Brian Wilson Drops by The Tonight Show

Let's get one thing straight right out of the gate...I hate Jay Leno.

He's not funny.  He's not a good interviewer.  He's just...ugh. 

I'm not a fan.

But then, tonight, I saw that San Francisco closer Brian Wilson was scheduled to appear on "The Tonight Show".  And I was torn. 

Do I watch?  Do I skip it?

I watched.

Wilson delivered...Leno did not. Leno was as terrible as he normally is, whereas Wilson delivered his normal amount of awesome.  They talked about all the normal stuff...Wilson's hair, his shoes and, of course, "The Machine".

And, oh yeah...this happened.



I'm pretty sure Brian Wilson's fifteen minutes won't last for that much longer because, really...how long can a closer milk this fame?  But until it flames out, I'm enjoying the Hell out of the Facebook group to get him to host "Saturday Night Live" and at least two of the pages dedicated to his shoes.

Fear the beard, troops.

Here's Wilson's appearance in its entirety (albeit broken up into two parts).

Happy Birthday...Terry Forster?

Long before the current Tonight Show war between NBC and Conan O'Brien or, depending on how you look at it...O'Brien and Jay Leno, there was the much hyped Leno feud with David Letterman.

Before that...it was Letterman versus 1974 American League saves leader Terry Forster. In 1985, Letterman hit his airways to publicly bash the 270 pound hurler and today...Forster turns 58.

Who cares, right?

Well, in my veiled attempt to capitalize on popular search terms ("The Tonight Show", "Conan O'Brien" and "tub of goo"), I want to pass along a post by frenemy (look it up...its a word) of The Hall Bill who takes care of business over at The Daily Something.

Bill writes:

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, but Forster, despite being a good pitcher and a colorful character for sixteen years, is a guy I knew nothing at all about 30 minutes ago. His career ended months before my grade school self started paying attention to baseball. But he's a guy worth knowing about.

Forster wakes up a 58 year-old this morning.

But the really interesting thing about Forster isn't his pitching or his brief late-night-talk hero status. It's this: .397/.413/.474.

Read the rest of what Bill wrote over at his site.