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Keith has video homework again. Today's commentary takes us to the dark side. Charlie Sheen and San Fransisco Giant pitcher Brian Wilson are both in full ugly, flaunting their shock jock obnoxious celebrity acts. I'd much rather be watching Bugs Bunny, but now I understand where tiger's blood idea comes from.
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That’s the deal here, of course. All Charlie Sheen ever wanted to do was be a major league baseball player. He has portrayed at least two of them on film: ‘Rick Vaughn’ from “Major League,” and one of the ill-fated corrupted players of the 1919 World Series, Happy Felsch, from John Sayles’ “Eight Men Out.” Vaughn was the fast-throwing, fast-living relief pitcher who entered each game to the sound of The Trogs’ ’60s hit “Wild Thing.”
It's all a reverberation in an celebrity ego feedback loop. An actor who wanted to be a ball player played a wild thing pitcher, who influenced a real major league relief pitcher to act like the character, who is now providing crazy tiger's blood lines as the actor posts his descent into madness on vanity videos.
This unleashed the proverbial life imitating art stuff. Soon, actual relief pitchers began to be accompanied by their own songs. Mitch Williams of the Cubs and later Phillies became known as “Wild Thing.” Brian Wilson’s entire ‘weird reliever’ persona owes in some part to Sheen’s portrayal. Now, in life imitating imitated art, Sheen is issuing online videos faster than Mubarak or Khaddafi, and trying to act like Wilson: One of the people he said he wished he could be for ten minutes was Giants pitcher Brian Wilson. Sheen went on to mumble something about Wilson delivering “fury, vengeance, hatred and absolute world domination,” then bowed his head in silence for the man, for some reason.
Keith's moral to the the story is:
I’m not blaming Wilson or anything. I just think we need to remember that when you grow a beard that looks like it was a prop discarded by Monty Python’s Flying Circus, you never know what the consequences might be. The Giants’ reliever might just want to warn people – especially Sheen – not to try drinking Tiger’s Blood at home.
My moral of the story is a bit different. I never want to ever be Bob. The guy with the transcript out there of selling his soul for cash.
Bob is Charlie's publicity guy and starting at 3:21. Bob knows he is on a crazy video that is going viral and he knows that Charlie is using him as a prop. Bob is trying to coax Charlie back from the edge and save both of their careers...
Bob's client is rich, crazy and very demanding. He are either in Sheen's Korner or he is with the trolls.
Bob:I think the people embrace you more. You don't have to do an hour.Keep the mystery, a little bit of the smoke and mirrors between you and the people so that you are not you know overexposing yourself. What I also think, if they want to call you bi-polar fine, Give them both sides. Give them the Charlie Sheen psycho babble quick word game shit, but also open you heart to them and really be from me to to you talking right to the people so they can see there are both sides to you.
Charlie: There is one side to me and it's me and it's gnarly and it's crazy, and it's morethan they deserve and it's more than they can process..
Bob: the twelve minute sheen machine, the eight minute sheen machine and leave it at that.
Charlie: Last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
Bob: No no no no no Don't say that. Last night you had a blast and you had fun and you plan to make it more fun. Don't say that. Think positive Don't address any of the bad press.
Charlie:Their Format is cat shit stuck to the bottom of my sprinting shoe.
Bob: Yeah, OK I agree. But one thing I'm not going to do again. ..I'm not pleading, I'm not begging for an audience, cuz that ain't you.
Charlie: No we beg for nothing. Beggers beg and winners win.
Bob:Hey give me a tweet that has nothing to do with Sheen's Korner just to start the day. Tell somebody that your spilled your orange juice in your kitchen. Let's start off without talking about that....
Charlie: That would imply that I care about orange juice and I have a kitchen.
Bob:Ha ha ha ha ha Let's talk about the magic tray........
Bob reminds me of Scotty Walker- He is either in the Koch's Korner or he is with the trolls.