Barrel of Baseball Fame
Posted by Lacy on December 2, 2008
On behalf of Barrel of Monkeys, the core group of sports fans IN Barrel of Monkeys, and pretty much anyone who enjoys encouraging anyone anywhere, I want to send out a huge shoutout to 16-year-old Eri Yoshida. That girl just became the first female professional baseball player ever. And I think that is totally rad.
Speaking of rad and baseball, there’s a pretty rad baseball story in That’s Weird, Grandma right now (see how I tied those together? That’s a college degree at work there, friends) about a kid going to see a White Sox game and meeting the players. We’re always in a sticky situation when we have to present actual well-known celebrities on stage, but I think we did a pretty good job with this one.
For instance, the kid met Jermaine Dye (played by Donnell):
He met Bobby Jenks (played by Curtis):
and he also met Frank Thomas (naturally, played by Tai):
Hey, Monkeys? Next year, when all the kids are writing about her, I’m calling all the Eri Yoshida parts RIGHT NOW.
3 Comments
Hilarious!
Curtis- thanks for dying your beard pink.
Also, I think a good thread to follow- what is your favorite BOM celebrity performance? I submit, Matt Miller are Celine Dion and Mastro as Little Richard.
Dixie December 2, 2008 at 05:05 PM
I think Matt Miller as Celine Dion is before my time, and that is SAD.
However, I was there to see Elizabeth Levy as Shaft.
Heidi December 2, 2008 at 05:16 PM
If memory serves, Lucas Kwan Peterson was an amazing Beyonce. He sang all his lines.
Elizabeth December 2, 2008 at 05:46 PM