Just Put Your Head on Your Desk

You know, back in school, those days when your teacher, clearly out of ideas and/or energy, would just show videos or film strips and maybe add some magazine time and a little time to just put your head on your desk?

In preparation for this weekend's big series with the Red Sox , I've decided to show videos.

Parkes, over at Getting Blanked, got me thinking about the BEAST that was Pedro Martinez. I also thought about how Martinez was, for my money, the star of the Ken Burns' documentary The 10th Inning. Here is the feature "Unhittable" from the annoyingly unembeddable (I made that word up) MLB videos. "You can't hit the changeup? I'm sorry, you are going to see it again."

The next one features the most magical baseball player in the league in his segment in the Ken Burns' documentary The Tenth Inning. I like the part about the scouts doubting that teeny Ichiro could handle big league pitching. Wolf Cub!!!

The next one features some of the most elite pitchers in the MLB (and well, Dice K) teaching this little man their signature pitch. Notice they play "Enter Sandman" for Rivera's segment. The characters in the title say "Magic Ball Featured."

All those who stayed up to watch that most insane game last Saturday and were outraged by the Bob Davidson call, needs to see this again. "That was BIG LEAGUE right there." It would have perhaps been cooler had Gibson pumped his fist as he left the field.

And finally, I was obsessed with Goofy Sports when I was a kid.