OMFG we found pictures of Melvin Croussett
ByRAB’s National Director of Watching Prospects In Florida and International Liaison To The Dominican Republic – aka Andy in Sunny Daytona – has finally, finally found photographical evidence of the existence of young Melvin Croussett, and lefthanded pitcher that before today only existed in spreadsheets and in our hearts. Andy’s search has spanned the last two seasons and then some, so it’s needless to say that today is a great day in the history of RAB.
Ladies and gentlemen, after the jump, I present you … Melvin Croussett.
Yep, that’s him. I mean Him. My bad, Melvin.
There he is, thanking Mo for making him in his image.
And there’s all of his teammates, congratulating him on winning his third consecutive Melvin Croussett Award.
All pics came from the Dominican Summer League site.
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Hahahah!
/bows
Mo’s spirit shall live on through Melvin.
Melvin is thanking himself in the second picture.
Time for a new RAB banner?
I’m framing these photos and putting them in my living room.
I just cried a little.
Don’t look directly at Him, everyone. Be humble in His presence, or else.
(Not a reply to Jake, my bad.)
i cried…then…my dick got hard. Iassume that is normal.
Wow, awesome.
I really hope this kid makes his stateside debut in 2010.
(And that he at least has a cup of coffee at some point).
/completely tone deaf
Our answer to Jon Lester, Johan Santana, Sandy Koufax…
Are you sure we aren’t all going to go blind from having looked directly at Him?
Heh. Great minds and all that jazz.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-608937
ooooohhh at exactly the same time and everything. Spooky.
Like ET and Elliott.
He will do to baseball what Achilles did to war.
We are not worthy, we are not worthy!
I sometimes wonder what people thought when they first saw Jesus Christ (“Blonde hair and blue eyes?”), or Buddha (He’s a vegetarian?”), or Mohammed (His wife is hot!”) or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Well, today I found out. I was literally full of gid. My life feels complete.
I’m impressed by the detective work. Did you take these yourself, or did this require lots of e-mailing around the DR?
Deductive reasoning.
First there’s Melvin, then The Big Bang, then the Earth is formed, then he returns to save the world.
I’d hate to break it to you, but the earth is only a few thousand years old.
Carl Everett? Is that you?
Be quiet, I’m riding on my dinosaur with Jesus. You’re breaking my concentration.
http://iansbrain.com/wp-conten.....osaur1.jpg
Good man. One of my favorites.
I still think that RAB should sponsor a field trip for Andy to the Dominican to see this Lochness Monster.
“Andy in Sunny Santo Domingo”, I like the sound of that. It rolls off the tongue.
RAB’s 1st official scout.
Andy in Sunny Daytona, aka/N.D.W.P.F.I.D.R.
Damaso Marte kinda reminds me of him
DAMASO MARTE IS A MERE MORTAL!!!!!
Ahem.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
/passes out from excitement
4th starter?
excuse me: ace for the playoffs?
Excuseme: Most dominant pitcher in baseball history, first pitcher ever to win 600 games, and pitcher that they’ll eventually rename the Cy Young award because of?
Answer to all questions: YES
He’s real???
(head explodes)
The real question is, does Melvin only throw. . . . .
One.
Pitch.
Not just that, he can paint the black with a 103 MPH cutter, and then make the ball go back to his hand off the catchers mitt from the enormous spin he generates. What makes this even better is it technically counts as two strikes, since it crossed the plate twice.
Little known fact—he actually throws a boomerang.
He throws so hard, that batters walk back to the dugout with internal injuries to the organs due to the mini sonic booms created by the baseball.
In fact, they use a robot to catch him. A robot wearing a mitt made from space age heat resistance material!
Once, he threw so hard that the ball left only a trail of fire on the ground, traveling back in time and nailing John Wilkes Booth in the head THUS saving Abe Lincoln. Along the way it also killed Kathy Griffin but it couldn’t stop her from regenerating her evil form.
Is anyone else watching Game 6 of the 1977 WS (Reggie 3 HR game) on YES right now?
. . . Is it just me, or is the field in SHITTY condition? Like this was the WS?? The field looks like there was a huge concert the night before or something.
The field looks okay to me. There is some debris on it that has been tossed by fans. But that’s about it.
Mike Torrez, a Yankee hero in 1977 as a Yankee and in 1978 as a member of the BoSox.
Also you didn’t hear this from me, but Bowie Kuhn was a child molester.
I believe Mr. Torrez was the losing pitcher in the Bucky Dent HR game.
Yep. That’ll get you invited back on Old Timer’s Day for life.
Ialways find it extremely ironic that Don Zimmer managed the BoSox the year of the Bucky Dent HR and bench coached for the Yanks the year of the Aaron Boone HR. How is THAT for full circle?
Lots of typos, you know what I mean.
holy s**t.
Oh… My… Mo…
Hell. Yea.
Anyone want to explain what the joke is here to someone who has not been around long enough to know?
You were born with sin. Praise be to Mo, Melvin and Jesus.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....sett-6724/
This is like the Season 5 finale of Lost, (spoiler).
Was the band The Melvins named after Melvin Croussett?
Everything comes from Melvin.
He created fire, gravity, pop tarts and mullets.
wow… there IS a son of mo… and thy name is melvin
I know I’m maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad late with this,but shouldn’t it be “OMFM”,instead?