Somebody tried to crash Sammy Sosa’s birthday party wearing brown face paint. Enrique Santos, the self-proclaimed “King of All Spanglish Media” decided to gussy up for the event at the Fontainebleau, which is guess is French for…hey, you’re the racist. YOU come up with something.
Invited as a guest to Sosa’s big birthday bash at the Fontainebleau, Santos thought he’d have a little fun with the whole Lightening Gate situation and show up at the party looking like he got locked into a spray tan booth. “I’m currently using a cream which has darkened my complexion,” Santos says. “Ironically, Sammy is going through the same process, but the cream he is using is making him white.”
While on the red carpet doing interviews, Santos was approached by a publicist who asked him what he was doing, telling Santos, “You can’t make fun of him,” and ultimately kicking him out of the affair. –Enrique Santos, via Slanch Report.
Yeah, so dude got tossed from a party for dressing up for Halloween three weeks too late. Big news there. So “brown face” is cool if you’re already Hispanic? I guess if you’re showing up to party with a 41-year-old guy that still calls himself “Sammy,” then probably not.
We’re now in the phase of the MLB season where the leagues glacially roll out their post-season awards; and we were moderately tickled to see Kansas City Royals ace and object of female WL readers’ affection Zack Greinke scoop up the AL Cy Young Award after one of the best seasons in baseball history. Greinke finished the season with 229-1/3 innings pitched, a 2.12 ERA and a pant-droppingly low 1.07 WHIP.
Greinke’s struggles with anxiety disorder are a part of his life and cost him most of two big-league seasons. But his poised brilliance on the mound conceals a young man who still isn’t terribly comfortable with all the recognition his talent has brought him. “He didn’t even answer the Cy Young call because he did not recognize the number on his cell phone,” the Kansas City Star’s Joe Posnanski writes. –The Daily Fix [Wall Street Journal]
Of course the nerds are rejoicing, as they feared that Greinke would lose the award to one of the six players that finished the season with more wins. They pointed to a stat called Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), but really that sounds like a bunch of hogwash. Why use a bunch of statistics for such a thing when there are plenty of unbiased sportswriters at your disposal? Those guys are really knowledgeable and certainly would weigh each player’s performance equally. Especially when Greinke goes to play for the Yankees in 2011.
Noted “comedian” George Lopez has a new talk show now, proving that one doesn’t have to be funny or a comedian to get a talk show these days. Anyway, he makes a nice spoof of the product “intergration” that happens on other horrible shows. And it makes fun of Sammy Sosa’s stab at Caucasianism. Is it funny? Eh. Is it an easy post? You betcha! Now I have time to check my local listings for “The Dan Shanoff Show.” Best. Show. Ever. If it existed. First guest? Tim Tebow’s nuts, with special musical guest Tim Tebow. –via Game On.
The awesomeness is emanating out of No Mas like butter through the pores of an obese child being chased down the street. This is an incredibly well-done animated short from James Blagden chronicling what might have happened to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis before his famous June 12, 1970 no-hitter against San Diego. Ellis claims he was on LSD at the time, and really the only way this could be better is if you popped a blotter yourself before watching.
Major League Baseball decided not to expand the use of instant replay for 2010, despite consideration stemming from a cluster of blown calls by umpires in the playoffs and late regular season in 2009. General managers didn’t even vote on it, in large part due to commissioner Bud Selig’s adamant opposition to it.
Any change for 2010 likely would be likely have to be instigated by commissioner Bud Selig, who repeatedly has said he’s against widening the use of video review. While there was discussion, Solomon said “it was all confined to the current instant replay system that we have.”
“I think commissioner Selig is going to look at the entire umpiring structure and he’s going to seek ways to enhance the entire structure,” Solomon said. –Y! Sports.
Baseball with instant replay is like my grandparents with email: you’ll have to push them into it kicking and screaming. Hang on, here comes an email from Grandpa right now…”Call me when you get this.” Way to join the information age, you old coot.
It took the New York Yankees nine years to win another World Series title, but if you listen to all the whiny little bloggers out there, you’d think that they’d bought every title of the millennium. They didn’t even make the playoffs last year! But Josh, all they do is spend money to get the best players! You mean they’re actually TRYING TO FIELD THE BEST TEAM THEY CAN with their available resources? Those sons of bitches! Why can’t they half-ass it like the Pittsburgh Pirates! THERE’S an organization that acquires personnel the right way!
Anyway, I don’t like the Yankees, but they don’t annoy me the same way the Yankee haters do. And those people were at it again after Derek Jeter was awarded his fourth Gold Glove yesterday. Questions of Jeter’s range have become commonplace of late, but he had only 8 errors (fewest of all AL shortstops). Plus he smells really nice.
What Jeter boasts, however, is aura. He walks it. He exudes it. More than any professional athlete I’ve ever seen or covered. He has [Michael] Jordan’s regal texture, but without the insufferable arrogance. He has Tiger Woods’ audience, but does more with it. He’s quick with a smile, a laugh, a kind word. [H]ow can’t you appreciate the man? –Jeff Pearlman.
Gold Gloves apparently are for regal texture now. Makes sense, I suppose. Are we sure the Steinbrenners didn’t buy him that Gold Glove? Rumor has it that they can be a little loose with the purse strings.
