Good ol’ Nate Diaz. Just a regular dude!

Y’see, Pat Healy got Submission of the Night at UFC 159 but had his $65,000 bonus forfeited to Bryan Caraway, the only other guy with a submission victory that night, when Healy tested positive for marijuana. If you’re wondering what part of that makes Bryan Caraway a fag, here’s his manager Mike Kogan to helpfully explain that when Diaz said “fag,” he didn’t mean “homosexual,” he meant “person who is weak and worthless.” Not like when straight people think gay people are weak and worthless and call them fags to deride them.

Like when we’re trying to deride women.

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Earl Weaver wrapped up his Major League Baseball managing career in 1986, when I was just 7-years old and barely wise enough to know why that old man was screaming at the umpire and being ejected from the game. I do know that he was a St. Louis guy, which makes it somewhat endearing that he spent his post-playing days managing the team that was once the St. Louis Browns, but it was only thanks to this Internet and YouTube era that I’ve truly been able to appreciate the man who still leads all American League managers with 94 ejections. May that record stand long and proud.

Weaver passed away last night at the age of 82. His marketing agent announced that Weaver collapsed on a cruise that was sponsored by the Baltimore Orioles; however, the cause of death is yet unknown. All I can hope for is that he got to give the cruise director hell. “You call that a deluxe seafood buffet,” he’d shout before throwing first base into the ocean, I like to imagine.

Weaver actually helped me appreciate baseball in a more unusual way, certainly one that he probably would have hated, in that Earl Weaver Baseball was the first computer game that I can remember owning and playing. It was a maddening, frustrating experience in hand-eye coordination, as everything that was produced by that floppy disk made me furious. But it taught me a lot about baseball and the guys who played it for so many years, so Earl Weaver will always hold a special place in my heart for that.

Fortunately, this YouTube era indeed allows us to remember that Weaver was a grizzled, old school manager who didn’t give a damn. He was brash and unapologetic, and that’s why so many people loved him. And it’s that brash and unapologetic attitude that gave us his unaired edition of Manager’s Corner, in which he answered fan questions with more curse words than I ever knew existed.

Thanks for all the laughs and home runs, Earl.

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Forget Kelly Brook’s annual reminder to the world that she has large breasts and don’t bother picking up Sports Illustrated’s latest celebration of Kate Upton and Chrissy Teigen. This year’s awesome sexy date tracker is coming from London artist James Husbands, as his 2013 Sexy Managers calendar is selling like crazy. So who has Husbands decided to capture in famous movie and TV poses in this incredible animated calendar? A bunch of guys I’ve never heard of, because I do not watch soccer.

But you’ve probably heard of them, because you are a sophisticated soccer fan, and unlike my brutish gorilla ass, you understand and appreciate the world’s most popular sport. According to the Daily Mail, the months are adorned with the most famous soccer managers in the world:

January – Arsene Wenger
February – Harry Redknapp
March – Roberto Mancini
April – Pep Guardiola/Jose Mourinho
May – Fabio Capello
June – Sven Goran Eriksson
July – Andre Villas-Boas
August – Martin Jol
September – Rafa Benitez
October – Ian Holloway
November – Alex Ferguson/Kenny Daglish
December – Roy Hodgson

As I said, only a few of those names are familiar to me, but I have to be honest… I’m a little turned on right now. Seriously, call me, Martin Jol.

Anyway, after the jump you can view the calendars images for yourself. I’ve been known to post a lot of artsy stuff between here and the mother site, and it’s because I just appreciate cool paintings, drawings, photoshops, etc. So I just want to say, without hyperbole, that short of the Dikembe Mutombo video game, this is my favorite thing that I’ve posted this year. And if Husbands made a similar calendar for NFL coaches, I think my head would explode.

So please do that, James Husbands. Please. Jim Schwartz doing the interrogation scene from Basic Instinct. That’s all I ask.

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