New single by NC cats SkyBlew & Drique London (whom you should both know from mad posts on this blog!). SkyBlew is dropping “Write Blew On The Clouds 2″ on October 27th, and Drique London rocks “Amelia Earhart” on November 5th!
Click here to download: Never Change
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The Foreign Exchange is one of my favorite groups out there, hands down. They just released their uber-dope third album, “Authenticity” on October 12th. If you don’t have it, you need to get it. This Five For Friday, we drop some interview videos, music videos, etc, from one of the illest doing it. 1 here, 4 after the jump!
I happen to know Anna and she’s quite talented, as you can see from above. She thought it was hilarious that I told her that her voice was “mature and speaks of wisdom,” but I feel like that accurately describes it!
Donated by Butta and MWoods.
The Monster’s Vote: Regular dude. The rent IS too damn high. You can’t argue with that.
Nasty, nasty dunk on Eddy Curry’s teammate.
PS – Why was that goofy white dude with the black eye starting over Eddy Curry?
You gotta love Mr. BenReady. Dude comes correct on every track. Love it when he hops on stage at the Kooley shows I’ve been at as well. Get familiar!
www.twitter.com/MrBenReady
Another documentary-style intro from Price Films and 9th Wonder!
In my humble opinion, Jim Abbott was one of the coolest baseball players ever. For those that don’t know, Jim Abbott was born without a right hand, and made it all the way to the Major Leagues, playing for 10 years (1989-1999). Let me repeat that, the dude played for 10 years, as a Major League pitcher, with no right hand. It’s amazing to me whenever I think about it. Abbott would balance his glove on the nub of his right arm, pitch with the left, then immediately throw the left arm into his glove so he could field a ball.
Teams used to exploit this by continually hitting back to him, thinking he wouldn’t have the time to get the ball out of the glove to make the throw, but this never proved as a valid technique. Abbott was always either quicker than they thought, or would barehand the ball.
Not only did Abbott play for 10 years, but he was pretty successful. Despite an 87-108 career record, Abbott did have several dominating seasons. He was an 18 game winner in 1991. Dude pitched a NO HITTER for the Yankees in 1993. A NO HITTER. Here’s the vid:
When I was a kid, I was a much bigger baseball fan than I am now. I can remember just not even being able to fathom how to play baseball with one hand. It’s one of the first things I remember finding out about in life that actually made the whole “you can be whatever you want” or “anything is possible” adages ring true.
Abbott was also the Big Ten Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year in 1988.
The other night, I decided to Where You At Wednesday Mr. Abbott.
Where is he now?
Well, he was recently inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame for his career at Michigan in 2007, and in 2009 had his #31 jersey retired by his alma mater.
Not surprisingly, Abbott now works as a motivational speaker.
Here’s to you, Jim Abbott!
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