Swifting starts to catch on

I’m still waiting for some more, but the first two #Swifting pics have come in.

Reminder of how it works: Take a picture of yourself in a random setting looking utterly surprised that you have just won a major award. See the previous posts on this blog for details. Post your picture to Twitter with the hashtag #Swifting.

Enjoy!

 

@CEDisRICKo

 

 

@Mariaij18

Oh my God, I won?

Let’s start a new trend: #Swifting

In honor of my last post, let’s start a new trend. We can call it “Swifting.” Take a picture of yourself in a random setting looking like you’re Taylor Swift and your name just got called as the winner of an award. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Here’s mine:

Oh My God, I won? What!? Are you kidding me?

Would it shock you if Taylor Swift won a #Grammy?

I know this is a little outside my usual sports-related stuff, but…

 

Wouldn’t it have been great if Taylor Swift got married to Taylor Lautner so they could both be named Taylor Lautner? OK, whatever.

Oh my God, I won?

 

Here’s the deal: Taylor Swift needs to stop being so flipping shocked when she wins an award. She’s up for best country album and, while she’s not a sure thing, she’s always got a good chance.

 

Have you ever seen Taylor Swift win an award? She looks like she’s auditioning for a role in a porno. Aaaaaaaah.

 

Really, woman, you’ve won before. Stop acting so surprised. It’s not humility anymore. It’s embarrassing.

 

I’m not trying to pick on you. Honest. You win awards because you’re good and you deserve to win awards. You should be proud of that. But the Oh My GOD schtick has gotten out of hand.

 

Up next, my thoughts on football players Swifting when they make a tackle or get into the end zone.

 

 

 

 

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This is why I’m #TeamHanley. And #TeamLomo, #TeamReyes and #TeamMiamiHeath

Hanley Ramirez responds, in Spanish, to his Twitter critics. Rough translation: “Sorry I haven’t responded. Been busy writing your names on this bat. The answer is on its way.”

Here I am, #LoMoing

Thank you @TealMonster for your artful photography. I do hope you deleted the ones where the Bonobos helped me take the blue thong off. As much fun as it was, I don’t need proof of that stuff floating around on the Internet.

OeOeO Well! MLB picks – revised

In the first round. The Yankees and the Phillies were eliminated in the first round.

This creates a challenge. If I picked the Yankees to beat the Rangers, but the Yankees got beaten by the Tigers, wouldn’t it be consistent for me to pick the Tigers over the Rangers? I mean, they beat the Yankees, right? OK, Tigers over the Rangers.

Same thing goes for the National League: If I picked the Phillies to beat the Brewers, but the Cardinals beat the Phillies, it makes sense that I would expect the Cardinals to beat the Brewers. That, and Nyjer Morgan is on the Brewers, and if Nyjer Morgan gets a World Series ring, there is no Caesar. Just saying. So Cardinals over the Brewers.

But as much as I’ve stretched logic here, I can’t stretch it any further: The Cardinals and the Tigers are both giant-slayers. So this should be a Rocky v. Apollo ending to the 2011 baseball season.

Who will win?

Well, I was wrong last time, but I’m going to have to say…

Mr. Dimples’ MLB playoff picks

Let’s clear something up right off the bat: there’s a difference between rooting for a team and expecting that team to win it all. I root for the Marlins because I think they’re a likable, talented bunch and I want to see them succeed. I was happy to cheer for them this season, even when it became clear that the only way they were going to the World Series is if they bought tickets from a scalper.

So just because I predict a winner doesn’t mean I’m rooting for that team. It’s like when Halladay pitched against the Marlins: I expected a Phillies victory, but I rooted for my team.

So with that in mind, my picks for the postseason:

National League

 

Phillies will beat the Cardinals in four games. Cards are a talented bunch riding a high, but the Phillies didn’t get to 102 wins this season by allowing opponents to extend streaks against them.

I’ll take the Brewers over the Diamondbacks, although this one is more likely to go all five games. But it almost doesn’t matter because…

The Phillies will win the NLCS, and if it takes six games for them to do it, I will be genuinely surprised.

American League:

 

Yankees will have a tough go of it, but I think they will beat the Tigers in five. I think they realize this is the last time we’ll see Jeter, Posada and Rivera in the postseason, and something happens to this team in October that’s hard to quantify. It ain’t numbers. It’s almost magic. You can call it what you want, but you can’t deny it.

Rangers have a lot to prove after their disappointing performance at last year’s World Series, and if they can beat the Rays’ outstanding pitching, they’ll need all five games to do it. That’s a big if.

The rematch is going to be exciting as hell, but somehow, I doubt the Yankees will fall to the Rangers two years in a row. They’re onto you, Texas. Yankees in five or six.

World Series

A rematch of the 2009 World Series: Phillies are hungry and on fire. Yankees want one more jewel on the crown that has been Derek Jeter’s career. But Yankees have been known to fall short in such circumstances. Remember 2001? Just a few weeks after 9/11, the universe was rooting for NY, and the Yankees couldn’t quite do it? Yeah, I’m thinking this is that kind of year: Rematch goes to the Phillies.

But I’m ROOTING for…