G-Man In The Guinness Book

Last night G-Man came out to the Verizon Center and did some trampoline dunks. He did the usual ones, ending with a flip, nothing exciting. Then he takes the trampoline and moves it to the "top of the key".

Styles comes out and calls over a guy in the suit, apparently from the Guinness Book of World Records. G-Man is about to attempt the longest mascot trampoline jump of all time. According to Styles, the old record is the foul line, which Brent Barry kinda did without a trampoline. As you can see from the picture, it doesn't really look like its much farther than the foul line but whatever.I was busy taking this sweet photo, so I missed the end result. The crowd's lack of reaction led me to believe he missed it. However, Styles said he made it, meaning that it probably rolled around the rim or something and wasn't a solid dunk. Styles then convinced the Guinness guy that it should count and the real game continued.

I don't even think that guy worked for Guinness Book...

• Wizards Hype Man: Styles

Wizards Hype Man

If you have been to a Wizards game then you have seen and heard the guy on the microphone in between timeouts & quarters. He tells G-Wiz to throw burritos, tries to convince brother & sister to kiss on the kiss cam, and heckles the people who fall off the tricycles. But who is this guy?

It is American University graduate DJ Chris Styles. He is a personality on Hot 99.5 and XM Radio, and a DJ at Club Fur on Friday & Saturday nights. He is also what the Wizards call their "hype man".

He has a MySpace Page where he has several pictures of himself with celebrities. Even all his advertisements include these celebrity photos. I guess if I had a picture with a celebrity I would put it everywhere also. Some of these celebrities are pretty lame like Nickleback, Backstreet Boys, and Nick Carter (Nsync?). But others are cool like Martin (Lawrence) when he came to the Wizards game last year. Noticeably absent are photos with Gilbert Arenas or any other player.

As a hype man, I have no problem with him except that he always gives away a jersey to someone that is already wearing a jersey. Also, the burrito I caught in the upper deck turned out to be a shirt, but its not his fault.

I'm not a big fan of dancing or most of the Billboard Hot 100, but maybe one day I'll put on my Gil Zero Dancers and head down to Fur for Saturday Night Party Gras. (what a clever name)

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