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."

Thursday, March 27, 2008

FIRST TENNIS GAME PLAYED ON WATER.


MIAMI, FL - MARCH 24: The World’s first ever game of tennis on water involving two of the World’s highest profile tennis players, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Serena Williams of USA in action during a Sony Ericsson Open tennis preview event on the swimming pool of the Hotel Gansevoort on March 24, in Miami South Beach, Florida. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images for Sony Ericsson) Serena Williams: Diary of a Grand Slam Champion: Serena and Rafa take tennis to the water Thanks


Jesus would be the number one seed. Title reads; "Number One Seeded Jesus Loses Shocker to Lizard."



GERALD HENDERSON SAVES A MAN'S LIFE.

If you can ever watch a basketball game while sitting beside a bipolar, suicidal man who has his life savings wagered on it, I highly recommend it.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

THE HUMAN LCD!

Well, this is ridiculous. If you haven't seen this video apparently it's South Korean boys rooting on their soccer team. But, it's what they do with their clothes which makes it something. They have jackets with one color on the front and one color on the back. Then, they unzip their jackets to use their shirt as a third color. Some schools even use their pants to create shading. Ridiculous.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

NIT STILL HAS 10 OPEN SLOTS IF ANYONE WANTS TO PLAY.

The Onion reports. "In order to participate in the NIT, all you have to do is show up with five guys, some basketball sneakers, and a good attitude." READ IT.

MANNY SAYS 600.


Manny says he's going for 600 yoga moveshome runs in his career. This is according to Extra Bases from The Boston Globe. Amalie Benjamin had a chance to make sexy time talk to him before a game this spring:

Yes, yes, I know I've been promising. So, for all of you insomniacs out there, here are a few of the notable sayings from Manny Ramirez.

It's actually really interesting. He's significantly more approachable this spring. It all started back in the playoffs last season, but it's continued through the spring. It's great for us. We can bring you another perspective from the clubhouse, and it's much easier to write about Ramirez when he comments.

I just walked over to him before the game, and he agreed to speak with me one-on-one. He later spoke with a larger group of Boston media when I had finished talking to him. His locker was on the end of the row, putting him somewhat out in the open in the extremely cramped clubhouse at the Tokyo Dome. And all his teammates took a slight interest in the fact that he was speaking -- Mike Lowell laughed, saying that Ramirez only talks in the playoffs or Japan.

Something like that.

But Ramirez did say that he's shooting for 600 home runs -- at least. First, though, comes 500, which is just 10 homers away at this point.

"[It's] just another milestone that I'm going to accomplish," Ramirez said, of reaching 500 home runs. "But my train doesn't stop there. Six hundred. I want to play because I love the game. If I play six more years, why not? I'm pretty sure I'm going to reach it.

"If my body feels good, I'm going to keep playing. Why stop? You love the game, why you've got to stop? Age is just a number."

As he has repeated this spring, Ramirez is not just hoping but expecting the Red Sox to pick up both options on his contract, each for a year at $20 million.

"They're not stupid," Ramirez said, of the Red Sox. "They know. They know I can play and I'm ready. That's it. I'm going to get the two options, then I'm going to get a four-year deal. I'm just going to go and get it."

LOCAL TUNA 'S CRUISE ACROSS AMERICA!


I finally put up the money to get the proper wheels for the LT! staff. I can't wait.

Friday, March 7, 2008

GOD HATES THE YANKEES.


The Yankees are pretty much mush-fucked for the mush-month of April, and it's all God's fault. I guess God's secondhand man is coming to town and taking over Yankee stadium. Here's the scoop:

A quick glance of the Yankees' schedule in April reveals a pretty strange stretch: they're on the road for almost three straight weeks from the 8th through the 28th, with a random two-game home stand jammed in the middle against the Red Sox on the 16th and 17th. That makes for an awful lot of traveling and some angry Yankees. But why is the schedule so funny?

Turns out Pope Benedict XVI is coming to Yankee Stadium to say a mass on April 20th, which required that weekend's series with the Orioles to be flipped from New York to Baltimore. Since schedules are apparently incredibly delicate things, MLB didn't flip any other series to accommodate the Yanks. The result is a schedule that requires them to be in Tampa on the 15th, New York in the 16th, and Baltimore on the 18th. That's a bad week.
LINK

So the pope is going to be here on 4/20? Insert joke about a higher meaning here.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

WHITE GUYS IN THE NBA.


This about sums it all up.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

JIM ROME CLASSIC

Watching the Berman videos brought me back to this classic Jim Rome.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

REJECTED AT HALFTIME!

This has been big on digg.com, but it was just too funny not to post. Here is a halftime proposal during a Rockets game that didn't go very well. As the guy leaves the court, he grabs a beer and I think you can hear him say "I should have taken the half-court shot instead."

Monday, February 18, 2008

Stuffed Monkey (The Thong Post)

So the commercial opens with that fake fucking Jack Johnson whatever the fuck it is happy sunshine song and introduces you to mom (faithful house-queen, suckling pig) and dad (Colonel High-Hair, looks like that guy from West Wing) and little female baby (insufferable) and immediately you're struck by how much this ad makes you dislike sex. A your-breakfast-and-lunch-are-racing-your-dinner-for-the water in the toilet bowl sensation rips through you and your bowels do the opposite of tightening. You know the commercial. Little female baby runs out perfectly manicured house with daddy's suitcase, it's great. But it could be better...

Daddy in the cab on the way to the airport, and you can just smell how miserable he is to be leaving mom (Hoover) and little female baby (Rosemary's), and then he opens his suitcase and takes out what little female baby had stashed there. It's a stuffed fucking monkey. Here's where my version kicks in. Daddy starts whistling along to the High School Handjob acoustic gay-sexing its heart out in the background and rolls down the window. It's a steady descent, not too quick, and just before it's as low as it can go daddy casually pitches stuffed monkey out the window and into the cab's slipstream. Without losing his pucker, daddy puts the window up. Fade to black, but keep the whistling and fake Jack Johnson going in the background. Flash Trojan brand condom logo.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

BRADY QUINN TALKS TO THE GAY COMMUNITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.



Brady Quinn may have an endorsement deal with EAS, but he still has yet to land a starting job. But one thing he does get to throw around is homophobic remarks. Seth Harris claims Quinn attempted to start a fight with him and called him a faggot, of course. The Cleveland Metro reports;

The call at 2:35 a.m. came from Seth Harris, who reported that he encountered the group in front of La Fogata Grill at 790 North High St. The Mexican restaurant is next door to the Union Cafe Bar + Food, one of Columbus' most popular gay bars in the gay-friendly Short North neighborhood.

On the 9-1-1 call, Harris said that "Brady Quinn from the Browns" was "trying to cause a fight." Harris told the operator, "I just walked outside and he exchanged many profanities with me and called me a faggot, of course."

Reached Monday by The Plain Dealer, Harris confirmed that Quinn was the person who used the slur.

"I knew who it was," he said. "It wasn't just directed at me, there were other people around, too."


This is classic. Quinn returns to his hometown to talk trash to homosexuals on new year's. Way to make it to the big time. Does "the Brown back-up Quarterback" sound like a gay sex act to anyone else?

C.C. SABATHIA PUTS OFF CONTRACT TALKS, EATS SANDWHICH INSTEAD..



C.C. Sabathia posted on his blog that he will cut off talks with the Cleveland Indians(feather) until the season is over. ESPN reports;

The 27-year-old left-hander, who is eligible for free agency after the 2008 season, said on his Web site that he and his agents have broken off negotiations on an extension with the club. The Indians recently had offered Sabathia a four-year extension believed to be worth $17 million to $18 million per season.

So are the Giants going to sign him? Throw him right in next to Barry Zito with his 7-year, $126 million contract. Looks like CC might want a little more mayo than that.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

CHARLES BARKLEY, A MAN TO EMULATE.

Charles Barkley is "depressed". Why, my you ask? This is because he lost four-hundred thousand dollars on the Super Bowl. Who does he blame for this? Well, ESPN and it's "experts". He apparently switched his bet days before the game from the Giants to the Patriots, after listening to the authority come down with it's prediction. Charles talks about it on Jim Rome is Burning:


Once again, Charles can't quite win the big one.

CP, MY MAN!

For those of you who haven't seen the likes of Cody Paul, you're in for a treat. He's the future. He's already won the Heisman, twice. He's en eleven year old playing in a 12-14 year old league. He burns kids, slashes, cuts, and he's white. Keep a slot open in your 2019 draft, he's going to be huge.
Cody Paul #5

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Monday, February 11, 2008

LOCAL TUNA STAFF OUT FOR A CRUISE.



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SEAN TAYLOR TAKES OUT PUNTER.

Video Description:"Pro Bowler Sean Taylor broke the unwritten rule of the Pro Bowl...and decides to gun down crush a poor punter who was going for a fake."



CHRIS BERMAN SOUNDS LIKE HE HANGS WITH A PARTICULAR LOCALTUNA STAFF MEMBER.

Chris, again looks like an ass here. Let's not forget he went to Brown University, but also let's not forgo who he's hitting on here, a Canadian tuxedo.