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Gabriel commented on Giancarlo Stanton Monster Homerun Sunday Versus the Cubs:
“Amazing home run. Few players in baseball can hit that ball so hard and far. Can't wait for Stanton to earn freedom from the glorified AAA team Marlins and play for a real MLB club.”
If you haven't been following Bryce Harper's professional baseball career up until now, his MLB debut this past weekend was enough to catch you up on everything you missed.
If you have been tuned in on Harper, the top prospect in all of baseball, then his Washington Nationals debut confirmed the two things that we were already 100 percent convinced of:
Bryce Harper is a phenomenally talented baseball player, and an enormous, unrepentant douchebag.
Consider Harper's first major league hit: it perfectly captures both the talent and the douchiness (find video of the hit below).
The hit went like this: in a 3-2 count in the seventh inning, Harper turns around a 93 mph Chad Billingsley fastball that was high and probably not even in the strike zone, hitting an absolute missile off the wall in centerfield. That's the impressive part (oh, and he also let fly an incredibly impressive throw home from the outfield that was dropped by Nats catcher Wilson Ramos -- video below). Now the douchebag part:
Harper stands in the box admiring the hit for a moment, then takes off running. On his way to second base, he intentionally knocks his own helmet off his head, just so he can then stand on second base like a badass and let everyone gawk at his perfectly attrocious haircut.
But if Harper's first MLB game left you unconvinced that he is a total d-bag, he played his second MLB game with half his face covered in eye black. What an idiot. Oh, but he's a helluva ballplayer, too -- he made a pretty spectacular running catch while leaping into the centerfield wall.
And alas, even his ugly haircut and ridiculous eye black only belie his good looks underneath. I asked Ology Fashion Editor Lauren Caruso for her professional opinion on Harper's look: "the f*ck happened to his hair," she asked, before allowing, "if you take away whatever's going on with his hair, he's pretty dreamy. Nice eyes and scruff."
Damn you, Bryce Harper. We shall love to hate you for a long, long time now.
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Chelsea Davison:
He looks like someone who needs to get punched in the face. Almost attractive, but then just obnoxious looking.
May 7, 2012
Bison Messink:
Someone on Twitter summed up this story like this: "some terrible english but a good read." And as the author of this post, I kinda have to say I agree with him, oddly enough, on both accounts.
April 30, 2012
Christopher Stout:
He is pretty douchey. I watched this game live and as he came into second it was so obvious that he ripped his own helmet off that I couldn't help but wince for him, even though he is a douche.
Even if I were a Nats fan that still would have been tough to watch. What a great game this was, Strasburg looks great.
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