This piece at Deadspin, Prince Fielder's Naked ESPN Cover Is Sexy As Hell, is very good.
I am torn between wanting to say that the dude looks fine to me, and really sort of hating the 'let's judge naked celebrities' game.
And generally, does it surprise anyone that there is a broad range of body-types that can produce excellent athletic performance? (Particularly when we're talking about baseball, which turns on very particular physical skills rather than distance running or anything like that.)
Does baseball really count as athletic? It's a physical skill, for certain, but they mostly just stand there.
All the things baseball players do well (throw, catch, sprint, bat) are athletic skills, even if playing baseball itself may not be the hardest workout in pro sports.
Oh, hell. I've gone humorless again. I think at this point it's a conditioned response to celebrity nudity.
Babe Ruth managed to be one of the greats of the game while looking like a poster urging Diabetes screening.
Prince Fielder is a vegetarian (and also a great athlete, but whatever).
They should have really gotten Vince Wilfork to do it.
Would date EVEN THO a vegetarian.
Always bemused by non-athletes opining on the relative athleticism of professional athletes.
What's wrong with vegetarians? (question not meant for RH)
If gloating over the flesh of animals killed in anger as blood drips from your jaws is an important part of your dining experience, some vegetarians are difficult to share that with.
A girl is not sexy if she has the boold of animals in her mouth and the bodies of animals between her teeth.
16: Also if she swears.
Ahem. PF was never actually a vegetarian, and no longer even claims to be one. Not that it matters! But one must resist halford's insinuations!
14 Having killed* what I've eaten before I still have no problem with that, even though the experience led to me becoming a vegetarian.
*Not in anger, so I'm not sure that counts.
Do oysters count, in terms of killing your own food? I don't think I can claim anything with a spinal cord. (I've killed mice, but never ate them.)
16 perfectly illustrates the fundamental design flaw of gglasses: failure to transmit the *subjective* feed. That feed from KS's gglasses would surely be a hit, I for one would be oh so tempted to gaze through KS's horrified eyes at his date across the table with her mouth full of "boold". Can't look! Yet can't look away!
I'm not sure that's the fundamental design flaw.
19.1: And now I can't go back to that daycare again.
Alright but an important design flaw!
20: There is actually an argument that oysters are vegan.
Proposition: oysters are vegan the same way tequila is paleo.
|| I wonder if LeBron will have to win a championship in Cleveland for anyone here to like him ever again. |>
He looks great! What's the problem?
The problem is that he left Cleveland and they got all upset about it.
Having killed what I've eaten before I still have no problem with that
In future you should try eating what you've killed before. It'll wriggle less.
The deranged Cleveland partisan (went to Molly's and Stormcrow's hs) in my FB feed -- who was DEMENTED in his condemnation of LeBron at the time of THE DECISION TM -- is all Boom! LeBron! Yes! King James! So bygones, I guess?
33: LeBygones! (from the Plain Dealer website)
34: It's not the eating it before you kill it that's puzzling me, it's the killing it once you've eaten it. How do you do it? Sword swallowing?
36: You swallow whole its natural predator.
There's always the "You don't eat a pig like that all at once" method. Eat parts, and then kill the surviving plurality of your prey. Or the oyster method -- I don't know exactly when the oyster dies, but sometime after it's in my mouth, no?
Strangulation in the narrow corridors of the GI tract.
Right after swallowing, blow yourself up with TNT.
38: ILL-ADVISED.
I always said I was a vegetarian for aesthetic reasons, I think mostly because I wasn't wild about the sanctimonious school of vegetarianism. These days I have occasional spasms of doubt about whether I really do feel fine about eating animals, but they're about the same size as my doubts about almost everything, and I really do love e.g. tea-smoked duck despite walking past many cute presumably happy-not-to-be-dead mallards on the way to work, so I just file it away with the rest of the hypocrisy that makes up getting through most days.
Hypocrisy is a silly word there. I amend to "moral inconsistency."
Always bemused by non-athletes opining on the relative athleticism of professional athletes
I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a baseball player.
I have killed most of the things I have eaten.
Granted, most of them were living things of the vegetal persuasion, rather than animals*, but it still counts.
*(I have been fishing, though.)
When is a living thing of the vegetal persuasion officially declared to be dead?
I figure once it's cooked or mashed up the game is over. When it could start growing again in the right conditions (like water, or dirt) then it still counts as alive.
50: So, a few minutes ago, when I ate a raw peach, I was simultaneously killing and eating it. Good to know!
Welcome to the dark side, peep. Now that your pitiable illusion of innocence has been shattered, why not chew on some tasty lamb fat.
All those vegans, raw almond boold filling their mouths as they chew away...
I await with relish the day you report back halford that your guru is subsisting nay flourishing on a diet of 73% lamb tail fat!
I await with relish the day you report back halford that your guru is subsisting nay flourishing on a diet of 73% lamb fries.
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this.
The deranged Cleveland partisan (went to Molly's and Stormcrow's hs) in my FB feed -- who was DEMENTED in his condemnation of LeBron at the time of THE DECISION TM -- is all Boom! LeBron! Yes! King James! So bygones, I guess?
Bummer. It was all much more enjoyable just sharing the solidarity of hating him. (I would personally definitely rather not have him back, but that's because I dislike him a lot more than I care about the Cavs ever winning anything.)
Also oh my god his smug fucking mug in that SI cover photo. Highly smackable.
I've never known you to be so perturbed, foxytail.
True confession time: Rfts is actually Dwayne Wade, and on Unfogged she can show her true feelings about the $42 million she gave up so the Heat could resign LeBron.
I love her little flip-up sun glasses!
I like that you're hiding her secret by pretending you can't spell Dwyane, snark.
Autocorrect, like Rfts, is a harsh mistress.
50, 51 - but a peach couldn't carry on growing off a tree, could it? Unlike the peach stone, which will grow if you look after it. So the peach never really dies? Or doesn't die until you throw away the stone and put a stop to any chances of growth? Is it like a phoenix?
I have killed one mackerel. Well, I caught some more, and I suppose they would have died too, as I wasn't going to throw them back. But I only killed one in the most (so they told me) quick and merciful fashion. And then I ate them and they were lovely. Didn't seem practical to do that every day though.
I worked at a trout farm one summer, and spent hours each day cleaning fish. I bet I've totally lost the skill.
33: Hmm, *I* barely remember where I went to HS.
I assume he still owns his old mega-renovated house in the area. Can;t imagine who would have bought it if not.
I always liked Fielder's dad as a player. He had a very rough post-career*. Still more home runs (only father-son 50-50 duo) in a season and career than Prince. He was slower than Prince: In 1996 set a major league record by taking 1,096 games to record his first career stolen base, which occurred on a botched hit and run. He stole another base that season as well, and finished his career with 2 stolen bases over 13 seasons and 1,470 games.
*Speaking of mega-mansions, I think he had one in Florida that became a sodden ruin,
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Doing night filming of a movie up here right by our place. Quite a production, many white vans and other vehicles coming and going. Taco truck just made the rounds. They had filmed an ABC Family TV movie at the same place a few years back, but this seems to be an order-of-magnitude larger and more involved. Local VFD parking lot given over to the catering crews, and local elementary school parking lot jammed full of cast trailers and assorted other trucks.
Reading up on it I see that Eminem was originally to be the lead, but now it is Jake Gyllenhaal with 50 Cent and Forest Whitaker and Rachel McAdams.
This is the place where they are shooting.
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