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Happy Turn Ahead the Clock Week!
Today is July 25th, which means BuckBokai will take this opportunity to celebrate that greatest of real-life sports events ever, namely the Turn Ahead the Clock games held by Major League Baseball in 1998 and 1999.
Begun with a single freaky promotion designed as a parody of “Turn Back the Clock Nights,” the first such game featuring futuristic duds happened on July 18, 1998 in a game pitting the Kansas City Royals against the Seattle Mariners. (Is there anything Seattle couldn’t do in the 1990s?)
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More Shatner vs. Timberwolves GM? Kaaaahn do!
Another day, another Kirk vs. Kahn clip. This one features a slightly bemused Chris Webber listening to everyone’s everyone outside of Minnesota’s favorite NBA general manager David Kahn explain during a summer league game that Darko Milicic is as good a passer as Vlade Divac was.
(Dude, David, you might have done some homework there and realized that Webber actually *played* with Divac and so realized you were trying to blow a lot of interstellar gas up the gluteus maximi of the television audience that night.)
In any case, this one’s brought to you by request from Bill Simmons, YouTube user Didn’tDrawIron and BuckBokai, your home for Kaaaahn clips.
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Revisiting Cueto vs. Quato
About two years ago, one Mike Bock over at a site called Fantasy Hurler wrote a brilliant BuckBokai-esque piece entitled “Playometer: Cueto v. Quato” comparing the excellent Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto to the mysterious rebel leader of Total Recall.
Handsome devil, isn't he?
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Captain Kirk’s thoughts on Ricky Rubio
You gotta love David Kahn, GM of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Why? Well, primarily because you’re not a T-wolves fan, but also because he represents a single brilliant degree of separation between the awesome (or “almost surreal” as the man himself put it) Ricky Rubio and Star Trek.
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Fascinating chart porn for Doctor Who fans
This doesn’t have squat to do with sports in science-fiction, but BuckBokai’s got a couple of minutes and io9 just keeps refusing to publish the fascinating work of “Many Eyes,” an IBM-based outfit dedicated to “democratiz[ing] visualization and to enabl[ing] a new social kind of data analysis.”
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Peter Fernandez, of English-language TV’s Speed Racer, dies at 83
An era has passed in science-fiction sports land, as Peter Fernandez, he who voiced Speed Racer for Anglophone audiences, died Thursday night at age 83.
For the 1967-68 series, Fernandez dubbed the voice of Speed Racer himself as well as those of Racer X and some minor characters.
The English-language cast of Mahha Go Go Go also included Corinne Orr, Jack Curtis and Jack Grimes.
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