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Little Big League

I don’t know knothing about 1979’s The Kid from Left Field

BUT GARY COLEMAN IS IN IT AND HE WEARS THEM SUPER AWESOME PADRES UNIES!!!!!

gary coleman co,or padres san diego

padres coleman

gary coleman padres

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Defying Deaths

Peace The Forks Out

to

The Other Dick Van

eight is enouggh

spaceballs van patten

dick van dogs

dick van paten

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Jerry’s Wife/Ben’s Mom/Anne Meara

anne jerry  the stillers

alf anne

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THE John Steed

macnee

diana rigg steed

twiggy steed

steed

 

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his mind was beautiful 

Manson Family divorcer

little James Horner

oh no Yes

Fred Flinstone’s boss + other Hanna Barberians 

plastic pink flamingo dude

last original NBA employee

Ornette Coleman

ornette

Mother Theresa II

the voice of the Chiquita Banana

THAT GUY

that other that guy

that other that that guy

a true dingbat of fonts

zapf

realllllly old movie gangster

Nature Boy

the first student-athlete 

he hearted heart-shaped bathtubs

Tariq Aziz, who made berets & mustaches & giant glasses look awesome

tariq

she made costumes for the Beatles & Bond

F Scott Fitzgerald’s final secretary

King of Easy Listening

Picasso’s right arm

not Ringo’s sister

blaze starr

little boy who got to look at MM

Mr Comcast

El Kickador/Univision-er

a Weaver

Woody Allen’s Jack Rollins

jack rollins

Texas A&M’s first Heisman winner

some surfer pioneer guy

some country singer

boxing movie producer dude

U2’s manager

this spicy Italian chick

Laura Antonelli3

Laura Antonelli paint

Queen of Versailles’s princess

Joe Biden’s son

Charles Barkley’s mom

Penelope Cruz’s padre

Jason Voorhees’ mom

betsy palmer

he once owned the Mets (not the Nats do:)

some comedy writer

some British actor who turned down the role of James Bond

some Russian guy

some chess guy

some Scottish actor

some fat British bloke

the guy who gave us this

mlb logo

a King of media

a White House Chef

MGM Resorter

what a drag

zilla was his god

Stand By Me‘s Milo Pressman

he printed LA stories

a trotter of globes

some old actor

she shot this and that and those other things

Mary Ellen Mark

Mr Superdawg

150 year old Galápagos tortoise

world’s tallest cow

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the guy who made headlines

headless body topless

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Crown Royals

when baseball was about to return to Kansas City, the Royals turned to their new neighbors – Hallmark Cards – to come up with their logo. 21 Hallmark employees took a stab at it, but Shannon Manning’s design won, and is still (pretty much) with us today

royals logo

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mo fun – The Hidden History of This Year’s MLB Playoff Team Logos

Go Royals!
Go Nats!

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David Justice Is Served

Moneyball
Straight A’s
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 133 min

Moneyball does cinematic poetry to statistical baseball analysis and management like The Social Network did with internets social networking empire building. The recipe – take a best selling book with a subject matter that might not lend itself to being a compelling thing to watch, throw in some punchy Aaron Sorkin (+ Steven Zaillian) words, a great cast & score, and let the good times roll.  And roll, they do!!!

Moneyball will make you believe that David still has a chance against Goliath.  It will make want to buy an Oakland A’s hat.  It will make you rethink Brad Pitt.  We were pretty much done with star, but for the first time in awhile, he’s acting as someone else (Billy Beane), and not juss being Brad Pitt the movie star in a movie.  It will make you yearn for endless Jonah Hill dramatic work (see Cyrus.  seriously, see that movie.  he was fantastic in it) or for him to have stayed fat forever (he just looks wrong, but good for him).  It will make you want to have a daughter that plays guitar.  It will make you wish that Philip Seymour Hoffman was hatcually a baseball manager.  It will make you swear that Chris Pratt isn’t really a prat.  It will make you aware that Bennett Miller (Capote) might really be quite good as this directing thing

But there’s gotta be some bad, right? OF COURSE!  WE CAN EVEN FIND BAD IN POPEYES FRIED CHICKEN (their lack of biscuit sangwiches).  Here’s the ‘bad’ – no AC/DC’s ‘Moneytalks’, the A’s don’t win the World Series (no spoiler there kids), and it’s kinda long.  Well, so is baseball, so maybe they got it right (they did)

BALK THIS WAY, TALK THIS WAY!!!

Hammer Time: always found this tibit so fascinating…

MC Hammer got his nickname from his childhood job with the Oakland Athletics.  Eccentric longtime A’s owner Charlie O Finley loved Stanley Kirk Burrell, the talented kid who danced in the team’s parking lot and eventually became a batboy and an errand boy for the club, and the benevolent owner called him ‘Little Hammer’ because he thought Burrell looked like ‘Hammerin’ Hank Aaron. When the Little Hammer picked up the mic, he became M.C. Hammer [via MFloss]

Verdictgo: Breast In Show

Moneyball is atop the standings today at a theater near jews

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

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