Blake Lamond

Family, friends, beer and sports

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

The 1993 Toronto Blue Jays World Series lineup was loaded

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨ALL-TIME #NFL MOMENT🚨🚨

When Ted Ginn Jr. returned two kicks for touchdowns in a single game for the #49ers on September 11, 2011, just 59 seconds apart in the fourth quarter.

This is the last time San Fran had a punt return TD… 15-years-ago.

😱

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This bit started in 2000. Will Ferrell walked up to Chad Smith after a screening of The Ladies Man, looked him up and down, said "You're very handsome," and walked away. They didn't speak again for 14 years.

In February 2014, Ferrell did a Reddit AMA and someone pointed out the resemblance. His response: "The truth of the matter is there is no Will Ferrell. Only Chad Smith." Smith saw it, posted a video: "Stop impersonating me. Drum battle. Me and you. I've seen your skills, you don't got 'em."

They raised over $300,000 for charity before they even sat down. Showed up on Fallon wearing identical KISS shirts, leather jackets, and backwards caps. Impersonated each other for the entire interview. The drum-off ended with Ferrell pulling out a cowbell and the full Red Hot Chili Peppers coming out to play "Don't Fear the Reaper." Nearly $500,000 raised total.

In 2017, a fan shouted "Will Ferrell!" at Smith during a benefit concert. Smith stormed off stage. Came back 30 seconds later: "Nah I'm just fucking with you. I don't give a shit, I think it's great. I'm fucking famous because of Will Ferrell."

That line is the whole story. Chad Smith has been the drummer for one of the best-selling bands in history for 38 years. Over 120 million records. Six Grammys. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And his most viral moments in the last decade have all been about looking like a comedian.

Last night he walked onto the SNL stage in the same suit as Ferrell, delivered the opening monologue, got kicked off by the real host, and then spent the rest of the night behind the drum kit backing Paul McCartney. Went from impersonating the host to supporting the musical guest in the same episode.

Most celebrity lookalike jokes die after a single late night segment. This one has been running for 26 years, raised half a million dollars, and the drummer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers just crashed the Season 51 finale of Saturday Night Live to keep it going.

[Magic Beans 🐿️ @DeanJC420]

Best Darren Dutchyshen line of all time!

After Daniel Sedin and his wife had a baby. "I don't want to start any rumours, but he looks an awful lot like Henrik." (Daniel and Henrik are twins)

Darren John Dutchyshen (December 19, 1966 – May 15, 2024) was a Canadian sportscaster who spent seven years in Edmonton, hosting Sports Night on ITV, where I watched him first. On September 9, 2021, he announced that he had prostate cancer, and detailed it in full a year later in his first show back at SportsCentre.

Darren Dutchyshen died on May 15, 2024, at the age of 57 and is missed by all, and remembered here today. 💔

[David Lombardi @LombardiHimself]

The 49ers did not get an extra day of rest post-Australia. They didn’t even get the Sunday night game for a few more hours.

Meanwhile, the NFL gave the Rams Monday Night Football in Week 2 for an extra 28 hours of recovery time

[Ontario Proud @ontarioisproud]

#REPORT: Ontario Liberal leadership hopeful Eric Lombardi calls for 80% of all temporary residents to be removed from Canada over the next 5-10 years.

He added that future immigration must value "cultural compatibility" to ensure Canada remains a "high-trust society."

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

David Ortiz waited for almost two decades to exact revenge on Joe West for calling him ugly.

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

On This Day in 2001...

Carlos Delgado breaks the all-time Blue Jays home run record 💪

[Ozoon @Ozoon_CA]

MLB Rule #4232 - Never run on Addison Barger

[Jamie Campbell @SNETCampbell]

Many of you contributed financially to get Wes Johnson to Florida in March. I’m forever grateful to all who helped. Wes passed away this morning in St. Thomas, Ontario. 💔

[Mary-Lou Schagena @radiogirl985]

Before and after photos of Ontario Place. A provincial tragedy. An epic failure.
#ONpoli #DougFord @fordnation #OntarioPlace #environment #wildlife #birds #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis #taxpayers #money #accountability
🌲🌳🌲🌳🐦🦆🦢🪺🦊🐇🐿️🏞️

[Blake Lamond @LamondBlake]

how is this a discussion

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

It's not 'racist' you silly man

It's culturalist

Some cultures are kinder and more humane than others

For example, cultures that do not allow female genital
mutilation, child marriage, stoning and beating of women and themurder of people who disagree with them...are superior to cultures that allow these barbaric behaviours

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A supermarket in Estonia was uniquely constructed around a massive 10,000-year-old glacial boulder dating back to the Ice Age.

Just Estonia doing its thing.

At the heart of Viimsi Shopping Center in Haabneeme sits a massive Ice Age glacial boulder, measuring roughly 22 meters (72 ft) in circumference and about 6 meters (20 ft) tall.

Believed to be over 10,000 years old, the boulder was discovered in 2014 during excavation for the mall’s foundation. While developers originally intended to remove it, local backlash pushed for its preservation, and it was eventually designated a protected natural monument under Estonian law.

The boulder itself was carried to that exact spot by retreating glaciers during the last Ice Age, long before the modern landscape took shape.

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

RJ Barrett is the first player in the play-by-play era (since 1997-98) to hit a game-winner in the final 2 seconds of OT to avoid elimination 🔥

[David Alter @davidalter]

Seeing Joe Kools in London Ontario, make a live NFL Draft Selection was not something I planned on seeing today.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

You’re witnessing the defunding of public healthcare for private health. Please note that private healthcare also uses public funds so these provincial governments are double-dipping in public funds to finance a system many people can never access

[Ross McCorkle @Ross_McCorkle]

Here is the moment Makai Lemon thought he was getting drafted by #Steelers and realizing in real time that the #Eagles traded up, via @gmfb this morning.

He asked Omar Khan "Why is Philly calling [me]?"

[Craig Needles @NeedlesOnNews]

So Yasiel Puig is going to be playing games at Labatt Park this summer.

This is a real thing that will be happening.

#ldnont

[Blake Lamond @LamondBlake]

@kachinuel @AdamSchefter 49ers have an average Offensive line at best. Puni is a 3rd rounder, Mckivitz is a 5th, Colby a 7th and Brendel was undrafted.

[Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) @MsJamshidi]

What's so important abt the Strokes performance is that in less than 5 mins they made crystal clear that the US/Israeli war against Iran is not just happening because of Trump/Bibi. Its happening bcz this is what the US does. This is what it stands for. https://t.co/1ptmig2A4T