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How about “everyone who’s seen this video?”

Here’s one way to lose your girlfriend and become Internet famous at the same time.

During a Major League Baseball game between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves, Astros Third Baseman Chris Johnson drove a foul ball in the direction of a couple sitting in left-field. Instead of catching the ball or taking the brunt of the hurling object though, the boyfriend (Bo) slid to his right, letting his girlfriend (Sarah) take a direct hit from the foul ball. Since her boyfriend was in the way until the last second, she never saw it coming.

Ouch.

If that wasn’t bad enough, it was all caught on tape. Plus, the broadcasters interviewed the clearly embarrassed boyfriend on TV. Oh, and they gave him a nickname we doubt he’ll be shedding anytime soon: “Bo the Bailer.”

Mix all of that together and surprise! — the two minute clip has gone viral. In just a few hours, the YouTube () clip of “Bo the Bailer” has nearly 30,000 views and has already been featured on SportsCenter. Hell, there’s already a Facebook page dedicated to the guy.

Sure, we feel bad for the dude, but you can’t abandon your girlfriend on TV and expect to get away with it. At least he didn’t pull a Steve Bartman. Oh, in case you were wondering, the Astros lost.

…pregnancy doesn’t have to change your A game. In fact, it may just get you to the majors.

The stork can’t stop Ashley Crain.

Crain, 26, is 8 ½-months pregnant but that didn’t prevent her from teeing off Tuesday in a 120-woman field for the Toronto Star Women’s Amateur golf tournament at Weston Golf and Country Club, scene of Arnold Palmer’s 1955 Canadian Open victory.

The Toronto native, now living near Detroit, said her game has actually improved now that she’s expecting her first child, a girl.

She recently finished second in the Michigan Mid-Amateur tournament and has beaten her father, Paul Davis, a former Ontario amateur champion, for the first time.

Crain is playing so well, in fact, that her putting style, which she had to adjust, has actually been sharper, she said.

An interesting article, by the famous British psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple, largely about how we esteem ourselves much too highly:

Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination. The former is a pleasurable vice, the latter a painful discipline. An accomplished psychobabbler can talk for hours about himself without revealing anything.

Hello, [insert the celebrity of your choice, but I'm thinking of Tiger Woods' "apology" right now.]

Seriously: I haven’t watched five minutes of Olympics coverage (one, I don’t have television, two, I don’t have time these days to watch anything, and three, the limited time I get for athleticism I spend in my dojo). But I’m enjoying stories like this, and this:

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Even after nearly 20 years of skating and traveling the world with his ice dance partner Isabelle Delobel, Olivier Schoenfelder was never expecting the phone call he received from her last winter.

The good news: Delobel was pregnant. The bad news: Delobel was pregnant and the Winter Olympics were in little more than a year.

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The petite, dark-haired Delobel and the tall, blond Schoenfelder, both from France, were world champions in 2008 and were looking like favorites for the gold medal in Vancouver after climbing the ranks for many years, an ice dance prerequisite, and finishing fourth in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy.

But a shoulder injury that Delobel sustained in December 2008 during an exhibition interrupted their season, and it was during her injury layoff that she became pregnant.

“I was still convinced we’d make it to the Olympics,” said Delobel, 31, in an interview after the compulsory dance Friday night in Vancouver.

The reaction from their rivals is a blend of admiration for Delobel’s ability to return so quickly and of sympathy for Schoenfelder.

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Though Delobel continued to train and skate deep into her pregnancy, even suffering the occasional fall in practice, she left the ice in late July, giving birth on Oct. 1 to a son, Loïs, and then returning to practice in late October at their longtime training base in Lyon, France. She began three-a-day sessions and intense physical training in November.

“You better believe it was tough,” said Delobel, who had gained close to 20 pounds during pregnancy. “It was really a physical challenge, but I’m proud to have managed it.”

And she has every right to be. Well done!

Hats off to this Olympian who is able to curl while pregnant. Hats off also to the reporter who correctly identifies that there are six people in the picture here:

As with all curling teams, Team Canada features five members. Well, six, if you really want to get technical with it. Alternate Kristie Moore, 30, is 5½ months pregnant, making her just the second athlete ever known to be with child during Olympic competition. Ninety years ago, Swedish figure skater Magda Julin won a gold medal at the Antwerp Games while in her first trimester.

Funny how we so easily get it right with wanted pregnancies.

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Update: Check Feministing for a comment on this very news item about the pregnant curler. Then read the comments. Mostly people thought the initial post was out of line. But there’s also this:

If the mother wishes to keep the kid, then I have no issue if she refers to it as it’s own entity already. My mother does/did similar to me “Oh, you *have* gone to Disney World and Mardis Gras, you just couldn’t see it.”

Please note that “what the mother feels” is the basis for the pro-abortion movement. Not science. Not logic. Feelings. Which, if you are me, change drastically from day to day, even hour to hour. There is a reality behind the feelings, one that some feminists are apparently completely unwilling to see. (h/t)

And you thought you’d had enough of the Tiger Woods business. Now comes word that one of his mistresses, a porn star by the name of Joslyn James, claims to have become pregnant twice by the golf champ.

One pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, the other in an abortion, she alleged, and both occurred at the same time as Woods’s wife Elin was expecting his children Sam, now 2, and Charlie, 1.

“I feel bad for Elin. She didn’t deserve this and she didn’t deserve being humiliated,” Ms James told the primetime programme in an interview aired today.

Woods, 34, was unaware of either of his mistress’s pregnancies, she said.

“Actually, the day I was going to tell him, I had a miscarriage,” she said of her first pregnancy. “After I lost the baby I didn’t want to talk about it.” Sex was “never protected” and contraception was “never talked about”, she told the programme.

“The first [pregnancy] was when Elin was pregnant with Sam,” Ms James said, adding that when she found out she was pregnant again in 2008 she arranged an abortion without telling Woods. “Elin was pregnant with Charlie at that time. I just didn’t want to ruin anything,” she said.

Of course. Because abortion doesn’t ruin anything. What a world.

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Andrea adds: And because sleeping with a married man doesn’t ruin anything, either. She feels bad for Elin? Clearly not, otherwise she’d get out of her chosen “line of work.”

Here is the Tim Tebow ad that ran during the Super Bowl last night.

That’s it? I don’t mean to sound like an impossible-to-please critic, but that’s not exactly a very controversial ad, is it? But it was enough to cause panic among pro-choicers? Wow. They really are a fragile bunch.

For what it’s worth, I found this ad, for Google, more pro-life than the Tebow one:

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Andrea adds: It’s amazing to behold. NOW is absolutely intent on helping get further traction and positive exposure for Focus on the Family:

NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”

(h/t)

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Brigitte can’t believe it: That’s a joke, right? NOW can’t be that dumb? Can it?

Paranoia runs high. Here’s Planned Parenthood’s counter-ad to the upcoming Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad.

Aaaaaah. Reading this column from a pro-choice female sports writer made my day. So very reasonable. And funny in places, too. And to the point on the whole Tim Tebow ad:

Let me be clear again: I couldn’t disagree with Tebow more. It’s my own belief that the state has no business putting its hand under skirts. But I don’t care that we differ. Some people will care that the ad is paid for by Focus on the Family, a group whose former spokesman, James Dobson, says loathsome things about gays. Some will care that Tebow is a creationist. Some will care that CBS has rejected a gay dating service ad. None of this is the point. CBS owns its broadcast and can run whatever advertising it wants, and Tebow has a right to express his beliefs publicly. Just as I have the right to reject or accept them after listening — or think a little more deeply about the issues. If the pro-choice stance is so precarious that a story about someone who chose to carry a risky pregnancy to term undermines it, then CBS is not the problem.

Bingo. (I actually believe it to be about that precarious. Which is, of course, very, very encouraging.)

Wow, the blogosphere and mainstream media is dialing up the hoopla about this Tim Tebow ad that as of yet, no one has seen. There are already spoofs of an ad that no one has seen. Talk about getting bang for your advertising buck.

Anyways, “women’s groups” say the unseen ad is divisive and Super Bowl Sunday is all about bringing people together. I hear they’ve lobbied the NFL to get the teams to agree to play touch football, so that no one gets hurt. And when the game is over, everyone will get a ParticipACTION ribbon and go home smiling. It’s gonna be magic.

Now these women’s groups–now they would certainly never, ever stoop to politicize a sporting event. Oh no. They certainly never would have started a rumour that Super Bowl Sunday is the day with the most domestic violence in a year.

Pro-choice feminists: Pro-choice until such time as someone actually dares to promote a choice they disagree with.