Major League Baseball is letting its biggest stars pinch-hit for MTV2 on a brand-new series called

Hosted by Sway, Fat Joe and "Guy Code" and "Girl Code" stars Chris Distefano and Melanie Iglesias, "Off The Bat" brings fans inside the lives of All-Stars like Robinson Cano, Adam Jones and Craig Kimbrel, 2013 Rookies of the Year Jose Fernandez and Wil Myers, plus reigning World Series MVP David Ortiz, who has signed on as executive producer.

"Off The Bat" will launch in April on MTV2 as a weekly, 30-minute series, and will broadcast from the MLB Fan Cave in New York City ... and while some shows focus on stats, this one is all about the stars (though it would be pretty amazing to hear Fat Joe talk about WAR and BABIP): "Off The Bat" will not only feature MLB players and famous fans — maybe Mac will be there! — but each episode will also spotlight the stars' personalities and passions.

Each episode features on-location segments with players, diving deeper into their off-the-field interests that fans don't normally see, whether it's a tour of their favorite restaurants or a look at their sneaker collection. In short, "Off The Bat" will focus on the sweet-spot where baseball and popular culture meet, presenting the game in a whole new way.

"Off The Bat from the MLB Fan Cave" is set to premiere in April on MTV2. Get ready to play ball.

When Paul Rudd busted out his rendition of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" during his "Tonight Show" lip-sync battle with Jimmy Fallon, our hearts grew two sizes too big.

Why? Because Paul Rudd is obviously a perfect human being and the only thing I can find wrong with him is that he is mortal, and will therefore not be able to bestow his many blessings upon future generations.

Check out some very persuasive evidence of this fact below:

He Guest-Starred On Shows That Everyone Loves

From "Parks and Recreation" to "Veronica Mars" to "Friends," Rudd has the guest star game on lock. Now all he needs to do is show up on "True Detectives" and I can die covered in Netflix DVDs and smiles.

He Looks The Same Now As He Did In 'Clueless' — Or Better

Someone's been drinking from the Tuck Everlasting spring and his name rhymes with "Doll Bud."

He Was The Best Part Of 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'

What else happened in that movie? Puppets? Russell Brand? Who even knows.

He Co-Created 'Party Down'

Like all things good, according to Billy Joel, this show died young. But did it burn bright. Did it burn bright...

He Can Pull Off A Beard

Naked, no less!

His Was The Only Super Hero Casting To Bring Total Delight

While some super hero casting choices had comic fans Hulk-smashing, when Paul Rudd was cast as the leading role in 2015's "Ant-Man" the only thing busting to pieces around these parts was everyone's collective heart.

Slappin' Da Bass Mon!

I mean, just, I can't.

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The 2014 Oscars are just around the corner, airing this coming Sunday night (March 2). That means you only have a few days left to place your predictions for who will walk away with the Best Picture and Actor statuettes, and only so much time to make your viewing party plans for the awards show.

We'll leave you to your own devices on the prediction front, but at least we have you covered where partying is concerned — because we're bringing the Academy Awards red carpet right into your living room.

MTV's Josh Horowitz and VH1's Kate Spencer will be on hand for Oscars 2014: Red Carpet Live, bringing you non-stop coverage of all the celebrity and fashion news leading into the big night. Join us at MTV.com, VH1.com and LogoTV.com for interviews with this year's nominees and other stars of all shapes and sizes, from the moment that the carpet opens up at 5:00PM ET right until 7:30PM ET. Don't miss out!

The 86th Academy Awards will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, her second time leading the stage on Oscar night. The 2014 field is a competitive one, with Best Picture nominees ranging from crime capers like David O. Russell's "American Hustle" and Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street," to thrillers such as Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips" and Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity."

The acting categories are equally crowded, filled with actors like Jennifer Lawrence, nominated as a supporting actress for "American Hustle," and Matthew McConaughey, up for his lead role in "Dallas Buyers Club."

Who will take home the awards? ...

It's good to be Pharrell Williams. Just days before he makes his Oscar telecast debut Sunday night, Skateboard P can celebrate the second week
 at #1 for his "Despicable Me 2" smash "Happy."

The song, also #1 on the iTunes singles chart, will be included on P's G I R L
 album, due out Monday and streaming now on iTunes.

"Happy" Sales Are Snappy
With sales up 22 percent, "Happy" sold 402,000 copies, according to Billboard, easily keeping Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" at #2. Sales for KP's latest hit dipped 9 percent to 251,000 during the same week that she finally released the Egyptastic
 video for the hit. Among the only climbers in a mostly static top 10 were Aloe Blacc's "The Man," which was up two spots to #6 (133,000) and Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" from "Frozen" (up to #7, 125,000).

Deep Freeze Sets In Again
The polar vortex is endless and, let's face it, who can get enough of Menzel's Oscar-nominated smash "Let It Go"? That might explain why the soundtrack to "Frozen" will be back at #1 this week on the Billboard 200 album chart after selling 89,000 copies, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

It was the fifth trip to the top for the 1.1 million-selling album from the nearly billion dollar-grossing animated winter wonder. "Frozen" has been on the charts for 13 weeks and has notched more weeks at #1 by any soundtrack since "Titanic" in 1998.

Otherwise, though, the majority of the top 10 releases suffered double-digit drops. The only debuts came from ...

Every Oscars ballot needs a "gimme," right? For the 86th Academy Awards, your best bet for a guaranteed picked is Best Visual Effects. It's usually the part of the evening where your favorite blockbuster gets a chance to shine, but 2013 was not any old year.

Last year, the "Hobbits" and superhero movies of the world had the misfortune of coming out within the same 12 months as "Gravity," the awards powerhouse that's one of the two favorites to win Best Picture. It's also the film that was heralded as a huge step forward for special effects. Director Alfonso Cuarón had to wait four years and invent certain techniques in order to even make "Gravity."

Does anyone stand a chance at bringing "Gravity" back down to Earth?

Who Will Win: "Gravity"
To answer my own question: no. No one has a shot at beating "Gravity." It's not often that a Best Picture frontrunner is up for the special effects category, but in this case, one of the two movies vying for the top prize is almost entirely computer animated. Sorry, Bilbo.

Oscars 2014 Predictions: Best Visual Effects

Who Should Win: "Gravity"
There's a reason that a win for "Gravity" is guaranteed. It's because there was simply no better use of visual effects this year. Even if you take away all of the innovative techniques Cuarón and his team used, the overall effect of "Gravity" relied more on CGI than the other nominees, and it's the best film of the bunch. This one is already over.

Marvel, in a joint press conference with New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced today that their Netflix series — starting with "Daredevil," and continuing with "Luke Cage," "Jessica Jones" and "Iron Fist" before ending with a "Defenders" team-up event — will all film on the streets of New York City for the next few years.

Not a ton is known as of yet about the four series. "Cabin in the Woods" director Drew Goddard is taking the writing and directing reigns on at least the pilot of "

Why is this location-based announcement exciting? Because Marvel Comics, and the characters being adapted for Netflix in particular, all got their start on the streets of New York. Unlike Marvel's DC Comics counterparts, Marvel set their superheroes in a simulacrum of the real world... And no location is more populated by their heroes than NYC.

The world lost a comedy legend when Harold Ramis passed away earlier this week. The writer, director and actor had a hand in many — if not most — of the '80s comedies that people generally consider classics. This, of course, includes "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters II," in which he starred and co-wrote.

Before he died, Ramis was set to make a cameo appearance alongside Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in "Ghostbusters III," Sony's quasi-sequel/reboot that has been developing for years. On Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter followed up with the studio to see how Ramis' death would affect the movie, and the answer, unfortunately, was "not much."

With Ramis gone, that leaves Aykroyd and Murray, who has previously gone back and forth on whether a sequel was a good idea at all. "They just don't have a really good script. It's hard," Murray told David Letterman in 2012. "Even the second 'Ghostbusters' wasn't as much fun for me as the first one. It's hard to make a sequel. That first one was really funny. It was just so darn funny, it's hard for me."

Not exactly a vote of confidence.

So who would "Ghostbusters III" be for? In light of Sony's willingness to move forward without Egon, it makes me wonder why — aside from obvious financial reasons — anyone would be interested in seeing another movie in the series.

To get a better idea of what's going on here, let's break down the hypothetical audience for any potential sequel. There are the people who want to reunite with the ...

Jared Leto is bringing a very special woman in his life to the Academy Awards: his mom.

On Tuesday, the Thirty Seconds to Mars front man, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a transgendered character in took a screenshot of himself Facetiming with his mother, Constance. The shot captures the moment he asked her to accompany him and his brother, Shannon, to the Oscars on Sunday, and her face is priceless.

The screen shot shows Jared and Shannon in the top left corner and their mother's elated face taking up the screen, wearing an adorable huge smile.

"My mothers face when @shannonleto and I told her she was coming to the #Oscarswith us! :)," Jared captioned the photo.

This won't be the first awards show Leto's mother has attended with her son. The two walked the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January.

Leto, along with his man bun , has been cleaning up the accolades this awards season, with wins at the SAG Awards, Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards for his memorable role as Rayon.

"I am absolutely blown away by this incredible nomination," Leto said about his Oscar nom . "I never in my life thought I would have the opportunity to even write these words."