[Blogwhoring Alert: I’ve been collecting .gif animations for years. These and others can be found in this awesome archive, and here’s the link for baseballage only. – Bunk]

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This cracks me up. Guy standing with his buddies, holding a beer, and without warning, gravity strikes him down. Reminded me of this guy. “FAIL” videos are common  (many are too hard to watch without cringing) but that one had me laughing as much as this one did:

Awesome audience reactions.

And a perfect foul. Fastball off the tip and right into your face, just like
The Overnight Open Thread.
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Goldwaterite Update:  Here’s Mariano Rivera’s goodbye at Yankee Stadium.

Here is Rivera’s story of how he came to America and ended up with the Yankees.