My fondest memory as a teenager was watching Fresh Prince re-runs at 2 a.m.

We found a girl on tumblr who likely fits the description Cox was talking about:

To the Exploding Hearts frontman, the love (the ‘roses’) between him and his girl is punctuated by pain (‘thorns’).

According to MTV Hive, King Louie called Cox and said he wanted to sing him a song — “I’m a Pretender.” It had been rejected by a previous band of his, but he didn’t want to see it go to waste. “I sang ‘I’m a Pretender’ to Alex Chilton before I left for Portland, Oregon, and he looked me straight in the face and said, ‘Louie, you just wrote a hit song.’”

Just look at their album cover! Did these guys look like stoners, or what?

To a crowd of over 60,000 in Yankee Stadium, July 4, 1939, the event staged that day was billed as “Lou Gehrig Retirement Day.” In fact, it was a farewell to the life of Lou Gehrig who, only three weeks earlier, had been declared “terminal” by experts at the Mayo Clinic. For the great Iron Horse, his “Retirement Day” amounted to a veritable cavalcade of awards and testimonials. The crescendo came with Lou’s acceptance of the Gehrig Team Appreciation Trophy — a stately and genuinely sincere tribute, conceived and conducted to its finish by his Yankee teammates.

Columbia University recruited Gehrig on a football scholarship. Before enrolling in 1921, Gehrig tried out for legendary New York Giants manager John McGraw, who reprimanded him for missing a ground ball at first base and sent him to the Class A Hartford team, where he played 12 games. Gehrig didn’t know that the professional play violated collegiate rules.

He was banned from Columbia sports for a year. Playing one season of baseball at scruffy South Field, he hit long home runs off the steps of the Low Library and the walls of the journalism building, while others landed on Broadway. He pitched, played first base and outfield, and hit .444. Paul Krichell, a New York Yankees scout, signed him to a contract.

Miller James Huggins was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships.

Indeed, Huggins was a “little fellow” at 5' 6", 140 lb.

This guy:

Not the infamous, Red-baiting Senator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswig8dcEAY