I Remember Trauma
The Foreign Object of My Affection
Don’t Let the Luchador Hit You on the Way Out
Now I‘ve Not Seen Everything: Life as a Pro Wrestling Referee
Piledriving Miss Daisy: Inside Women’s Wrestling
All the World’s a Cage Match: Reflections of a Wrestling Existentialist
I Can Count to Three
I’ve Taken So Many Steel Chairs to the Head, I Forgot How to Sit on One
Every Time I Threw a Match I Lit Up the Crowd
Muscle Chowder: Life as a Wrestling Stooge
Wrestling's in My Blood—See for Yourself
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Things I Wouldn't Want to Die From
Desultory combustion
Malignant pleonasm
Tickle overdose ("Tickle to Death" on my death certificate? No thanks!)
Mallaria
Bubonic plaque
Traumatic shlock
Prismatic fever
Fatal browbeating
Bigpox
Anything involving my petard
Stray ballet
Monday, August 17, 2009
Things, Besides Crying, for Which There Should Be No Place in Baseball (with Some Caveats)
Wearing your baseball cap upside down while you are right-side up
Boring mascots Mascots
Funky renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner," unless at some point a fungo bat gets set on fire
Bad renditions of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” unless accompanied by free peanuts and cracker jack
Ceremonial first pitches thrown by someone who throws like a squirrel
Referring to a ballplayer by conjoining shortened versions of the player's first and last names (e.g., "A-Rod" for Alex Rodriguez, Han-Ram for Hanley Ramirez, D-Lee for Derrek Lee), unless you have been diagnosed with a disease so virulent, your life expectancy can be measured in syllables
Referring to a ballplayer by using a shortened version of the player's last name (e.g., "Sully" for Sullivan, "Rami" for Ramirez, "Gonzo" for Gonzales), unless you are a teammate of that player, or have spent or are likely in the near future to spend a weekend fly-fishing with him in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Donnybrooks (rhubarbs OK)
The Wave (Please! Stop!)
Hot dogs that cost as much as a steak dinner at Texas Roadhouse
Players assaulting plumbing in the dugout or clubhouse, unless plumbing is the aggressor
Fraternizing during the game with a member of the opposition. You can pass along your commodities tips after the game.
Labels:
baseball,
baseball fans,
baseball players,
humor,
lists,
Major League Baseball,
MLB
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Not Especially Intimidating Wrestling Moves
The Sleep Aid
The Fist of Perturbation
The Hectoral Pectoral
The Heave of Destruction
The Stress Inducer
The Aluminum Claw
The Harriet Nelson
The Corrective Boot
The Teddy Roosevelt (walk softly and carry a pool noodle)
The Sneer of Transfixion
The Throws Garden
The Scaphoid Sandwich
Shove and Disses
The Beau Pummel
The Crimponator
The Fist of Perturbation
The Hectoral Pectoral
The Heave of Destruction
The Stress Inducer
The Aluminum Claw
The Harriet Nelson
The Corrective Boot
The Teddy Roosevelt (walk softly and carry a pool noodle)
The Sneer of Transfixion
The Throws Garden
The Scaphoid Sandwich
Shove and Disses
The Beau Pummel
The Crimponator
Monday, August 3, 2009
Nicknames You Wouldn't Want to Be Tagged with Even If Your Name's Not James Jackson
Open Fly
Shootee
Jetsam
The Afterthought
Mr. Snivelmore
The Last Resort
The Sudden Pall
Stanley Livingstain
Tricklenose
Nice Try
Cringemaster
The Loom of Gloom
Captain Extraneous
Recall
Posthumous Man
First Draft
The Duke of Dumpster
ur-Urkel
McShifty
Grammar Moses
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