JOSE CANSECO!!! Corleone should hire him!
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 8:57:21 am PST #4013 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 8:58:34 am PST #4014 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
whereas you don't hear about Don Corleone hiring an ex-baseball player to be his bodyguard.
Well, I think that may have a lot to do with baseball being a non-contact sport (ostensibly). It may not be the Godfather doing the hiring, but ex-NFL players often end up working as professional body guards.
Would that it were otherwise - it would make baseball a more interesting game if it was full contact, although I suspect that the players' careers would be a lot shorter.
Fondly remembering a Mad magaizne piece on Basebrawl.
-t - Feb 04, 2005 8:58:49 am PST #4015 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"At first I thought ultimate robot fighting was real, like professional wrestling. But now I know its fixed, like boxing."
t /Futurama
Sadly, that is all I have to contribute to this discussion. Except that I have never bitten an ear in anger.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 04, 2005 8:59:34 am PST #4016 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think any prospective mob bosses should hire Jeremy Shockey. And make sure he's very visible in predictable locations should they get in a turf war with other mobsters.
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 9:00:02 am PST #4017 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Except that I have never bitten an ear in anger.
Whenever my mouth has been that close to someone else's ear, I've been.....usually not angry. Although there was that one time...but that wasn't his ear.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:00:04 am PST #4018 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Doesn't the sleeziness in boxing speak more to the promotors, trainers, money men, etc., than the fighters?
Absolutely.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:01:09 am PST #4019 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...but that wasn't his ear.
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Fred Pete - Feb 04, 2005 9:01:42 am PST #4020 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Well, I think that may have a lot to do with baseball being a non-contact sport (ostensibly).
That's very possible. The catch with boxing/fighting is that the whole point of the sport is to knock your opponent senseless. Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 9:02:35 am PST #4021 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Unlike other sports where violence is (at least in theory) incidental to some other goal.
You've been reading old press from the NHL, haven't you?
Jesse - Feb 04, 2005 9:04:45 am PST #4022 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anybody else just have a retracting sensation? Just me?
Hee.