August 7, 2007
Becks Meets A-Rod and Jeets
Major League Baseball really wants the public to get excited for the post-season, so it has created an Actober promotion, which has the slogan "You're a fan. Act like one!"
Actober, which has been up since the All-Star game, is mainly a contest to encourage fans to "create and submit the best original video that reenacts a famous Major League Baseball postseason moment" and fans will vote on their favorite. The three winners will receive tickets to this year's World Series. Some thoughts on how stupid this is at Sacs in the City.
Which brings us to soccer superstar David Beckham. Another part of Actober involves celebrities showing how much they love baseball. Since Posh Spice got to throw the ceremonial first pitch before a Dodgers-Mets game (she's now a HUGE Dodgers fan), we imagine that Beckham demanded photo ops with Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter. Too bad A-Rod and Jeter hate each other, or else they could have made a Beckham sandwich!
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if you saw this guy on 8th avenue and 20th street, there's no way you wouldn't think he was gay.
which guy? Jeter or Gay Rod?
A Rod definitely likes the root. I'm sorry but those eyebrows are waxed.
He's a root lover, I'd bet the farm on it. Got a smokin' hot wife too.
that a-rod shot looks very much like a cardboard cut-out of him...
I'm not comparing soccer players to American Football players but I thought that Beckham would match regular baseball players. Those pictures make it look like A-Rod and Jeter could snap Beckham like a twig if they wanted to.
That's why soccer suck, not using your hands and arms stunts you and is downright un-natural.
Both Yankees look like cardboard cutouts.
I think I heard of this Beckham character before. Apparently he is very popular in Europe, sort of like David Hasselhoff, and is married to on of the Spice Girls, Allspice or Rosemary or some such. He recently went to Los Angeles in an attempt to popularize some sort of European sport that takes several hours to play and doesn't have regular breaks so one can make a head call or get nachos.
while I agree that Jeter and ARod dwarf Beckham (I expected them to be comparable in size/stature), soccer/futbol is an amazing sport and should be better recognized in this country. It's a shame it isn't.
Funny -- I thought Beckham looked like a cardboard cutout. Look at him in both photos -- they're nearly identical.
Just for the record, soccer (futbol) takes an hour and a half to play.
So... wait... soccer sucks because you don't need to be especially tall or bulky to be good at it? Huh?
He looks like a child next to them, good thing he's in LA so they won't have him doing photo ops with NFL players. Although seeing him next to Kobe would be a laugher.
no, soccer sucks to mosts fatheaded Americans because you can't take a piss and get a beer during the commercial break because there are no commercial breaks during play.
Soccer does not suck because a small person can play it. It sucks because not using your hands deprives the player and spectator of half of the amazing display of skills and coordination that the human body is capable of.
Think about it. In Football and Baseball the most thrilling and spectacular moments usually come from an incredible catch or throw on the run that requires a dazzling level of hand to eye coordination. The same hand to eye coordination is what also thrills in Basketball, Hockey or Tennis. Kicking with accuracy is not an activity that is useful or natural, unless you are disabled.
That's my personal take.
But then again #13, you're retarded.
Touche #14. You are a master of eloquence and wit. A true representative of the neanderlithic sport of soccer.
I usually wait until one of the players takes a dive and is being carted off on a stretcher (only to return moments later) before I take a bathroom break. see-problem solved.
wow, let's just show how parochial and insipid americans can be! FOOTBALL (where you actually use your feet) is 90 minutes of non-stop action. wow, imagine baseball players running around a pitch for 30 minutes, won't happen.
oh, and Becks is much hotter than A Rod, but yes, he is a bit camp looking here.
I dunno, A-Rod looks pretty hot.
[Soccer] is 90 minutes of non-stop action.
Hmmm. . . soccer is only slightly more exciting than baseball. It may be non-stop but only because the clock never stops. The "action" only happens when the ball gets within 30 feet of the goal. Unfortunately it spends 90% of the game within 30 feet of midfield being bounced off of heads. The only time I can tolerate soccer is during the World Cup when the games have meaning. Win and move on. Lose and you go home. It's like MLB or NHL hockey: the seasons are so long that the games have no meaning until the playoffs.
If you want non-stop action and some actual goal scoring you should watch college lacrosse.
Becks?
Jeets?
Are they commonly referred to by those names or have you made up some cutesy nicknames for your own use?
These images look incredibly awkward and forced. Like Beckham doesn't exactly want to stand near either of them.
Becks?
Jeets?
Hey fun boys, get a room !
Does he have a sweater wrapped around his waist?!?!
hmm, cutesy names?
try reading something not on a blog for once...hmm, maybe a dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posh_and_Becks
I think it's great Becks came to the US. My only peeve is that he's playing for LA instead of NY.
#13: Clearly you've never watched a great soccer team play. The great passing, shooting, one-on-ones and penalty kicks rival any exciting moment in any other sport. Baseball is a snore compared to soccer.
Athletically, soccer is a superior game to baseball.
As for A-Rod plucking his brows, that's probably a good thing. Could you imagine him with a big unibrow? I know I wouldn't want to. Keep on plucking A-Rod!