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
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These pics of the greatest Mazzone in Oriole history should hook you.
Read More...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. Lassus posted on February 20, 2012 at 05:58 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Yeah, what is it with C-Belt's mole?
Really? That looks like a proud, aquiline nose (scroll down a couple inches)... I did a Google search and tried to find even one angle, one "bad" photo of the nose, and couldn't...
Did you check the picture in the article?
What a weird, weird story. Anyone have any pictures of Beltran's GF/Wife so we can evaluate his consistency in suggesting cosmetic enhancements?
Edit: went on google. Not conclusive, but somewhat likely I would say.
Rhinoplasty is the new market inefficiency.
Looking for Iceman/Maverick slash fiction?
I'd be iffy on any sort of surgery simply because of possible complications and recovery time. It's hard enough staying healthy and in peak shape as an athlete without the time and risk associated even with simple surgeries.
Now, I would get lasik if I didn't already have at least 20/20 vision.
Dude, it's not slash. It's canon.
Odd. Beltran's wife looks remarkably like he does. That's the sort of strange, mirror-image thing I'd expect from A-Rod and his mirror smooching.
edit: coke to Gold Star.
Shocking.
If I were rich, I'd get cosmetic surgery, defintely. I'm surprised more athletes don't.
I'm not surprised. Cosmetic surgery isn't seen as particularly masculine, and an athlete might get a lot of ribbing in the clubhouse about it. Also, I'm guessing most of these guys don't have much problem getting action anyway.
Jonathan Niese probably has a fair bit of earnings potential, but he's not exactly rich. I guess that's why he's sending the bill to Beltran.
Sure. Something can be cosmetic and also improve your life. Like cosmetics!
Jon Niese was massively unattractive before the cosmetic surgery.
Jon Niese remains massively unattractive now.
Good for him he's getting some benefit in terms of breathing and thus working out. Because that's the only way Beltran's getting his money's worth.
From the SABR BioProject:
In a 1941 appearance at spring training in San Antonio with the Braves, he suffered a broken and permanently disfigured nose courtesy of a teammate’s errant throw. He also got some nicknames he didn’t appreciate: Hooks and The Great Profile. Even his father called him Meatnose.
“When Dad’s nose was broken, John Berardino’s nose was also broken the same day,” Spahn’s son, Greg, recalls. “They sent John to a specialist to have it fixed. They called Dad in and told him, ‘Warren, we will send you to a specialist to have your nose fixed, but most people that have that done end up with sinus problems and you’re not a very good-looking guy.’ The ballclub didn’t want to spend the money on Dad’s nose. John Berardino being an actor, that was a different story.”
You know someone would pay for them.
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