Johan Santana still doing stuff

You guys!

Johan Santana is doing stuff! Look at him. He’s pitching off a mound. He’s smiling. Johan Santana is pitching and smiling.

Look at that beard. You can mention Kelvim Escobar and Mark Prior and Chien-Ming Wang to me, but who among them has the type of singular focus it takes to maintain such elegantly groomed facial hair? Look at it! Its edges are so sharp you can shave your own face on it.

And which recipient of shoulder surgery has stood on a Major League mound gripping a baseball, staring down his manager, shouting, “I’m a man! I’m a man!”?

Santana.

Can we just ignore all the evidence to the contrary and dream on Johan Santana’s full recovery right now? Please?

Because how awesome would…

This exists: Ultimate Tazer Ball

Last night’s Colbert Report introduced me to a sport called Ultimate Tazer Ball, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I’ll defer all Ultimate Tazer Ball jokes to Stephen Colbert:

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Current Events – Ultimate Taser Ball
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive

YouTube doubler

Yesterday the estimable Jon Bois posted a link to something called YouTube doubler, a technology that allows you to play two YouTube videos simultaneously. This is amazingly useful for me, since one of my favorite time-killers is coming up with new scores for silly Internet videos, and until yesterday I had to juggle YouTube pages to do so and couldn’t share my silly hobby with the world.

Here are some:

Spelling Bee Faint
Waterskiing mishaps (mute the left one)
The Very Melancholy Baseball Show

Here’s one Shamik made:

Todd Coffey/Dr. Dre mashup

And here’s one in honor of the A’s signing of Yoenis Cespedes:

WE EAT THE PIG AND THEN TOGETHER WE BURN!

I had some meetings and a lot of work to do this morning but I’ll have more stuff soon, I promise. For now, enjoy YouTube doubler.