Author: Steve Lookner

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Published: 2014-09-06

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780692288788

WHO SAYS BASEBALL CAN'T BE FUNNY? IT'S THE FIRST PARODY OF A SPORTS BOOK EVER!You've heard Weird Al's parodies of pop songs. You've seen SNL's parodies of TV shows. You've read the Harvard Lampoon's parodies of books like "The Hunger Games." But what about sports? Why can't sports be funny too?Veteran comedy writer Steve Lookner (SNL, MADtv) proves that sports can indeed be hilarious with the FIRST-EVER parody of a sports book! Lookner takes Mariano Rivera's book The Closer and transforms it into a comedy grand slam: THE RELIEF FISHER.THE RELIEF FISHER is the book Mariano Rivera would've written if he'd lived the funniest life ever! In Mariano's own words, you'll hear what it was like growing up in a fishing village and learning to play a version of baseball in which all the equipment is made of fish...even the gloves! You'll go inside the Rivera family's shack as Mariano signs his first contract with the Yankees, and the Yankees pay him in sea bass. And you'll be there when Mariano sees a radar gun for the first time, and thinks it's a ray gun from Star Trek and that the Yankees' scout is going to vaporize him.THE RELIEF FISHER also takes you inside the dugout for a hilarious insider's perspective on the great Yankee teams of the last two decades. You'll hear about the time Derek Jeter made a throwing error because he was grabbing a girl's butt with his other hand. You'll watch as Paul O'Neill destroys a water cooler because he only hit a double rather than a home run. You'll learn about the Yankees' secret practice of putting Yogi Berra's embalmed body in a wheelchair to make people think he's still alive. And you'll be there at Yankee Stadium when Mariano attempts to kill all the band members of Metallica for writing "Enter Sandman". From A-Rod to Cano, from Tino to Torre, jokes about all of the Yankees greats are here! And also jokes about the worst Yankee ever, Jim Leyritz.Last but certainly not least, you'll get the hysterical perspective on baseball and on life that can only come from (the parody version of) Mariano Rivera. Mariano will tell you:--Why Red Sox fans are the stupidest people in America--Why his all time saves record is much more important than Derek Jeter's 3,000 hits--Why no one in baseball listens to the pitching coach--Why Edgar Martinez is the worst human being in the worldIt's no surprise that it took the greatest closer ever to inspire the funniest sports book ever. Whether you're a Mariano Rivera fan, a baseball fan, a fan of fish, or just a fan of laughing your stirrups off, you'll love THE RELIEF FISHER!