Dorks And Losers

I hon­estly can say that I can’t wait for the sum­mer when Christo­pher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is finally released. I prob­a­bly shared the same mixed reac­tion to Heath Ledger being cast as Joker. But hand it to both Nolan and Ledger that Chris­t­ian Bale has quite the adversary.

Here are a bunch of cool teaser posters.

Goose Gos­sage will finally be in the MLB Hall of Fame as the lone mem­ber voted in by writ­ers. Jim Rice missed again, but it’s assumed he’ll get the votes needed next year in his 15th and final year of eligibility.

Other nota­bles:

Andre Daw­son 358 votes = 65.9%
Bert Blyleven 336 votes = 61.9%
Tim Raines 132 votes = 24.3%
Mark McG­wire 128 votes = 23.6%

Daw­son should be in. Blyleven is def­i­nitely one of those bor­der­line guys, even though his strike­out and win totals sug­gest oth­er­wise. I’m sur­prised Raines didn’t get more votes despite all the recent ESPN love. In a recent HOF chat, Jayson Stark cites Raines’ 1987 sea­son as one of the great­est ever for a lead­off hitter:

“If you were com­pil­ing a list of great­est lead­off sea­sons of mod­ern times, where would you rank Raines’ sea­son in 1987 — the year he missed all of spring train­ing and all of April thanks to col­lu­sion, and still scored 123 runs? That .330 AVG/.429 OBP/.526 SLUG stat line is lead­off wiz­ardry at its great­est, don’t you think?”

I don’t think McG­wire will ever be in the HOF. Steroids talk aside, his career bat­ting AVG is .263 (would be the low­est of any HOF player) and he only had 1,626 career hits. Of those hits, he had 583 home runs (over 1/3 of his hits). I don’t think any­one could have been a more one-dimensional player.

In one of the stu­pid­est things I’ve ever heard from the glo­ri­ous Scott Boras on Rick Ankiel:

“You have a player whose con­tri­bu­tions came first as a pitcher, then as a posi­tion player,” the agent said. “The last player you’re really talk­ing about is Babe Ruth.”

Absurd.

Adrian Woj­narowski named the NBA’s five most dis­ap­point­ing teams. The New York Knicks prob­a­bly shouldn’t have been on the list since no one thought they would be good any­way. Here’s my favorite quote regard­ing the woe­ful Miami Heat:

“As Wade has dis­cov­ered on the worst team in the East­ern Con­fer­ence, his great­ness doesn’t even make this team com­pet­i­tive. In a des­per­ate quick-fix attempt, Riley sur­rounded Wade with broken-down play­ers and bad actors. The result finds the Heat with the worst record in the East­ern Con­fer­ence, unfath­omably even trail­ing the New York Knicks.”

Another one of those gotta have its…

A three foot curverd desk­top mon­i­tor. Sick.

Here’s some­thing I found and thought it was a lit­tle goofy. Well, rather manly… I suppose.

I stum­bled across the movie Sex And Break­fast and decided to look it up on the good ole IMDB. Imag­ine why…

Gaz­ing on the page stum­bled upon the page’s mes­sage board. Some­one asks a very male ques­tion and I am rather impressed at the direct­ness and unshame­ful­ness of one of the messages:

Kudos.

Other links:

• Texas has a strip club tax aimed at help­ing sex­ual assault vic­tims. Each vis­i­tor must pay $5 to the state. Very bad pol­icy, indeed.
• Yet another exam­ple of how much greater dogs are than cats. Dogs save kids from burn­ing build­ings. Confirmed.
• Hilary Clin­ton some­how won the New Hamp­shire Demo­c­ra­tic pri­mary. Sen. Barack Obama must be pissed. Although I’m not sur­prised to see my man Sen. John McCain won the N.H. Repub­li­can primary.

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