Grant Brisbee over at Baseball Nation shared Bill Murray’s speech from his induction into the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame, and I want to share it here for two reasons:

1. Bill Murray is the coolest guy in the entire world and should be inducted into everybody’s Hall Of Fame, if only for the speeches.
2. It needs to get remixed with clips of Max Fischer sitting in the crowd, taking notes.

The secret, apparently, is to find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For me, that’s listening to my favorite actor talk about baseball. Bill Murray Hall Of Fame speeches are my Rushmore.

Full video is below (thanks again, SBN Studios).

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Nothing fires me up for another day of post writing like a good pump up speech, and few in recent history have been better than the speech Miami of Ohio head coach Lance Guidry gave his team last night. The Redhawks defeated Middle Tennessee in the GoDaddy.com Bowl last night, becoming the first team in college football history to go from a season with 10 or more losses, to a season with 10 or more wins the following year. And now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to finish this post, put that chip back on my shoulder, and get ready for an afternoon of drunken shenanigans. Video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »