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June 25, 2009

THE MELDING HAS BEGUN

AS IT WAS PREDICTED IN THE SCROLLS OF PYTHIA, the geek/jock melding has begun,

COURTESY BETHLEHEM SHOALS and, impossibly, The Sporting News.

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“Shaq, still one of the league’s biggest names, joining forces with LeBron James in a meeting worthy of Marvel Team-Up. And, not to get all John Hodgman on you, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Yes, it’s two forces of nature, larger-than-life characters, improbably huge talents put together on the same time-space plane and, for these purposes, wearing same color jerseys. But like Marvel Team-Up, it’s fleeting, a fantasy, and could have very little bearing on the future…”

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WHILE THE PERSONAL MENTION is nice, what I really wish to draw your attention to is the incredibly apt Marvel Team-Up metaphor.

MEANWHILE: “SHAQ” AND “LEBRON JAMES” are sports players, FYI.

That is all

 
Posted by hodg-man @ 1:04 pm | Comments (28)
Filed under: jocks v nerds
  1. Shaq is actually a martial arts practitioner and part-time sheriff’s deputy. Lebron James is a professional commercial actor.

    Comment by Jesse Thorn — June 25, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

  2. Taking a moment to remember Marvel Team-Up #74: Spider-Man and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.

    “Belushi! No! That Samurai’s for real!”

    Comment by Bg Porter — June 25, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

  3. Do they have mutant powers or alien technology or what?

    Comment by Andrew — June 25, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

  4. What a terrible comparison – it’s really more like “Marvel Two-In-One” featuring the ever-loving Thing.

    Comment by Jesse Dorje Irwin — June 25, 2009 @ 2:36 pm

  5. I am willing to entertain that possibility, but will need a better argument than “what a terrible comparison.”

    Comment by Shoals — June 25, 2009 @ 2:50 pm

  6. After a few consultations with my peers at Nasa, I would submit the neologism “jeeck” to describe the combination of a jock and a geeck.

    Comment by Tony — June 25, 2009 @ 3:58 pm

  7. i;m jsut wondering if my fabulous daughter cristina has seen this!

    Comment by michael tcheyan — June 25, 2009 @ 4:09 pm

  8. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

    Comment by Kaelri — June 25, 2009 @ 8:29 pm

  9. Yeah so I know I mean I don’t know Amy Sedaris’s sister she is a very private person so fuck off okay.

    Does Anyone else think that Ryan Oneal spent a lot of time chewing up the dirt road with his Hogwarts Express?
    You know his wand is wartwood.

    Comment by Thadeus — June 25, 2009 @ 10:42 pm

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