Cool/Funny Sports Photos

[Gravdigr]

[Gravdigr]

Yeah, good luck with that.

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[BigV]

re cover off the ball, that was priceless! I've heard that phrase a thousand times, and the announcers, for once, get to use their hyperbole in a factual way. Never before, and almost certainly, never again. pretty amazing.

[Gravdigr]

from GrindTV

Guy named Bill Harmon caught a new S.Dakota state record paddlefish.

127 pounds, 6 ounces!! Beat the old record by like 7 pounds. Took him four tries to get it into the boat.

It took four attempts, but Harmon and his friend Justin Bryan finally pulled the whopper of a paddlefish into the boat, where they admired it for a couple of seconds before Harmon spoke:

“Now there is a big %$#@*&^* fish.”

Moar

[jenny9917]

Amazing!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Paddlefish are among the largest and longest-living species of freshwater fishes and are distinguished by their very large mouths and a paddle-shaped snout that is about one-third their body length.

[Gravdigr]

This doesn't really belong in "cool anything", it is decidedly uncool. What I'm talking about is throwing a ball. Or, rather the inability to throw a ball. Come on, now, it's a ball!!

I understand that some people can't throw a ball. In that situation why, WHY, would you ever agree to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game? In front of a huge crowd, on TV, even?

What makes it even worse is when it's a guy. Even worse than that, is when the person is a professional athlete.

Here's Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, throwing out the first pitch (with added commentary):



Yeah, 'Fiddy' throws like a little girl.

Mark Wahlberg? Throws like a guy having a grand mal seizure...Carl Lewis? Throws like a little girl throwing with the wrong hand...Baba Booey? Throws like a little girl with no hands. I will bet, that somewhere in America is a little girl with no hands that throws better than Baba Booey.



Has this ever happened:

MLB: "Would you like to throw out the first pitch?"

This should the thought pattern that occurs next:

Non-thrower: Uh-oh, I bet that involves throwing a ball. I can't throw a ball. I'll embarrass myself, and my friends. In front of a crowd. In front of a potentially huge crowd. In front of millions watching on tv.

Non-thrower: "I'll do it."

Now, when this all comes together, it's arranged well ahead of time. Many schedules have to be accommodated. What I'm getting at is that these folks have plenty of time to learn to throw a ball. Do they practice? No.

Dumbasses.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Practice? Celebrity A practices, drills it close to the plate, gets on the evening news.
Celebrity B doesn't practice, drills the right field ball girl in the head, gets on the evening news all over the world, and on all the weekend sports wrap-ups, then goes viral on youtube with 73 billion hits.
Who's agent do you want to be?

[Gravdigr]

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has a Hall of Fame Museum. They got some Indy 500 winning cars in there. Other famous/important race cars, too. Like the 1957 Corvette SS. With a body made of a magnesium alloy, the car is 900 lbs lighter than a standard 57 Vette. 307 hp engine. The thing about the museum is: They ain't afraid to drive 'em.

In 2011, they were showing off the 1911 Marmon Wasp that won the first Indy 500. It threw a rod. Yeah, they put it together again.

They took out the '57 Vette SS last weekend at the Brickyard Invitational to make a few show-off laps.

Here's how it started:



Here's how it ended:



Ouch. Gonna be needing some new ~60 year old guts for that motor.

Prolly pretty embarrassing for the driver, whether or not he had anything to do with it.

Here's the Vette in action (look fast, it didn't last long) in 1957:



It's a beautiful car, too. Lovely plumage.

Story over here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Like the 1957 Corvette SS. 307 hp engine.

Bwahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahaha
That's right up there with I'll just put the head in.

[Gravdigr]

I wanna be the agent of the person that can throw a fucking ball.

I don't want to be associated with the person who can't throw a fucking ball.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Fine, if they're going to throw a ball for a living.
But if they are going to make a living by being a celebrity, like most of the first pitch fools, you'd starve.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I wanna be the agent of the person that can throw a fucking ball.

I don't want to be associated with the person who can't throw a fucking ball.

Here's a comparison.

[BigV]

xoB is right, Grav. I don't even have the TV on, or YouTube, only the radio, NPR not TMZ , and I've heard this story. As you can imagine, it's not really a story made for radio.... And yet, the throw was *so bad*, we're talking about it, talking about "Fiddy-cent" (I know it's spelled 50 cent, but the reporter even got the pronunciation right).

I kinda want to see it. :-$




Ps, I don't know what a smilie with a dollar sign means, really, but $$$$$ seemed apropos.