A huge off-season pick up

We're going for a pennant run here.

Sal Fasano has a new teammate, Zoo-perstars. Yes, he is a huge fan of Roger Clam-ens and Ken Giraffe-y Jr. He will be here along with me to provide you with insightful knowledge and research needed to make you people well informed. We'll butt heads, tag team and destroy the metirc system, Alex Rodriguez and other things that need destroying. We'll still do it with no homering.

Welcome Zoo-per Stars!

Who Doesn't Love Mascots

Ok, so Steely McBeam was pulled over for driving intoxicated and blew double the legal limit for Pennsylvania. Oh NO! Our mascots are horrible influences on the kids! What's next, is the Phillie Phanatic gonna beat up a guy... wait, well he kinda did, but not beat up, he just hugs too hard. click on the link to find it...

Mascots Gone WILD!

Yeah ESPN.com lays down the law and points out cases mascots have acted disorderly within the past 10-15 years. You know, because it's obviously a big deal.


But who are we kidding, mascots have been doing this long before Steely McBeam was pulled over for drinking too much Jim Beam.

Back in the 1980's Major League Baseball had a drug problem (surprise, it wasn't steroids) and one of the main culprits was... PITTSBURGH. Yup, that's right, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the Brian McNamee's of recreational drugs and interestingly enough, a mascot was pushing. Kevin Koch, aka, Pirate Parrot (an original name) was buying drugs and introducing Pirates players and opponents to drug dealers. Commissioner Ueberroth, who is a hero to us here at Sal Fasano's 401K, laid down the law and handed out suspensions like candy or nose candy if you prefer.

Now, we hate mascots here at Sal Fasano's 401K. They are annoying, take away from the real reason to go to a game; drink beer, watch a game and heckle large contract players and washed up superstars. The antics of the San Diego Chicken and the Zoo-per Stars are juvenile and prove that this country relies on a class system where the fans (the upper class) ridicule and undermine the mascots (the lower class). So boo hoo, who really cares about this mascot situation and for the love of sport, let's move on to more important things... like Isiah Thomas and his amazing ability to destroy everything he touches (CBA, Pacers, Knicks).


Sal Says: Keggy is the only Mascot I like

A very funny video from the Ivy League

What we're about here

Sal Fasano's 401K is about celebrating sport as a diversion from our everyday lives and to celebrate Sal Fasano who is somewhere in America playing catcher for a pro baseball team, giving orphaned kittens shelter in his mustache or drinking Irish under the table.

You will learn to love and hate this blog, especially since I'm not a blogger, I'm actually a journalist. A sports journalist, who actually knows what he's talking about. So there's no homers here and everything will have some sort of subjectivity to it and possibly sources.

The reason I started Sal Fasano's 401K is to talk about the great things of sport; why we love it, why we hate it and why Topps sets were better when they had gum and it would usually ruin that last card in the pack, but it was okay because you still had 65 cents to buy another pack.



It's called Sal Fasano because, well, why not, the man has been all around baseball, I think he's actually played on every team in North America and the a few teams in the fabled Mexican League.

So I'll be here posting stories about baseball and how it is a glorious sport, why hockey played in the 1980's was amazing and it goes beyond the Edmonton Oilers and why Joe Dumars was really the best Piston on those Bad Boys teams.




Oh Yeah, there will be refreshments