The MLB Home Run Derby is right around the corner (literally – it’s on Monday).
Some of MLB’s top sluggers will be hitting lots of Home Runs in the Derby … but we thought it would be fun to take a peek at who these guys will be hitting “Home Runs” with AFTER the Derby. Namely, their Wives and Girlfriends (WAGs).
Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge.
Without further delay … the WAGs of the 2009 Home Run Derby …
AMERICAN LEAGUE HOME RUN DERBY WAGs
Yes, I know that MLB still hasn’t officially announced who’s playing for the AL in the 2009 Home Run Derby … so we’ll just roll with the rumored players and update this when they tell us who’s in.
One of the best things about the World Series is that it’s usually over by Halloween (except next year – stupid WBC), so people have time to show their love for their favorite baseball team on a Pumpkin.
The Philadelphia Phillies are your 2008 World Series Champion, so let’s see how their fans did in carving up some tributes to their Phavorite team …
First up we have a pair of carved P’s.
The P must stand for pathetic. Because those are so bad, they should be called Hack O’Lanterns.
During the World Series celebration (riot) in Philadelphia last night, some shirtless moron decided to make himself the center of attention by climbing up a traffic light on Broad Street.
And Philly fans (rioters) let him have it … with a bottle … to the head.
Fall down, go Boom.
The loud *CLINK* you hear is not edited.
Holy crap. That wasn’t a beer bottle either. That looked like one of those expensive vodka bottles.
Don’t people watch videos from the Preakness infield or stuff like that to know if you make yourself an open target … you’re gonna get your skull cracked?
And this was Philly. Guy should have known better.
Dumbass.
All across the baseball blogosphere, you’re going to see lots of real baseball analysis about the matchups on the field and in the dugout as well as some predictions about the outcome of the Fall Classic.
I’m not going to do that this year – it’s well evidenced that I suck at predictions … my 10/27/07 prediction that the Red Sox would repeat in 2008 didn’t come true.
Personally, I’m more interested in what’s happening on TOP of the Dugout – because we love baseball cheerleaders here at HRD.
So here’s your Home Run Derby 2008 World Series Preview – of the eye candy on the sidelines. (more…)
Last Night, during Game Five of the 2008 ALCS between the Rays and Red Sox, former professional wrestler Brian Knobbs got his Blue Rayhawk kicked out of Fenway Park.
I haven’t yet seen the official Red Sox reason as to why Knobbs was booted from Fenway, but I would imagine it would have to be something along the lines of being a belligerent, drunken loudmouth.
Knobbs was once part of the Wrestling Tag Team Known as “The Nasty Boys.” Now’s he’s more recognizable as being Hulk Hogan’s best friend on the VH1 Reality TV Show Hogan Knows Best and occasionally Brooke Knows Best. Scratch that – he’s known as the fat obnoxious drunk guy always hanging around Hogan.
Here he is before the game … claiming to be the “Original Rayhawk” … prepare to be yelled at.
Then again, Sager was wearing yet another technicolor ensemble. Looked like a purple velvet sportcoat with blue shoes.
This is how lopsided the Rays-Red Sox series has become … the TBS announcers are even commenting on theior own guy getting visually felt up by a manager than the series at hand.
So you’d think a front row seat for Game Three of the 2008 ALCS at Fenway Park would be a good seat, right?
It’d be more fun if the Red Sox weren’t down 5-0 to those cocky Rays.
Hey look – TBS’ Craig Sager will be doing a report right in front of you while wearing one of those eye-raping suits he wears. But that’s still cool, you’re gonna have a close-up on national TV …
… but then a Fenway Park soda vendor comes and nearly drops his big honkin tray of refreshing ice cold Coca-Cola right on your head … and then drops a bottle of Coke right in your lap.
Sheesh. Now the guy to the left of Sager gets his WTF? face plastered on National Television.
Good thing they sell soda in bottles now. Remember when they sold lukewarm flat soda in paper cups? That guy’s lap would have been drenched.
That vendor was gonna sell that Coke no matter what.
Are all Fenway Vendors that clumsy and self-absorbed?
You know, with the Cubs out of the playoffs – I was kinda leaning towards cheering for the Tampa Bay Rays the rest of the way. And why not? They’ve been a great story this season and it would just be another expansion team to make or win the World Series since the Cubs have gone to the October Classic.
But now .. I’m not so sure about that. Scratch that – I don’t want them to win a single game against the Red Sox. Why?
Act like you’ve been there before. Even if you haven’t. And don’t count your pennants before they fly. I hated those stupid “It’s Gonna Happen” shirts and signs at Wrigley Field all summer long.
Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden owes the Tampa Bay Rays a dollar.
Because while campaigning in Florida, the Senator from Delaware called the team from St. Petersburg by their old name … The Devil Rays. Via NPR
Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, got an early start Wednesday. He was at a morning rally in Tampa, where the Major League Baseball playoffs are all the rage. Biden said Obama wished he was in Florida, too.
“But after what your Devil Rays did to the Chicago White Sox, he just couldn’t do it,” Biden said. “The man is hurting.”
That’s a no-no in Ray-land, where the team fines people $1 every time they use the old namesake.
Happy Halloween Everybody!!
The 2008 World Series is set. 
The always flamboyantly dressed Craig Sager has a new not-so-secret admirer.
So you’d think a front row seat for Game Three of the 2008 ALCS at Fenway Park would be a good seat, right?
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