Youk puts his money where his facial hair is.

Or maybe his mouth where his money is? His hair where his mouth is? F*ck I don't know. What I do know is that Youk is letting all of us fine hard working men and women vote (for a buck) on the look of his facial hair come opening day. I guess there are only 3 or 4 options you can vote for, but I'd like to put a write in vote for "Evil Villain/Rollie Fingers/Handlebar mustache" if possible. He wouldn't even need mustache wax (yes they have it) for the handlebar, he could just use the ample supply of sweat that is constantly dripping off his gleaming bald dome to smooth that sucker into a 'stache that would make Eck cream in his pants. I'm also partial to the "box car" as featured above.

Sticking with the Prince Fielder theme

The guy is creative. The "bomb" thing. Awesome. Now that he's been hit because of the celebration I can only imagine that makes a guy like him want to hit a walk off even more and do an even awesomer dance party at the plate. Prince, we've got a few ideas for you.

• Shoot em down - Not a knock at Gilbert Arenas, but how about you get to the plate, pull out the guns and start laying fools down.
• Hamburglar - Hey, Prince is fat. Phat too, but for all intents and purposes, fat right now. Cross the plate, put on the eye mask and down a few burgers. Hmm. That sounded better in my head.
• Strike - Work with the bomb thing except have the guys at the plate line up like bowling pins, and this is where it gets tough, Prince has to somersault across the plate and knock everyone down.

What say you, Bud? Can we expect another "all star game" face out of you if Prince hurls himself in a ball across the plate into his teammates?

Getting back at someone for being awesome

That's pretty much what Barry Zito did to Prince Fielder yesterday because of that whole "bomb" celebration last year. (see the nicely inserted picture above) Zito wasn't even pitching when Prince went bridge 6 months ago against SF but it didn't matter much to Zito. From the looks of it, it didn't matter much to Prince either because his mighty back fat kind of just rejected the ball from his body and he quietly jogged down to first. No brawl, nothing more than Prince getting poked. The one thing that will make me watch National League baseball this year, well besides my addiction to fantasy baseball, is seeing what other celebrations Prince can come up with.

And so it begins

I like movies that come in 3's. Back to the Future, Lord of the Rings, Mighty Ducks. In The Two Towers I think that king guy above was specifically thinking about the Red Sox season when he so meaningfully said "And so it begins." He's right. It begins now. I know the games don't count and we're primarily watching guys that might be a year or two away from Fenway but since I haven't seen the sun in what seems like 2 weeks now I need something to keep me going. Now if March could just quickly move along making way for April that would be great.

Man getting hit in groin by football

Ah my groin. That's probably what Mike Cameron is saying because his groin is sore and he'll miss the ever important first fake game of the fake season. We can only hope he injured it in some comedic way like reenacting the "football to the groin" a al Hans Moleman.

Holy crap baseball starts in 2 days.

I've been in kind of a weather funk as of late and today I pulled myself out to see that there is some sort of actual baseball that will be played in less than 48 hours. Sure the game will be abbreviated in every possible meaning of the word but it's still baseball. Ground balls, pop ups, for Christ sake in 2 days we might see a f*cking hit and run. Do you know how long I've waited for a hit and run? Too long. Far too long. In less than 2 days it's going to be baseball season. Try to get your head around that one.

Now for what seems like my nightly movie post. For some reason Out Cold (the best movie featuring the state of Alaska) was on the Encore Love channel. Yes I love this movie, but I'm not really sure why Encore Love would show it. If you haven't seen the movie (may a piano fall on your head) there is very little love in it, besides the love between a man and a hot tub or mechanical bull. Maybe I shouldn't be looking for a reason for the movie to be on, but take it as a sign that this snow crap all over the places means I should go snowboarding. I smell a non-scheduled sick day. Encore Love channel is getting in my head... and I like it.

Oh look, yaaaay hockey. Catch the hockey fever!

Uh oh, now it's over because USA lost. I'm not a fan of the NHL, probably never will be, but hockey in the Olympics is played at a different speed. A speed so high and intense it had me sitting down at 3:15 yesterday actually anticipating watching the gold medal game. Then the game started and I lost interest 8 minutes in.

I don't know why I don't like hockey. I should like it. It's fast, there are a lot of fights, people checking each other, guys throwing themselves in front of a puck flying 80 MPH, the general lack of teeth. I just can't get into it and I don't know why. I have my annual 'Bruins Sit Down' where I grab a few beers and one of every item from Wendys and then I sit down in front of a B's game and try to watch but before I'm even done with the second batch of chicken nuggets I find myself greasing up the remote surfing for some Nicholas Cage movie. I'm sorry, hockey. I'll probably try again sometime soon because of all this Olympic hoop-la, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Now that I think of it though. All The Mighty Ducks movies and Sudden Death with JCVD are good movies. There you go, I'm a hockey fan and I didn't even know it. Wait, I'm a huge hockey fan. NHL '95 for the Sega Genesis. Best game ever. See hockey, I knew I'd come around.