Thursday, April 24, 2008

I LOVE THIS VIDEO.... BOBBY KNIGHT OUTTAKES.

We've seen this video a million times, but let's watch it again. It's nine minutes long, which is an eternity on youtube, but I watch the entire thing every time. Still doesn't make up for the fact that he sucked on espn.


WHO'S MORE BRUTAL?

I stumble into this video today titled, "NFL vs NHL - Which one is the most brutal game?" I decided to check it out. Let LocalTuna! decided, right? Who better?(Correct answer: Anyone.) I made it to about the 47 second mark, or after the first "CLICK CLICK...BOOM!" Killer song bro! What a stupid video, but I do love how the track listings are provided for me under the more info tab. Well, enjoy skipping over this one.

Songs:
1- Saliva - Click Click Boom
2- Body Headbangers - Can't Be Touched
3- Scorpions - Rock You like a Hurricane



UPDATE!!!

Well this video really puts it all together. It's the answer to previous video's question. "UNBELIEVABLE HOCKEY FIGHT!" THE BEST HOCKEY FIGHT EVER ON THE NHL!



Good comments for this one. My personal favorite; "Actually, I just saw this on this VHS that NHL headquarters sent me - "Gary Bettman's BEST OF The New NHL!" It was mostly just closeup's of Sidney Crosby's thighs though. Really, really weird."

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Saturday, April 19, 2008

THE TALE OF THE 297 ERA.

A Japanese high school decided to call it quits after recording one out in the bottom of the second. What was the score you ask... 66-0. Ouch. But, it gets better. The coach of Kawamoto technical high school only called the game to spare his pitcher's arm. That's correct, the team stayed with one pitcher the entire time. The guy had thrown over 250 pitches so far, 26 runs in the first and 40 in the second. What was the manager thinking when he sent him out in the second? We don't know, but what we do know is why he stopped the game;
"At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," Kawamoto's coach was quoted as saying. "There was a danger he could get injured."
What a dick. 250... that's okay. 500... we don't want to hurt the kid. STORY

Monday, April 14, 2008

"WE"RE GOING TO SIT TOGETHER ALL YEAR"

MADDOX IS GOD.



Great article about Greg Maddox written by Tim Keown for ESPN.
How many times had he heard someone say it? How many times over the past 22 years had some catcher or coach or broadcaster said, "Greg Maddux? I bet you could catch him with your eyes closed"? Sounded plausible enough, maybe coaxed a chuckle or two from the pitcher, but mostly it was just something to say. Nobody realized it was just a matter of time before somebody decided to prove it.

This was in mid-September, in the home bullpen at Petco Park. Maddux, the human metronome, kept going into his windup with the same hands-over-the-head motion he's used since he was a kid in Las Vegas. Pitch after pitch hit the mitt, wherever it was placed, like always. Padres bullpen catcher Ben Risinger, perhaps bored with the persistent perfection of it all, turned to bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds and said, "I bet I could catch him with my eyes closed."

That was all fine and rhetorical until Akerfelds said, "Okay, let's go for it."

First, a system had to be put in place. It was quickly decided that Akerfelds would stand a few paces in front of the plate and to the side, so he could track the path of the ball and yell "Now!" to let Risinger know when to squeeze his mitt.

Risinger, a blocky Australian who spent some time in the minors, promised not to cheat. Maddux, despite his long-standing commitment to the pursuit of a good laugh, was lukewarm on the exercise, citing liability concerns. "I know I don't throw very hard anymore," he said, "but I'd like to think I can still hurt a guy who's not looking." His protestations were ignored. There are times when a legend must bend to the public's will, when the accumulated weight of transcendent talent forces him to display his gifts for the amusement of those less burdened. This, apparently, was one of those times. Risinger closed his eyes, and Maddux threw.

A catcher's mitt is roughly 33 inches in circumference. To be caught, the ball must hit an area that is roughly one-third the size of the mitt. A regulation major league baseball has a diameter of roughly 2.9 inches. We're not talking about throwing a strike here; we're talking about hitting the palm of a hand from 60 feet 6 inches away. You can do the math, or just take Risinger's word for it: "He's the only guy I'd even come close to trusting with my eyes closed."

The first pitch glanced off the top of Risinger's mitt and hit him in the mask.

"That's enough," Maddux said, walking off the mound.

"One more," Risinger said.

The second pitch hit Risinger square in the pocket, but something went awry. Either Akerfelds' "Now!" was too late or Risinger's mitt squeeze was too slow. The ball dropped at his feet.

"That's enough," Maddux said.

"One more," Risinger said. "Please?"

Maddux wound up and threw. By now, pitching coach Darren Balsley was watching, along with a few other Padres who had received word that a strange experiment was taking place involving a catcher attempting to catch without the benefit of vision. The ball left Maddux's hand, and Akerfelds yelled "Now!" and Risinger clenched his mitt around the ball.

He opened his eyes. There it was, in the mitt.

Arms were raised in celebration. It was a beautifully stupid scene. Risinger laughed so hard he fell down. Akerfelds was doubled over, laughing to the point of tears. Maddux looked on with a wry smile, shaking his head.

"One of the most amazing things I've ever seen," said Akerfelds, who is 45 years old.

And so it was proved, once and for all: You really can catch Greg Maddux with your eyes closed.


TO CONTINUE READING(STRONGLY RECOMMENDED).

KOBE JUMPS CAR: REAL OR FAKE?

The same people who think this is real, think the moon landing was faked and that dinosaurs never roamed the earth.

LONGEST DUNK IN WORLD HISTORY.

Really long dunk. This may be off a trampoline, but this guys covers some distance. Obviously, I'm voting for this to be on the last part of stage 3 of Ninja Warrior. It just fits. Japanese games shows, love 'em. The only thing more impressive than this, would be an Japanese man dunking a basketball without the trampoline.

DETROIT CITY COUNCIL MEETING IS WEEI'S BIGSHOW.

Hey folks, what we have here is a session of The Detroit City Council. It has yelling, it has people talking over each other, people calling each other "shrek"... everything a good sports radio broadcast has. Except this is a city council and not Pete Sheppard and Butch Stearns.




Friday, April 11, 2008

A SHINING EXAMPLE OF EDITING.


Ever wonder who feels strongly enough one way or the other about NBA commish David Stern? Ever puzzle over what that person's life must be like on a daily basis? Yeeeeeeah, of course you have. My friends, your curiosity is rewarded.

JOSE CANSECO VS. FUTURE KHARMA.


This man needs no introduction. Neither does this video of him. Nobody likes a rat, not even God. And He supposedly likes everybody.

EVERETT VS. BARNEY


The Boston Red Sox acquired switch-hitting outfielder Carl Everett via trade in December of 1999, a move which set in motion one of the most heated and vitriolic debates of our generation. See, he doesn't believe in dinosaurs. No, really. Carl Everett denies that they ever existed. LT sat down with Everett to hear his take on the largest land animals ever to roam the earth, homosexuality, and corporal punishment. That's right, it's an LT exclusive. Sort of. Okay, other than the fact that a couple other tiny publications and some guy named Tom Verducci had it a while before we did, it's an LT exclusive. Just look what the mayonnaise did to him.

Monday, April 7, 2008

PEAVY'S DIRRRTY HANDS.



Peavy recently pitched a one-run game complete game over the Dodgers, and he's been a fantasy machine so far. But, he might be getting a little help, some sticky brown help.(Insert black semen joke here.)

Some screen caps have turned up and look, what is on the sleazy Peavy's hand? PetCo pet food, the delicious wet canned IAMS? The LocalTuna! investigations unit has been summoned.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

THAT "OTHER" GUY IN THE GILLETTE ADS.

Well, like any self respecting american, I have to hate soccer. It's just a general rule, like knowing that a double popped collar makes you the shit, like... big time. Moving on...

Today I decided to do The LocalTuna! monthly soccer post. This month we're featuring Thierry Henry's absurd pass. It's just silly. If you don't know who Henry is, he's the "other" guy in the Gillette commercials with Tiger and Federer.



Since I'm feeling a tad bit frisky I threw in the Top 3 Goals of Henry.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

OBAMA JUST LOST MY VOTE.

March 29, 2008 will go down as the day Obama rolled a 37 while bowling with fellow Democrat, Senator Bob Casey, Jr. This is bowling we're talking about. A 37. That's fucking pathetic. My buddy's friend Keith could beat up on the guy, and Keith sucks. A 37. Really?

Obama's first ball flew gracefully off his hand but also ended up in the gutter. On his second try, he knocked down four pins.

About five lanes over, a young man in a T-shirt that said "Beer Hunter" fell on his backside while bowling and still recorded a strike.

The crowd of regulars pressed in to take pictures, get autographs, and rib him on his poor skills.

Obama did improve, nearly getting a strike in one frame, and in the seventh, picking up a spare, giving him a score of 37. Casey had a score of 71 after getting a strike, and Hart, with one less frame, racked up a score of 82.




CNN REPORTS

CRACK YOUR WHIP IF YOU KNOW WHO MAX MOSLEY IS.


Mr. Max Mosley, the most powerful man in motor racing, the chief of formula-one racing and son of infamous British wartime fascist leader Oswald Mosley(but you already knew that) has apparently been filmed in one of the funniest sex tapes of the week. Let me break it down, the sex film involves Nazi uniforms, leather, whips, sex toys, a 67 year-old man, 5 prostitutes, the phrase "she needs more of ze punishment!", Auschwitz garb, the act of turning down wine in favor of a cup of tea; all of this taking place in a mock concentration camp. And if you're not hard after that... well just read the entire story. Here's a couple different reports.

"F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers."

"Auto chief Max Mosley shadowed by scandal, in doubt for Bahrain GP."