Catching the fancy of actress Alyssa Milano might do more to get Canada's own Russell Martin into the All-Star Game than his actual catching.Milano (pictured), a baseball nut, has started a campaign through her MLB blog to get the L.A. Dodgers' Montreal-raised catcher elected as the National League's starting catcher for the July 10 game in San Francisco.
Alyssa has long moved on from her Embrace Of The Vampire phase (you know what I'm talkin' about). She's staking out that Marie Osmond-Jaclyn Smith territory as an Oprahlyte (as in Oprah acolyte), the performer-turned-businesswoman who commands an army of women who will buy her products and agree with pretty much whatever she says.
One of Milano's current gigs is designing and promoting line of MLB apparel designed for women, who make up nearly half the crowd at most major-league games.
Having Alyssa's army behind him will go a long way toward getting Martin into the NL starting lineup. He's a reasonably good-looking guy, plays in the major media market of El Lay and leads all NL catchers in Win Shares. His competition in the Quadruple-A league is pretty weak -- there's two Molina brothers starting, enough said -- so it looks like the all-Canadian boy has a good shot at being elected an All-Star Game starter. Alyssa's help shouldn't hurt a bit.
(Thanks to Todd Devlin of The 500 Level for the heads-up.)
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Yikes! She is not aging particularly well. I knew she was a puck bunny in the past, but nice to know that she shares sports, so to speak...
Wasn't her "Who's The Boss" character an athlete? I never watched the show much, but there was one episode where she made some team and Tony was all psyched up about it...
"They called me the Spiking Viking... because Spiking Italian didn't rhyme."
I think A.M. looks good, that's a natural setting, no lights, no makeup.
You're probably right -- I just don't think that the pigtails and those ugly oversized sunglasses do much for her look.
Interesting that she is going into the whole celeb-marketing thing. She'll attract a slightly younger demographic than Oprah, so it could work for her. Still, to me she'll always be Rob Brown's girlfriend, the former Penguin who had the most amazing hockey hair this side of Ron Duguay.
as long as Russell is getting some votes ... the only competition he's got are LoDuca, McCann, and Estrada. Gotta beat those guys.
Check the Win Shares -- he's the best out there. Victor Martinez is the best in the AL so far.
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