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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Monday, May 04, 2009The Serpentor of BaseballSometimes I worry that I rely a bit too much on cheap pop culture references for laughs, but then I always find someone who does it more than me. Like this guy, who goes farther than I thought he would in using a G.I. Joe/Serpentor analogy to write a column about television executives. Not that it was a bad read. In fact, I loved that he used baseball to illustrate his "Serpentor of [insert profession here]" model:Serpentor's DNA was taken from historical figures like Alexander the Great and Ghengis Khan, each selected to give him a particular skill that Dr. Mindbender thought important for the leader of a Cobra to have. Thus, the way you play the Serpentor game is simple: you build the perfect person by selecting one trait from famous people in that profession. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle. Not that I'd use his exact examples. I think I'd go with the batting eye of Williams, the swing of Will Clark, the power of Ruth, the speed of Willie Wilson, the glove of Ozzie Smith, the arm of Dave Parker, the brains of Greg Maddux, the likability of Sean Casey, and the looks of Sal Fasano. He'd also possess the knuckleball of Niekro, and would make 35-40 starts a year. Oh, and he'd be player-manager with some genetic soup from each of the following: McGraw, Durocher, Stengel, Weaver, Martin, Anderson, Johnson, and Cox. And he'd play in Tiger Stadium, which was restored to its historical grandeur after I sent the Baroness and Destro on a secret time travel mission for that very purpose. Wait. Just Destro. The Baroness stays with me. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 2:52pm Comments
GBSimons said...
If Doug Mientkiewicz can still have a job, Serpentor should have gotten more playing time with the numbers he put up. They weren’t great, but they’re playable for a second-division team. Posted 05/04 at 04:10 PM
Jake said...
I would say that for sheer longevity, Julio Franco is your man! Posted 05/04 at 04:41 PM
brian said...
how’s about this Baroness? Posted 05/04 at 07:07 PM
Aaron Moreno said...
Wow, cross-referencing the Invincible Super Blog just got too into my head. Posted 05/04 at 08:08 PM
Utpal said...
I don’t think I’ve ever really seen Sal Fasano behind all that equipment, so I googled him and found this gem at the top of his Wikipedia entry: {Jeff Pearlman of ESPN.com said of Fasano: “When I think of Sal Fasano, however, I think of greatness. Not of Willie Mays or Ted Williams greatness, but of a uniquely excellent human being who, were class and decency the most valued standards of a career, would be the easiest Hall of Fame inductee of all time.”[1]} Also, if we’re going to talk about shapely women in positions of power, I submit the following: Posted 05/04 at 10:12 PM
Dr Paisley said...
the looks of Sal Fasano So glad I didn’t have any of the Shiner Celebrator I’m drinking in my mouth when I read that. I would have gone for the arm of Jermaine Dye, having seen his cannon live (not a euphemism). Plus the self-deprecation of Dan Quisenberry. And less Weaver, more Herzog. Posted 05/04 at 11:07 PM
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Serpentor did play baseball, but for some reason his DNA didn’t produce great results:
http://www.baseballprojection.com/apba/encyc/player_serpe—01.html
I think he played, poorly, in 1988, got released, and somewhere along the way we lost his stats.