Game 1 - World Series - Unpredictable!

I’ve been watching baseball for a really long time and last night goes to show you, just when you think you know the game, you truly don’t.  I guess that’s what’s so great about baseball.  You just never know.  I along with many others thought last nights game would be a pitcher’s duel.  No way would this game be a slugfest where both teams score 18 runs and 25 hits, but that is exactly what happened.  The best pitcher of the postseason the last two years, Cliff Lee, lasted only four and two thirds innings while the great Tim Lincecum lasted only an inning more.  I really thought we’d see an exciting pitcher’s duel but instead I was kept up most of the night by an exciting hitter’s duel.  Maybe it’s me, but baseball (and I guess to an extent sport’s in general) is just unpredictable.

Doesn’t that make it great though?  When you think you have it all figured out, games like this happen.  If you had told me before the game that it wouldn’t be a pitcher’s duel and that one team would score 11 runs and get 14 hits, I would have guessed that team was the Rangers.  The Giants were one of the lowest scoring teams in the league, the team is built around their pitching so there is absolutely no way I saw this coming.  Great game and I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.

Who said it wouldn’t be an exciting series?  I was truly into the game last night like it was my own team.

1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!!

I’ve come to the conclusion that they just don’t make movies like they used to.  Last night some friends and I attended a 25^th anniversary showing of Back to the Future.  Maybe it’s the nostalgia or maybe it’s the fact that movies used to be original, fun and magical.  I wasn’t old enough to see this movie when it was first released, I do remember seeing part three in the theaters but when part one was released I was only five years old.  I missed out and that’s why these showings are so special and fun.  Maybe it’s me, but more movie theaters should screen older movies.

Not only for my benefit because the theater I saw it with was a packed house.  I would say 85% full and into the movie.  This was the second showing, the first happened on a Saturday night and I’d be willing to bet they had the place full to capacity on Saturday.  Think about it, it was a Monday night showing of a twenty-five year old movie opposite a really good Monday Night Football game with the Cowboys vs. Giants and they had 85% capacity.  The Giants are huge here in Connecticut so to me that’s pretty impressive.  I never expected the theater to be even half full.  Not only was it full, people were into it.  There was one guy dressed in full Marty McFly gear.  While I would never do it, the inner nerd in me was pretty impressed.

There was hardly any promotion for this showing as well.  I found out through a movie website that AMC was re-releasing the movie for its 25^th anniversary.  I then did a search in CT for AMC theaters and was lucky enough to have one 25 minutes away.  I didn’t see AMC promoting it at all and if it wasn’t for the movie site I visit, this experience would have been missed by me.  I think it’s a shame they didn’t get word out, obviously they didn’t really need it as they still had a packed crowd but think of how many more people they could have gotten.

Please movie executives, bring back the classics!  People will come.  Maybe it’s me, but I think there’s a market out there for older movies.

Update on Friday Night

This is more of an update than an actual post today.  As you all know I went to a late night showing of Paranormal Activity 21 on Friday.  I wanted to let everyone know that my theater experience was average and I think I will stick to matinees and day visits to the movies because people just don’t care.  About twenty minutes into the movie about 4 out of control teens came in and carried on like special kids and disrupted pretty much everyone in the theater.  After that, just had people constantly talking or laughing at spots in the movie where there really shouldn’t have been any laughing.  Just some dumb idiots I’m sure but it took away from the movie.

On the plus side, the movie was good and overall my experience wasn’t horrible say for some select moments.  Seeing a horror movie in a packed theater can be fun and mostly everyone was good but still, we have some ignorant assholes screwing it up.

Movie – 7/10

Movie Experience 4/10

Movie Theater Experiences

I can’t wait to see the new movie coming out this Friday, Paranormal Activity 2 but at the same time I’m dreading it.  I don’t know if you’ve been to the movies lately, but I’ve almost completely given up on seeing a movie opening night due to horrible movie theater experiences.  Instead, I now opt for a Saturday or Sunday matinee or if I can, a weekday showing.  Movies are far too expensive to sit in a theater with immature, inconsiderate assholes.  Basically you pay $15 for a ticket, then possibly another $10-$15 on snacks, so $30 to sit in a crowded theater with dumbass kids and old ignorant idiots that obviously are rich because they could not care less about the movie just isn't for me.  I don’t understand this at all.  There must be a lot of rich people out there because when I got to the movies I see a lot of people basically throwing $30 down the toilet.  Maybe it’s me, but if I pay $15-$30 to see a movie I actually plan on watching it.

Maybe it’s the theater but in my area, there is really only 1 major movie complex in a 20 mile radius so it’s very popular.  My friends and I used to attend a movie almost every weekend but with the theater etiquette we started experiencing it turned us off and we almost never go.  If we do go, it’s a matinee and I have to say, it’s just not the same.  I’m a fan of seeing movies in theaters because seeing it in a packed theater with a controlled crowd can add to the experience but nowadays people are more interested in talking on the phone, talking amongst themselves or just plain fooling around than paying attention to the movie.

I was a kid once, and believe it or not I can not recall ever acting like these fools do nowadays.  Granted I didn’t have half the technology to distract me (iphones, cellphones, etc.) but I was always into the movie.  I shouldn’t say always because there are times I was making out or doing other x-rated things but I always did it in a politely DISCREET manner.  Lately, kids just don’t give a shit.  I can’t tell you how many times, my friends and I have had to tell someone to shut the fuck up in a dark movie theater.  Then in a moronic twist of events, they get mad at us for yelling at them.  You’re at a movie you idiot, shut up.  If you want to talk with your friends, go to Denny’s.

Old people are bad too.  If you’re too old to follow the movie and have to ask the person you’re with more than once what’s going on, get the fuck out of the theater.  How hard is it to follow a movie?  Just shut up and pay attention.  Half of these old people shouldn’t even be allowed out of the house let alone DRIVING and SITTING through a two hour movie.  My parents aren’t even that old but they drive me crazy with this.  They’ll have full conversations about a certain actor or actress or about parts they missed.  Drives me crazy!  It’s to the point where I avoid going with them to not be grouped in with the assholes.

Now that it’s off my chest, I’ll just cross my fingers we don’t have any idiots at the Friday showing I plan to attend.  This will determine if I just give up entirely on premiere nights and become a matinee person.  Maybe it’s me, but can’t people just watch the movie and shut the fuck up!

Facebook Bitching!

Yeah, I know.  Double post but there is something I really need to get off my chest.  It has to deal with Facebook and all the people that feel it’s appropriate to air out their private thoughts and feelings.  My wife has a cousin that totally blasted his uncle on Facebook last night and not only was it inappropriate but it was also disrespectful and something that should be talked about in the privacy of family not to the entire media population of the world.

This is not the only instance of this I noticed.  In fact, I have a “friend”, it’s really more of an acquaintance than a friend but you can’t separate them on Facebook.  He’s the type of friend where if I see him, we’ll say hi and chit chat a little bit but I’m not going to seek him out to hang out or talk to everyday.  They type you see every so often and you’re friendly but in reality you could give two shits about.  We all have them so don’t act like you don’t think the same thing.  Can’t Facebook come up with something to separate all your “friends”?  Some type of separation with, “friends”, “acquaintances”, and even “enemies”.  I’d love to see an enemies section on there.  You know the saying, “keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

Anyway, back to this acquaintance.  He pretty much had a nervous breakdown on Facebook last week and while entertaining it was annoying and quite frankly a little sad.  He was obviously having ladies issues but felt the need to air out all these problems for his “friends”, family and acquaintances to see.  It got to the point where his real friends were posting to cut it out and the girl he was talking about was telling him to stop posting stuff.  It was a real live Facebook soap opera!  Again, entertaining but embarrassing.  In fact, I don’t know if I could look this kid in the face if I see him again.  I would take him off my “friends” list but I don’t want his next post to be blasting me….

I don’t know what these people are thinking.  A lot of people are doing it and not only is it embarrassing to the people posting but it’s embarrassing to the people it’s about and it’s something that should be handled privately.  Please stop putting personal grudges, personal feelings and overall your personal shit live on Facebook for the world to see.  Instead, try this, pick up a phone and have a conversation.  Trust me, it’ll work out a lot better in the long run and will make you look like a grown up instead of a twelve year old girl in grammar school.  Maybe it’s me, but some things should be kept PRIVATE!

Performance for the Ages

What a great pitching performance again last night in baseball.  I’ll take a great pitching duel over a slugfest any day and boy was I treated to something special last night.  Cliff Lee was fantastic and I think we have to give it to him as the best postseason pitcher of the last two years.  He has been so lights out in the postseason the last two years it’s not even close.  He’s like that one pitcher in little league that makes everyone just look stupid.  It’s seriously unreal what he is doing and I’m astonished every time I see him pitch.

Then yesterday, we see him up against arguably the best postseason pitcher in the history of the game, Andy Pettitte.  He was brilliant as well, making really only one bad pitch to Josh Hamilton.  He amazes me too because the last two regular seasons he’s been very average, but in the postseason, he’s masterful.  He just knows how to pitch in the playoffs.

I remember at one point in that game saying, damn!   Someone open the game up so I can go to bed, it’s almost eleven!!!  Then the Yankees took out Andy and the Rangers proceeded to piss all over the Yankees bullpen.  I was a little relieved as I could finally turn off the T.V. but what a great 8 innings of baseball last night.

Maybe it’s me, but give me a good pitching duel over anything in sports.  Truly captivating.

That's What She Said...

I always thought that a joke at some point will get old and not as funny any as they originally were.  Then, the “that’s what she said” joke came around.  God that joke never gets old.  Seriously, it’s always funny.  I was thinking about it yesterday while watching football with some friends, it just never gets old.  No matter who says it, when it’s said and how many times it’s said, it’s just as funny as the first time.

Before I go any further I guess I should explain the joke in case you’ve been under a rock somewhere playing with Osama and oblivious to pop culture the last few years.  The “that’s what she said” joke is basically when in casual conversation someone says something sexually provocative or sexual in nature by accident or unknowingly, usually a male but it can still be funny when a woman says it.  Then after it’s said, you immediately say, “That’s what she said”.  Here are some examples (from yesterday in fact).

My buddy is eating a kielbasa and actually says, “Man, that’s some good kielbasa!”  I then without missing a beat say, “That’s what she said”.  Room erupts in laughter (even from the ladies).  My buddy just shakes his head and chuckles.  Maybe an hour later, an announcer on TV says something to the effect of “wow, great penetration”, my buddy without missing a beat, “that’s what she said”.  Again laughs.  But the best one had to be later on when I was putting the garbage out for pickup in the next morning.  The garbage was in the garage and I had to have my wife move the car so I could get it out.  I said, “Babe, I need you to pull out”, my buddy says, “That’s what she said”.  CLASSIC!!

It then proceeds to go on all day long and it never gets old.  It will always get a laugh and whoever can put the “that’s what she said” on the best non-sexual comment, gets the biggest laugh.  Maybe it’s me, but some jokes just never get old, in fact the longer you keep it going the better it is….

That’s what she said!