SB Nation’sGIF Monthly
1. ALEX RIOS
(Via @cjzero)
Sports movies geared towards children have a tendency to portray their subject games in a very exaggerated way, especially in the scenes establishing that the protagonist's team is bad. The teams in these movies do not simply lose. They bumble about while doing it, swinging at pitches that are thrown over the backstop, sliding and winding up three feet short of second base, or accidentally throwing a glove to first instead of the ball. It's comically unrealistic.
Except when it isn't.
2. MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ
Golf would be fascinating if you had to take every shot with some part of your body (besides your feet) touching the ground. Think of the articles in golf magazines: BUTT PUTT VS. THREE POINT STANCE - OUR EXPERTS WEIGH IN.
3. MARK RICHT
"Coach Richt, I was wondering if you'd be in my Star Wars movie."
"Chris, that sounds like a hoot. It would be my pleasure."
"Awesome! There are a bunch of characters that you'd be great for, but I'm thinking spice trader Baff Gr-"
"Hold your horses there, Chris. If you want this Baff fella, you should just ask him to be in the movie. I'm Coach Richt. I don't think pretending to be someone else would be honest."
4. KACY CATANZARO
I have a simple proposal: every time a dude on the Internet says something shitty to or about a woman related to sports, we make him do the salmon ladder. If after three minutes he cannot complete it, we offer to let him quit if he apologizes profusely. After he apologizes profusely, we make him keep doing the salmon ladder anyways.
6. CHARLIFF WEISBURY
The Big 12 is doing something very, very interesting with this morphing coach image: that the notion of human individuality is a fiction we invent out of a desperate need for meaning in our lives. The truth is our superficial differences do not change the inescapable sameness which binds - and traps - us all together.
7. ALEJANDRO SABELLA
(via @bubbaprog)
Did you know Michael Jackson's impressive lean in the video for "Smooth Criminal" was accomplished using invisible cables, but for live performances Jackson and his team had to invent and patent a specialized mechanism by which he and the other dancers could hitch themselves to pegs that rose from the floor at a certain time? Alejandro Sabella did not.
8. RYAN RABURN
(via Kansas City Star)
ENTER COMMAND
>throw ball
SET VELOCITY (1-100)
>90
SET ANGLE (0-180)
>3
YOU HAVE BEEN BOOED TO DEATH. RESTART? (y/n)
>n
9. HENRIK STENSON
The Most Badass Sporting Equipment You Can Break, Ranked:
1. Shattered basketball rim
2. Knocked-off baseball cover
3. Kendo stick broken in the heat of battle
187. Golf club snapped over knee
10. NICK PUNTO
(via @minakimes)
The athleticism here! Punto seamlessly transitions from bat tossed away in anticipation of taking his base to a picture-perfect helmet spike that hits the plate squarely. You can't teach that kind of fury. Well, you can, but you really shouldn't. That's bad parenting.
11. FEARLESS DRAGONFLY
(via @cjzero)
Sometimes an inch
Is the only space
We have on Death
In the Wild Card race
