I saw this video today, and could not believe my eyes - during a Fresno Grizzlies minor league baseball game, a ball is hit out to left field and goes foul - the ball girl then scales both walls like a French Parkour, extends fully and catches the ball without looking from well above 6 [...]

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Update: Spyros, the guy in the photo who was hit by the ball, tells StationStops:
“I have never been treated so horrible in my life by the Mets staff.  They yelled at me for bleeding all over the medical offices in shea and basically treated me like I stole something.  I asked for a new t [...]

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All Photos ©2008 StationStops.com. Taken with Panasonic FZ18K Ultrazoom camera
The 2008 Belmont Stakes was all set up to continue the successful marketing coup for UPS, whose horse, “Big Brown“, had already won the fabled Kentucky Derby and Preakness. With his only truly considered competition - “Casino Drive” - being scratched from the race, everyone was [...]

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I figure of the cool parts of being a Metro-North Conductor (besides the pimp hat) is that you get to see most of the riders on the train up close while collecting tickets (hm, now that I read that, probably not always so cool).
It is ALWAYS cool, however, when the rider is a cute celebrity [...]

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If you are going to be on the Price Is Right, here is the bare minimum rule of thumb:
If there are not enough digits on your bid display to show your bid, it is probably too high!

BTW, YouTube Price Is Right clips are right up there with UFO sightings and scary plane landings as far [...]

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Sony, I am done with you - seriously, enough is enough.
It started back in the days of Betamax, your proprietary ways that created death paths for expensive consumer products. Whether Betamax was superior to VHS, I don’t care - you just wouldn’t play well with others in the process.
Then came that pen-sized digital media player [...]

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This weekend my wife surprised me with a Playstation 3 for my birthday, as she knew I wanted one.
The decision to get a Playstation 3 was a hard one. Why? We already have more video game systems than we have inputs on our HD Plasma - Wii , Playstation 2 , and XBox 360 . [...]

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