March 9, 2012
Link-O-Rama
• Before getting to the good stuff, I want to thank everyone who read my post about losing 150 pounds in one year. Not only is it already the most-read post in this blog's decade-long history, the number of e-mails and tweets and links and comments that I received were overwhelming. Losing the weight felt amazing, writing about the experience made it feel even better, and the response might be the most rewarding part of the whole thing. Thank you.
• I'll have a full write-up Monday, but the Twins gave Glen Perkins a three-year, $10.3 million extension that buys out his first two and possibly first three seasons of free agency.
• Behold, the greatest restaurant review in newspaper history. Grand Forks must be amazing.
• Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com Mila Kunis is on the cover of Harper's Bazaar this month, with an interview and accompanying photo shoot.
• Kris Humphries' sister, Kaela Humphries, recently signed a contract with Ford Models' plus-size division.
• Speaking of athletes' sisters, Holley Mangold is a 5-foot-8, 374-pound weight-lifter who made the Olympic team.
• Bunk Moreland is "just a humble motherf***er with a big-ass d***" and a grocery store.
• My blog-mate Craig Calcaterra is covering spring training and wrote an interesting piece about the downside of writers gaining access to the people they write about.
• Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love on the cover of Slam magazine hits a little too close to home for someone who used to have the old version taped to his bedroom wall.
• My lifelong dream of working with Beyonce is finally a reality.
• Lenny Dykstra, who's three months younger than the still-pitching Jamie Moyer, was sentenced to three years in prison.
• Imagine paying someone to write this. And then imagine him being your doctor.
• Honestly, this lasted much longer than I expected.
• This week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode was recorded in front of an audience and includes John Bonnes singing (or at least "singing") and Nick Nelson reciting poetry.
• At this point Louis C.K. is everyone's favorite comedian and Todd Barry is also one of my favorite comedians, and for some reason this video cracked me up:
"You're not good at it."
• Congratulations to friend of AG.com and "Gleeman and The Geek" guest Lindsay Guentzel for beating out 22,000 other applicants for a spot in the MLB Fan Cave.
• Scientific evidence that we should all be afraid of gingers.
• This is interesting, but don't go getting any bright ideas.
• Jon Hamm didn't play baseball with Roger Clemens at the University of Texas, but he did used to post comments on Deadspin.
• Speaking of Deadspin, they grabbed the "Best Shape Of His Life" baton from HardballTalk and ran with it.
• Next thing you know Ice Cube will try to tell us that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
• The only thing minor-league baseball players love more than eating Chipotle is tweeting about eating Chipotle.
• More importantly: Did he set the record or not?
• CC Sabathia must eat a ton of food at home, because otherwise if this is true he'd be shedding weight like crazy.
• Somehow this new sport still seems slightly less dangerous than football.
• Elisabeth Moss on ex-husband Fred Armison: "He's so great doing impersonations, but the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person." Ouch.
• And to think, I was genuinely excited that my new car had a CD player.
• Jose Canseco can't even do a proper Kenny Powers impression.
• SABR's website posted a bunch of information about the annual convention coming to Minnesota this summer, including the logo.
• Someone paid $8,100 for a Chicken McNugget that doesn't look like George Washington.
• Don Mincher, who played a big part in Twins history, died at age 73.
• Dan Duquette is not buying what Jon Heyman is selling.
UPDATE: Sometime between yesterday and this morning Heyman blocked me on Twitter.
• My favorite part of Grantland is NBA analyst Sebastian Pruiti breaking down plays.
• My latest podcast discovery, "You Had To Be There" with Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer, got a nice write-up in New York Times Magazine.
• Netflix streaming recommendation: Elevate, which is a documentary about teenage basketball players in Senegal trying to secure college scholarships in the United States.
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is Jay-Z sampling Bobby Bland's classic "Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City" for his own "Heart of the City (Ain't No Love)":
