First Post

Welcome to Hit Some Dingers, the single greatest sports blog on the internet (that I write). I've been meaning to make this blog for a pretty long time. I'll cover sports- mostly baseball, football, and basketball- and try to give a different perspective than the talking heads on ESPN.

I knew this was going to be a sports blog, naming it was the biggest problem for me. Hit Some Dingers was mostly inspired by the Simpsons episode where Major League Baseball spies on Springfield, Bart shoots down their satellite with a tank, and then Big Mac shows up in all of his steroid-filled glory and asks the people if they want to know the truth about whats going on or just watch him sock a few dingers. I know- classic. Most of the names I considered using were pretty whack, but some were actually a little funny, so I'll use this first post to let you see what could have been:

1) Pat the Cat


There's the image, the brainchild of my friend Jeff Greco. A little history on this one: we play a lot of MLB Baseball on Playstation and Pat "the Bat" Burrell is one of our favorite players to make fun of (i.e. Pat the Cat scampers to first or Pat the Gat really unloaded his clip on that one). Despite how much fun it is to make fun of my favorite Phillies' first overall selection, and despite the fact that the pic is hilarious, I just didn't think it was the best name for the blog.


2) The Round Mound of Blog

Charles Barkley is easily my favorite basketball player of all time, I even have an autographed picture of him that I keep in my pillowcase. Chuck is slowly penetrating the hearts of basketball viewers everywhere, analyzing basketball for TNT while Krispy Kreme not-so-slowly penetrates his arteries. Even his commercials with D Wade are great. Naming my blog after Sir Charles would be the greatest homage I could pay to my childhood hero (I always did want to be a professional bar fighter), but the name was a little bulky - which I guess is fitting - and having the word blog right in there was kind of lame too.


3) Cut That Meat / Laser Rocket Blog

I can't say that I like Peyton Manning or the Colts, but I'm a fan of the man's off-the-field work. Some of his commercials are really funny (First and Second) and Manning was much funnier than "Dreamboat" Brady while hosting SNL. As funny as Ol' Peyton can be, I still don't like him that much and couldn't justify giving him the eternal honor of naming my blog after him.


4) Dinosaurs Eat Man

It's an obviously terrible name, an obscure Jurassic Park quote to go with this incredibly funny picture- again courtesy of Jeff Greco. Other possible names going with this pic were Shoot Her, which had obvious problems, Do-You-Think-He-Saurus, which just didn't make much sense, and finally, Mr. Hammond, the Phones Are Working.



5) Ron Mexico Kennel Club

I don't care much for Michael Vick, I think he's an overrated quarterback. Ron Mexico, on the other hand, is a hero of mine. Refusing to allow his younger brother's gun brandishing upstage him, Vick does everything he can to turn an ordinary situation into hilarious headline news. From the herp lawsuit to the dog fights, Mr. Mexico I salute you.


6) Shawn Kemp Jr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Jr. Jr.

This one pays respect to both Shawn Kemp and his 6th-born child. No real reasons here, other than the fact that the Rain Man is an American hero.


7) Dallas Sucks

I don't like Dallas, and I like to keep this photo handy in my funny pictures folder. I'm pretty sure Jerry Jones has dentures. Enjoy.




There were a few others, but none of them had any comedic value. Now that the site is actually up, the next post will have something to do with sports.