Fantasy Baseball 2012: YouTube Gifts from the Gods

Retro drones, like me, are blessed to have a ton of baseball-related fluff on YouTube from the 1970s, featuring Dodgers/Padres great Steve Garvey.

For starters, we have a forgettable ad for Chevrolet, blandly touting state-of-the-art cars from that ugly era; and then...we find Garvey pitching Aqua Velva cologne (like Pete Rose in his heyday), with one notable exception: At the tail end of the TV spot, check out Garvey's painfully slow home run trot, as if he went out of his way to be an obnoxious twit to the catcher who just wanted "to smell good for his girl."

That unnecessary display of vanity is nothing compared to Garvey's two-episode guest shot on Cheap Seats, the hilarious ESPN Classic show from 2004-07 starring Jason and Randy Sklar (Twitter: @SklarBrothers).

If you ever wondered how Garvey would fare as host to a deep-sea fishing tournament (to hunt the dangerous billfish/blue marlin) alongside a few D-list actors, this clip's for you. And if you're dying to play the Kevin Bacon Game, in hopes of interconnecting Garvey, Joan Rivers, Cheech Marin and Gil Gerard, aka Buck Rogers, then this clip should warm the cockles of your heart.

Speaking of TV's Buck Rogers, remember Erin Gray?

Jay Clemons can be reached on Twitter, day or night, at @ATL_JayClemons.