MLB Celebrity Look Alikes

by teacher tom on May 7, 2006 12:55 PM CDT

During yet another long, tedious, painfully boring losing game, my wife and I started trying to choose what celebrity some of the players looked like. Maybe the Cub fans here might enjoy the distraction. We thought that Jack Wilson from Pittsburgh looks like Seinfeld, Khalil Greene looks like Sean Penn in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, and Jeromy Burnitz looks like Popeye. And it's a stretch, I know, but when I look at Hendry I think Strother Martin from Cool Hand Luke - "What we have here is a failure to communicate." Any others?

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Cartoon Connection

Cartoons are celebrities, right? Because I always thought Burnitz looks like Shrek.

And John Mabry has the exact same nose as Lois Griffin from "The Family Guy."

Thanks for the distraction! Two hours until misery sets in again...

by Short4Fanatic on May 7, 2006 1:12 PM CDT reply actions

Well

I have a friend whose dad is a dead-ringer for John Smoltz, though he shaved his beard off awhile ago.

by Perkins on May 7, 2006 1:29 PM CDT reply actions

Not look alike

but Mark Grace and Kevin Costner have voices that are nearly indistinguishable. At least, they used to, I'm sure Grace's chain smoking has altered that a bit. Spike O'Dell used to get a big kick out of having Gracie read lines from "Field of Dreams" and "Bull Durham."

"Aw, how could he lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico!"--Harry Caray

by cubbiejulie on May 7, 2006 1:37 PM CDT reply actions

Mike Maddux

looks like Luigi from Mario Bros.

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:05 PM CDT reply actions

And I can't be certain...

but I'm pretty sure I've seen Sean Marshall in a made for tv movie on Lifetime playing the evil man who has done the poor innocent woman wrong...

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:10 PM CDT reply actions

that channel

is always on when I walk into one of the break rooms for one of the restaraunts down here....I swear it's a buncha guys sitting around watching it too....it makes me wonder.

...the artist formerly priorpwnz.

by Faith plus 1 on May 7, 2006 2:11 PM CDT up reply actions

people look at

train wrecks too...doesn't mean they are enjoying themselves

by cubsfan2883 on May 7, 2006 2:13 PM CDT up reply actions

true

unless you're sadist...sad we've found a common element between a train wreck and the Lifetime channel.

...the artist formerly priorpwnz.

by Faith plus 1 on May 7, 2006 2:17 PM CDT up reply actions

Not unlike a recent Cubs game

or two, or twenty.

by teacher tom on May 7, 2006 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions

I can almost hear

Meredith Baxter Burney (sp?) or that one Baywatch chick that got caught doing all the drugs screaming, "You told me you LOVED ME!!!!!!!"

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:13 PM CDT reply actions

The hubby and I play a game

called "Guess who staring in the Lifetime Movie?"

One person reads the synapsis on our satellite info, and the other person guesses who the female lead it. Bonus of you can guess the male lead. There are some definite patterns, the same actresses seemt to always be in the same kinds of movies:

Stole my baby--Valerie Bertinelli (or, more recently, Danica McKeller)

Twin sister stole my husband--Susan Luci

Battered wife: Nacy McKeon

Woke up in a grocery store covered with blood and have no idea how I got here: Judith Light or Joanna Kerns

I'm mentally challenged and the State wants to take my children: Meredith Baxter

Boyfriend seemed great but now he's clearly insance and wants to kill me: Tori Spelling/Kelly Martin/Candace Cameron

I have anorexia/bulimia: Tracy Gold

You get the idea.

"Aw, how could he lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico!"--Harry Caray

by cubbiejulie on May 7, 2006 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Post of the day nominee!

I'm in the mob but I still want to have a girlfriend: Uncle Jesse from Full House

I'm in the mob... but I kinda like it: Natasha Henstridge

My friend seemed great but now she's clearly insane and wants to kill me: Shannon Doherty

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:47 PM CDT up reply actions

I thought

I was moving to new town, but the people here clearly know me already and I don't remember anything and no one will tell me what's going on: Yasmine Bleeth

I'm a doctor/lawyer/psychiatrist who is cheating on my wife and plotting to have my young mistress (usualy played by Courntey Thorne Smith) kill my wife (usually played by Michelle Lee): Stephen Collins

"Aw, how could he lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico!"--Harry Caray

by cubbiejulie on May 7, 2006 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions

I thought

he loved me despite my mangled face but then he tried to kill me but then I got a free facelift and now I can find him and kill him: Yasmine Bleeth

I gave up on love because someone gave me AIDS but then I met the cute guy from Alias and he loves me anyway and is cool with never having sex: Amanda Peet

This movie most likely mirrors what's actually going on in my life right now: Yasmine Bleeth

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions

Does anyone see

the resemblance between Sosa and LeBron James?

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:15 PM CDT reply actions

Yes!

I didn't think so at first, but when he smiles he does look like Sosa.

Cubbie Blue always sPaRkLes in my eyes.

by sparkles721 on May 7, 2006 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions

If you combine

Bronson Arroyo with Roy Oswalt, add a slightly higher IQ, you have Cletus from the Simpsons.

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:31 PM CDT reply actions

I swear

Matt Clement is an IT guy at my school (glasses, goatee and all)

And Wellemeyer is one of my teachers

by flyball on May 7, 2006 2:34 PM CDT reply actions

Does he struggle with

control in the classroom too?

by cubsfan2883 on May 7, 2006 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions

actually

hehe, yes he does.

by flyball on May 8, 2006 9:36 AM CDT up reply actions

I'd like to

officially open this thread to Adam Dunn comparisons...

And......GO!

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:40 PM CDT reply actions

Mongo

from Blazing Saddles

...the artist formerly priorpwnz.

by Faith plus 1 on May 7, 2006 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Sasquatch

n/t

"Aw, how could he lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico!"--Harry Caray

by cubbiejulie on May 7, 2006 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions

a non coked out

Nick Nolte

by cubsfan2883 on May 7, 2006 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions

There's a guy...

at my school named Nick Nolte.

Cubbie Blue always sPaRkLes in my eyes.

by sparkles721 on May 7, 2006 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions

a coked out

Nick Nolte

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Lurch

n/t

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions

I like Nick Lowe better.

He's probably done coke.

by teacher tom on May 7, 2006 2:50 PM CDT reply actions

Lennie

from Of Mice And Men

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:54 PM CDT reply actions

Chris Farley

doing an interview.

"Remember, 'member, do you remember when I tried to catch that fly ball and I fell down and hit my head? Yeah, that was awesome."

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 2:55 PM CDT reply actions

I loved Chris Farley in that

Saturday Night Live bit where he was a Chippendale dancer wanna-be with Patrick Swayze.

by teacher tom on May 7, 2006 2:59 PM CDT reply actions

Mark Prior

I was told over spring break that I bare a slight resemblance to Mark Prior. I wasn't quite sure how to take that. Just to be on the safe side I started doing towel drills the next day.

AC 00 00 00 - BELIEVE

by mike @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on May 7, 2006 3:50 PM CDT reply actions

How do your shoulder and elbow feel?

n/t

by Al Yellon on May 7, 2006 3:57 PM CDT up reply actions

health update

While playing long toss early in the spring a felt some tightness in my shoulder. I can't throw a curve w/o feeling immense pain in my elbow. Hasn't been an issue yet but may come into play when I start playing with the company softball team.

AC 00 00 00 - BELIEVE

by mike @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on May 7, 2006 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions

But...

... have you gotten food poisoning yet?

by Al Yellon on May 7, 2006 6:49 PM CDT up reply actions

Mark Prior

looks exactly like the man with the yellow hat from Curious George.

Sorry mike...

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by Sarah Hope on May 7, 2006 4:19 PM CDT reply actions

its alright

still beats the old Tom Green comparisons from high school...

AC 00 00 00 - BELIEVE

by mike @ Bleed Cubbie Blue on May 7, 2006 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Todd Walker voice

Sure sounds like someone when he does his bits on local radio or interviews...but can't quite think of who it is...he'd make a good broadcaster a la Gracie when he's done.

by writerinwrigley on May 7, 2006 7:59 PM CDT reply actions