Click to enlarge
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
Categories
Meta
Lou Gehrig died in 1941, when Mickey Mantle was a ten year old Oklahoma farm boy. It was Joe Dimaggio who sodomized the rookie Mantle with a Louisville Slugger. Clearly alcohol has caused poor Batty’s brain to conflate the Yankee Clipper’s christening of switch hitting Mighty Mick’s sublime porte with the famed inauguration ceremony Babe Ruth gave the Iron Horse.
Batty has some memory problems.
Baseball was where I fell out of love with Ken Burns. I got to a point in the first episode where they did a long zoom out from a baseball in mid-flight and the narrator lovingly categorizes the details of the ingredients of a baseball and the manner of its construction, and I said “Fuck this shit” and turned it off.
I never thought to wonder what Ken Burns looked like until I read this. Then I checked with Google. You have been too kind, Mr. Millionaire.
Dayum! I’d say we’re feeling our oats on this one! I really enjoy the whole “extend-the-arm, hook-you-in” mechanics. “Lemme tell ya’.” Ha!
I feel my Buds on all strips and drawings. I hate drawing sober, I can barely do it.
More “Batty,” please.
Put Ira Glass in the next one!
Then do the Lake Woebegone fella!
Is Ira Glass a baseball nerd?
I don’t know, but he does carry a tape recorder around. And he has an annoying voice and big glasses.
It just seems like he would be a good modern-day version of the fat matron who gets in the middle of a pie fight in a Three Stooges movie.
Yeah, maybe, but I like Ira Glass. I like Ken Burns, too.
He knows how to produce a good radio program. He is talented and intelligent. It just would be funny to see him in a situtation where his dignity is overturned. That’s all. I like him too. I just wish him embarassment, not actual harm. As opposed to Rush Limbo or someone, he does good work in the world.
I barely know who Ken Burns is yet I would gladly shank him in a diner.
I can practically hear the Thelonius Monk Tinkly Piano Soundtrack as I read this heartwarming tale. Keep pressing the attack, Tone.
Hey K grow some balls and contact me yourself!
He may have a Moe Howard haircut, but apparently lacks Moe Howard’s self-defense skills. BONK!
Batty’s memory must be addled because Lou Gehrig died in 1941. Hardly surprising, though…
Wow, some more strangeness with your comment board. When I posted my comment, the first three were not displayed. The comments started with Brandt’s. They weren’t displayed until after Mr Millionaire’s post on March 7th. I’m sure of this. I wouldn’t have posted my comment otherwise. Anyone else notice this?
I have to approve the comments or I get a lot of spam. Sorry. Maybe I’ll try it off for awhile, I haven’t got much spam lately. The filters catch hundreds of them.
Nope, I wouldn’t. After a while looking at the dates of the posts and your comment, I figured that’s what happened.