PLEASE LEAVE YOUR KEY CARD AND LAMINATED BADGE AT RECEPTION, WHERE YOU MAY PICK UP YOUR GOLD WATCH: Today we bid a fond farewell and good luck to two retiring pop culture titans.
First, Bat Girl, the long-time Minnesota Twins blogger, is hanging up her spikes.* Bat Girl was among an elite handful of widely-read and deeply-loved baseball bloggers, and might be remembered most fondly for her Lego reenactments of key plays and events. Bat Girl is leaving us because she thinks you can't write a blog well while chasing after a young-un. There you go -- Adam, Alex, Bob, KCosmo, Kingsley, Pathetic Earthling, and I are either bad bloggers or bad parents, and please don't tell us which. Matt and Phil -- can you watch the [kids/blog] for us?
Second, Timmy from Road Rules and RW/RR Challenge is hanging up his, uh, prolonged adolescence and lack of dignity? Timmy went on "a little show called Road Rules" ten years ago, in its second season (the one with the weird Scandanavian dude), and has been doing Challenges intermittently ever since. Now don't get me wrong, I like Timmy -- he's an affable guy. It does crack me up, though, that he made such a big serious deal out of his retirement, since apart from his genial humor, his highlight reel consists of looking like a doughier Prince Valiant and refusing to wear a Speedo on camera while conspicuously not joining Alton's "too well-endowed" explanation. Anyway, if any of you are looking to fill an open job with a kind of blandly-funny guy with a 10-year hole in his resume and no real skills, this is your lucky day.
*Hat tip: Deadspin. Also, sorry this post appears so similar to Deadspin's, but you try writing this thing without linking to the announcement and the Lego reenactments.
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