Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is: Mike Blowers!

Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is: Mike Blowers.

Born in 1965 in Wurzburg, West Germany, hometown of Dirk Nowitzki and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. Michael Ray Blowers is probably not German. Operation Shutdown assumes his pops was in the military. The most enjoyable non-baseball thing about Mike Blowers is how dirty his name sounds.

The erstwhile Third Baseman played 11 seasons in the Major League Baseball with the Yankees, Mariners, Dodgers and Athletics. While Blowers never got more than 500 at bats in a single season, he nonetheless had a lasting impact on the Major League Baseball, and in particular, Seattle Mariner fans. He grew up in Spanaway, Washington, played for Tacoma Community College and later the University of Washington, and had his best seasons while with his hometown Seattle Mariners.

While many would consider the career of Blowers that of a mediocre journeyman to be forgotten not a long time from now, you all can blowers his balls as Blowers shares not one, but two records in the Major League Baseball. First, Blowers was the 13th player to hit Grand Slams on consecutive days (while a Mariner) and tied an American League record by committing four errors in a single game playing third base for the Yankees. Blowers will also be remembered by nobody for reaching a baseball feat that not many others can claim: Blowers hit for the cycle, in 1998 as a member of the Athletics. Blowers finest season came in 1995 for Seattle when he batted .257 with 23 home runs and 96 RBI's. These feats are pretty remarkable considering Blowers carries with him a career .257 average, 591 hits, 78 home runs and 365 RBI's.

The best thing about Mark Blowers, is his name, which sounds infinitely more like he's involved in gay porn. So in honor of Mark Blowers, Operation Shutdown presents you with the five baseball players in history who could easily be confused as Male on Male Adult Film Stars.

5. Rich Harden. Wheelhouse: Canadian Male on Male Action. Suggested Title: "Mountie Me: The Unauthorized Story of Canada's First Gay Mountie"
4. Dick Pole. Wheelhouse: Mustache Rides. Suggested Titles: "Jackie Treehorn Presents: Log-Rammin'", "I'll Ride the Pine", "Did Someone Ask for the Long Reliever"
3. Albert Pujols. Wheelhouse: Rear Entries. Suggested Titles: "Meat Me in St. Louis", "That HGH Needle is Not All You Can Inject in My Butt", "Sheffield Gave Me the Cream"
2. Johnny Dickshot. Wheelhouse: Multiple Partners. Suggested Titles "I Fucked The Clubhouse Attendent", "I Fucked The Equipment Guy", "I Fucked the Play by Play Announcer", "I Fucked The Assistant to the Traveling Secretary"
1. Pete LaCock Wheelhouse: Bondage. Suggested Titles: "Cock-Strapped", "Club House Bonding", "I'll Turn Two"