Ballpoint Boxing Now Called 'The Pentender'

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we made this absurd video called Ballpoint Boxing Championships -- which is a boxing match between two boxing pens -- and it's gotten almost 300k views on youtube. So we decided to step it way up for fight number 2. We've renamed the series The Pentender and posted below ... embrace the absurdity.

Beckham Critics Are Deluded Fools

ESPN just ran a great piece countering objections to David Beckham eventually playing for MLS. Beckham critics say MLS signing him is fiscally irresponsible, that he's a has-been, and that he'd only give MLS a temporary and minor boost.

To say it like this Brits, this is absolute rubbish. When Baywatch was in its prime about 10 years ago, a Playboy story famously said "Baywatch critics are deluded fools, 2 billion viewers can’t be wrong." This couldn’t be more applicable to the global David Beckham enterprise, and even if he totally sucked (however unlikely), his first MLS season alone would singlehandedly give U.S. soccer the final push it needs to break into the mainstream. That’s worth any price the league has to pay.

And of course, it certainly wouldn't hurt if Posh was constantly on the cover of every magazine.

Ballpoint Boxing Gets 246k Views & Counting

I made the Ballpoint Boxing video below a couple weeks ago in a fit of procrastination. It took less than an hour to film, edit and post. I didn't want to post it because it was more for practicing video editing than anything else, but did anyway. Then it got featured on youtube's homepage and it's gotten almost 250k views. The comments are interesting because there's NO middle -- either love or hate. But the response was surely enough motivation to do another, and with some refined concept ideas from other guerillas and commenters (and a few more weeks of video editing under my belt), the next version should be much improved. I will post it here but until then, here is installment one of Ballpoint Boxing (soon to be re-named):