Monthly Archives: February 2010

Great middle fingers caught on video

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Note: The following videos are unsafe for work, if you somehow work someplace where you’d get fired for watching videos of people getting flipped off.

This is the greatest moment in math-teacher history. Every high-school math teacher secretly reveres Edward James Olmos:

Also, great Lou Diamond Phillips work in that scene. And in every scene. My buddy Scott’s email address is LouDiamondPhillips@ — well, I won’t say which because I don’t want him getting spammed, but it’s one of the major email providers. And I think it’s hilarious to consider Lou Diamond Phillips trying to register for email, and being like, “oh, what the f@#$?” and then having to sign up as LouDiamondPhillips2.

Here’s a great moment in sports-franchise owner history:

Rex Ryan eating a dolphin

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I got no response from my PETA-baiting last week, so maybe this will help. This image comes courtesy of Pavan, and I believe it speaks for itself:

Note: TedQuarters does not officially endorse eating dolphins because I live in fear of the dolphin uprising.

Middle fingers of yesteryear: Jack McDowell

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Former Cy Young Award winner and alternative rock guitarist Jack McDowell’s one year in Yankee pinstripes was marked by 15 wins, 157 strikeouts and one extended middle finger.

His was the disillusioned, Kurt Cobain variety of the gesture, the depressed grunge-rocker wildly and ineffectively firing back at a world he felt could never truly understand him.

But it was a cathartic middle finger, it turned out:

“That incident actually helped set things straight between me and the fans, to let people know where I was coming from. I truly believe that once all the BS was put aside and everybody was done trying to make more out of that than it was, that’s what came out of it.”

In 17 starts that season before giving fans the finger, McDowell went 7-6 with a 4.87 ERA. In 13 starts afterward, he went 8-4 with a 2.81 ERA.

Makes you wonder why the guy didn’t flip off fans a month or two earlier.

Much later, a band called The Baseball Project featuring R.E.M.’s Peter Buck wrote a song about McDowell called “The Yankee Flipper,” and confessed that part of McDowell’s frustration could have been due to a long night of drinking with members of the band.

Today, McDowell writes a blog about the White Sox for ChicagoNow.com.

Rex Ryan extends middle finger of awesomeness

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So Rex Ryan gave the finger to a bunch of Dolphins fans yesterday at a MMA event outside Miami. This made the back cover of the Daily News, Post and Newsday, because we’re apparently supposed to be all broken up and sanctimonious about it.

What I don’t get is exactly which Jets fan that loves Rex Ryan will suddenly stop loving Rex Ryan because he flipped off some Dolphins fans. Look at that guy. Look at that finger. What a hero.

Rumors that he wasn’t trying to offend anyone but merely admiring how much his finger resembled a sausage are still unconfirmed.

Anyway, as a salute to Rex Ryan and his one-finger salute, and in tribute to me learning that it’s apparently cool to show unblurred pictures of people giving the finger in respectable news outlets like the New York Post, today all of the content on TedQuarters will focus on the middle finger.

For now, enjoy the Best of Rex, courtesy of our SNY.tv video crew. No middle fingers, sadly, but some pretty great moments regardless:

Items of note

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Joel Sherman writes about phonetic phenom Jack Zduriencik, the one that got away in the Mets’ front office.

After reading just about the saddest scene imaginable in Joe Posnanski’s the Soul of Baseball, it’s really good to hear about Willie Mays smiling.

Apparently Pitt is heading to the Big 10. Should make the college hoops season a lot less difficult.

Johnny Damon sounds a little bit desperate.

Melvin Mora is joining the Rockies.