Watch, While Seated

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.

Missed these the first time around.

And a jetpack:

Yes this was on boingboing, but now it’s here:

A bit of on-screen from the world’s toughest Jewish writer:

NM as part of When We Were Kings, calling the moment.

And from this summer, on his way out of the ring.

it never ceases to amaze me how humans continually find new ways to risk their lives for an adrenalin rush. And holy shit, that would be fun! As long as you don’t die.