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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Uni Watch: Lukas: Hooked up

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posted on January 15, 2013 at 05:51 PM by Greg Franklin to history, memorabilia, orioles, special topics, uniforms | 1 comment(s)

These pics of the greatest Mazzone in Oriole history should hook you.

Reader Bruce Menard recently clued me in regarding a chapter from fairly recent MLB history that I hadn’t been aware of. It involves a guy named Jay Mazzone, who worked as a batboy for the Orioles in the late 1960s. The unusual thing about Mazzone is that he’d lost his hands when he was two years old after his snow suit caught on fire, so he used metal hooks in lieu of fingers. This certainly made him an unusual sight on ...

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1. JJ1986 posted on January 09, 2012 at 05:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

This is really embarrassing and does no one any good. And worst of all, it's not funny.

2. Bruce Markusen posted on January 09, 2012 at 05:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

This is just bizarre.

3. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit posted on January 09, 2012 at 05:56 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

This is horrendous on so many levels.

4. Don Geovany Soto (chris h.) posted on January 09, 2012 at 06:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Bleh.

5. Srul Itza posted on January 09, 2012 at 06:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

You could use this premise to write a pretty funny article.

This is not it. This is truly terrible.

6. Greg (U)K posted on January 09, 2012 at 06:24 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's failures as embarassing as this that frighten me out of ever trying to accomplish things in my life.

Shame on fangraphs for creating my crippling mental deficiencies.

7. Johnny Slick posted on January 09, 2012 at 06:34 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I thought the name YATREMSKI was pretty funny, but yeah', that's about it.

8. Morty Causa posted on January 09, 2012 at 08:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

White guys have names like Yatremski while black guys have names like Carl.

9. RJ in TO posted on January 09, 2012 at 08:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

This "comedy" is worse than Hitler.

10. Jolly Old St. Nick Done Jumped The Ship

posted on January 09, 2012 at 08:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's about on the humor level as those copycat Murray Chass parodies, but at least those have the sense to end after about ten words.

11. Everybody Loves Tyrus Raymond posted on January 09, 2012 at 08:58 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wow, that was really bad. Few things in life are worse than an unfunny person attempting humor.

12. Srul Itza posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:01 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's about on the humor level as those copycat Murray Chass parodies, but at least those have the sense to end after about ten words.

Sort of like certain SNL sketches which must have seemed hilarious in a pot-smoke filled writers room, but when acted out, consist of a single slightly-funny joke or sight gag, repeated for the full five minutes, or 4 minutes and 50 second too long.

13. The Id of SugarBear Blanks

posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I don't get it.

14. Greg (U)K posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Sort of like certain SNL sketches which must have seemed hilarious in a pot-smoke filled writers room, but when acted out, consist of a single slightly-funny joke or sight gag, repeated for the full five minutes, or 4 minutes and 50 second too long.

Or a two hour movie.

15. Greg (U)K posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:19 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's about on the humor level as those copycat Murray Chass parodies, but at least those have the sense to end after about ten words.

IF YOU CAN'T GET THE JOKE OUT IN LESS THAN

EDIT: Geez, #11 was right.

16. The George Sherrill Selection posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:20 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It's about on the humor level as those copycat Murray Chass parodies, but at least those have the sense to end after about ten words.

COPYCAT MURRAY CHASS PARODIES NO LONGER FUNNY, MR. PRESIDENT

17. Morty Causa posted on January 09, 2012 at 09:46 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I have to admit to having a weakness for the Murray Chass parodies, in small doses. Some don't come off, but some are close to inspired.

18. Johnny Slick posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Wow, that was really bad. Few things in life are worse than an unfunny person attempting humor.

While I agree with your point, I have two counter-comments:

1. Nobody with the phrase "Everybody Loves Raymond" should ever talk about what constitutes 'funny' ever period end of story.

2. Unfunny people trying to be funny occasionally works out, granted not in the way that is generally intended. I submit to you the Duke Fightmaster show, still available on YouTube. No offense to Mr. Fightmaster, but his stand-up just isn't all that great. What *is* great is the fact that his wife, who basically acts the Ed McMahon to his Johnny Carson on the show, has an entire schtick built around "you should stop this crap and get a job", and the best part about it is, you can kind of tell that she isn't 100% joking.

19. RMc don't hate anyone Asian posted on January 10, 2012 at 09:01 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

White guys have names like Yatremski while black guys have names like Carl.

Fun fact: Reggie Smith's full name is Carl Reginald Smith.

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Uni Watch: Lukas: Hooked up

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