Archive for the 'MLB' Category

Steroids? Bad! Drowning All-Stars? Eh.

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

We’ll be starting this week’s YouTube Tuesday with a few facts care of Wikipedia.

  • Cable cars are about 12 feet tall
  • Cable cars weigh roughly 8 tons


RUWT? is all about being fair and balanced, so I’ll follow those up with some “facts” from my brain.


Given these indisputable truths, anyone see anything wrong with this commercial?

Tainted, YTT16

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

taint

  1. To affect with or as if with a disease.
  2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See synonyms at contaminate.
  3. To corrupt morally.
  4. To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.

The word taint seems to be everywhere in sports these days. You have players saying that Bonds’ run at Aaron is tainted, the ridiculous blackmail and child abuse soap opera that is the Landis trial, and even ESPN, that bastion of sports news, is raising eyebrows over how they try and win scoops.

sigh.

So for today’s YouTube Tuesday, we’re going old school. We’re going pure. We’re going 8-bit. (via)

YouTube Tuesday Twelve

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

There are a lot of “T”s in that title, so it’s probably a good time for a YouTube Tuesday Two-fer.

With a tip of the cap to my love for advertising, here is a pair of two great Gatorade commercials. Instead of bastardizing classics, agencies should be giving us more like these. Fittingly, both spots are featuring players that need to start shouldering more of the load. Quick.