Sandoval will be a judge in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant, Dec. 19th at Las Vegas, says the WS MVP to the Venezuelan Press. #SFGiants
— manolo hernandez d. (@beisbolporgotas) December 11, 2012
Pablo Sandoval, beauty pageant judge. One of Kung Fu Panda’s many talents.
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