Honestly, these crack me up and make me very sad at the same time:

This one is even better, but embedding is disabled for some reason.

(h/t Andrew Sullivan)

More awesome righteousness from our favourite utility infielder:

Nobody ever accused Rex Hudler of being dull. In fact, his humor, enthusiasm, and unpredictable behavior brightened up clubhouses in six cities over his 13-year major league career.

So what was the accomplishment for which Hudler is best remembered by former teammates? “I ate a bug once in St. Louis,” he said. “A lot of players on the bench remember that and bring it up when I see them.

“I called it the rally bug, but it was really a June bug. We were down six runs to the Mets and we came back and won, 7-6. I chewed it up and swallowed it. I made 800 bucks.”
(Page 77, Baseball Chatter: Favorite Baseball Stories From The Game Insiders)

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Peckham pumped for potential permanent position

Sibilants.

Note the presence of the Righteous Fiver:

I don’t want to say anything bad about Krankor, since he’s given me a place to share my deepest thoughts — it’s almost as if I can reach out and high five every one of you! — but it seems like Krankor’s comment system is as loopy as Oil Can Boyd after a night huffing Gold Bond. This brilliant — no, AWESOME! — comment was hung up in the computer’s spam filter for over a month. So I’m taking the unprecedented — no, AWESOME! — step of posting it right on the home page! YEAH! And responding to each point! LET’S DO THIS!

sporkless Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 7:15 pm e

Rex, let’s talk Hall Of Fame voting.

Right on, brother! I LOVE talking about Hall of Fame voting almost as much as I like talking about Jesus. HE’s the ORIGINAL Hall of Famer! YEAH!

All of the pundits this year were especially upset that Roberto Alomar was a few votes short from being elected in his first year of eligibility. As usual, many such pundits used this opportunity to make a big fooforah about the voting system and how flawed it is, and that anyone that didn’t vote for Alomar should be shot and pissed on (or have their vote revoked, something like that, I don’t remember)…

I never liked Robbieberto that much. Seemed like a brother who wouldn’t catch you on the rebound because he thought he was too good to associate with a utility infielder. That’s probably not a good enough reason to keep him out of the Hall, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let him into my rec-room to play beer pong.

But never mind that. The writers that should have their vote revoked are NOT the ones that didn’t vote for Alomar. The writers that should be ousted are the ones that voted for the likes of Ellis Burks, Eric Karros, David Segui, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_balloting,_2010

David Segui and I were at a celebrity golf tournament in Arizona once during Spring Training and he ate the bagel and lox that I stuck in the mini-fridge for lunch. So fuck him. Ellis Burks, though, was one of my favorites. That guy did the best Garrett Morris impersonation! Brother cracked me up! So, yeah, HE belongs in the Hall, no question!

But YOU, Rex, you were unfairly excluded from the HOF vote in your first year of eligibility! No one was even allowed to vote for you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_balloting,_2004

I won’t lie to you brother, I was pretty disappointed with that whole thing. Maybe what the Hall needs is a Utility Infielder wing, to honor the greats like me, and Tom Foley. Just because we aren’t all Babe Ruth, is that any reason for the Hall to leave a brother hanging?

That’s just wrong. So let’s replace the current system with a more fair system of letting Krankor, Ig, and myself exclusively determine who goes in the HOF. And while we’re at it, we should be allowed to expel those duffers such as Stan Musial and Christy Mathewson who clearly don’t deserve to share space with guys like Don Money and Nelson Liriano.

And you know what? We didn’t need steroids to reach great heights, to go for it, to perform truly inspiring and high-five-worthy feats. We just went out there and gave it our all, brother! So what if everything we had wasn’t good enough for the Hall of Fame? It was good enough to score some tail during Spring Training, and isn’t that more important in the end? HELL YES! RIGHT ON!

Inspiring.

Click to enlarge.

Reggie would approve.

Because who wouldn’t be motivated by this?