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Fantasy baseball frustration: Fakin’ the funk

TheBaseballStarsNote: We will look at the players that have been disappointments on our respective teams. Obviously Newspaperman has no disappointments because he is the Michael Jordan of baseball. Hitting fifth (Newspaperman as the cleanup hitter?) is mwa, The Jon lowlighting one of the most overrated players heading into the season … Placido Polanco. Enjoy.

The term Fakin’ the funk was overused during it’s heyday between 1992-1996. The Jon has only heard the phrase used right on two occasions before now. The first time was by this girl named Carol who let’s just say got around and she once said she had to fake the funk with this one high school wrestler.

Sure she was a garden utensil, but she was still cool.

The second of course was by the group The Main Source with the Large Professor. It was off the soundtrack of White Men Can’t Jump hence the appearances of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. At least it wasn’t Passenger 57 …

Gaaaawd, what an awful movie. But not as bad as Placido Polanco has been. So much so that he is now the third instance of using the term Fakin’ the Funk correctly. Let’s see why … Continue reading