David Dellucci has his own blog!

by SeaninSoCal on Jul 22, 2008 3:39 AM EDT Comment 71 comments

Did you know that David Dellucci has his own blog? Very cool to see that!

He just blogged about how grueling the long season can be and what he and some teammates did with their all star break (he went to his fishing camp...didn't know he had one!):

http://www.prolebrity.com/the-dog-days-are-here/

http://www.prolebrity.com/profile/daviddellucci/

It's awesome to see athletes like David embracing blogging!

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Sean,

What do you do for this “prolebrity.com” site?

by PatBordersHelmet on Jul 22, 2008 8:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Every entry he’s made points to a blog.

by ColumbusOhioFan on Jul 22, 2008 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I got this link via e-mail as well to post.
He is:
Sean Besser
Executive VP of Corporate Development & Strategy
Prolebrity, Inc.

I guess this would fall under the “strategy” portion of his title.

by The DiaTriber on Jul 22, 2008 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Follow-up question for Sean:

Can you add Dellouchebag to David’s nickname field? I hear it quite often down at the ballpark.

by PatBordersHelmet on Jul 22, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Frankly, I’m more interested in Ryan Rowland-Smith’s latest post.

Is it about the latest album he bought? His new favorite movie? I guess I’ll just have to go there to find out!

You know Selig? Ombudsman.

by rolub on Jul 22, 2008 9:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I did learn from this that David Dellucci led the NL in triples in 1998

by Roger Dorn on Jul 22, 2008 9:06 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Jay/Ryan, for his avatar, I’m thinking of that Riddler-looking guy from those late night commercials about how the government has all this money they want to give you to help your business.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 22, 2008 9:26 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

by NickFantana on Jul 22, 2008 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Do it! C’mon dooooooo it!

by PatBordersHelmet on Jul 22, 2008 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Asssssssk Leskooo!

by Toxicadam on Jul 22, 2008 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

your wish is my command.

by Ryan on Jul 22, 2008 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Superb.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 22, 2008 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thing is, I just gave more or less the same avatar to Bendix.

by Jay on Jul 22, 2008 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bendix earned an upgrade, imo

by jhon on Jul 22, 2008 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

by ken from alexandria on Jul 22, 2008 9:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’d oddly compelled to follow the links, because it IS awesome to see pro athletes embracing blogging, and this certainly wouldn’t be a front for promoting their side businesses and investments.

by fleerdon on Jul 22, 2008 11:09 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’d oddly compelled, too.

by Brick. on Jul 22, 2008 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

POOP.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 22, 2008 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You’d very, very gerund, Bricker.

by fleerdon on Jul 23, 2008 1:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where else but Prolebrity can you see US soccer defender Heather Mitts drop quarters from her eye sockets into a funnel stuck into her pants, however?

by FredOx on Jul 22, 2008 11:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This is an athlete? What a gorgeous babe!!

by elsandito on Jul 22, 2008 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

GIRL NEXT DOOR

by supermarioelia on Jul 22, 2008 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Also! That was pretty darn funny stuff. What I would do to retrieve those quarters from Ms. Mills….

by supermarioelia on Jul 22, 2008 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

or the water….

by ShawnK on Jul 23, 2008 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

David Delucci has a FISHING CAMP?

INCONCEIVABLE!

by afh4 on Jul 22, 2008 4:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

David Dellucci wasn’t at the All-Star game?!?

by APV on Jul 22, 2008 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Somebody named Sean made the only comment on Dellucci’s blog?

by thejamootz on Jul 22, 2008 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Free Andy Marte!

Pronk Needs You

by woodsmeister on Jul 22, 2008 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

NEVER go against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 22, 2008 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

See, this is what I’m talking about.

thejamootz took it someplace new, that was okay. But woodsy and nick … they just debased themselves here. I used to think they were cool, smart guys … and now I’d be embarassed to admit that I know them.

by Jay on Jul 24, 2008 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Damn Jay. That’s pretty harsh. I’m not saying the Princess Bride ought to be retired, but man, “embarassed to admit that you know them?”

-Erik

by drerikbrady on Jul 24, 2008 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well I know something you don’t.

I am not left-handed.

No? Too much? Maybe woodsy and I can just keep rhyming with whatever you say.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 24, 2008 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, yes, but it would take you all day.

The left-handed thing would be good when one team pinch-hits a righty for a lefty, causing the other team to bring in a righty for their lefty pitcher. “I am also not left-handed!”

by Jay on Jul 24, 2008 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It would also work well with the footage of the switch-hitter v. switch-pitcher:

I am not left-handed.

I am also not left-handed!

Well, now I am left-handed!!

And now I too am left-handed!!!

repeat

by Buckeye Brad on Jul 25, 2008 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m just knockin’ em down when other people set ‘em up, Jay.

Free Andy Marte!

Pronk Needs You

by woodsmeister on Jul 24, 2008 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nobody is setting anything up, and you are not knocking anything down.

See, this is another reason why whole movies have to be retired. The line about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor is funny — by itself — and apropos for many situations. It does not need to be followed EVERY SINGLE TIME by other guys jumping in to do the rest of the lines. The rest of those lines are not as funny and never actually appropriate to the moment. BLUTO — he was rolling. That guy who just quoted Bluto is not rolling, he’s just quoting a movie.

And if you think quoting a movie constitutes “rolling,” that’s just sad.

by Jay on Jul 24, 2008 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

All right then.

Free Andy Marte!

Pronk Needs You

by woodsmeister on Jul 24, 2008 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Considering the plethora of brilliant lines in Animal House, you’d think we could quote more than just the one scene. Of course, it’s a very appropriate line.

Off days. Go figure.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 24, 2008 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Slightly O/T – what happened to John Landis? He was on such a roll in the late 70’s/early 80’s then he just totally and completely lost it. What happened?

Outside of Hafner, is there a precedent for this?

by ganatz on Jul 24, 2008 10:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good question.

Also O/T, is anyone watching Baseball Tonight right now? That story about Brad Ziegler is pretty awesome.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 24, 2008 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wow, what an eclectic set of directorial bits Landis has.

Starts of with Kentucky Fried Movie (77), then Animal House (78), Blues Brothers (80), An American Werewolf in London (81), the Thriller video (83), Trading Places (83), Twilight Zone the movie – segment 1 (83), Spies Like Us (85), Three Amigos (86), Coming to America (88), another Michael Jackson video, Black or White (91), Beverly Hills Cop III (94) ....

Then 9 episodes of Dream On for HBO (92-95), The Stupids (96), Blues Borthers 2000 (98) and then mostly TV episodes.

by talonk on Jul 25, 2008 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Spies Like Us and Three Amigos are mildly entertaining, but after Trading Places, the wheels just completely fell off. It’s almost like he could only really work with the original SNL crew. Once they moved on to other things/became not funny he was completely lost.

by ganatz on Jul 25, 2008 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It’s pretty hard for a comic sensibility to remain great over more than a decade.

by Jay on Jul 25, 2008 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

With that, I believe we have come full circle in this discussion.

by ganatz on Jul 25, 2008 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hard, but not impossible. Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest have been fairly funny and productive since the mid-80s (comedy is very subjective, and I realize that some would argue neither were ever funny). So for Mel Brooks. But the burn hot, then flame out cycle is far more common.

Now that I’ve brought up Reiner, who directed The Princess Bride in 1987, we have really come full circle.

by FredOx on Jul 25, 2008 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bill Murray has aged well, comically at least.

by PatBordersHelmet on Jul 25, 2008 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fred, Reiner has been lousy for years. Incredibly early career, but come on.

Pat, Bill Murray isn’t a writer or director.

by Jay on Jul 25, 2008 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He is funny though.

by PatBordersHelmet on Jul 25, 2008 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I, personally, agree with you, but there are plenty of people who think he’s still got something, given that his last two movies made $93 million and $43 million. Not tremendous blockbusters, but not flops either, particularly for comedies.

the fact that I had to pull out Reiner says something about your original point.

by FredOx on Jul 25, 2008 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The more recent one (Bucket List) was a very modest success. When your film has an enormous, major-studio marketing budget and two huge stars out front, it has to be awful to gross only $93 million.

The one before that (Rumor Has It) had an even larger marketing budget and equally bankable stars, and it’s probably the biggest failure of any Hollywood film this decade.

His last great movie was Misery. Since then, lots of modestly competent stuff (like Landis did) similar to but not living up to his earlier work, and a few dopey “political” movies with seriously dumbed-down plots.

by Jay on Jul 25, 2008 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m ready to concede. I tried hard through the magic of IMDB to come up with some examples of sustained comic brilliance, but there really aren’t very many (other than actors, who don’t count). I think I’ll stand by Christopher Guest, who wrote This is Spinal Tap in 1984 and still made me laugh with Best in Show in 2000. You really need to go to other sources to find sustained production. Much of the crew of The Simpsons has been around since the Tracey Ullman days, and though it is less funny than it used to be it’s not unfunny. Some stand-up comedians stay funny (I saw a very late-period Carlin special on HBO recently, and it still had its moments).

Comedy tastes change over time, especially in the movies, which makes this kind of discussion difficult. You want sustained comedy production? Billy Wilder.

by FredOx on Jul 25, 2008 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the main point of Jay’s comment was not so much about remaining funny or relevant/competent, but about sustaining greatness over any period of time.

I think it’s true for just about any human endeavor, much less comedy.

by ganatz on Jul 25, 2008 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s pretty much it. You took it further than I did, but perhaps not further than I should have.

by Jay on Jul 25, 2008 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

For what it’s worth, I agree with your characterizations.

by NickFantana on Jul 24, 2008 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

....

Is this about the beer?

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Jul 24, 2008 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

David Dellucci: Heavy Metal Hitter

by FredOx on Jul 22, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Dellucci’s career blog posts: 1
Dellucci hits vs. LHP as an Indian: 4

I’d like to see a sportsbook take action on which number will be higher at the end of the season. I’d take hits vs. LHP.

Although I’ll say this – any site that prominently features Ms. Mitts is okay by me.

by thejamootz on Jul 22, 2008 5:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I simply thought Indians fans would be interested to read Dellucci’s blog. I wasn’t trying to be sneaky about it at all (or else would have made up contact information). I am a huge sports fan (baseball in particular) and love hearing from the athletes themselves…that’s part of why I joined Prolebrity and why I wanted to share it with all of you.

by SeaninSoCal on Jul 22, 2008 11:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs