June 1, 2009: Orlando Hudson holds Stephen Drew back. What's going on here? Is this permitted? I like Orlando Hudson after hearing that he pats the home plate umpire on the back and the catcher on the head when he goes up to bat. That latter move seems ambivalent in meaning--amicable, or condescending?
June 1, 2009: Hiroki Kuroda's face looks like Japanese animation here. The sweat is a perfect touch.
June 1, 2009: Jenni's friend's friend, Jeremy Sowers, pitches against the Yankees. I still can't believe baseball players are real people that one can be friends with.
June 1, 2009: Adrian Gonzalez has some words with an umpire after getting on base. It looks like A-Gon's telling the ump to suck it because he leads the league in home runs.
June 1, 2009: Dancing With the Stars and Olympic Champion Shawn Johnson throws the ceremonial first pitch at Dodgers stadium. This is an excellent "Bartolo Colon Face"! It's even kind of endearing, in a hamster-ly way. But lawdhamussy, look at those SANDALS! They're like, from my 1996-7 closet!
June 3, 2009: Brandon Phillips congratulates himself for stealing a base. He's proud to steal a base (a rather rare event) for the Poppersteins.
June 3, 2009: Koyie Hill breaks up a double play! Or did he? Can't find the original caption, so we'll just say he excelled here. 
June 6, 2009: I thought this actor, Eric Martsolf, would be a Will Ferrell's-co-star kind of guy with this pose, but he apparently sang the national anthem this day, so maybe not. I have no idea who he is and don't care to look him up. But this is a good pose to bust out at Dodgertown.
June 6, 2009: "Television personality" Lauren Conrad throws the ceremonial first pitch at a Dodgers game. She got a personalized jersey! She looks serious here and avoided the Bartolo Colon face that plagued Shawn Johnson's pitch mug.
June 7, 2009: Ricky Nolasco tags Kung Fu Panda for a crotchout. I didn't know Kung Fu Panda was Pablo Sandoval's nickname. I like him even more now!
June 7, 2009: S.S. Choo looks like he should be a member of Rip Slyme. But then I noticed his thumbnail. GROSS! Is someone going to pick him up yet?
June 7, 2009: Pitcher Chris Jakubauskas wears a princess backpack. What's this tradition?
June 7, 2009: The insects seem to like Joba. Here, Joba defends himself by doing what I'm going to call the "MS." This is an absolutely not-right LPHS reference, so I can't really elaborate here online. I think to be safe, we should only refer to it as "MS" before we get reported to the Internet Moral Police.Alright, on to today's photos! Stay tuned. Also, I just realized that many of these photos have little to do with Fantasy teams, but whatever.
hahahaha, i cannot stop laughing at MS. and that princess backpack, and the crotchout, and i wanna make out with lauren conrad. anyways, what a grueling week last week was, thank god i dont have to face poppersteins for 7 weeks. im withdrawing my carleton popperstein friend request by the way.
ReplyDeletePablo Sandoval's really busting out of his uniform, there. Wow. FATTY!
ReplyDeleteI know that various teams have rookie hazing rituals that involve Disney Princess accessories and cross-dressing and the like, but that kind of stuff is usually confined to one day. Isn't this the second appearance of the princess backpack this year?
SS Choo looks way better with hair. I thought about picking him up last week, but Russell Branyan is undeniably way more of a babe.