Baseballs

Baseball Blog

2007 season.

Is here.

Baseball Blog

Part 1 of 1

by Sammy Kaplan aged 13.

I decided I'm going to love baseball this year. Whenever there is a game on, I'm going to make every effort to watch every single pitch. It's been pretty tough so far, and as a result, the first week of baseball is complete and I have yet to see a full game on television. I've seen a few innings of the Yankees vs. Twins, a half of a game of Mets vs. Braves, and a few innings of the Phillies vs. Marlins. As a result I have no expert analysis at this time.

Interesting developments of the first week of baseball: A ton of games have been snowed out or colded out. Games postponed due to cold. One of these games was Yankees vs. Devil Rays. A game that probably should have been scheduled in Tampa. Detroit vs. Toronto or Cleveland vs. Toronto got snowed out because the game was not played in Toronto where there is a dome. Cleveland is forced to make up some home games in Milwaukee. Milwaukee is known for it's warm environments.

Interesting developments #2: I signed up for a fantasy baseball team. I do not know anyone else in the league. Greg was going to sign up for my league, but the league got filled up to quick. A day after setting up this league, my work decided to block the site, so I had to email Greg and ask him to put Big Papi into the starting line up. Fantasy Baseball is not my favorite Internet game. I much prefer that Dodge Ram challenge where you got to be the robot and punch the shit out of the truck. Or maybe it was another robot. It seems to me I never played the Dodge Ram Challenge

Interesting Development #3. Yankees fans are cheering for ARod and Pavano. But as Rey pointed out, "it's April". Rey hates ARod more than anybody I have ever met.

Known fact: Yankees have the highest payroll in baseball. Knicks have the highest payroll in basketball. It's amazing how important management is in the world of big business.

My idea: I think the Yankees have a good chance of missing the playoffs this year. I think the AL Central is going to get the wild card again (division has Tigers, Twins, injuns, and ChiSox). So the AL East will only be sending the division winner to the playoffs this year. And this Yankees team is no different from the past 5 teams, except they are a lot older. But then again, besides Dice-K, the Red Sox aren't really any different either. Except Curt Schilling has is own blog now. But even that is old.

My new favorite Yankee: The yankee set up guy. The guy before Rivera. Fawnsworth or Fansworth. Dude is about 7 feet tall and he throws 200+ miles per hour. I watched him in mop-up duty in last nights Yankees-Twins game. He finished doing his warm up pitches, shoved his index finger down his throat for no apparent reason, picked up the rosin bag, flipped it around for a bit, threw it to the ground, then licked the palm of his hand. Not a quick lick, but a really strange hand make out. Then he went on to throw 300+ mphs. Sarah commented that his pants were way too tight.

Side note: Got harrassed a little on the walk through the hood last night. 3 teenagers said "Hey whiteboy, your pants are too tight." Contemplated saying "why are you checking out my pants" but instead I just kept walking. Probably a little bit faster. Not really a whole lot madder.

Another story: Tired of Don Imus drama.

Baseball game of the day: Yankees vs. Boof Bonser of the Minnesota Twins. Greg goes "Oh you probably conflicted on that one". It is a tough one, but it's honestly win-win unless the twins win and boof gets a no decision.

Phillies: Man oh man. I thought they were going to challenge the Mets this year. While it is still early, I realized their lineup really isn't that good. Utley and Howard are great, but everyone else is a big who cares. And J-Ro should quit yapping. And my oh my let's not even talk about the bullpen.

Um. Cat acting crazy again. Very healthy though. Thanks for yer Euros.

No more sports for now.

Philly Film Fest in full effect. Here's one's that's caught's my's eye's:

The Book of the Dead

It's from Kihachiro Kawamoto

The Boss of It All

Lars von Trier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) doing some non-depressing shit.

The Bothersome Man

Review calls it Kafkaesque. From Norway

Cartoons for Big Kids

A bunch of cartoons for Big Kids.

The Cats of Mirikitani

Doc. bout a street artist

The Oil Crash

Doc. on oil. Gotta be ok. Picture featured shows dude in a bathtub full of oil.

The Curse of William Penn

Documentary about how awful Philly sports teams are

Dante's Inferno

Cardboard cut-out adaption of Dante's Inferno

Dead Daughters

Hyped-horror from Russia. Would like to see

Hell's Ground

Zombie film from Pakistan. Probably viewed as a comedy in that wild and crazy country. Should be interesting if nothing else

The Living and the Dead

Described as "hallucinatory British gothic fantasia of death and psychological decay". Take out the word "British" and you have perfection.

638 Ways to Kill Castro

Could be very interesting or very boring. Like all movies

Sounds of Sand

I'm hoping a lot of pictures of desert.

The Ten

Makes fun of the ten commandments. Into this check out the Decalogue, if you have 3 months to kill. Although the Decalogue doesn't make fun of the ten commandments, it just intends to depress you

Ten Canoes

about indigenous Australians. Can't go wrong with that ever, unless it's Herzog's Green ants or whatever it was called movie.

30

Cross country movie. Always a good idea.

The Town that Was

Movie about Centralia, PA. I highly recommend this even though I haven't seen it. Centralia is a town that has been on fire for 40 years. As a result everyone has moved out except for 12 people. So awesome.

Warchild

Movie about war in Bosnia. Might watch this for a possible thesis.

VHS-Kahloucha

"Tunisia's premier amateur auteur filmmaker is portrayed with loving honesty and gut-busting hilarity in this thrilling documentary"

Wicked Flowers

Japanese. "Lynchian." About a video game that kills the people who play it. Sounds awesome.

Zoo

"This dreamlike, poetic film takes a surprisingly sensitive look at the bizarre but true story of a Washington State man who died after having sex with a horse in 2005.