my first sports memory as a child was seeing Darryl Strawberry on TV in right field at Wrigley and thinking "people can have last names the same as fruit, anyone can be named anything."
*I struggled on "Hammertime" style, "Hammer-time" or "Hammer Time" or "Hammertime." When I imagine Kramer saying it to Jerry, though, it's HAMMERTIME.
**The John Salley interview talks about Shaq not cashing his NBA checks, this is the first I've heard of this and an old Lang Whitaker interview with Shaq in 2006 kinda confirms that Shaq is the Jay Leno of Dunk dot net.
***I also highly recommend googling "patricia nba site" for all sorts of 1990s goodness, it was a major asset in the late 1990s at OnHoops.
****I threw in "JK" and I think one "Jon Koncak" but am proud of myself for eliminating needless barbs like Jon Konhack for the fouls part or Jon Hancak for when he signed his name.
*****My favorite video is the clip of fouls from 1991, worryingly satisfying.
******At one point in the process I found myself trying to explain Jeff Ruland to the imaginary Donald Fagen always looking over my shoulder. The best I could do was tell Donald that Jeff Ruland looked like all four members of the band Alabama put together, which is something someone can do even if they don't know what any of the guys from the band Alabama book like, like Don and myself. "All four members of Alabama put together and about 7-foot, 290." And the various facial hair in front of Jeff -- mustache, beard, goatee in the 1990s -- all can be explained by the four Alabama members, also going through the same stylistic shifts.
Maybe my very first sports memory as a child: hearing Atlanta old guys complain about this contract. Thank you for this post
my first sports memory as a child was seeing Darryl Strawberry on TV in right field at Wrigley and thinking "people can have last names the same as fruit, anyone can be named anything."
*I struggled on "Hammertime" style, "Hammer-time" or "Hammer Time" or "Hammertime." When I imagine Kramer saying it to Jerry, though, it's HAMMERTIME.
**The John Salley interview talks about Shaq not cashing his NBA checks, this is the first I've heard of this and an old Lang Whitaker interview with Shaq in 2006 kinda confirms that Shaq is the Jay Leno of Dunk dot net.
***I also highly recommend googling "patricia nba site" for all sorts of 1990s goodness, it was a major asset in the late 1990s at OnHoops.
****I threw in "JK" and I think one "Jon Koncak" but am proud of myself for eliminating needless barbs like Jon Konhack for the fouls part or Jon Hancak for when he signed his name.
*****My favorite video is the clip of fouls from 1991, worryingly satisfying.
******At one point in the process I found myself trying to explain Jeff Ruland to the imaginary Donald Fagen always looking over my shoulder. The best I could do was tell Donald that Jeff Ruland looked like all four members of the band Alabama put together, which is something someone can do even if they don't know what any of the guys from the band Alabama book like, like Don and myself. "All four members of Alabama put together and about 7-foot, 290." And the various facial hair in front of Jeff -- mustache, beard, goatee in the 1990s -- all can be explained by the four Alabama members, also going through the same stylistic shifts.
wait never mind I watched the Blair/Volkov video again and that is THE ONE.
“Blair Rasmussen Gets Funky” is my favorite pop punk track of the early 2000s