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Baseball Player Name of the Week

The Tigers recently called up Alberto “Al” Alburquerque.

That man’s parents had absolutely the right idea. If my last name were Alburquerque, which sadly it is not, I would name my son the same thing and my daughter Alberta. Al is a 24-year-old pitching prospect from the DR, and I wish him a long and productive major-league career. It’s also at times like this that I fiercely miss Bob Sheppard. How much do you wish you could hear him say “Now pitching for the Detroit Tigers, Alberto Alburquerque”? I would cut off a toe.

Not only does the name roll off the tongue, but it gives me an excuse to link to my favorite clips from one of my favorite movies, Billy Wilder’s inky-black and still alarmingly relevant social and media satire, Ace In The Hole. Sadly the clip can’t be embedded, but check it out:

“Even for Alburquerque, this is pretty Alburquerque.”

The longer Al stays in the majors, the more often I get to say that, is the way I look at it.

7 comments

1 cult of basebaal   ~  Apr 14, 2011 5:48 pm

=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqaIQam8l0&feature=related]Oh oah Al-a-Al-a-Al-a-Al-buquerque ...

2 cult of basebaal   ~  Apr 14, 2011 5:50 pm

Let's try again.

Oh oah Al-a-Al-a-Al-a-Al-buquerque …

3 cult of basebaal   ~  Apr 14, 2011 5:51 pm

Sweet Jesus, WTF kind of HTML does this fucking site use?!?!?!?

Again ...

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqaIQam8l0&feature=related]Oh oah Al-a-Al-a-Al-a-Al-buquerque …[/url]

4 cult of basebaal   ~  Apr 14, 2011 5:52 pm

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

WHAT THE HELL IS THE CODE FOR EMBEDDING A GODDAMN LINK?!!?!?!

5 cult of basebaal   ~  Apr 14, 2011 5:53 pm

Here's the fucking link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqaIQam8l0&feature=related

Fucking WordPress.

6 Matt Blankman   ~  Apr 14, 2011 8:17 pm

[1,3,4,5] I immediately thought of the same song. What a great album.

"I don't expect people to listen to my music all the time. Sometimes it's too intense. If you're gonna put a record on at eleven in the morning, don't put on 'Tonight's the Night'. Put on the Doobie Brothers." - Neil Young

7 Chyll Will   ~  Apr 14, 2011 11:41 pm

Hey Cult: ignore the plus signs, use the symbols as described and you're good:

less-than sign + a href + equal sign + quotations + whatever link you're trying to embed + quotations + greater than sign + text carrying embedded link + less than sign + backslash + a + greater than sign = embedded link

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