Who: Shane Victorino and The Great Gazoo.

Background: Shane Victorino, aka “The Flying Hawaiian”, is a professional baseball player who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. The Great Gazoo is a cartoon character from The Flintstones.

Inspiration: While watching the NLCS I noticed that Shane’s helmet looks way too big for his head. Hence, the Great Gazoo reference.

Who: Bud Selig and Stephen Hawking.

Background: Bud Selig is the commissioner of Major League Baseball. He is know for implementing inter-league play as well as the introduction of playoff wild card teams.  Stephen Hawking is famous physicist know for his contributions in cosmology, quantum gravity and black holes.

Fun fact: Today (08/28/2008) MLB began using instant replay to assist umpires in decisions over fair/foul balls and home runs/non-home runs. You may need slow-motion instant replay to tell Selig and Hawking apart!

Who: Lance Berkman and Bam Margera

Background: Lance Berkman is an MLB player for the Houston Astros. He has several nicknames including “Big Puma” and “Fat Elvis”. Bam Margera is a professional skateboarder and starred in Jackass. In 2006 Margera was also rumored to be involved with Jessica Simpson.