Dan Serafini leads Soccer County in Upset Baseball Victory over Hockey Country

Dan Serafini, last seen being banned for using steroids after stops in Japan and the 2007 Rockies expanded September roster, beat Team Canada for Team Italy. Using the loosest rules, the native of California started for Italy and went three innings for a team whose batting coach is Mike Piazza.

Couldn't be bothered to check Italy's roster, but I bet not too many spent any significant time in the country. They beat a pretty good Canadian lineup actually, and a team that played the U.S. real close.

I enjoy the World Baseball Classic, and would love to spend some quality time in a Caribbean ballpark in March 2013, when they do this again.


Knowing that my alter ego, or is it the other way around is still playing makes me really enjoy it. Another great thing, Lee Arthur Smith is the pitching coach for South Africa, who are on the verge of elimination by Mexico as I type.

Proof This is the Slowest Day in Sports

It’s an interesting world we live in. People are taking sides as to the interview, and here, too, so I will simply make a few points:

* Nowhere in the blog do I say I am Dan Serafini. A cursory review should indicate that I ain't him. Only when asked for the interview (I did not seek it) did I start the prank. Check out the May 12, 2005 entry, and tell me that anyone would think I was him.

* Yes, the title of the post is a Lou Reed lyric, and if you click on the title, you will see I acknowledge that. The Clark Kent post title was stolen from my buddy in Cincinnati. Thanks, pal.

* This is not identity theft. Under any definition. I don't think I harmed him in any meaningful way. I would bet he doesn't even know about this, and if he did, would have a (c)huckle over it.

The Glasses Fall Off Clark Kent

Nothing like a little national publicity to jump start the hit-meter on one’s blog. Jeez!

A hearty welcome to Deadspin readers, keep coming back, because, as Bluto would say, "Don't cost nothin'."

As this blog was (until now) relatively fungible with other bloggering idiots, I only mentioned its existence to my brothers and a couple pals when the Serafini interview came up. I didn’t tell my wife either, and she didn’t know why I would be leery of telling her about this compendium of “useless musings.” She loves even my useless parts. I guess that is why she is my wife.

Now that this story got some play at the scene of the crime, I hope the prankees will take it as just that, a ruse, a canard, a shenanigan.

More interesting than last night's All-Star Game, though, right?