This has been quite a week for our blog.
It started with a shoutout from the bosses about our career-best month in terms of page views, continued with our priceless poem from richie g about the Samari Rolle incident in the Ravens-Patriots game, saw us post pictures of Scarlett Johansson in a shameless - and successful - attempt to siphon off some Neil Best readers, and, best of all, featured a record-setting look-a-like for Yankees "baby" boss Hank Steinbrenner, son of Boss George.
A 15-way call!
The look-a-like list was impressive, and far exceeds the six-way look-a-like we witnessed firsthand along with some other NFL writers at a restaurant in New Orleans a while back. Among those featured in that look-a-like were Afghan president Hamid Karzai, former Newsday writer Steve Jacobsen and former Yankees slugger Steve Balboni.
But that pales in comparison to the Hank Steinbrenner roll call. Here are the posters and their look-a-likes, all of which work:
1. Lance: John Lithgow.
2. TFP: Ray Liotta (a bit of a stretch, but we'll take it.)
3. David: George Karl (spot on).
4. jeffp: Marge Schott (inspired).
5. Black N Gold: Bob Newhart (absolutely).
6. Chris: Larry Hagman (iffy, but we'll take it, especially Hagman in his post-I-Dream-of-Jeannie-Days.)
7. Gamble17: Tim Conway from when he played that old man on the Carol Burnett show.
8. tenn tom: Porky Pig (oh, my goodness, yes!)
9. Anonymous: A hit man for Tony Soprano?
10. Anonymous: Wade Phillips (excellent).
11. NKR: Carroll O'Connor, the actor who played Archie Bunker (ha!)
12. dennis droogan: reminds me of the doctors and nurses in the "Twilight Zone" episode "Eye of the Beholder" (didn't see it, but we'll take your word for it).
13. Gamble17: Troy Evans, the guy who plays Charlie, who works behind the desk in ER (I watched ER last night and couldn't stop giggling to myself at this one. Absolutely.)
14. Anonymous: Frankenstein (Oh, good Lord.)
15. Adam Abramson and Mark La Monica: Droopy Dawg.
People, you have outdone yourselves. Thank you. But you're not done. It's time to vote for the official "What About Bob?" lookalike winner so we can put it on the horse trailer. You've got until 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13 to vote. Vote as many times as you want. Get your friends to vote. Get your parents. Get Neil Best to vote! We'll announce the winner on Friday morning, just as soon as La Monica sends me the official results.
And thanks to the folks inside at Newsday who are making this website one of the best ones going - anywhere. I don't think I'm authorized to give out the numbers, but one of the Newsday/Tribune bigwigs has informed us that we are smashing the New York tabloids on-line, and that we're closing in on the New York Times in terms of hits. Hats off to our sports guys Michael Casey, Michael Rose, Adam Abramson and Mark LaMonica for their superb efforts. Well done.
They're working on some neat new stuff that you'll be seeing in the coming weeks, so we'll sit in our basements and put out the kind of content that keeps you coming back for more.