Sports Lighten Up! A History of Sammy Sosa’s Biggest Fails

Retired slugger Sammy Sosa can’t win. First, he gets shown up by Mark McGwire in the infamous home run race of 1998, and now he misses making it onto our 100 Best Sports Moments of the Decade list because he pulled off his “enlightening” Michael Jackson impersonation a few days too late.

Last week, Slammin’ Sammy showed up to an event in Las Vegas for the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards looking paler than a ghost, like he’d just seen himself in the mirror and gotten scared by how light skinned he was (real chicken-and-egg shit). While we all wondered if he was on some throwback self-hatred or maybe just a really big fan of the Twilight franchise, Sammy’s reps claimed that his new Caucasian complexion was a side effect from skin rejuvenation treatment—which is ironic, considering that it looks like the life has drained out of his face. Whatever the case is, it’s a losing look, so we decided to bring you a history of Sosa’s biggest fails…

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