El Orgullo

Doug:
You know the Federal bureaucracy may be bloated, inefficient, wasteful, and bordering on bankruptcy, but every now and again somebody gets something right.

 

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Bill:
Exactly. While the playahs may be mere mortals, their mythology often rises to the heroic and should be celebrated as such.

 

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Doug:
So a tip of the cap to the National Portrait Gallery.

 

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Bill:
Now with that said, memo to the artist — WTF is up with the all the blue?

 

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Bill:
I realize they didn't want to brand the portrait to a particulah team, but did it have to be blue?

 

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Doug:
That's his Dominican uni from the WBC.

 

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Bill:
Ah... OK... yeah, heaven forbid they put him a Red Sox uniform or anything I mean it's not like he won a World Series in Boston or won a pair of Cy Youngs here or anything.

 

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Doug:
Hey, could be worse, at least they didn't put him in a UN Peacekeepers uniform.

 

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Bill:
Actually, the UN could really use a guy like Pedro right about now.

 

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Bill:
Petey would be all "Wake up the damn Gadhafi, I'll drill him in the ass!"

 

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Bill:
"And bring me Sandra Bullock."

 

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Comments

[Bob]

I guess the artist made his uni half Expo, half Red Sox. Other than that, it's pretty damn cool. No dogs playing poker, but not bad.

[Jason O.]

I respect the jheri-curled little fucker b/c of his refusal to apologize after being videotaped with Marichal at the cockfight in the DR. That's right you PETA assholes, it's our island and our culture: If we want, we'll have a 3 ringer with Bad Newz kennels, a cockfight plus a cobra vs. a mongoose.

[h.b.]

Throw in Charlie Sheen to do color commentary and you've got a show!

[Kaz]

Winning!

[Jim C.]

"WAKE UP THE DAMN GADHAFI, I'LL DRILL HIM IN THE ASS!" is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

[h.b.]

*** UPDATE / CORRECTION ***

Just got word from Susan Miller-Havens' publicist that Pedro is in fact in a Red Sox uni in the portrait and that is a "B" on his cap not a "D."

At least this mistake is not as bad as the one where I thought Crawford was buying an antique book store.

[Kaz]

Sure, it's a B, I can see that...

But what's the flag on his sleeve and why?

[h.b.]

"The Dominican flag on the uniform is meant to pay tribute to Pedro’s pride in his country."

[Paul in DC]

http://www.interpretationbydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IBD_baseball_flowchart.jpg works pretty well...

[h.b.]

BTW can't remember who reminded me about the copyright update, but that is fixed, thanks.

Also removed the empty GoogleAds box that I forgot to remove after they "disappeared" us for mentioning and linking to RealDolls.

[Rob in CT]

Paul in DC. Loved that the chart dumps on the Yankees right out of the chute. "I have a soul..."

h.b., LOVE the Pedro pic. I'd hang a signed print right in the man cave. The artist nailed the Pedro stare-in. The Fisk painting on her website is okay, too, but nothing will replace the body English image on his 12th inning homer in Game 6.

[yazbread]

Nice painting. $35,000 nice? $35,000 nice less the tax savings for a charitable contribution? Gammons must have bought it while recovering from his stroke. A fool and his money - but that just my opinion.