10 Year Old Kids Bowl Better Than The Penguins

Feel-good stories rule.

Yesterday, the Pens joined up with the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the inaugural Pens and Pins tournament. This is the type of thing where you can actually smile when a local athlete sucks.

The players who helped out served as a celebrity captain for each team. The newly-formed Penguins Wives Association set up the event, which included bowling, a bake sale and silent auction.

Potash (yes!) was there, as were a slew of Penguins players and their WAGs. However I have to cut up on a certain Pen, who obviously hasn't been watching his Lebowski or Kingpin. MAF, you may make me feel old and unaccomplished in life by being a successful athlete, but dammit, I could probably beat you at bowling. And I suck at bowling.


"I’m terrible,” Fleury noted. “I finished last in my group. These kids beat me. I didn’t expect that out of me, being so bad. I’ve got to work on that."


To top that off, here's what some kid had to say about MAF, emphasis mine:


"I already beat him, I don’t know if he’s that good at bowling,” Bryce Cunningham, 10, said. “It’s pretty fun because you just all get together and bowl."


BURN! Here's some more cool photos of the event.

Um...nice...form?


Sergei's looking healthy. Get that guy on the ice if he's well enough to hit the alleys.


Geno does NOT get Munsoned.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-13-09

Which one is real and which one is fake? 20 bucks if you can tell the difference. These cool things come from an awesome website, which provides mini horses for therapy. Looks like I've got a slew of future MPotDs.

I also got some sweet links for you to read:

25 random things about Cotter. [OFTOT]

How much would it suck if you got assaulted with kebab meat? [Sports Rubbish]

I would definitely read Mike Tyson's tell-all book. [The World According to Moondog]

50 dead in that plane crash outside of Buffalo. Prayers... [CNN]

10 great basketball shots to use in H.O.R.S.E. [Gunaxin]

The Obama Bacon Haiku. [Bacon Haikus]

I'm Cool With Jeff Reed, Pogo Balls

For awhile now, I've been saying that when the weather gets nicer, I want to get a Pogo Ball and take it to Union Square and show up the skateboarders. You know, with Extreme Pogo Balling!

So when I see pictures of Jeff Reed wearing a Pogo Ball shirt, I just nod my head and approve.

h/t Deadspin and Busted Coverage...and whoops, didn't see that Mondesi had it up, too

That Dude Behind Dan Potash Sucks

h/t to The Pensblog for the video.

Guess what, dude? Dan Potash is unflappable.

I've never really liked it when idiots purposefully interrupt stuff just to get their face on t.v. The only thing remotely close that was still acceptable was back when I was younger and still living in the 'Burgh, my dad had a business trip to New York City (where I now live), and waved to the camera on Good Morning America. Now, its acceptable because that kinda thing is the norm on GMA when they, you know, pan to the crowd.

But if you're at a Penguins game, and the amazing Dan Potash is interviewing Robert Morris' head coach, don't pull a "look at me" with a terrible attempt at The Robot or some shit.

Potash is the pinnacle of professionalism, and always seems to put forth a solid interview. He might be one of the best on-field (on-ice?) reporters in the game. If I was in his place, and some fool started showboating behind me just to get on camera, the mic would instantly drop, and a haymaker would be flying in the direction of said asshat.

And that's why I blog and Dan Potash gets things done.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-12-09

...And just when I thought the night terrors had finally left.

I'm going to take solace in these links:

A deeper look at Kevin Colbert's conundrum. [OFTOT]

MOONDOG WAS ON THE JUICE, TOO! [The World According to Moondog]

A-Rod, the night before he was busted. Nice chicks. [Josh Q. Public]

Is Maria Sharapova pulling out of tennis tourneys because she's in love with a blogger? [Sharapova's Thigh]

Steve with critical misses AND hits on his 2008 NFL season predictions. Good read. [Steve is Alive]

Pens win in a shootout! [The Pensblog]

These Animals Look Thrilled

Maybe it's the Super Bowl hangover. Maybe it's that I'm swamped at work. But dammit if I'm going to let you come to PSAMP and go away empty handed.

These are pretty much the animal eqivalents of me right now. Thank you, Cute Overload.

And thanks to my sister Kate for sending them to me.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-11-09

Yo Fez, get outta the way. You're blocking the cool midget horse.

These links are better than your face. BURN!

Some bigger choices than we thought regarding the Steelers and free agency. [OFTOT]

Sal Fasano is bringing his badass 'stache to Colrado. [Sharapova's Thigh]

Kevin Durant just keeps getting better. [Josh Q. Public]

The Pro Bowl cheerleaders just keep getting better, too. [FanIQ]

LeBron made a camera guy fall. [NESW Sports]

Top ten awesome dunks. [Gunaxin]

WHO IS THIS GUY?!?!?!

MJD does the Lord's work, and had this posted on Friday. I was too busy bowing to my own greatness and ridiculing Mike Tomlin to squeeze this in. But now seems about right.

This guy is apparently a Steelers mascot from the 1995 Pro Bowl. We all shat on Steely McBeam when he was introduced in the offseason of '07, but little did we know that the Steelers were all about mascots back in '95! And I'm not talking about The Terrible Fan or Stevie Steeler. From MJD:


This appears to be Steely McBeam's long lost cousin, Aluminum McSoiledHisPants. Why he looks so afraid, I have no idea. The Steelers are named after local steel workers, not local people made of low-grade, easily-frightened tin.


Right? I never thought I'd laud Steely over any other mascot, but at least McBeam has a damn scowl. This Tin Man-looking fool appears to have dookied in his pants while trying to pump up the Steelers faithful. Total fail.

However, Steely said he'd be interested in "teaching" this joke his secrets. And by teaching, I mean he probably wants to date him.

Black and Golddust is not amused.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-10-09

This mini horse looks extra large with the baby sitting on top of it. Or, it isn't a mini horse, but a massive, giant horse with a regular-sized human sitting on it. I'm thinking the latter.

Link time:

Hey kids, don't try and mess with wrestlers. Real or fake. [OFTOT]

Not everyone hates Michael Phelps. [Josh Q. Public]

Were you shocked that A-Rod used steroids? [Moondog Sports]

STEROID TWINS! [More Hardball]

How awkward are these shirts made by high school a swim team coach? [Sports Rubbish]

Who else could be in the 103 other names in that steroids leak that busted A-Rod? [No Guts, No Glory]

Let's Embarrass Mike Tomlin Some More!

By now, you've probably seen the awesome picture of Mike Tomlin's flattop fade in his college identification picture (through either OFTOT, Deadspin or the P-G). But now, after showing a little blogger initiative, I've come across a few more younger-Mike pics that we can all laugh at in one way or another.

The College Athlete:


Where's the mini-fro, Mike? What, you didn't want it to get dented in your helmet like it repeatedly does now with your headset?

The...uh...Ugly Jeans, Thin Belt, Awesome Shirt Combo:


Man, I know you were in school during the early 90s, but did you really have to dress the part? Props for standing next to a kid wearing Back and Gold, though.

Disgusting, Mike. Be glad you won the Super Bowl...not everyone gets a free pass on multi-colored vertical stripes.

Steelers Fans With Walkers Rule

I got nothing right now. If I was in town for the parade, and I had a walker with me, I'd probably do the exact same thing.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-9-09

Nice, uh, bales of hay? Or furry collar? I can't tell which is better, because I'm more concerned with...

...Hey, baby.

Just read on, man:

Random Steelers musings this Monday. The offseason is here, dammit. [OFTOT]

Adam "Van" Morrison is now a Laker. [Lake Show Life]

Kevin Garnett pretty much has OCD about his outfits. I don't own any "outfits." [NESW Sports]

Woulda been nice to win this one, Pens. Conklin was money, though. [The Pensblog]

Ohio State had a good recruiting class. They still won't beat the SEC anytime soon, though. [Moondog Sports]

ESPN "analyst" Jamal Anderson was arrested on felony cocaine and misdemeanor marijuana charges. [Awful Announcing]

I Am Burning

Check out this cool stuff.

Yesterday, my post about Hines Ward and his gift of Crown Royal premium whiskey made it all the way from the dregs of the Internet to ESPN. A producer for Jim Rome is Burning asked permission to use the image and my website's url on the show. Rome used the pic and story as his Final Burn.

I give ESPN a lot of flak, but sometimes, they do the right thing. It woulda been way easy (and it has happened) for someone with their kinda pull to just rip something straight off the Internet and claim it was theirs, but the producer and show were classy enough to give credit where credit was due. When I started this site almost 2 years ago, there wasn't nearly this kind of communication between the blogosphere and major entities like ESPN.

Much love goes out to my buddy Brian at Awful Announcing for preserving the clip and sending it to me. Also, thanks to Cotter for getting a backup file of the clip. I owe you both majorly.

So yeah, this post is a bit self-serving, but it's nice to get recognized. So back off.

Mini Pony of the Day 2-6-09

I've used a lot of dog-and-mini-pony-together pictures, but I don't believe this one was ever used. The dog looks like he's smiling so hard. I would, too, if I was sitting next to a badass horse that was smaller than me.

I smiled pretty hard when I first read these clutch links:

The Steelers at the Pro Bowl. [OFTOT]

Since Bert Blyleven hasn't been inducted into the HOF yet, my buddy Carson is inducting him into the Hardball Heroes club. Awesome! [More Hardball]

The SEC clearly won the recruiting war. [Moondog Sports]

The good old days of Celtics-Lakers. [Josh Q. Public]

Bill Clinton makes Charles Barkley feel dumb. [NESW Sports]

You gotta listen to Casey Kasem lose his shit. [The Pensblog]

**Stay tuned. In an hour or so, I'll be posting something hardass. I mean, everything I post is pretty hardass, but you get where I'm going.**