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Baseball’s The Best Game Ever Played and Here’s Why

First of all, under ideal conditions baseball requires of its fans three full hours of sitting outside in the sunshine. And there’s not much that’s wrong with that.
For less than the cost of a movie ticket, if you’re lucky enough to live in a town with a minor league team, you can spend your evening [...]

Rest in Peace, Harry the K

“Swing and a long drive … watch … this … baby! … OUTTA HERE!” 
Harry Kalas started calling Philadelphia Phillies’ games in 1971, the year that I was born. Today he died in the broadcast booth, a couple hours before the game against the Washington Nationals. 
Back in the days before cable TV, most home games weren’t televised. (OK, if that [...]

Three Haisku: Opening Day

No one has lost yet.
The Red Sox and Mariners 
Are tied: for one day
Runs, hits, men on base
Steals, walks, triples, double plays
A poem in stats  
And a favorite from last year:
April’s still chilled air
Is the prefect medium
For a hanging curve. 
The World Champion Philadelphia Phillies opened baseball’s 2009 season yesterday. They lost, 4-1, against the Braves. To [...]

What Does Winning Feel Like?

Winning feels like a cherry coke made with real syrup.
Winning feels like pots and pans banged together in the cold autumn night.
Winning feels like a thousand whistles going off all at once.
Winning feels like the helicopter rides your dad would give you before you got too big.
Winning feels like that photo on the right looks [...]

It Ain’t Over Till … It Ain’t Over

The World Series entered some kind of weather-induced limbo last night, just as my Phils were on the verge of possibly, maybe, hopefully winning the city’s first major sports championship in 25 years.
Watching the game on the big screen at the Distillery sports bar here in Rochester, I couldn’t help recalling that old feeling from [...]

Capsule Movie Reviews

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

Avatar
Pittsford Plaza
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

An Education
The Little 11.24.09
Sally Sparrow from Dr. Who is all-grown up! You do feel as if you are watching a star in the making in Carey Mulligan.

Pirate Radio
The Little 11.13.09
Funny in bits (best bit: Bill Nighy dancing) but not funny as a whole. A bit episodic, with a ridiculous ending.

A Serious Man
The Little 11.07.09
The Coen brothers have made another divisive film: I really like it; Mr. Goddess hated it. I thought it was deeply funny and deeply ... deep.

Capitalism: A Love Story
The Little 10.05.09
Unlike other Michael Moore docs, this was more of a piece of investigative journalism than a political screed. Moore shines his light on for-profit prisons, the appallingly low salaries of airline pilots, and the "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on their own employees -- all in the name of making a profit out of anything.

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