Home Run Derby

Yesterday, Boston Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia was named the 2008 American League MVP by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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So in Pedroia’s honor, here’s a few things that rhyme with Pedroia (it helps if you use a Boston accent) …

HOYA- The Mascot of the University of Georgetown

GOYA - Famous Spanish painter Francisco Goya.  Also a brand of Mexican Foods.

CARLOS MOYA – Former #1 Ranked Professional Tennis Player

OSCAR DE LA HOYA – Mexican-American Boxer, “The Golden Boy”

LATOYA – A girl’s name, typically African-American. Most notably singers Latoya Jackson and Latoya London.

And now the Boston language kicks in … pronounce the “er” as an “ah” …

JAMIE MOYER – Philadelphia Phillies Pitcher. Pedroia is 0-2 with a walk and a stolen base against him.

DESTROYER - A Navy battleship.

LAWYER – An attorney.  “I got busted, I need a Loy-yah”

VERNE TROYER - Played “Mini-Me” in the Austin Powers movies; about the size of Dustin Pedroia.

FOYER - A hallway or a corridor. I saw Pedroia in the Foy-ah.

This post was inspired (okay, ripped off) from Fitzy’s “Rhymes with Pedroia” Challenge from last August.  I came up with seven of them myself before Googling “Rhymes with Pedroia” and finding out that somone had done this in a stand-up act already. 

I thought I was being all original and clever too.  Rats.

You can watch Fitzy’s routine after the jump … but there’s a bunch of nasty language in this clip, so don’t play it at work, okay?

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Japan has given the world some pretty good baseball players …

Ichiro, Wally Kaname Yonamine, Hideki Matsui, Kosuke Fukudome (jury’s still out) and the legendary Sadaharu Oh (and his World Record 868 Home Runs – suck it Barry) come to mind.

But none of them did anything as cool as this guy …

Watch as this martial arts master shows some incredible baseball skill by hitting a baseball with a pair of nunchaku.

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