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Best Move in the History of American Gladiators
My one problem with this video is I don't like how the Gladiators kiss his ass after this move. That's not what being an American Gladiator is all about. If this dude pulled this stunt on Nitro he'd end up in the 2nd row after it was all said and done. Rule #1 of American Gladiators. You don't show up the Gladiators. Still, it's a pretty sweet move.
Thanks to Eric for the clip...
Nine Years Ago Today...
I was getting hammered at David Wells' perfect game.
It was a Sunday, one week before my college graduation. The next day our Senior Week started, five days of drinking and debauchery, immorality and immaturity. Pretty much a continuation of the previous four years.
Some of my Yankees fan friends (Chris, now MSDW's most ardent Barry Bonds fan, doesn't count as a Yankees fan since at the time he didn't know who Kevin Maas was) suggested making the trip to the Bronx for the game. This was May 1998. By the day of the game, the Yankees were 28-9 and 3.5 games up on the Sox. The Yankees were clearly the class of major league baseball. The Sox would win 92 games that season and finish 22 games out. Getting tickets the day of the game was easy; no Yankees fans were going early in the season because everyone knew that the real games wouldn't start until October. We ended up with seats in one of the last rows of the tier reserved.
This is what I remember about the first six innings of that game: Nothing. I pretty much concentrated on drinking Miller Lites and trying to explain to my Yankees fan friends why 
Nomar Garciaparra was clearly superior to Derek Jeter.
It wasn't until after the sixth inning that we all had a collective "Holy Shit" moment. And then we did four things the rest of the game:
- Stood and cheered
- Held it in
- Called our friends that had passed up the chance to come to the game and made sure that they realized that they were missing out on the 15th perfect game in major league history.
- Kept on calling our friends that had passed up the chance to come to the game just to be certain that they truly realized what they were missing. We were considerate like that.
When you're a college senior and your college life is on its last legs, you always wonder how you can go out in style. Most of the standard answers are potentially life-threatening or against the Geneva Convention.
But kicking off the final week of college by watching the 15th perfect game in major league history- both legal and historic. One week later, I would sitting at graduation, trash bag in my pocket because I was pretty sure that I was going to throw-up after a week of "excitement," dreaming about a career in the poorly paid biweekly newspaper/blog industry. Remember kids, dreams do come true.
Britney Spears Writes Cryptic Letter To Her Fans...
Britney Spears posted this cryptic letter on her official website this morning;
The reason for this letter is to let everyone know that their prayers have truly helped me. I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time. We are all lights of the world and we all need to continuously inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers.
Godspeed.
Love, Britney
To be honest, I’ve read this 16 times and I still can’t tell whether this is a suicide letter or a happy letter. Regardless, I’ve got to give Britney props for using “Godspeed” at the end of it. I don’t know why but that’s one of my favorite ways to sign a letter. I’m going to use it on all my emails for the rest of the month.
Godspeed
El Pres
Does Rambo IV stand a chance
UB says no, even though the thought of Rocky VI created nightmares, and it was great...Here are the latest photos from the film expected to be out around the holidays:
UFC 72: Angry Black Marine vs. Screech
This is the funniest thing UB has seen in a long time. Marine Sgt. Harvey E. Walden, IV is one of the judges on Celebrity Fit Club and according to this video he doesn't like getting punked by has-been child stars. The best part of this is when Screech tries to blow him off with a comment about setting up a UFC fight, which makes Walden literally turn into the Hulk
Tessie II?
Boston.com - Remember in June '04, when Ken Casey and the Dropkick Murphys played "Tessie" at Fenway? It be came something of a Bosox anthem, and the team went on to win its first World Series in 86 years. Hyde Park's Louie Bello is hoping his tune, "We Can't Lose," becomes the "Tessie" of '07. "We gave the song to Big Papi, and we're told he likes it," said Billy Dufresne, Bello's mana ger. The song, whose chorus is "On fire feel the heat from the bat/ On fire Big Papi is back / En Fuego, Prendelo Prendelo/ We can't lose," is on iTunes and Bello's MySpace page.
I am absolutely mystified how this blurb actually made it on Boston.com. It must be a real slow news day over there ,which may explain why Dan Shaughnessy has time to call back his hate mail Regardless, let’s rate Louie Bello’s “We Can’t Lose”. Just click on his myspace page and it starts playing automatically. (I'm sure there is a way for me to post the song directly on the blog, but I don't know how) Anyway, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that this will NOT become the next Red Sox anthem played at Fenway Park.
Thanks to Ratty for the story...
That shit is pendejo pendejo. I hope I never have to hear it again.
The Dropkick Murphy's played the Big Papi song?
Wow. I got to the 14 second mark before I had to stop it.
So according to that pic you posted at the top of this blog, "We can't lose" is the OFFICAL song of Ortiz. Right guys. Anyway i agree this song will NOT become the next Sox anthem. I'll give them this, the song isn't that great but a lot of the lines in it are clever/funny. Also, Staxx and Louie Bello look like a couple of bad asses, huh. I wouldn't fuck with them.....
Uhm, in a word... No
Allie, I live in Hyde Park, and can say with certainty that there are very few bad asses in H.P.
Also, I'm supremely hung over, so i don't have the stomach to listen to that. I'm gonig to go with No and sit quietly in the back with my head down
Ever notice how it's always Ratty finding these awful songs??? Just sayin'.
Yeah, that's pretty terrible.
And that's taking self-promotion to another level when you have a Myspace background customized with press clippings.
Am I really the first person to notice the flyer reads, "LOOSE" not "LOSE". What a couple of donkeys.
I didn't even make it to the 14 sec mark on that "song". I can't ever see that becoming a Red Sox anthem.
Sorry for reading the newspaper Kwall.
FYI, some people actually get news from places other than The Source.
Dear Ratty,
I get all the news I need to know from Barstool Sports and Bossip.com. I know the comings and goings of CHB, Kim Kardashian, and the answer to the age-old question "Who's More Bangin'?" You won't see that in the Globe, Herald, or the North End Tribune.
Your Role Model,
Kwall
Salty, I saw that. Hilarious.
Cameo's "Word Up" has a better chance of being played at Fenway.
"We can't LOOSE"?!??
Loose what?
A volley of arrows?
This song isn't the themesong of David Ortiz, it's the themesong of frustrated or incompetant archers everywhere.
Idiots.
this song uses every rap cliche in the book, zero points for originality.
BLUC - I'm guessig you're a Curry student from upstate NY with an off-campus apartment, right?
I play mens leauge hockey with Louie, not a bad guy at all. But also heard that song this morning, and its pretty lame, maybe it will catch on with the kids or something. Also BLUC Im sure your a huge badass yourself, but most of the guys I know from HP would slap yuppies (prob like yourself) around. But then again thsoe guys dont rap or sing songs about the redsox.
Roon, There are no Badasses in HP casue they dont have spiked hair, tans, spandax shirts, and foreign cars liek BLUC.
--HP-pride
That's right, BH - Hyde Pride!
I was born & raised in Hyde Park and bought a house on "The Hill" a couple of years ago. I just couldn't let that statement go without a response.
As was I! Wolcott!
I think it's funny that the blog island people are calling BLUC a yuppie from upstate NY with spiked hair and a tan. BAHAHHAHAHA!!!
Kwall- what does that mean?
louie's little sister is hot tho. i'd make explosion on her stomach.
and louie is alright, maybe half a fag though. plus, he's from readville, that is to real hyde parkers what p-town is to cape residents
Dear Roons & Boston Hero (HP tough guys)
I never said I'm a bad ass, and definitely don't consider myself a tough guy. That being said, I have yet to meet more than 5 people from HP who would have the balls to try something. Plus, there's nothing yuppie about me.
Oh, and BH, I drive a White GMC Yukon. Come find me if you want. By the high school.
Nice try boys, I thought you blog Island guys had better skills than this. do your research.
Kwall, that's what happens when blog Island people don't leave the Island. A stranger comes to town and they get things twisted, but don't know the real deal.
BH, where do these tough guys from HP who "slap yuppies around" hang out?
Someone needs to tell white guys from Boston to stop rapping.I mean really, what is this shit? Tell him to go back to Thayer Academy with the rest of the Upper Class Scum.
Mike22, you made it exactly 5 seconds longer than I did.
Boston Hero is the king of Internet Tough Guys. Go make up some more stories about stealing TVs from people's mods at BC because "BC kIDz r puzzies LOLZ!!!" you clown
Wow, the song sucks, the guys are douchebags and now we have a turf war. This post has potential. Foreign cars are gay, tough guys drive white GMC pickups, white guys can't rap,and a Hyde Park pride parade!!
I've always worked under the understanding that Hyde Park was a tough town. I don't think I've ever been there.
Guys lay off BLUC, it's obvious you don't have the "skills" that he possesses. Besides, he drives a freakin' GMC Yukon! You don't mess with a guy like that.
BLUC when did you move to HP? I thought you were from Fuckitville, USA, you assclown.
Saltytreaure - Never said I was a tough guy, nor does what I drive make me a tough. Responding to BH's claim that i drive foreign, so go drink one of your salty treasures and mind your own.
Soog - I don't consider Hyde Park a tough town in the least bit, and i've actually never heard it referred to as one.. Not a bad town and I don't mind living there, but nothing about it screams "tough".
DoubleHusky - Assclown? Come on kid, i thought you blog island people were creative, I know you can do better than that. i'll give you another try if you'd like. But make sure you think real hard because i'm not giving out anymore free-bees. And since you're asking, I move to HP when I was 14.
Roons and BH have a hard on cause I said something bad about where they grew up, which I don't blaim them for, you should rep where your from, but the rest of you ankle grabbing, cock worshiping internet tough guys make me laugh. If you're going to throw stones, use something bigger than a pebble.
Also, I give the song a 6 without the hook. With the hook, 4.75
You're right BLUC, you're not an Assclown - you're a Paralegal, which is the Law Profession's equivalent of an Assclown. I'd expect more from a Latin School grad. You should stop trying to use your psych degree to analyze other posters.
Now you claim not to be a tough guy, but you offered to meet BH "by the high school" - would that be the Central Ave. side or Metropolitan?
I'm just reppin' where I'm from too.
I guess I did my "research" - nice MySpace page.
this whole thread is hilarious. people talking about who's tough. are you serious? is evryone here 16 years old?
DoubleHusky, there you go again with that assclown phrase. I had faith that you'd come back with something better than that. I gave you time to think of a new one, & you still go back to ol' faithful, huh. Did I hit a nerve because I don't think your precious Hyde Park is a tough town? I Hope this doesn't keep you up at night. Whatever you do, don't start tearing up, I hear the tough kids in HP wouldn't approve. But keep reppin' where you're from, I respect that more than people saying they're from somewhere that they aren't.
I'm glad you did your research, it shows you put some effort forth. Jolly good show and all that shit. Though it doesn't matter either way because you're still a joke to me. You get your panties in a bunch & your twat starts running red when someone says something disapproving about your beloved HP on the internet. It's sad really, you should get a thicker skin.
Also, I didn't offer to meet BH anywhere, but he claims to know so much about me so I told him what part of HP i live in. I've got nothing to hide, and I don't need to present a tough guy image.
Oh, and I'm glad you like my page.
Fun little game, see how long you can make it into the song without shutting it off or turning the volume off.
My current record's 42 seconds
I made it about to 53 seconds, I can't take the chorus.
HP is not Compton by any means, but it was tough enough. Funny to read this about it on the Stool tho. Projects for me. BLUC blame is spelled B L A M E not blaim.
SmallZ1980, Why you gotta drag Thayer Academy into this!? Upper Class Scum? What are you a fucking socialist?
Doesn't anybody just play a fuckin' instrument anymore?
Just read all these posts. Are you kidding me BLUC- challangeing me to a fight? The people who i am refering too in HP are the guys I grew up with you most of them, like myself have kids now, and arnt walkign the street as badasses- But growing up in Hydpe park there were alot of kids, brawls w/ charlestown, southie, etc. lots of fights, lots of crap like that, that went on on an everyday basis- Which is why i wouldnt raise my kids there. So products of Hp are usualy on the tougher side. Not saying all ultimate fighters or toughguys, just expsosed to situations liek that. So calm down guy- Your the one getting all fired up abotu this!
And BLUC we can talk more the the event on the 24th if you want.
..point of the post- that song sucks!
BH, re-reading my comment, I can see how it can be construed as me challenging you to a fight, but that was not my point. You and roons made claims about me (i.e. foreign car, spiked hair, curry college kid), so I was giving you the opportunity to see if you were right. I personally don't fight unless absolutely necessary, because I've seen enough bloodshed.
I hear what your saying about kids you grew up with, but my opinion is that HP isn't a tough town. Maybe i didnt grow up with the kids you grew up with, but I don't see it. That's just my experience. I'm not a badass or a tough kid, i've had my ass handed to me more than a few times, but when you say HP is a tough town, I don't see it. I respect you repping your town, but if you throw shots at me, i'm going to send them right back.
And I will be there on the 24th, so that's cool with me.
I would love to see BLUC with his spiked hair and tan, it would honestly be a first for me.
Early line, BLUC -750.
After seeing your myspace, I was WAY off with the spiked hair, guido, upstate NY kid! My bad on that one! I guess I hear ya with if you mind your own business in HP your not going to get pumbled or anything!
Do you mean if I send shots of sambuca or soco to you on the 24th you'll send some back my way?
Yes, you were waay off, hence the invite to prove you wrong. I'm not hiding behind a keyboard, I am who I am.
You send me a shot, I'll send you 2. That's how I am. But you come at me the wrong way, I'm sending them back to you the exact same.
Also, Soco is a no go. Jack, warm.
What a backpedal. Line raised to BLUC -2000.
Sounds good- I'll be wearing my HP colors! jack it is
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MTV UK has announced a new reality show featuring topless tabloid queen Jodie Marsh out to find a husband. First off, this might get a worse response than Sox Appeal. As much as people may enjoy looking at Jodie in her breast popping shoots, she's about as busted as they come. Her only talent appears to be covering her nipples with belts.
More importantly than that, however, is why is MTV UK so much better than MTV here in the US? Here, on VH1, we get Flavor-Flav and then the girl from his show, New York. Wouldn't you rather see some sexed up D-lister like Jodie Marsh? Like how 'bout this chick:
Yippee-kai-yay, motherf*cker: Rate Bruce Willis' Playmate girlfriend
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Playboy Playmate Tamara Witmer is 23...5 years older than Bruce Willis' daughter. This answers the question of why they are making another Die Hard. It's so young girls like this will know who he is. She was 1 when Bruce did Moonlighting. Hats off to ya Bruce, just don't have a heart attack when she wants to go at it more than once in a 30 minute span, ya old bastard.
Do I Really Have To Start Caring About Arena Football?
Major league baseball, NFL, college football, NBA, college hoops, NHL, college hockey, soccer, NASCAR, Olympics, tennis, cheerleading, competitive eating, UFC, boxing, local high school sports, golf and the occasional dog fight.
Do I really have room for arena football?
ESPN wants me to. The worldwide leader is Arena Football crazy. It may have something to do with the fact that the channel now shows AFL games but that's probably just a coincidence. But at least the people down in Bristol got free AFL gear to quiet their consciences.
Now the Globe is hopping on the arena football bandwagon with a piece about the New England Surge of the Continental Indoor Football League.
Really? Do I really need to start driving to Worcester for Surge games? Do I 
need to start paying attention to second-rate indoor football leagues? Arena football seems fun but I also feel like I'm watching the DII hoops championship during Final Four weekend. You know that the guys playing are better than you are but you're also very much aware that they're not even close to being good enough to play at the highest level of the sport. It's like off-Broadway sports.
But the Surge's best season ticket package- six home games- goes for $165 so I can't fault anyone for taking the kids to see some top-notch, second-rate sports action.
The saddest part of the Globe's story- that former Patriot Harold Shaw is playing for the Surge. I don't know much about Shaw's story but I can tell you this- if I had played in the NFL, there isn't a chance in hell I'm ever suiting up for the Continental Indoor Football League. If the choice is CIFL or jumping off the Tobin, I'm filling my pockets with rocks and taking the leap.
How hungry would you have to be?
I heard Felger talking about this yesterday on his show, the Wisconsin Testicle Festival that 300 "nuts" turned out at over the weekend.
AP - - More than 300 people paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles Saturday at the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon in central Wisconsin.
"Once you get over the mental (aspect) of what you're eating, it's just like eating any other food, and it tastes good," said Buster Hoffman, 50, of Kronenwetter.Festival founder Nancy Fenske of Elderon said the festival grew out of her late husband Roger's birthday party 12 years ago. They decided to have "a nut fry" at Mama's Place after bringing back lamb fries from a trip to Montana. The gathering grew every year, and now they fry up to 100 pounds of testicles for the festival, she said.
"What else can you do in a small town?" Fenske said, adding later in the evening after the music starts, "It gets nuts here." Butch Joubert, 58, of Kronenwetter, likes the parts sandwiched between bread with tartar sauce. They're not so different from regular meatballs also served at the festival, he said. "After a few beers, you can't really tell the difference," Joubert said.
Now UB can appreciate that at some point along the way a poor farmer was trying to feed his family and had already used all the other parts of his bull to and just said, "Fuck it" and fried up the thing's nuts. That UB can understand. What's confusing to me is why people are eating them now. The guy says "They're not so different from regular meatballs...After a few beers, you can't really tell the difference." So then why not eat some damn meatballs? Sick, sick, sick.
Timberlake and Biel Just Boinking; Nothing Romantic though...
Inside Track - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and Jessica Biel were bringing SexyBack to Manchester, England this week when the pop star and actress met for a late-night makeout session. “They were kissing and holding hands,” a spy dished to Us Weekly. The two had their PDA following Timberlake’s show in a hotel bar then repaired to the presidential suite. Timberlake and Biel have been linked since the 26-year-old singer split from longtime girlfriend Cameron Diaz last fall. But a pal of the “The Illusionist” star insists their relationship is nothing more than a fling. “Jessica has said there is nothing romantic,” the friend said.
Ok, so let me make sure I understand this correctly. Both Timberlake and Biel admit that they are hooking up, but both say it’s nothing romantic. So in other words they’re just fuck buddies.
I admit it. I totally sweat Justin Timberlake.
101 Jobs of Homer Simpson
I think if I had to pick my two favorite jobs it would be prank monkey and fortune cookie writer. But there are a million good ones.
Thanks to Southside Mike for the link...
Reader Email: Has Dan Shaughnessy Offically Lost His Mind?
This is a continuation of the Dan Shaughnessy thing from yesterday. If you didn't read yesterday's reader emails than click here to catch up. In a nutshell a reader sent Dan Shaughnessy an email with the above picture attached which prompted Dan to call the kid on the phone and yell at him. We posted the entire story. Now Dan has apparently gone one step further...
Reader Email
Dear Dan Shaughnessy,
You are a douche. After speaking with you on the phone yesterday, I had a little respect for you for actually calling me out. That is all gone today as you have proved yourself to be a scumbag of the highest order. Thanks for calling my boss and sending all those emails alerting them my involvement in the posts on Barstool Sports today (do you know what it is now?). You have shown my employer how questionable my morals and ethics are, but more importantly, showed exactly how batshit crazy you are. Do you want my parents home address so you can go chat with them about the terrible job they did raising me? Just to recap;
YOU CALLED MY BOSS AND TOLD ON ME!!! HOW OLD ARE YOU???
Matt
If this is true and I have no reason to believe it’s not this is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard in my life. Dan Shaughnessy calling a kid’s boss who writes something mean about him? Are you serious? Is Shaughnessy that insane? I mean this is like Crazy Joe Davola nuts. I may have to stop writing bad things about him from now on because I don’t want a maniac like this on my ass. The Stool may need to hire personal bodyguards for Chisholm so Crazy Dan Shaughnessy doesn’t put the kibosh on him.
Bob Barker Tribute III: The Revenge
There are about 100,000 Price is Right clips on YouTube, but these ones really stood out:
Keith Olbermann wants to date a porn star
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In typical Fox News Channel fashion, they had a porn star in studio yesterday to talk about the Paris Hilton going to jail story. Mary Carey, who is also known as a former candidate for governor of California, was on Your World with Neil Cavuto (who is known for having porn stars and bikini models on his show). At the end of the interview (that you can watch here) Cavuto thanks Mary Carey for being his guest, to which she replies that his show is her favorite, but she was disappointed because when she was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, Olbermann had asked her out on a date. A little surprised by this, Cavuto asked Carey if she accepted. Carey said she had a boyfriend at the time.
Smooth Keith, smooth. There is no mention of a wife or kids on Olbermann's MSNBC site.
Outstanding 40 Time For A Slumlord
Former Everett High School star and current Oakland Raiders benchwarmer 
Omar Easy may be making a name for himself in another field- real estate.
In an email sent to Barstool, Easy and his mother Icylin Wright Gibbs are accused of being heartless slumlords. Anonymous emailer Jack Daniels [note to future anonymous emailers- avoid selecting aliases that are Tennessee whiskey-related] claims that Easy and his mom are turning a blind eye to about 500 different housing code violations at the building they own at 6-8 Edith Avenue in Everett.
Omar was kind enough to help his mother buy a house in Everett Mass. His mother (Icylnn) and the family are not kind enough to keep up with the place. It is a 3 family home and on the first floor are about 10-15 people living there (3 bedroom one floor apt). Section 8 pays the rent directly to the Easy family and the people on the first floor who originally rented the place have people pay them to stay there. Their gas has been shut off, they pee out the back windows, the front door is broken, there is a pipe leaking in the basement and the inside is a mess. When Omar Easy and his family was told about the terrible condition his mother said, "I don't care as long as I get paid". Meanwhile, before Omar's mother was the mother of a football star she had problems of her own. When living in Everett she had trouble paying her rent and bills. An Everett school took up a donation to help her out. This is how they are giving back to the community, by helping destroy it. Omar Easy pretends to be a hero while neglecting the people who really needs his help- his tenants...PLEASE HELP!
Some college kid in Allston just read this email and is seriously considering moving to Easy's slumtastic apartment building. Peeing out back windows, broken pipes and a broken front door- that's like $1500 for a two bedroom in L.A.
All this being said, let's talk seriously for a second. In your professional opinions, who looked more like a 45-year old man in high school- Omar Easy or Greg Oden? Such a tough call.
The Dropkick Murphys played that song before the the Sox swept the Angels on Ortiz's walk-off to get us to the 2nd round too. never liked that song until i saw them play it in centerfield before a playoff game.