Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Brendan Donnelly: Bonus List!

A partially-researched list of notable bespectacled hurlers:




1) Eric Gagne
    No amount of goggles could ever persuade me to pronounce his name the french way. Hear me now Eric Gag-knee, I shall heckle you in my native tongue.


2) Brandon League
    He’s become such a celebrity in the Seattle area that locals have taken to substituting his first name for his last in normal conversation as in, "She's out of my Brandon" or "20,000 Brandons under the sea." 




Correction...no one does this.  

3) Duaner Sanchez
    Officially recognized as world’s most successful person named Duaner.




4 )Lee Meadows 
Lea is a synonym for meadow. So he’s Lee Leas, kind of.


5) Greg Maddux (didn't wear them on the field of play)
    If he didn’t look like George Costanza we would have put his dominance in more forceful terms.


6) Ryne Duren
    Turned vision impairment from ridiculed handicap into frightening weapon of unintentional       destruction.


7) Tom Henke
    Didn’t mess around on the mound, didn’t do no henke-panky.


8) Jim Konstanty
    He was a nerd, but he was our nerd.


9) Tyler Clippard
    Nerd.


10) K-Rod
    His frame's sharp edges give him a decided advantage in hand-to-hand combat.

11) Brendan Donnelly
    Read the post.

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