Free screening of “Mo” in Rockefeller Center June 6, 2007 5 comments
It’s beautiful in NYC these days, or so I hear. What better way to spend June 21st (a Thursday night) than seeing a great indy film outdoors, & for free no less?
On June 21st, at 8:30pm at Rockefeller center, you can do just that:
Adam, on Roger Clemens May 7, 2007 2 comments
The fact that roger Clemens has announced his return to the Yankees further cements his reputation as one of the most selfish, disingenuous, phony players of all time. After the 2003 season, after Clemens’ teary farewell tour, he swore up and down that he was not going to return, that he wanted to end his legacy as a New York Yankee, a team he claimed to have always wanted to play for. (Despite the fact that in 1997 roger could have easily played for the Yankees but took the slightly higher offer from Toronto) six months after the 2003 season however, rogers story changed when Houston gave him 14 million, plus the privilege to stay at his nearby home during non-starts, not travel with the team on road trips, only flying in on his pitching day, then leaving. Plus Houston, as a gesture of good will, drafted rogers son, Cody to play in Houston’s minor league system. All the while Clemens claiming “family time”, proximity to home, more time off as his reasons for pitching in Houston. And he also stated again (as with the Yankees), the history of Houston with stars such as Nolan Ryan and Mike Scott have always made playing in Houston a dream come true. Roger has now retired after each of the last 4 seasons and has delivered the same tired cliches each time: ‘I want to spend more time with my family, i dont need the money, the fire is gone. I want to retire in my home-state of Texas’, blah, blah, blah. But roger, like ducks in the spring, returns. But only after his offer has grown to about 18 million.
Our Very Own Paul Rudolph March 30, 2007
The real Orange County (NY) has had it’s very own Paul Rudolph designed building since the late 60’s. It housed both the DMV, and my probation officer!
It has 87 roofs and all of them leak, according to the NY Times. This landmark has been threatened with destruction for as long as I can remember, and I’d hate to see it go. In the past 5 years or so, the county actually built some generic garbage of a parking garage blocking a good portion of the building. The building deserved some attention, not a cover up.
Day of Sevens October 19, 2006
Mets Vs. St. Louis game seven. This is do or die for the Mets, winner takes all & heads to the 2006 World Series. Let’s go Mets!
The other seven is Internet Explorer 7, which was released yesterday. You should still be using Firefox, but we’ll finally get a chance to see Microsoft’s answer to web standards, RSS, CSS support, all that fun web dev stuff. I haven’t tried this IE7 standalone yet, to install 7 without destroying 6, but I’m hoping there’s a more graceful solution.
Mo October 17, 2006
The film won’t be coming out till whenever the next film festivals start, but they do have this poster together (not a bad “under construction” image, really). Mo is a a true story about a Long Island kid that has Marfan Syndrome played by Erik Per Sullivan, better known as Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle. Mark is the last guy on the right. I hear the screening is in a few weeks and only finishing touches are left on this directors first offering.
Game Four
Cardinals actually had the lead for a minute, but it’s all tied up after game four, two games to two going into tonights matchup. With Glavine on the hill, Met fans have some confidence that this is a sure win. There’s no such thing as a sure win. Mets need to pull ahead, while the momentum is in their corner.
Great Day for New York Baseball October 8, 2006 3 comments
From a Met fan point of view anyway, Yankee fans? Not so good, But hey, there’s a new team in town.
Mets won game three last night in LA to complete their sweep of the National League Division Series against the Wild Card winning Dodgers. I honestly thought the crowd would contain more Met fans than it actually did, considering the amount of transplants in Tinseltown. We were engulfed in an intense current of electricity in a sea of blue, which went off when LA took their first & only lead in the bottom of the fifth. Too little too late as the Mets countered with a three run sixth and never lost the lead again.
Oct 8, NY Post cover & Sunday Sports cover. I love the ad for a free Spider Man comic, you need something to draw in the literary readership.
There’s a lemon party behind the mound!
East Vs. West, game two October 6, 2006 3 comments
Mets continued to work out runs against LA in last night’s game two. It was no easy task but NY was the best offensive team in the Nationa League. They managed four runs on 7 hits in last night’s contest Vs. LA’s solo long ball. Glavine returned to his old form last night, performing brilliantly against Hung Kuo.
Unfortunately I live near LA, but, as good fortune would have it, I will be joining likely half of all “Dodger fans” in rooting for the visiting team this Saturday. If LA is going to take a game in this series, this is the one, with Maddux on the mound and their entire postseason on the line.
East Vs. West October 5, 2006 1 comment
Mets took game one last night at Shea in nail biting fashion. Clearly LA can play and clearly the Mets can win. Early in the game there was quite a base running blunder by the Dodgers that will surely be a clip played on news stations & highlight reels for years to come. “They’ll forever be haunted by the memory of this wacky double play.”
Loduca said that after tagging out the first runner, he looked at the ump to make sure he made the tag and the ump gave him a weird look, a look he had never seen before, only to turn around and see J.D Drew barelling towards him and place the tag on him for the second run saving out on the play.
LA still hasn’t announced the start times for this weekends game(s) at Dodgers stadium. Seems a bit odd to have not yet decided on the schedule for a game one day away.
Mets in LA or SD? September 30, 2006
The Dodgers won in San Francisco and the Padres won in Arizona, so those became two clinching celebrations on the road. Now the only question is whether they advance as division champs or as a Wild Card. If one team wins on Sunday and the other loses, then the winner takes the NL West. If both teams win, or both teams lose, however, the Padres would win the West by virtue of a 13-5 head-to-head record. I didn’t write that, mlb.com did.
I have tickets to LA in the National League Division Series in hopes that the Dodgers take the wild card and face the Mets. If LA wins the National League West instead of the wild card, then I’m screwed & will have to make last minute attempts to get tickets to see them in San Diego. Based on the rules above, the odds are in my favor that NY will come to LA and not San Diego but it all comes down to one day of games. Let’s go padres!!
Update: It came down to the last minute, but Padres & LA both won, so it’s a Dodger Met matchup out west. Next step - Padres defeat St.Louis, and Mets take LA for a NLCS on the west coast.