I don’t know a whole lot about MMA, but I do know this submission is insane.
My main man Toby Imada is getting wailed on for pretty much the entire fight, when he breaks out the gem you’ll see below. He’s inverted, Goose. And Jorge Masvidal is off to sleepy, dreamy land.
Man, you look tired.
Your friendly neighborhood GiGB editors are heading out on a Memorial Day roadtrip, so we might be a little light on new content for a few days. Deal with it. You just sit there, and you take and take and take. And what do we get? A few hundred hits a day? Big deal. Frankly, I feel a little bit used. But part of me likes when you’re bad to me. Battered blogger syndrome.
Anyway, check this out. Around the 35 second mark, justice is served.
Women’s Professional Tennis is a far superior product than the male counterpart. There, I said it.
The All England Lawn Tennis Club (where they play Wimbledon) hosted an event over the weekend to show off their new retractable roof over Centre Court. (This is a great idea ‘cuz it rains ALL THE TIME in England.)
Marta Domachowska
Anyway, they had a couple of exhibition matches and I got sucked into watching Steffi Graf (who retired 10 years ago) and Kim Clijsters play. And after watching for about 10 minutes, it was clear that the women’s game is so much more aesthetically satisfying to watch.
Don’t get me wrong, the pace at which the top male players (and Serena) hit is astounding. More than a handful of guys on Tour hit serves topping 130 MPH. And if you’ve ever tried to hit a serve, you know getting the ball in at any speed can be difficult.
But watching a couple of guys smash groundstrokes from the baseline is soooooo flippin’ boring. It becomes a battle of attrition to see which guy will clip the tape first.
The women’s game is much truer to the game’s roots. It’s more about shot making and having a complete set of skills, rather than slugging it out with pace only. The problem is more and more women are trying to emulate the men when they should be encouraged to continue to play the more diverse style of play.
The people in charge of marketing and promoting the WTA need to embrace the differences between the mens and womens game. The WTA has a huge competitive advantage and yet you’d never know it unless you’re a loser like me watching tennis on a Sunday morning.
Oh, and there’s this.
I’m not sure there is a whole heckuva lot to look forward to if you are among the few who call themselves Washington Nationals fans. However, MLB’s amateur draft is right around the corner and the hometown team own pick numero uno.
"Pressure? Nah, I always look like this."
It seems every ten years or so, a prospect comes along that has all the baseball executives and scouts chubbin’ up. Those “in the know” get so excited they say things like:
PLAYER X “is the best player in this draft class and the best college pitching prospect of at least the past 20 years, if not in the history of the draft”
And:
“His statistics are otherworldly”
And:
“PLAYER X is in great shape and has unbelievable arm speed; he takes a long stride toward the plate and can wait to start his arm because it is so quick, which adds deception to his absurd velocity”
You get the point.
Now I’d like to introduce you to PLAYER X. His name is Stephen Strasburg, and he is the consensus number one pick this year. Check out a complete scouting report on Strasburg below, courtesy of ESPN’s MLB Insider. You’ll see I didn’t make any of the above quotes up.
One guy does not a franchise make, but if you are a Nats fan the prospect of finally having a front of the rotation guy has to be exciting. Let’s hope this isn’t hype and Strasburg actually has the goods.
I’m not really a salt in the wound kinda guy, but I wouldn’t be doing my part if I didn’t remind you about Steve Chilcott, Brien Taylor, Shawn Abner, Kirk Dressendorfer, Todd Van Poppel, Matt White, Al Chambers, Kyle Sleeth and Matt Bush.
And a quick sidenote, I knew Matt White a bit back when he was selected by San Francisco and later signed with Tampa (for over 10 mil). I was buddies with his older brother, Greg, so I don’t want to bash him. But make sure you look at his Wiki page and see why he wasn’t able to pitch for Team USA in the 2000 Olympics. Must have been a bumpy ride.
Are you ready for a new colloquialism to fold into your everyday vocab? Well then, here ya go: BOLO.
OK, so we can’t take 100% credit for this acronym. It stands for Be On the Lookout, and it has been used on every police drama ever to make its way onto the air. But while Paunch and John used it to have their compatriots watch out for a perp, the GiGB staff use it on the golf course.
Whenever I’m swinging the big stick, I need all the eyes I can get to watch out for my ball. So if the rest of your golf group didn’t notice when you pulled out the driver, “BOLO” should get them to focus up.
You heard it here first.
If this doesn’t make the front of your pants snug up a little bit, well, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
We’re just hours away. We’ve been fighting a long time. We’re outnumbered by machines. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is The ‘Nova. If you’re reading this, you are the resistance.
And Bee Tee Dub, Arnold will sorta be making a cameo…
And another Bee Tee Dub, if you haven’t Terminated Yourself yet, I don’t want anything to do with you any more. Send us your photo, and if it’s cool we’ll post it.
From super contributor Karen:
I think I just got served (even though I don’t really know what that means.) Retaliation is a biyotch, yo.
According to a report on ESPN.com, Cal Ripken wants to give A-Rod the business about his admitted steroid use.
“I really want to know why,” Ripken said Thursday night at a banquet in Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post. “I’m going to make it my business to find out.”
This is awesome. Every player who plays or played clean should take personal umbrage with the guys like A-Rod and Manny. Because of their choices, every clean player is now tainted. And this entire era will forever be known as the “Steroids Era.”
So guys like Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Rickey Henderson and Ripken should be making a lot of noise. You played the game the right way; you don’t have to go down with the ship.
Way to go, Cal! Go get ‘em.
Our buddies over at Big Chatter brought this story to light for us. Apparently GiGB favorite, David Feherty is catching flack for a stupid joke he made in an interview with Dallas Magazine.
Here’s what he said:
“Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
Who gives a frick?! If you’re upset by this, the first thing you need to do is pull the stick out of your butt, and then listen up.
1) It’s a joke. He’s a funny guy. That’s kind of what he does.
2) It’s an old joke. It’s been told by a lot of different people, with a lot of different characters in there in place of Pelosi and Reid (Bin Laden seems to be the common thread. Apparently we can all agree he’s an a$$hole.)
3) This is a guy who has traveled into an active war zone to visit with our troops.
This is such a non story. I’m over all the PC crap. We have enough other legitimate things to worry about, let’s give Feherty a pass on this one.
As requested by my main man, Tiny T McB.