I’m in the left field bleachers tonight for Manny’s return in San Diego. Already pregaming with a couple-six Coronas on Mission Beach. You can follow me here on Twitter.

(Lasorda always forgets to lock his box o’ porn)

I’ll be tweeting throughout the day on Manny and Tommy Lasorda’s legendary lesbian porn collection. (Including pics!)

(Thankfully Manny already has been through SbB Comeback Simulator®)

Have seen a ton of Dodger fans down at Gaslamp already.

Hopefully they’ll make bail by batting practice!

Never really been a big fan of Kobe Bryant off the court. But he won my respect with his recent, appropriately prickly treatment of the most unpopular man in Los Angeles, *Mayor* Antonio Villaraigosa.

(What Jackson Browne was singing about)

Villaraigosa is reviled in L.A. as a do-nothing buffoon and consumate media whore. The mayor, who had to take classes to learn Spanish as an adult, co-oped his (former) wife’s last name (Raigosa) to sound more Latino. He then cheated on Ms. Raigosa with a throwaway local TV newsreader - but continues to attach her name to his.  He’s since moved on to another yocal TV news dingbat, and is currently on a taxpayer-funded junket in Africa with the woman. You can’t make this stuff up.

(WTF?)

So I was heartened to see Bryant’s seriously off-color reax to Villaraigosa’s attempt to glom on to the Lakers’ championship afterglow. Read more…

Yesterday I broke the first post-breast reduction photo of Simona Halep. Today I was forwarded more photos of her after her surgery.

(*Sigh*)

I must say, she isn’t shy about showing off her new look. So in case anyone is wondering, she doesn’t seem to be having second thoughts about her decision. Good for her. I guess.

New pics after the jump. Read more…

Abbot Pizza on the westside of Los Angeles (Venice) is one of my weekly (at least!) stops. Go early, before they run out of the Five Onion Pie:

(New Yorkers: Don’t Even THINK Above Folding That Garlicky Goodness!)

Ask SbB Girl Doro about the hilites of her trip to Los Angeles to shoot with us and she’ll most certainly cite Abbot’s. As will Allie, Anyssa, Crystal, Colene, among other SbB Girls.

Abbot’s is just one of the secret, locals-only places in L.A. you don’t know about - that kills. I’ll drop in some more sick stops when I get the chance.

*UPDATE*: More new photos of Simona Halep after breast reduction surgery have been posted.

In late April I first posted year-old photos of Romanian teen Simona Halep competing at the 2008 French Open. Since then, the exact same photos have swept around the world - and subsequently led to the European media hounding Halep about the incredible size (and buoyancy!) of her breasts.

Halep, sadly, did not take kindly to the SbB-wrought media crush and soon proclaimed that she was going to have breast-reduction surgery.

And as it turns out, she was serious. The first post-op photo of her after the jump. Read more…

Two weeks ago, in the aftermath of the Lakers’ triumph over Orlando, I brought you photos and observations from ground zero of what would become a full-blown fan riot in downtown Los Angeles.

(I look like Van Pelt now, but only if he’d lost a kidney as a child)

Today, at least for a moment, I thought I was facing a possibly similar situation in, of all places, Marina del Rey. That’s where I happened upon a very large gathering of Oakland Raider fans at a local restaurant.

(Raider fans or security detail at Inland Empire Applebees on Fri. nights?)

Upon infiltrating the gang of Silver & Black fans, I quickly learned they’d made the trip in from Oaktown and East L.A. to celebrate the team’s 50th anniversary.

(Raiders-Themed Truck Was NOT Reconditioned After Last Deep Purple Tour)

So much like someone who stumbled upon a public funeral of a fallen leader of the Taliban, I felt it imperative to chronicle the events for the LAPD my faithful readers.

(Ride to the Rainforest Cafe? Anyone?)

Like the early throes of the Lakers’ postgame downtown celebration, the requisite denizens of the Black Hole were friendly and accomodating.

(”To All The Guys At Mike’s Hard Lemonade … “)

But, like that previous, fateful evening on Figueroa, I wasn’t about to hang around to encounter the business end of a CNN overhead shot. (Anderson, I regret to report that the victim was wearing tragically out-of-style cargo shorts.)

So I snapped some pics and fled the scene.

(Inspired by Michael Jackson autopsy. Too soon?)

Of particular interest to law enforcement me was the $100,000 Raiders-themed truck towed in from the I.E. for the occasion. (What, you were expecting Holmby Hills?)

(Oakland Raiders: Commitment to Meth-inspired artwork since 1959)

Now, if you guessed that the vehicle, as an ode to the Oakland NFL franchise, would feature artistic renderings of the Raiders’ greatest players and moments … you will be disappointed.

(Free money + 8-ball + getting stepped on repeatedly = Raiders gameday!)

But if you guessed that the vehicle, as an ode to the Oakland NFL football franchise, would feature artistic renderings of semi-automatic weapons, implied illicit drug use, tequila bottles and a grotesque, disturbing portrayal of death and destruction … you will soon ascend into a world of blissful enchantment.

(Raiders-Themed Truck Also Includes Tribute To Amy Trask. Nice Touch.)

More evidence photos after the jump. Read more…

Sports cable TV outlet Versus recently launched a new show called Fanarchy. The production is loosely based on the ESPN’s Around The Horn, but instead of sportswriters, the Versus version features webcam-tethered fans as the protagonists.

From the show’s website:

Each week the webcammers will stake out hard-core opinions (not necessarily expert, but always entertaining) and do battle. EVERY sports fan has an opinion, and on this show they’ll get an opportunity to share it. Instead of the tired old formula of sports-writers and generic TV talking heads spewing endless stats, calculating salary cap numbers and reading from steroids subpoenas, these sports fans are rabid, ready to do battle and unrelenting in their opinions. … (Nobody is above the fray, but some people do have fancier webcams).

It’s easy to mock Versus for something like this, but I give them credit for taking a chance and trying something different. The show isn’t my cup of tea, but I’m not in the show’s target demographic.

(For encore airing, may have to wait for funds to settle)

That is, I thought I wasn’t - until I saw the performance of some female fans on cam. Read more…

Here’s a photo I snapped this week on the Venice Beach Boardwalk:

(U.S. Snowboard team raises funds between dry land training sessions) 

Those sorts of signs are popping up more and more on VB, which is fine by me. Keeps my daily rounds all the more entertaining. And lest you think that’s all there is to the photo, click here for a far more revealing angle. Read more…

Unlike maddeningly-natural Romanian tennis player Simona Halep, who we introduced to the world in late April, I can’t claim to have launched former figure skater Anna Semenovich’s now-worldwide appeal.

(What lovely earrings)

When I first posted photos and videos of her last year, the regrettably-named Russian had already seen her fake boobs career asplode as a *pop star* in her home country.

(She is, sadly, wearing a top.)

Those photos of course included the most epic animated gif since I discovered this page.

(Reminds of PhilMick-caddie chest bump after holing fairway five iron)

Thanks to images like that, I resisted the urge of an epic weekend in Atlantic City with Jayson Williams’ posse to instead constantly click my YouTube Semenovich search bookmark. Read more…

I’ve officially succumbed to Twitter. My only wish is it had a feature that blocks one’s ability to Tweet after say, midnight local time. For obvious reasons. App? Anyone?

(You’ll have to pry my camera away from my cold, dead hands, babo)

We’re about done upgrading SbB server capacity, so the annoying site slowdowns will soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to our tech J.P., and Christian and Devon at Servint for their tireless work during this process. Read more…