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SI listed the best games of 2006 and a handful of baseball games made the cut. NOT the terrifically fun OAK-LAD 17 inning matchup, incredibly, but that 12 hour marathon game between the Sox and Yanks, as well as a couple of last season's 18 inning NL games are on the list. And of course NYY's crazy comeback against the Rangers. NLCS Game 7 was the only postseason game to rank. The baby fish were also featured, courtesy of Anibal's no hitter :) Still, Huston did not blow a single one of those games, so that list is hella lacking and fundamentally flawed. (There was one Brad Lidge blown save, though. ♥)
EW ranked BSG the third best drama on television this past year, behind only The Wire and Friday Night Lights. And, damn, I've known for a couple years now that I should be watching The Wire, but I guess [Bad username or site: acroarcs / @ livejournal.com] really is onto something with FNL. TV Guide ranked BSG #1 and FNL #2, and The Wire didn't even make their top 10 or honorable mentions. But Deadwood did. ♥. 24 and The Office made both lists - validation, yay. BSG, The Office, The Wire, Heroes, FNL, and 24 also all made AFI's list of ten best '06 shows.
Of course, the AFI voted Happy Feet and Little Miss Sunshine onto their list of the ten best films of '06, so. You can't win 'em all.
God, I love baseball - I dreamt last night that the A's traded Bobby to the Brewers (what?) and that the Mets announced they were pulling out of the Zito clusterfuck. Woke up to the news that the Rangers have given Barry Zito an ultimatum. They want a response on their contract offer by this weekend. That seems like a bad move on the Rangers' part, considering that the Yankees allegedly want to jump into the mix, provided they can unload Randy Johnson soon. It's one thing for the Mets to say this is our offer and we're not gonna change it. It's another for the RANGERS to be trying to get all mafioso and shit. I mean, I understand their not wanting to be used...but they are the TEXAS FUCKING RANGERS. What did they think they were being pulled into this thing for? They are like the Orioles, but with an owner who writes blank checks. Supposedly if Zito doesn't accept the ~$102M/six year offer, they're pulling it off the table. Hee. Good. Because it was just gonna be embarrassing when he signed with the Mets for a shitload less. And I love how the GM said their offer will change considerably if Zito doesn't sign now. Because obviously, if he wasn't going to sign with you for $100M, he could always realize the error of his ways in a couple weeks and sign with you for WAY LESS. Morons. It took them this long to figure out Boras was using them to try and drive up the asking price? Sure, over$$$$ worked with A-Rod, but I guess they think everyone missed how that has played out for him in the long run.
I read elsewhere that Mark's decision is down to the Rangers and the Cards (ahahaha! THANK YOU FOR FUCKING OFF, ARIZONA) which I hope against hope is a nobrainer for him, no matter how much the Rangers offered him. Come on, Markus. You've got a lovely wife, with a good name. Impossibly long legs and the tiniest hips in all of sports. Great hair. A World Series ring. Memories of a sun-drenched honeymoon to last youtil the divorce a lifetime, and probably a pair of twin little Markuses on the way. Playing for the Texas Rangers does not complete this picture. Well, unless they guaranteed you two years at 20 million or something.
eta: Interesting. Bet at least half of those names leak in the next year. So that should be fun times.
EW ranked BSG the third best drama on television this past year, behind only The Wire and Friday Night Lights. And, damn, I've known for a couple years now that I should be watching The Wire, but I guess [Bad username or site: acroarcs / @ livejournal.com] really is onto something with FNL. TV Guide ranked BSG #1 and FNL #2, and The Wire didn't even make their top 10 or honorable mentions. But Deadwood did. ♥. 24 and The Office made both lists - validation, yay. BSG, The Office, The Wire, Heroes, FNL, and 24 also all made AFI's list of ten best '06 shows.
Of course, the AFI voted Happy Feet and Little Miss Sunshine onto their list of the ten best films of '06, so. You can't win 'em all.
God, I love baseball - I dreamt last night that the A's traded Bobby to the Brewers (what?) and that the Mets announced they were pulling out of the Zito clusterfuck. Woke up to the news that the Rangers have given Barry Zito an ultimatum. They want a response on their contract offer by this weekend. That seems like a bad move on the Rangers' part, considering that the Yankees allegedly want to jump into the mix, provided they can unload Randy Johnson soon. It's one thing for the Mets to say this is our offer and we're not gonna change it. It's another for the RANGERS to be trying to get all mafioso and shit. I mean, I understand their not wanting to be used...but they are the TEXAS FUCKING RANGERS. What did they think they were being pulled into this thing for? They are like the Orioles, but with an owner who writes blank checks. Supposedly if Zito doesn't accept the ~$102M/six year offer, they're pulling it off the table. Hee. Good. Because it was just gonna be embarrassing when he signed with the Mets for a shitload less. And I love how the GM said their offer will change considerably if Zito doesn't sign now. Because obviously, if he wasn't going to sign with you for $100M, he could always realize the error of his ways in a couple weeks and sign with you for WAY LESS. Morons. It took them this long to figure out Boras was using them to try and drive up the asking price? Sure, over$$$$ worked with A-Rod, but I guess they think everyone missed how that has played out for him in the long run.
I read elsewhere that Mark's decision is down to the Rangers and the Cards (ahahaha! THANK YOU FOR FUCKING OFF, ARIZONA) which I hope against hope is a nobrainer for him, no matter how much the Rangers offered him. Come on, Markus. You've got a lovely wife, with a good name. Impossibly long legs and the tiniest hips in all of sports. Great hair. A World Series ring. Memories of a sun-drenched honeymoon to last you
eta: Interesting. Bet at least half of those names leak in the next year. So that should be fun times.
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No. No way. No FUCKING way. Yeah, I'm a Sox fan, but even my visiting Yankee-fan buddy was toast by the end of that day. It's not like it was good baseball; I mean, Sox day starter Jason Johnson was actually DFA'd THAT NIGHT after the game; Ponson started the nightcap for the Yanks and lasted a bit longer but not much. That day, but particularly that night game, was my worst baseball experience ever. Unending agony. Slow death by paper cuts. I feel sick just thinking about it...
Plus thanks to Boston public transport, we had to take a cab back to my house. Said Yankee-fan buddy was afraid I was going to drop her at the side of the road on the way home. I'm not entirely kidding. We had tix to four of the five games that weekend (just couldn't resist Buck and McCarver Saturday...) and by the end of it I was perhaps sulking just a bit.
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I remember that! JJ used to pitch for the Orioles, so I was keeping an eye on him as he bounced around the American League last season :(
That day, but particularly that night game, was my worst baseball experience ever. Unending agony. Slow death by paper cuts. I feel sick just thinking about it...
LOL, aw. Wow. And here I was kinda excited to sit down and watch it on MLB.TV. Of course, I don't have the whole thing where I'm rooting for either team working against me ^_~
and by the end of it I was perhaps sulking just a bit.
Hee. After that kind of weekend? I can imagine.
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I'd lost track of him for a bit after that though, then when I was in Cincy in September snapping away at a Padres game... there he was (http://www.sittingstill.net/photos/06September13/091306_263.jpg)!
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SO GOOD.
http://www.flakmag.com/tv/wire.html
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I hate how the Rangers want to sign ex-A's! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Then I wouldn't be able to bring myself to completely hate them. I already can't. Wash & I are like BFFs. =[
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The Rangers can fuck off! I wonder if they'll increase their offer to Mark now that they've lost out on Barry? I hope not. How do you feel about the Giants?
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I guess I still get to see him play. And I don't really hate the Giants, so it's all good!! Until interleague.
IT'S NOT FAIR!!!
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And in that vein: FNL marathon, Bravo, Saturday 12/30, 9am to 7pm Eastern! Maybe I should make a general announcement on my own LJ. Hmmmm.
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Thanks for the heads up :)
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Of course, I greatly enjoy hockey or drinking (but not so much the buying drugs in Southeast), and if you guys can watch hours of FNL on your own, more power to you. :P
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I saw Happy Feet the other day, and while I liked it, I was also disappointed. It's kinda depressing because if I had been ten, I'm sure I wouldn't have even noticed some of the things that really bothered me. I mean, Mumble sold out to commercialism, and the fact that he was happy with it in the end I felt subliminally encouraged the audience (mostly kids) that accepting defeat and changing oneself to guarantee a complacent life is the right way to go. I'm sure I overthought the film on an extreme level, but I felt that it was too episodic in its plot development. It was like flipping the pages of a story book. I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins. Given that penguins waddle, I think the animators could have portrayed them more successfully by making them cute, not sexy.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.
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Wait, it's been a month or so since I've seen it but isn't it more the other penguins who sell out by abandoning their principles and jumping on the dancing bandwagon? But I was also more than a little wtf about the ending ("Maybe they're trying to tell us something!" "Well, we are disrupting their entire food chain." Just...what?).
I didn't hate the movie, but I don't think I can say that I really liked it. I don't think I appreciate it masquerading as a kiddie film, when it really wasn't. I can respect a message movie, but be up front about being a message movie. Or just be upfront about being a movie targeted at multiple audiences. I don't know. It's not like I can't stand to be surprised in a theatre and I want everything to be predictable, but it was just a fairly surreal and heavy experience when I thought I was just in line for a dancing penguin.
I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins.
I was totally put off by that. What was that line from Lovelace about retiring to his couch of indulgence and asking the ladies "Who first?" Ew.
And it was pretty scary! For a kids' film. I may have jumped once, or twice. Or five times.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.
It's curious, right? I wondered if maybe they were waiting until after the new year so they could control the news cycle, but I'm not sure why they'd feel the need to do that. It's Bonds related. It would control the cycle for ages on its own.