So this is silly, yeah. And maybe it lacks the majesty of a 460-foot Carlos Beltran home run or the deliciousness of chicken-fried steak or the importance of humanity’s continued existence. But you’d be hard-pressed to convince me it’s not the best thing that happened in the calendar year 2011.

And look: Mocking Gloria Allred’s press conference in response to Roger McDowell’s homophobic comments does not excuse those comments. The dude griping has a rightful gripe: McDowell’s behavior has no place at a baseball game — or anywhere, really — and kids absolutely do belong at a baseball park no matter what Roger McDowell says.

But if you really think your daughters were traumatized by the sight of the Atlanta Braves’ pitching coach simulating sex with a baseball bat, there’s just no way you can argue they’re not going to be exponentially more traumatized by being videotaped (in matching clothes) watching their own father do the exact same thing, only this time presumably more dramatically and methodically, and now a two-person effort perpetrated by some woman who is not their mother.

This is one of those Dick-Cheney-shot-a-guy, Derek-Jeter’s-giftbasket things where you can riff on it for months and never make a joke funnier than the primary source material. Are we absolutely certain this wasn’t Gloria Allred’s Funny or Die debut?

You can watch the whole thing if you need context but it really gets steamy around 1:50. My favorite part is when she goes back for more: