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When The Housing Market Throws You A Knuckleball...

DAULERIO — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:49 EDT

Turn to Doug Mirabelli. Specialties: Residential, Commercial, Vacant Land, Multi-Family, Wakefield. [CBGreatLakes]

When Athlete Wives Go Dangerously Wrong

Leitch — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:40:13 EDT

You know, life as the child of a professional athlete is hard enough. And now look what some baseball wives are doing.

Via The Lefty, we guiltily introduce you to The Athlete's Child, a clothing Web site for "children who love the spotlight!" (until, in response to being exploited as children, they pierce their eyebrow and dress like Vito Jr. by the time they're 15.) Founded by the wives of Jason Varitek, Doug Mirabelli, Joe Borowski (seen here with his family after tracking down and blasting apart a mastadon) and Ron Mahay, it's a response to "a long time trying to outfit their kids to attend baseball games."

It gets better: "Children of athletes endure the public eye and are always looking for the newest ways to show support to their parents as well as look adorable. The new venture offers the support as well as the style."

God. These poor kids. The good news is that they don't have to deal with their fathers six months out of the year. The bad news is that they're stuck with these moms.

If you want to keep your soul, we recommend skipping the gallery.

The Athlete's Child [Official Site] (via The Lefty)

Inside The Mind Of Doug Mirabelli

Leitch — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:00:00 EDT

For those of you who haven't quite had your fill of Doug Mirabelli, Knuckleball Savior, we gleefully present a brilliant thread on the infamous Sons Of Sam Horn board, in which a poster, inspired by an old posting, imagines what most have been going through the he-man mind of Mirabelli as he made his way from the Padres to Fenway Park.

7:02 am PDT: Awoken at home by phone call from Kevin Towers. Learns he's traded to Boston. Calls Towers a pickle smoker and tells him San Diego is for pussies anyway.
7:05: Takes 40 naked cuts in front of a mirror.
7:07: Packs a duffel bag with 10 tank tops, 5 pairs of tight jeans, and no underwear. Announces "Dougie's going commando" to no one in particular.
7:08: Kills it.
7:10: Calls Wake, tells him "Dougie's going deep tonight!" Wake says it's getting dusty in here. Dougie calls him a pantywaist.
7:15: Takes cologne shower. Uses Stetson.

Man, we should have learned how to catch a knuckleball. We might have been manlier.

Doug's Game Day Diary [Sons Of Sam Horn]

(UPDATE: For some reason, the folks at SOSH have moved the thread we linked to. We don't know why. If anybody finds it, send it to us, would you?)