They sure wore their pants tighter in those days, eh?  I wonder if hypoxia was a factor in all this. I couldn’t make it all the way through…my eyes started seeping hot liquid embarrassment.

Back in 2004, I worked as an usher and security guard for the Texas Rangers.  During that same season, Orel was Buck Showalter’s pitching coach.  Now, we didn’t become fast friends or anything, but I did have several encounters with Coach Orel, and he is a VERY nice man.  I will say that his body’s muscle memory was really only trained for one activity, and that was propelling a baseball across a plate 60 feet away without his opponent being able to hit it, at least not very well.  It was NOT trained for dancing!  Now, as nice a man as Orel is, what kind of a man does it make you, for dredging up this extremely lame chapter in the distant past journal of his life?  I’ll tell you:  it makes you a very FUNNY man!  I wish I had seen this before I met him!

That was painful to watch.  Mike Scossia looked like the uncomfortable white guy you’ll see at every bar or club who’s just not cut out for the club scene and would rather watch Sportscenter highlights at a Sports Bar than attempt to move to the beat.

That “Baseball Boogie” looked like just another ridiculous 80’s production that was so stupid and unbelievable, but for some reason, because it was the 80’s, it worked (see also Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider, Magnum PI, and CHiP’s).

Thanks Craig for another masterpiece.