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Power Pop Friday - May 25
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Giancarlo Stanton will destroy the structure. It might be through overuse, or it might be through a slow, controlled, baseball-by-baseball demolition. But he will destroy that structure.
Because you've been so good, dear readers, you get TWO power pop songs this week. The first one, besides being a longtime favorite of Rob's, appeared in the '90s comedy Kingpin.
Second song after the jump...
Here's another video that was probably shared like mad on one of the days it wasn't on the Internet, but in case you were off the grid too ... (Warning: Saucy bleeps and themes!)
Why is Mr. Met on a tank? Leave your answer in the comments.
Mike Stanton would have lobbed the ball in. Giancarlo Stanton doesn't care if he kills someone. Don't pretend like you haven't noticed the change.
Armando Benitez is merely the latest ex-major leaguer to become a Long Island duck. Other notable alumni include:
Chucky Carr, Carlos Baerga, Mark Whiten, Rusty Meacham, Bryan Rekar, Bill Pulsipher, Henry Rodriguez, Pete Rose (Jr.), Juan Gonzalez, Pat Mahomes, Edgardo Alfonzo, Carl Everett, Mark Lewis, Jose Offerman, Danny Graves, Donovan Osborne, Jay Gibbons, Richard Hidalgo, Preston Wilson, Dan Miceli, Bill Simas, Joey Gathright, Sidney Ponson, Kip Wells.
The good news for Benitez is that for all of those guys, the Ducks were merely a stop on the way to reëstablishing themselves as good major leaguers.
Wait, what? Oh, right: None of them did that. Still, you can't blame a guy for trying.
Patrick from Pitchers & Poets on home plate collisions:
Hockey has its referee-sanctioned fistfights, football has its everything; baseball, in comparison, has merely sacrificed Ray Fosse to the altar of bloodlust.
I'd like to leave the collisions behind, relegating them to the memories of belt-grabbing and knee-high cleats ... my idealized baseball would involve no contact at all between the players beyond the tag; every moment in baseball centers on each player's interaction with the ball, not each other.
The bit about Fosse is something of a myth, but that's a quibble.
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