Here you will find Ex-Olympic ‘rassler Kurt Angle taking in yesterday’s business persons special at The Bank against the Marlins. Angle was in town to promote TNA’s weekend pay-per-view event, “Hardcore Justice” (filmed LIVE! in Trenton, NJ) where he will face some fella name AJ Styles. Roamer-of-all-crowds, T-Mac, caught up with the one-time Intercontinental Champion (my favorite of all ‘rasslin belts) who informed Tom that the current crop of Olympians in Beijing should concentrate on their events and not worry about all that “protesting stuff.”

Yeah! Screw the well-being of those innocent victims in China — LET’S MEDAL!

No word yet on whether or not T-Mac relayed Kurt’s message overseas.

On Saturday, the broadcasting duo of Gary “Sarge” Matthews and Tom McCarthy both celebrated their respective birthdays. The Sarge turned 58 while TMac hit the big four-oh. Congratulations, gentleman.

On that day, their broadcast booth was raided by the Phillie Phanatic, who was thoughtful enough to bring a cake and confetti. Here is the clip of the celebration, but first, some interesting tid-bits:

• For some unknown reason, the graphic reads: “Tom & Gary: Happy 70th Birthday!” Now neither Sarge nor Tom are even close to seventy years old, and their combined age would be 98. I’d love to know what the hell they meant by this. It’s confusing the shit out of me.

• Watch as the nice lady with the headset gets repeatedly knocked in the corner by the wide derrière of the Phanatic. (around the :50 second mark) Somehow, she doesn’t even look annoyed.

• If you listen closely, Sarge informs the viewing audience that this is his third cake of the day. That’s one helluva birthday celebration.

• Also, the strange dynamic of Sarge & Tom busting each other’s balls continues. This time, Tom basically calls Sarge a cheapskate, implying Gary had nothing to do with the celebration because he wouldn’t shell out the scratch for it. My favorite running joke between the two is how Sarge keeps bringing up the awful haircut joint, SuperCuts, because that’s where Tom gets his haircut.

• That is all. Enjoy.

I’d like to bring to your attention a couple clips from last night’s Phillies game:

First up - Phillies 2nd string colorman, Sarge Matthews, talks candidly about his “down there” grooming habits. It’s quite disturbing actually, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets reprimanded for such naughty-talk. On top of that - the visual they provide for his grooming discourse is borderline pornographic. But don’t worry, it’s completely SFW.

After that clip is Yuney Escobar fouling a Cole Hamels pitch off the ground and directly into his nuts. I imagine he’s wearing a cup, but it still takes him some time to walk it off and recover. With the increasing number of freak umpire injuries and nutshots happening this year, I feel they should all be documented. Enjoy.

Oh, and fuck the Mets.

Phillies color commentator Gary Matthews has one of the greatest hat collections any human being has ever assembled. Each broadcast, no matter how the Phillies are playing, you can be assured of one thing - The Sarge will be sporting a new, stylish hat. Throughout the course of the season, I’ve been collecting screenshots of said hats, strictly for my personal enjoyment. But now I feel it would be rather selfish of me to keep them a secret. So I have decided to share them with the masses. You can thank me later.

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