As I wrote the other day, all the Los Angeles Dodgers apparently needed to break out of their awful funk was the excitement of a flashy, young player like Yasiel Puig. And all it took to gain a game on the National League West leading Arizona Diamondbacks last night was Puig taking an Ian Kennedy fastball to the face.

In the bottom of the 6th inning, with a 2-0 lead, Kennedy let one get away and popped Puig right in the kisser at 92 mph. Amazingly, Puig stayed in the game, but his teammate Zack Greinke wasn’t going to let that fly, and he started the next inning by hitting Miguel Montero with a pitch. Both dugouts received their requisite warnings, but Kennedy said, “Aw hell naw” and threw at Greinke’s head in the bottom of the 7th inning, causing both benches to clear and a long, wonderful brawl to break out.

The beautiful irony of this entire stupid fight is that the Dodgers and D-Backs were selected to open the 2014 MLB season in Australia. So have fun with that, mates. In the meantime, someone hit G-SEVENNNNN for me!

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The Los Angeles Dodgers have had some new swagger added to their otherwise fart noise of a season by the incredibly exciting Yasiel Puig, but they’re still in last place in the National League West, 7.5 games out of first place. But if you ask me, having Hank Azaria show up and read the starting lineup as Moe, Apu and Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons should at least buy the team a few extra wins. No team is going to top that this season, short of Jon Hamm showing up to a Cardinals game to let his bulge read the lineup.

You’d watch. You know you’d watch.

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Because they’re monsters. Get it.

This week, Sports On TV looks at the 10 greatest sports moments from the hit 1964 sitcom ‘The Munsters,’ about a family of Universal Monsters who live in a creepy old mansion and try (and mostly fail) to interact with the normal people in their community. Sure, it’s the Go-Bots to ‘The Addams Family’s’ Transformers, but it was a fun show and a great example of 1960s sitcom joy, and come on, I know at least one of your parents loved this and made you watch it. Hopefully the same parent who made you watch ‘The Brady Bunch.’

If you’ve never seen the show, check out the list anyway, because it is all about a Frankenstein making life difficult for strangers. The list features appearances from Hall of Fame baseball players, legendary MMA instructors and a drag racing coffin that Rob Zombie made famous to a new generation. So yeah, click through to enjoy the 10 greatest sports moments from ‘The Munsters.’ And don’t forget to unlock our commenting badge while you’re at it.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers paid tribute to America’s troops and their families this past Memorial Day weekend in one of our favorite ways possible – surprising one soldier’s family with an early return. The parents of U.S. Army Lt. Brandon Neel were being interviewed about their son’s service, when they revealed that he’d be coming home to them in one week, and they were clearly emotional just discussing it. But then the waterworks were in full effect when Neel snuck up on his parents in front of the pre-game crowd.

The only thing that would have made this video better would be if it involved all of our troops coming home, but I would have also liked it if Lil Jon had joined in on the hug. And then maybe if a light fell on Taylor Lautner.

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One of my favorite moments during Saturday night’s UFC 160 PPV was when the camera showed rapper and Dave Chappelle muse Lil Jon bro-hugging some random guy who was barely important enough to be on camera, because it just adds fuel to my long-standing argument that the UFC really needs to start reaching out to more celebrities. I mean, unless people are impressed by Linkin Park’s bass player and Jacksonville Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis, in which case I’ll just shut up and mind my own.

But the funny thing about Lil Jon and that other random dude is that it was actually UFC legend Royce Gracie, who wasn’t fit to share more than 1/10 of the screen with a guy who is famous for shouting, “SKEET SKEET SKEET SKEET” and “WHAT!”. And while I keep trying to figure out why Lil Jon is still famous – aside from recent appearances on The Celebrity Apprentice and The Jenny McCarthy Show – he was also at Dodger Stadium on Friday to throw out the opening pitch.

It went about as well as you’d expect.

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As an unapologetic stan for The Wonder Girls, I like to throw shade at Girls Generation whenever I can. Last year, I got my first opportunity to turn a sports comedy blog into a Korean teenager’s Tumblr when Jessica Jung wound up for a dramatic first pitch and got it about four inches before it hit dirt. I laughed and laughed, and took joy in the momentary failure of a rich pretty lady who probably didn’t give a shit.

Fast forward a year and history is repeating itself.

Tiffany Hwang of Girls’ Generation was tasked with throwing out the first pitch at Monday’s Los Angeles Dodgers/Arizona Diamondbacks game. She wore cat ears. She had a dramatic wind-up, just like Jessica Jung. She impressed the crowd by firing in a strike, and hahahaha no she didn’t. Here’s the clip:

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