Entries from October 2007
I spent the whole day convincing myself that the Rockies have a chance in this World Series but watching the Red Sox absolutely handle Colorado earlier tonight knocked me down some. I don’t think the World Series is over, but I can’t get any further involved to this series emotionally; the potential for anger and frustration in response to a Boston win is too high.
Instead, here is a Lumidee’s music video for Never Leave You with Fab and Busta Rhymes. I post this because, as my friend Seth recently alerted me, Bodie from The Wire (as played by J.D. Williams) is prominently featured in the video as Lumidee’s love interest. A good look of him is given at the 0:52 mark.
And while I’d like to not talk about my Yankees, I notice Busta is wearing a Bombers Jersey I have not seen before. Its clearly a home jersey, but the pinstripes are way too close together, almost resembling a seersucker design. Interesting, even moreso because I am a big supporter of both the Yanks and seersucker.
Props to Seth for this find on the video.
Categories: The Wire
I think enough has be written about the man Joe Torre is and his great successes as Yankees’ Manager. He got a raw deal from the Steinbrenners and respectfully moved on. Here is an old New York Times Yankees Notebook that begins to access Joe’s strengths in managing the Bombers back in the spring of 1996.
While I do remember Buck Showalter, Joe Torre was the first Yankees’ manager I came to know and might likely be the only one to have a tenure as successful. What may not be understood about Torre and his legacy as Yankee Manager is that his run is historically great not just compared to the other Yankee Managerial greats, but across all managers in the history of baseball. This deserves its own article. Here is an old New York Times Yankees Notebook that begins to access Joe’s strengths in managing the Bombers back in the spring of 1996.
Categories: Baseball · MLB · Sports
Tagged: Joe Torre, New York Yankees
Apparently, Jim Hill does not realize that wack hip-hop does not appeal to the “hip-hop audience”. How did Jim Hill keep a straight face during this farce? Lastly, it is an absolute crime to force your college intern with a background in show tunes to “rap” in a political advertisement.
Categories: Politics
This guy Larouche sounds a little bit nuts. I don’t know where he is now, but he came out and said Walter Mondale would lick the floor. Thats a rip.
Categories: Politics
As I drew to the conclusion of Al Gore’s latest book, The Assault of Reason, one of the area that seemed to dominate political campaigning in this country was the 30-second television spot. Gore says that senators and representatives, spend more time drumming up money for buying television time then they do debating the issues at hand.
After finishing Gore’s chapter relating to this and similar issues, I had to pause and think about how to kill off the annoying political TV advert.
To ban them entirely would be an infringement on one’s first amendment right to free speech, which is something I deeply believe in regardless of the message at hand.
While its too late to come up with a solution, I have found some particularly egregious political advertisements that will make the viewer at first laugh because of their ridiculousness and then cry as these ads were being developed in lieu of actual, political discourse. Enjoy!
Categories: Politics
If you watch ESPN or any of the other sports networks you may have heard that there is a big game this weekend. This game even has a nice little moniker, the “Duel in Dallas.” According to ESPN this is basically a look forward to the Super Bowl. A matchup of two titans of the NFL and the best offenses in the game. Of course I’m talking about the New England Patriots vs. the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday. It is a matchup of two unbeatens and the two hottest teams not
named the Colts in the NFL. So yes, on paper it sounds exciting, even I can admit that.
The problem is that this game won’t even be seen in every market and unless you pay the huge fees for the NFL package on DirectTV, you as a fan don’t have a say in the matter.
Unlike Baseball, football is far from a regional game. The NFL has become a league where people watch games for one of three reasons: 1) They bet on the game. 2) They have a player from their fantasy team in the game. 3) It’s a match-up between teams with top records. Other than these reasons most games are only really interesting in passing. Sure you may want to
watch a game with your team in it but most people in this country don’t have a team that they are die-hard about.
I’m a Ravens fan but given the choice I would watch Patriots-Colts over a meaningless game between the Ravens and the Cardinals. I want to see good football, and frankly there are very few teams in the NFL today that truely play good football. Of course since I live in Los Angeles, a Chargers area according to the NFL, I get the exciting Chargers-Raiders matchup this weekend instead of the “Deadly Duel in the Dallas Desert Designed for Doom and Destruction” or whatever it’s called these days.
But I guess by now we all should know the NFL could care less about the fans. Cameragate showed us that much.
Categories: NFL
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