July 1, 2011
Link-O-Rama
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• Baseball is nice and all, but I think I've finally found my sport.
• I wish Otis Redding would come out with as much post-death material at Tupac.
• Thankfully they didn't print any of my personal information. How embarrassing.
• Just by walking down the street Chrissy Teigen shows why supermodels are supermodels.
• As you might expect, Bruce Springsteen's eulogy for Clarence Clemons was pretty amazing.
• If forced to guess which female cast member on The Office was formerly an NFL cheerleader every single person would be wrong.
• Dave Chappelle took all the time he used to spend being funny and used it to work out.
• Jim Riggleman sure knows how to celebrate being fired. And now he's my colleague. Sort of.
• Don't let the Sports Illustrated poll fool you: LeBron James stinks at baseball.
• Being traded to Cleveland probably isn't much fun post-James, but it's tough to feel too sorry for Omri Casspi these days.
• Weird question (that reveals too much about me) of the week: Do you ever lie while getting a haircut?
• I recently finished re-watching all five seasons of The Wire and even the second time around it was so amazing that I started to get angry with just a handful of episodes remaining. I also came to the realization that my fashion sense is the exact same as Dukie's. I'm not sure what the best way is to convince anyone who hasn't yet watched The Wire to take the plunge, but here's a video of every epigraph from my favorite television drama of all time:
As the great Lester Freamon put it: "All the pieces matter." What a f***ing show.
• In the latest installment of "other media members reacting to Sid Hartman doing things" an amused Dana Wessel is joined by a delighted Phil Mackey.
• For several reasons Tanguay Ngombo will go down as the most David Kahn draft pick in the history of David Kahn draft picks.
• I e-mailed this link to my mom, who remains the world's biggest Kevin Garnett fan, and she replied: "She might just be a friend and he just forgot his ring on his nightstand."
• Much like the person in this story, whenever a nude, redheaded actress drunkenly knocks on my hotel room door in the wee hours of the morning my immediate reaction is to call security.
• Lindsay Lohan is doing great, as usual.
• David Eckstein isn't even playing, yet he still leads the league in "grit and desire."
• As a big Party Down fan, my hopes are officially up.
• OK, now this whole government shutdown thing is getting serious.
• After watching his various appearance this week I'm in favor of making Louis CK all-time talk show guest, like all-time quarterback. Here's part one of his Jimmy Kimmel Live interview:
His segment on The Daily Show was hilarious too and if you don't laugh at those two videos we probably can't be friends. Also, watch his show on FX.
• This week's reminder that I went to journalism school.
• Cheick Kongo's crazy knockout of Pat Barry at last weekend's UFC event is the equivalent of a baseball team scoring 10 runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to win 10-9.
• Locally trained MMA fighter Brett Rogers couldn't beat Josh Barnett at the Strikeforce event two weekends ago, so instead he beat up his wife.
• On his podcast Joe Rogan repeatedly warned that he likely couldn't pass up the ridiculous money they were offering, so he's back as the host of Fear Factor.
• Before last week my only experience with Brazilian food was gorging myself at a steakhouse, but I'm officially a fan of the cuisine after eating at Samba in Hopkins.
• Recommended podcast of the week: Rob Delaney (the stand-up comic, not the former Twins pitching prospect) was a great guest on "Jordan, Jesse, Go!"
• Last weekend I was at a local baseball tournament where they raffled off a game-used Luis Rivas bat, which longtime AG.com readers will hopefully find as funny as I did. At one point the announcer told the crowd: "There haven't been many sold, so pretty good chance you'd win."
• Another old friend, J.C. Romero, has found a new home with the Nationals ... at Triple-A.
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is Tom Waits growling his original The Wire theme, "Way Down In The Hole":
