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Look at this Big-Ass Fish!

This black marlin is enormous, and seems quite pissed.
(Not this one, the one below) Image via Wikipedia

Fishing is definitely sports, thank you very much; It's on ESPN and everything. Plus Major League Baseball hall-of-famer and all around legendary guy Wade Boggs retweeted these pictures of a black marlin earlier this morning, so it's even sportsier than initially believed.

Just to give you a little bit of background, black marlins are the most sought-after fish by game fishers because of their size—they can grow to be 15 feet long and weight up to 1,600 pounds—and striking appearance. They are also one of the fastest species of fish on the planet. I read all of that on wikipedia so it's got to be true. Also, look at these goddamn pictures!

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Seriously, click on the tweet embedded below and look at them closely.

Boggs, an avid outdoorsman and consumer of Miller Lite, is an excellent follow on Twitter. He seamlessly vacillates between beautiful images celebrating nature's beauty and beautiful images celebrating mulleted 80s wrestling stars' beauty. This one, though, is not so much beautiful as it is terrifying because this fish is big as shit! I don't know what the dudes on Hellraiser II thought they were going to do if/when they actually caught it. And it also looks pissed as shit because a bunch of humans are trying to rip it out of it's home. Hellraiser II is literally raising hell.

It is, in every way, the opposite of this picture of a turtle enjoying the shit out of being thrown into the ocean: