Dan Steinberg is on the scene at the Redskins' preseason camp, so of course he's spending just as much time reporting on odd fan behavior as he is on the players. And frankly, that's the way I like it. His most recent fan profile is on Skins fanatic Kevin McCarthy, also known by the clever moniker "Redskins Tattoo Guy."
His right arm has, among other things, a Redskins helmet, images of the team's three Super Bowl trophies, six empty trophies ("for future fill-ins"), the name and initials of the three Redskins Super Bowl MVPs–John Riggins, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien–and the signatures of those three men…
His back, though, is the real showstopper, with old and new team helmets and the names, numbers, positions and years inducted for all 20 Redskins in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, made to resemble a football card. There's an empty space of about an inch-and-a-half at the bottom, which McCarthy figures will be good for two more names–"I was hoping for Darrell Green and Art Monk," he told me.
Wait a second. Six empty trophies? How long is this guy expecting to live? Is he from the future or something? Maybe Robot Joe Gibbs will be a better coach than the washed-up old man they have at the helm now.
(Special thanks to Agent Steinz for sharing his original photos.)
Right now the big buzz — replacing the downers of Bill Walsh's death and Mike Vick's dogfighting case — is the potentially positive development of Kevin Garnett's impending trade to the Celtics.
The trade as reported: Garnett to the C's for Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green, Theo Ratliff's expiring contract, and future draft picks. Or, more succinctly: KG for Al Jefferson, chump change, and chumps. Predictably, fan boners are rock-hard all over the Internet, from the Sports Guy to MJD (whose headline-photo combo is downright frightening). And I haven't even gone over to CelticsBlog yet. I'm afraid I met get wet.
Are you ready for Rajon Rondo? Does this make the C's a contender? The automatic sacrificial lamb to the Western Conference? The answer, of course, is that I'm not gonna care until next April anyway, so why bother. Can you sense my ironic detachment? Not caring about things is what makes me so cool.
So, Major League Baseball's trade deadline is today, and the biggest trade looks to be… uhhh…. hmn. Kevin Garnett to the Celtics?
If you're down with all the trade talk, you can peep ESPN.com's report card here or a savvy, entertaining blog version here. Basically, the Braves got Mark Teixeira (pictured, left) for a playoff push but in doing so allowed the Rangers to get the better end of the trade, including hot catching prospect Jarrod Saltalamacchia, which sounds either delicious or very, very contagious. The Rangers continued building for the future by shipping off Kenny Lofton's ancient legs back to Cleveland for another young catching prospect, Max Ramirez. And it looks like the Phillies made a couple of small, smart moves to improve the team for the stretch run and the future.
There were some other trades, but it's still kinda early and I might fall asleep if I keep talking about baseball. Don't get me wrong, I love baseball. America's pastime, yadda yadda. But trade talk in the morning before I've had coffee? Or mescaline? I'd almost rather watch the WNBA. Almost.
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I just watched this video six times in a row, and I'm not even close to done yet. In fact, I've canceled all my plans tonight so I can keep watching this clip. Finding the right girl on eHarmony is just gonna have to wait another day.
(Unending thanks to the devilishly handsome J.E. Skeets)
Doin' It Well is a celebration of some of the best comments from the previous week at With Leather. It is compiled by the editorial staff and runs every Monday.
I've fallen into the habit of railing against the evils of unfunny and lazy commenting in this feature, and I want to take a break from that to say, Hey everyone, great job last week. I had more fun reading the comments last week than I did writing the site.
And, while I'm on the subject of writing for this site, I want to take a moment to point out that no matter how lazy I am — and I'm pretty friggin' lazy — I'll never fall into the blogger habit of writing, "Insert joke about _______ here" when there's an easy target. Why do people do that? If it's such an easy target for jokes, how about, I don't know, actually inserting a joke? Seriously. I'm lazy, but I'll at least work hard to think of something marginally less unfunny.
Like these outstanding comments (watch out, it's a long list this week):
From JEREMY SHOCKEY IS A GENTLEMAN
From MICHIGAN, NOTRE DAME TO TAKE A BREAK
From RUSSIAN BIATHLETES CAN BE POISONOUS
And now for some solo work:
Oh, and a +1 to everyone who dropped a Tenacious D quote or took part in the Bob Costas = Chuck Norris game. I really enjoy the notion of Costas as a telekinetic madman from the future.
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