The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever [Paperback]

DJ Gallo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

"DJ Gallo Is the King of All Fake Sports Media."
---flakmagazine
 
From Sportspickle.com---far and away the most popular sports satire site on the Web, with millions of visitors in its five-year history---comes The View from the Upper Deck, an uproarious collection of "news" stories and "fun facts," profiles and polls, tidbits and trivia, for sports fans of every stripe.
 
Yankees Purchase Naming Rights to Fenway Park
 
Six-Foot, 255-Pound Third Grader Wins Science Fair with Steroids Experiment
 
Allen Iverson Keeps It Real for Record 2,548th Straight Day
 
Peyton Manning Ready to Prove His Doubters Wrong at the Pro Bowl
 
Signature features include "Today in Revisionist Sports History," biographies of famous sports personalities, write-ups on sports, business, and well-known stadiums and arenas, and much more. An ideal gift for sports addicts and fair-weather fans, good sports and sore losers, this hilarious compendium will leave all readers dancing in the end zones and clamoring for double overtime.
 
 
"The funniest sports site on the Web"
---Orlando Sentinel
 
"One of the funniest sites on the Internet."
---Fox Sports Radio

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

“DJ Gallo Is the King of All Fake Sports Media.”
---flakmagazine
 
From Sportspickle.com---far and away the most popular sports satire site on the Web, with millions of visitors in its five-year history---comes The View from the Upper Deck, an uproarious collection of “news” stories and “fun facts,” profiles and polls, tidbits and trivia, for sports fans of every stripe.
 
Yankees Purchase Naming Rights to Fenway Park
 
Six-Foot, 255-Pound Third Grader Wins Science Fair with Steroids Experiment
 
Allen Iverson Keeps It Real for Record 2,548th Straight Day
 
Peyton Manning Ready to Prove His Doubters Wrong at the Pro Bowl
 
Signature features include “Today in Revisionist Sports History,” biographies of famous sports personalities, write-ups on sports, business, and well-known stadiums and arenas, and much more. An ideal gift for sports addicts and fair-weather fans, good sports and sore losers, this hilarious compendium will leave all readers dancing in the end zones and clamoring for double overtime.
 
 
“The funniest sports site on the Web”
---Orlando Sentinel
 
“One of the funniest sites on the Internet.”
---Fox Sports Radio

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

DJ Gallo is the founding father and lone author of Sportspickle.com. He also is a columnist for ESPN.com's "Page 2" and a contributor to ESPN The Magazine, and he has written for The Onion and Cracked.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031236363X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312363635
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #925,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!!, May 8, 2007

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Ricardo95 "Ricardo95" (NY, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever (Paperback)

Look no further, it's finally here. Fell in love with Gallo's writing while stumbling on ESPN. He's always a breath of fresh air in the midst of so many "knock off" sports writers. I constantly read his columns to get an insightful and hilarious view of things from his perspective. Gallo gives the reader his straight up opinions while cathcing your imagination. I could burn through this book on my lunchbreak, or an extended one, lol. It's that captivating!! You won't be disapointed.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The View from the Upper Deck is all Laughs, March 11, 2008

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D. Sweitzer "Busy Mom" (South Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever (Paperback)

When I've had a bad day, I know I can count on DJ's writing to make me laugh out loud. This book was worth double what I paid for it! If you're a DJ Gallo fan, this is a must-have.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious comedies, May 16, 2007

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Joshua Jordan (austin, tx) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The View from the Upper Deck: SportsPickle Presents the Funniest Collection of Sports Satire Ever (Paperback)

If you're a fan of both laughter and sports, this book is a must buy. If you aren't a fan of either, then why are you even looking at this review?