Remember in the first series of this season, when the Cardinals were playing the Pittsburgh Pirates, and we all felt really good? We all thought, "Hey, this'll be great! The Cards can get off to a hot start, sort of pad the old record a little bit. After all, what are the Pirates for?" Well, things didn't work out so well for the Cards in that series, as they split the four-game set, but I have the answer. The answer is Yovani Gallardo. Photo: Compujeramey via FlickrGallardo pitched eight i
Apparently death comes in fours. Waking up this morning to news that Billy Mays -- the ubiquitous product pitchman who talked in ALL CAPS and wore a magnifcent Just-for-Men beard -- has died. Mays was found dead in his Tampa, Florida, home on Sunday. The day before he'd been involved in a rough plane landing at the Tampa airport in which a piece of luggage fell from the overhead bin and hit him on the head. Speculation is that the 50-year-old Mays may have suffered a brain injury from the luggag
I found myself getting more than a little choked up last week over the death of Michael Jackson. Whatever the man may have been- and some of those things are certainly awful- he was the biggest thing in the world when I was growing up. I had a red leather jacket covered in zippers when I was five. I practiced for hours learning to moonwalk. In short, I was like pretty much every other kid who grew up in the '80s. I wanted to be Michael Jackson. But then, just a few days later, I was surpris
If you missed any of these items posted last week on the Daily RFT -- or were like some of us and just checked-out for the holidays by Monday -- here's your chance to catch up before you have to do any real work this morning.Michael Jackson Watched Donald Duck to Fall Asleep, Exercised with Incredible Hulk"I'm really not that obsessed with Michael Jackson's death (honestly!) but an Associated Press story yesterday about the pop star was just odd -- even for a man once rumored to be in the market
Someone should've used Aspray! I'm not quite sure if Doc Bottoms "Aspray" is real or fake. And frankly, I don't care. I love their product (real or imagined) and its funky, funky commercialView the video advertisement (complete with a Billy Mays-esque pitchman) after the jump.
Click for larger version.(Cue Unreal's best Billy Mays carnival barker voice)Expecting company soon? Own a fixer-upper home that needs a facelift?! Just don't have the time or budget for those costly repairs?! Lucky for you, Unreal is here to help!For the low, low one-time buy-now price of just $250, you can own an official MLB All-Star banner. This 2 1/2 foot by 7 foot piece of custom screen-printed fabric once graced the streets of downtown St. Louis and impressed baseball fans from across
Carnival barker and pitchman extraordinaire Billy Mays died from complications brought on -- in part -- by cocaine use, reports CNN.No wonder he could get so excited about products like this...
