Tuesday Blogdome: Didn't you hear? All rookies have to get these now
Aug 24, 2010, 6:30 PM EDT
* Dominique Jones Tattoos NBA Logo on Leg. People who really love their employer are rare. You hear stories about Apple employees who swear that Steve Jobs is some sort of god, and you might have a friend who truly loves where they work. Even those people though probably wouldn’t do what the Dallas Maverick’s Dominique Jones recently did. Apparently Jones is so happy to be working for the NBA that he recently got the NBA logo tattooed on his leg. This tattoo joins JR Smith’s “SWISH” as the most interesting we’ve seen this off-season. [The Rookie Wall]
* The eighth-grade essay of birthday boy Cal Ripken. To celebrate, the Baltimore Sun is running a Q&A with Peter Schmuck. The paper also somehow obtained the eighth-grade essay that young Ripken wrote about his dreams to become a professional baseball player. And while I wish I could tell you his teenage cursive told of wise plans to become a paragon of baseball purity just a year after a crippling labor strike, the truth is that Cal Jr. just wanted to get to the bigs and get paid. [Big League Stew]
* Noted Soccer-Playing Future Dominatrix Elizabeth Lambert Resintated By Team. While it seems like only yesterday, it was in fact all the way back in November of 2009 when New Mexico Lobos soccer player Elizabeth Lambert enchanted the internets and made the hearts of catfight lovers everywhere go pitter-patter with her rough and tumble style of play which boasted violent hair-pulling and ruthless kidney punches among its featured finishing moves .[Sportress of Blogitude]
* Matt Kemp’s autograph tattoo. [Vin Scully Is My Homeboy]
From Bob Herbert’s column in the New York Times, on Bobby Thomson and the 1951 New York Giants:
There was an outfielder on that team named Hank Thompson. Bobby Thomson was white and Hank Thompson was black. I asked my father if they were brothers. He laughed and said: “No. You know how you can tell they’re not brothers?”
I said I didn’t. He said, “Hank Thompson spells his last name t-h-o-m-p-s-o-n. Bobby Thomson doesn’t have a ‘p’ in his last name. If they were brothers they would spell their names the same.”
It was years before I realized what a terrific thing that was to say to a kid.
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