Your 2008 Sports Illustrated Sportsman..

Of the Year is none other than Michael Phelps. How could he not be? He won 8 medals in the Olympics, and pretty much stole China's spotlight. He set forth a goal and reached it, made a cameo on Entourage, hosted SNL (poorly I might add), hooked himself a new stripper girlfriend, and now he is the Sportsman of the Year. What more could the guy ask for? Not much right? Well I actually have one suggestion. How about SI not put the dumbest looking photo of anyone ever on their website. Maybe if Phelps complains, SI will realize that photoshop isn't for people with absolutely no skill or trained monkeys. You can't just shrink a mans head, then angle it at an awkward position, then change his skin color so that it doesn't match the rest of his body and expect the photo to look natural. And whats up with the teeth?

Timewaster: Awkward Awesomeness

Yesterday me and the LCG were taking in our weekly dosage of football, when this commercial aired.



After watching I was in a brief state of bewilderment; not with the awkwardness that Phelps and A-Rod can bring but with the amount of showmanship Kobe can give. He did his best at channeling Joel Goodsen, and I think by rocking it, he saved this commercial.

Its been a day since watching it and the haze has been removed by my lack of short-term memory but I am still left questioning why Tony Hawk is wearing a helmet. Its not like they made A-Rod carry a bat, or told Kobe to hold a basketball, or even have Phelps wear rubber floaties. Do they think the general public is so dense that they wouldn't be able to recognize a national icon without his safety equipment? Or was Hawk just worried about being struck by the flailing members of his boxer-clad co-stars? And if so, wouldn't goggles also be necessary?