I agreed to write a post after watching the two most recent episodes of Versus' Sports Soup, hosted by Matt Iseman, so that I could give federalbaseball.com's readers a chance to win some stuff...

There's a post about the last week of Sports Soup after the jump...but here's a link to the Sports Soup Facebook group contest that asks, "...for people to post their own, local sport video clips to the Sports Soup facebook group...We are giving away 1 grand prize to the best video clip, and 2 runners up. The deadline is 12/22." If you're wondering what you can win, I was told, "...that there were some great prizes like an iPod nano, autographed t's and gift cards to Steiner Sports." So if you have some footage around of you and your friends embarrassing/hurting yourselves, here's your chance to make some use of it...

Sports Soup Week in Review Post...(12/8)...

What is it that makes a clip ideal for Sports Soup's purposes? Is it someone not knowing they're embarrassing themselves, like a football analyst describing how beautiful a team looks in their uniforms? Or is it a fall or injury that provides an easy set-up for a Matt Iseman zinger? (example: 1 man + 2 broken legs + crab leg joke + broken leg sound effect = funny). Is it utter stupidity on display, and, for some reason, committed to tape, preserved and disseminated so all can marvel at the epic scale of some anonymous person's failure? 

Is it the truly disturbing, and often unnatural things that occur, and are, through the miracles of modern technology, captured on film? The grotesque, which, when carefully dissected provides a glimpse of something which without the benefit of advances like the slow motion replay, we would never be able to truly appreciate in all its awful beauty...Yes, I am talking about Charles Barkley's golf swing...

Why is someone getting knocked out or mistakenly punching their own football coach funny? Why do I find myself laughing when a grown-up child who likes to break stuff with his body ends up busting his nose while fighting an inanimate object? Why is it funny to watch an announcer who has to look up before he can talk into a microphone? Like a Mackey Sasser of the sports announcers set...I don't know why it's funny? Maybe it's because it's not happening to me...