♦ It's pretty hot outside, huh? Summer has finally come, just like Steve Pool claimed it would. Let's hope it's here to stay a while!
♦ I am on a huge slump in baseball. I have one hit in my first four games (in which our team has gone 1-3), and even that was an infield hit to the shortstop. Nevertheless, I represented my team in two all-star games this past weekend. In the first my futility continued as I struck out three times on a way to a 1 for 5 performance, finally dropping a bloop single into RF in my last at bat. Of course I would end up getting thrown out at the plate later, but that's OK -- we were up 15-4 at that point. The second game didn't go much better, as I reached on an infield hit to the first baseman for my only hit. My only solidly hit ball thus far this season was a routine ground out to the shortstop. I hope to pick myself back up this weekend, as we have two games:
One at semi-shady Petrovisky Park in Renton at Saturday 9AM, and another at 3PM Sunday on probably the best field we have a chance to play: The University of Washington ballfield.
♦ I have lost all respect for Lebron James. The NBA superstar is in the midst of his first free agency and what does he do? Somehow secures a one hour prime time special to announce where he's going to play the upcoming season. This is probably the most asinine thing I've ever seen a pro athlete do to garner attention. I can't even imagine what was included in this one hour special. Was it a variety show complete with stunts and songs and celebrities marked at the end with a grand climax of James revealing what team he would play for utilizing silver suitcases and models, complete with a tight drumroll?
Even more ridiculous are these headlines I'm reading about how people in Cleveland feel betrayed about James' decision to go to Miami. He's a pro athelete. What did he owe the city? The man evaluated where he could best win and would be a good fit for him, and he made this choice. I don't see how this is a "slap in the face" to Cleveland at all, yet there are people burning his jersey in the streets. Maybe if they made an effort to install a better team there he wouldn't have chosen to leave. He didn't pull a Carlos Boozer and tell them he would resign and then go with someone else, and he didn't pull an A-Rod and tell the fans he wasn't leaving for the money but rather for a chance to win (before going to the Texas Rangers, signing the biggest contract for a baseball player ever). The days of a player being loyal to a team are long gone.
♦ My diet and exercise habits have completely decimated. Partially because of a slight sickness, partially because of my baseball schedule, partially because of my work, and partially because of laziness. However, I have recently committed to going to a Hawaiian wedding for a friend in Septmeber, so like it or not a deadline has been set: beach ready body will be needed by the end of September. Let's see where I can take this body.
♦ I thought I had seen possibly the grossest thing ever when I watched the trailer for The Human Centipede. But while waiting for someone who had Comcast OnDemand and was willing to watch it with me, I queued up John Ketchum's The Girl Next Door in my NetFlix InstantPlay. It was the most horrific movie I have ever seen. What could possibly be worse than three people scientifically experimented to be connected to each other mouth to anus in a row you ask? A movie based on a book based on "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history", and I can only imagine worst case of child abuse in America. I'm wary about movies based on true events (after the Invincible debacle) and through my slight research it was discovered that the movie did deviate slightly from actual events, but the tone and most of what this girl suffered through is adequately shown through the film. Here's the Wikipedia entry on the victim , which I encourage people to read. But believe me the words do not convey the grisly depravity of the crime the way a well put together movie can. Monsters like this walk among us, and really makes me wonder about how things like this can happen.
♦ I am on a huge slump in baseball. I have one hit in my first four games (in which our team has gone 1-3), and even that was an infield hit to the shortstop. Nevertheless, I represented my team in two all-star games this past weekend. In the first my futility continued as I struck out three times on a way to a 1 for 5 performance, finally dropping a bloop single into RF in my last at bat. Of course I would end up getting thrown out at the plate later, but that's OK -- we were up 15-4 at that point. The second game didn't go much better, as I reached on an infield hit to the first baseman for my only hit. My only solidly hit ball thus far this season was a routine ground out to the shortstop. I hope to pick myself back up this weekend, as we have two games:
One at semi-shady Petrovisky Park in Renton at Saturday 9AM, and another at 3PM Sunday on probably the best field we have a chance to play: The University of Washington ballfield.
♦ I have lost all respect for Lebron James. The NBA superstar is in the midst of his first free agency and what does he do? Somehow secures a one hour prime time special to announce where he's going to play the upcoming season. This is probably the most asinine thing I've ever seen a pro athlete do to garner attention. I can't even imagine what was included in this one hour special. Was it a variety show complete with stunts and songs and celebrities marked at the end with a grand climax of James revealing what team he would play for utilizing silver suitcases and models, complete with a tight drumroll? Even more ridiculous are these headlines I'm reading about how people in Cleveland feel betrayed about James' decision to go to Miami. He's a pro athelete. What did he owe the city? The man evaluated where he could best win and would be a good fit for him, and he made this choice. I don't see how this is a "slap in the face" to Cleveland at all, yet there are people burning his jersey in the streets. Maybe if they made an effort to install a better team there he wouldn't have chosen to leave. He didn't pull a Carlos Boozer and tell them he would resign and then go with someone else, and he didn't pull an A-Rod and tell the fans he wasn't leaving for the money but rather for a chance to win (before going to the Texas Rangers, signing the biggest contract for a baseball player ever). The days of a player being loyal to a team are long gone.
♦ My diet and exercise habits have completely decimated. Partially because of a slight sickness, partially because of my baseball schedule, partially because of my work, and partially because of laziness. However, I have recently committed to going to a Hawaiian wedding for a friend in Septmeber, so like it or not a deadline has been set: beach ready body will be needed by the end of September. Let's see where I can take this body.
♦ I thought I had seen possibly the grossest thing ever when I watched the trailer for The Human Centipede. But while waiting for someone who had Comcast OnDemand and was willing to watch it with me, I queued up John Ketchum's The Girl Next Door in my NetFlix InstantPlay. It was the most horrific movie I have ever seen. What could possibly be worse than three people scientifically experimented to be connected to each other mouth to anus in a row you ask? A movie based on a book based on "the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana's history", and I can only imagine worst case of child abuse in America. I'm wary about movies based on true events (after the Invincible debacle) and through my slight research it was discovered that the movie did deviate slightly from actual events, but the tone and most of what this girl suffered through is adequately shown through the film. Here's the Wikipedia entry on the victim , which I encourage people to read. But believe me the words do not convey the grisly depravity of the crime the way a well put together movie can. Monsters like this walk among us, and really makes me wonder about how things like this can happen.
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