Jun 9, 2007

23 Things You Shouldn't Know About Barajas

1. He wore custom-made B.A. Barajas pajamas until the age of nineteen.
2. When they became too worn he converted the threadbare pajamas into a pillowcase that accompanies him an all road trips to this day.
3. While at Cerritos Junior College he briefly studied metallurgy.
4. He halted his study of metallurgy soon after learning he was allergic to ferrous metals.
5. He will whoop your ass in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6. Also Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?.
7. And Yahtzee.
8. He auditioned for the role of A.C. Slater on NBC's hit series Saved by the Bell.
9. In the future he plans to audition for the role of Mario Lopez in the CBS hit mini-series, Mario Lopez: The Mario Lopez Story.
10. His favorite candy bar is Hershey's Skor.
11. He is the only known human whose favorite candy bar is Hershey's Skor.
12. "barajar" means "to shuffle" in Spanish.
13. When protecting home plate, he often employs the impenetrable Barajas Shuffle.
14. He once defeated Bob Hamlin in a David Eckstein eating contest, consuming an impressive half an Eckstein.
15. That's why David Eckstein is so small.
16. He is named after Rod Laver.
17. Not the tennis player, the tennis sneaker.
18. His "Five" consists of the Pope, the Phillie Phanatic, Sal Fasano, Hugo Chavez and Charles Barkley.
19. Early in his minor league career he became enchanted with a young poetess and nearly gave up the game of baseball for a bohemian lifestyle.
20. Sadly the poetess adorned herself in metal necklaces and bracelets, some of which contained small amounts of ferrous metals.
21. He eats huevos con scrapple before every game.
22. Sometimes he leaves the huevos and just eats the scrapple.
23. Other times he leaves the scrapple and just eats the huevos.

With the expection of numbers 8, 14 and 15 all of the above are 100% false. Or are they?

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