Watch, While Seated

This Australian skater is just bad ass.

OK, so although it’s gotten a fraction of the views of the similarly viral ball girl spot that this director, Baker Smith, also did for Gatorade, it’s in French (and I’m an elitist) and it involves cycling (here’s to you, MDM), and, etc.

Jim McKay, the voice behind that ubiquitious opening intro to ABC’s Wide World of Sports, has died. R.I.P.

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Mr. Bruce Lee.  He was an intense individual.

Ethiopia’s Dire Tune wins women’s in the Boston Marathon by three seconds in a 6-block sprint at the end.

Lord a mercy!

With the redemption now officially out of the way, it’s hard to resist recalling The Event To Which We Can All Relate—if only to get a rise out of whileseated.

Background here for baseball laypeople.

The travesty, of course, is that pitchers Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley—who laid the table for this to happen—get off scott-free in the telling of the legend. The beauty is that someone named Mookie is involved.