In the comments section earlier, Justin mentioned Alfredo Griffin, which reminded me of one of my favorite baseball cards ever. Why does the 1987 Topps set obliterate every other year and brand? (Answer: Because I was six years old and getting into baseball for the first time, almost certainly.)
The Daily News has a photo gallery of the “World’s stupidest inventions.” About half of them somehow involve the toilet, and of the remaining half, about half of those are not stupid at all but actually remarkably awesome. This, for example:
Luke O’Brien at Deadspin points out that a Wall Street Journal article claiming that Phillies fans no longer consider the Mets a rival used doctored photos of Phillies fans holding up innocuous signs.
First off, anyone who thinks that Phillies fans no longer hate the Mets should go to Citizen’s Bank Park dressed in Mets attire. You’re talking about deep-seeded and very likely Freudian animosity toward the whole city, not the type of fleeting distaste that’s going to pass after a couple years of the Phillies being good.
Second, I have uncovered the original undoctored* photo of the Phillies fan that the Journal Photoshopped. Here it is:
*- Obviously I didn’t really. In reality this man may not endorse vomiting on children. Also, I originally had the sign say “SOMETHING HOMOPHOBIC!” but I decided that there are unfortunately plenty of Mets fans that yell homophobic things at games and I probably should avoid vaguely accusing the entire city of Philadelphia of homophobia.
Via Drew:
Excellent work from former intern and pizza expert Jimmy:
In honor of the Phillies’ starter tonight, the embarrassing pictures of Cole Hamels has been updated with three new images. Here’s my favorite:
How sweet. I hope that’s above the fireplace in his apartment.
I got a hankering for some mozzarella sticks around lunchtime so I walked up to a little burger place near my hotel called Roxy. They didn’t have any on the menu, but they did have something called “Deep Fried Battered Bacon Planks,” so obviously I got that.
They weren’t just battered and deep fried bacon, I should add. They were covered in some sort of sweet and sour goo, like a slightly spicier General Tso’s sauce. And they were served, alarmingly, with country gravy for dipping.
Here’s what it looked like:
How was it? Well, I’m pretty sure that just about anything that’s battered, fried, covered in sweet goo and dipped in country gravy would be pretty damn good. The crispiness of the batter and the flavor of the goo drowned out the bacony aspects of the bacon, so it was really just a medium to transport the other ingredients. When I really focused I could detect a hint of porky flavor, but it was difficult to focus because my heart hurt.
Via Tommy Bennett. No way. I mean, it doesn’t look photoshopped or anything… but no f@#$ing way. Really? I’m not trying to sound like a middle-school bully or whatever, but is he kidding or something?
From imgur.com, via Mischa:
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