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January 30, 2006
Baseball and the Simpsons
Every year, I think about doing an NBA preview in which I assign each team a Smiths/Morrissey song to sum up their preseason. This year, I got as far as "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" for the Celtics and "There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends" for Portland, but ran out of steam.
But someone with follow-through (Dan McCarthy on Barstool Sports) has gone one better, and compared each Major League Baseball franchise to a Simpsons character. It's really good reading, with stuff like this:
Cincinnati Reds - Principal Seymour Skinner - Spent much of their existence under the hand of a domineering, insane woman who was impossible to please (Agnes Skinner, Marge Schott). Possessors of a dirty little secret that they would rather sweep under the rug (Skinner's true identity of Armand Tamzarian, Pete Rose). Their lives were given meaning in the '70s (Vietnam, the Big Red Machine) but now all they have to escape the monotony of their everyday existence is the flashbacks.
I really like the entries for the Dodgers and the Cubs, among others. Go take a look.
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Not bad. I especially liked the Lisa Simpson and Moe comparisons.
Posted by: Vin | February 1, 2006 12:18 PM
