The Bloggy Lasorda crew made it out to a couple of Dodger games this weekend to watch Jim Tracy’s Pittsburgh Pirates make some progress on what is now a 12 game losing streak (tying a franchise record set in 1939!).

We left Saturday night’s 7-0 blowout in the middle of the eighth (hey, it’s L.A.). In the parking lot, we walked right by a fat Hispanic guy and his entourage sauntering towards a Hummer limo. Since people were mobbing the guy for autographs, I assumed he was a telenovelas star (hey, it’s L.A.). In a stunning twist of fate it turned out to be disgraced major league free agent Sammy Sosa! For some reason, the first pitch of Saturday night’s game was thrown out by Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic and apparently Sammy Sosa was there to inject him with HGH before the Prez hit the mound.

On Sunday’s blisteringly hot afternoon game, we left even earlier and ran into Maria Bello with her husband (boyfriend?) and son and the parking lot. I only recognized her because the Dodgers put her up on the jumbotron earlier that day.

Anyway, it only seems natural to compare the work of these two stars:

Maria Bello (imdb)
Permanent Midnight
Auto Focus
The Cooler
A History of Violence

Sammy Sosa (imdb)
Kissing a Fool (Himself)
“Arli$$” (Himself, 1 Episode)
Hardball (Himself)
On the Line (Himself)

While Bello clearly has a lot of interesting, provocative and complex roles under her belt, Sosa’s fucking cornered the market on Sammy Sosa cameos! If you’re making a Lance Bass/Joey Fatone romantic comedy or an inspirational Keanu-Reeves-teaching-poor-black-kids-how-to-play-baseball movie, there’s only one guy you can count on to bring the Sosa.

All in all, this weekend was way better than that time we saw David Krumholtz by the ticket booth before the game.*

*I didn’t actually see him but I was told he walked right by me.